Monday, 30 July 2012
Australian poet Mark Tredinnick has won first place in the 2012 Cardiff International Poetry Competition for his poem ‘Margaret River Sestets’. Tredinnick was announced as the winner of the competition...

Friday, 27 July 2012
The organisers of the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), the volunteer-led awards that have replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards, have announced a new people’s choice award, to be sponsored by...

Friday, 27 July 2012
School bookseller Education Works has been placed into voluntary administration. Andrew Sallway, Said Jahani and Matthew Donnelly of Grant Thornton were appointed administrators of the company and its eight related...

Thursday, 26 July 2012
The titles longlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize have been announced. The longlisted titles are: The Yips (Nicola Barker, Fourth Estate) The Teleportation Accident (Ned Beauman, Sceptre) Philida (André...

Thursday, 26 July 2012
The John Button Foundation has announced the shortlist for the 2012 John Button Prize. The shortlisted titles are: Quarterly Essay 44, Man-Made World: Choosing Between Progress and Planet (Andrew Charlton,...

Thursday, 26 July 2012
A number of Australian booksellers have been affected by what appears to be a series of fraudulent orders originating overseas and being delivered to a Sydney-based freight forwarder. Co-founder and...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The winners of this year’s Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced. The winner of the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award, which recognises the work of an established...

Wednesday, 25 July 2012
The Canberra Times has confirmed that the position of literary editor has been cut, as previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher. However, editor Rod Quinn told Bookseller+Publisher that the paper would continue to...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
The finalists for this year’s Booksellers New Zealand Industry Awards have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Regional Bookseller of the Year (North Island) The Children’s...

Tuesday, 24 July 2012
Former Picador publisher Rod Morrison has founded a digital publishing business with David Henley and Jon MacDonald from Sydney-based design business Xou Creative. Morrison, who left Picador in 2011, told...

Monday, 23 July 2012
The winners of this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced at a ceremony in Canberra this morning. The winning titles are: Fiction   Foal’s Bread (Gillian Mears, A&U)  ...

Friday, 20 July 2012
The program for the 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which will be held between 23 August and 2 September, has been launched and tickets are now available. More than 400...

Wednesday, 18 July 2012
The shortlist of titles chosen for this year’s ‘Books at MIFF’ session at the Melbourne International Film Festival has been announced. The seven titles were selected from 66 submissions with available...

Tuesday, 17 July 2012
Bloomsbury Australia managing director Kathleen Farrar has been appointed to the role of Bloomsbury Group sales and marketing director and will relocate to London next year. Bloomsbury executive director Richard Charkin said...

Monday, 16 July 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Australian Christian Book of the Year Award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: A Short History of Christianity (Geoffrey Blainey, Viking) Apologetic Preaching and...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has announced it will soon launch a new website to promote Australian literature. Plans for the Reading Australia project were unveiled last week at the...

Wednesday, 11 July 2012
UK-based online bookseller the Book Depository is no longer selling ebooks. The Book Depository issued a short statement on its website saying that it is ‘no longer selling ebooks’. The...

Monday, 9 July 2012
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced that Debra Dank will finish in her role as program manager at the end of the month. Dank has been the foundation’s program...

Friday, 6 July 2012
The winners of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards were announced on 5 July. The winning titles are: Gerard Reid Award for Best Book sponsored by...

Thursday, 5 July 2012
Foal’s Bread by Gillian Mears (A&U) has won this year’s Australian Literary Society (ALS) Gold Medal. Mears was announced as the winner of this year’s award on 4 July during the...

Thursday, 5 July 2012
The shortlists for the 2011 Western Australian Premier’s Books Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Nonfiction ($15,000) 1835: The Founding of Melbourne and...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
The Literature Centre in Fremantle has entered into a new partnership with BHP Billiton which will involve the mining company investing $600,000 in the centre over three years. The Literature Centre...

Wednesday, 4 July 2012
Simon & Schuster, parent company of Simon & Schuster Australia, has announced that it will soon be putting QR codes on every print book it publishes in the US. The...

Monday, 2 July 2012
Emma Radcliffe will take on the role of managing director at Craig Potton Publishing in New Zealand in November, replacing Jane Connor who is stepping back to a part-time publishing...