Monday, 25 June 2012
The Heir of Night by New Zealand author Helen Lowe (Orbit) has won the Morningstar Award for best fantasy debut, as part of this year's David Gemmell Legend Award for Fantasy.  Lowe...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
All That I Am by Anna Funder (Penguin) has won this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award, presented tonight at a ceremony in Brisbane. All That I Am was selected for...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
UK-based author Patrick Ness has won the Carnegie Medal for outstanding writing in children’s books for the second year running, winning this year’s award for A Monster Calls (Walker Books)....

Monday, 18 June 2012
The Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour program has been announced. As the 2012 Guest of Honour, New Zealand will send more than 60 authors and 100 performers to Germany...

Friday, 15 June 2012
The Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), the volunteer-led awards that have replaced the axed Queensland Premier’s Awards, has received $20,000 from the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) Cultural Fund to administer and...

Friday, 15 June 2012
The shortlist for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as a shortlist for children’s choice book awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Even the Dogs by British author Jon McGregor (Bloomsbury) has won this year’s International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. McGregor’s novel, which tells the story of an alcoholic who dies between...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Berlin Syndrome by Melanie Joosten (Scribe) has won the 2012 Kathleen Mitchell Award. The biennial award for young Australian authors was established in 1996 through the will of Kathleen Adele Mitchell and is...

Tuesday, 12 June 2012
New Zealand author Emma Martin has won this year’s Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her story ‘Two Girls in a Boat’. Martin’s story, which won the Pacific region for this...

Tuesday, 12 June 2012
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has announced that Kate Eltham will join the festival as director in October. Eltham, who is currently CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC), replaces...

Wednesday, 6 June 2012
The shortlists for this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Fiction From under the Overcoat (Sue Orr, Vintage) Rangatira (Paula Morris, Penguin) The...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Western Australian author Annabel Smith has been selected as one of the 11 recipients of the 2012 Creative Australia Fellowships, awarded by the Australia Council for the Arts. Smith is...

Thursday, 31 May 2012
American author Madeline Miller has won this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction for her debut novel The Song of Achilles (Bloomsbury). Miller was presented with the £30,000 (approximately A$48,000) prize at...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Best First Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles in each of the categories are: Hubert Church Best...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the AWA Press Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced. The titles shortlisted in...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Writing Australia has announced a new regional residency program. The Writing Australia Places program offers four-week regional writing residencies in Lake St Clair and Bruny Island in Tasmania, Kangaroo Island...