Who’s up for a Prime Minister’s Literary Award?
Wednesday, 12 August 2026
The shortlists for the 2026 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards were announced yesterday afternoon, with the winners to be announced in Canberra on 10 September; Helen Ennis has won the National...
Miles Franklin winner announced tonight
Wednesday, 5 August 2026
As we await the Miles Franklin winner announcement tonight, some other winners have been named: joint winners of the Dorothy Hewett Award, and the recipients of the State Library Victoria...
Booker time
Wednesday, 29 July 2026
The shortlists for the Queensland Literary Awards have been announced; also in Queensland, the Eumundi Writers Festival program has been announced; in Aotearoa New Zealand the industry’s Book Design Awards...
Happy BookUp day
Wednesday, 22 July 2026
The program for Western Australia’s Festival of Fiction has been announced; the Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a new Graphic Novel Editing Intensive; the Anthropic settlement in the US...
Alert but not alarmed on AI?
Wednesday, 15 July 2026
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) is encouraged by the government’s direction on copyright and AI but, like creators, remains wary of future pressure from AI companies; the Copyright Agency has...
Pantera changes afoot
Wednesday, 8 July 2026
Future Pantera Press titles will be published across other Hardie Grant imprints and Pantera staff will be departing; the shortlists for the Western Australian Premier’s Book Awards have been announced;...
Distribution consolidation
Wednesday, 1 July 2026
The winner of this year’s controversy-plagued Commonwealth Short Story Prize has been announced; John Reed Books is moving distribution to ADS; education distributor Lioncrest has been acquired by Woodslane; Adelaide...
Happy MF shortlist day
Wednesday, 24 June 2026
The Miles Franklin shortlist is out; Text is moving in with Penguin Random House; Sophie Higgins joins the Indigenous Literacy Foundation board; there’s a new edition of the Books Without...
Telling everybody
Wednesday, 17 June 2026
NielsenIQ reported sales for the year to date are up, among other news from the 2026 Australian Booksellers Association annual conference, which wrapped up on Monday afternoon; Byron Writers Festival...
So very many books
Wednesday, 10 June 2026
New ISBN data show the number of books being published in Australia is booming (but published by whom?); the Book Awards for Children and Young Adults 2026 shortlists have been...
Creative Australia releases arts survey results
Wednesday, 3 June 2026
Creative Australia has released the results of the most recent National Arts Participation Survey; Big Day of Books Perth will broadcast on ABC Radio; this year’s Willy Lit Fest program will...
There’s a lot happening at Thames & Hudson
Wednesday, 27 May 2026
Simon & Schuster Australia is rejoining HarperCollins New Zealand for field sales representation in Aotearoa; Thames & Hudson (T&H) has made some staff changes; the ALS Gold Medal shortlist has...
Miles Franklin countdown begins
Wednesday, 20 May 2026
The Miles Franklin longlist has been announced; as have the winners of the Australian Book Industry Awards Hall of Fame Pixie O’Harris and Lloyd O’Neil awards; and Taiwan Travelogue has...
In today’s news …
Wednesday, 13 May 2026
Natika Palka has joined Better Reading from Thames & Hudson; the regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize have been announced; as has the Blake Poetry Prize winner; A&U...
Publishers sue Meta
Wednesday, 6 May 2026
In the US, publishers are suing Meta and Mark Zuckerberg. Locally, author Craig Silvey has pleaded guilty to possessing and distributing child exploitation material; Sarah Wilson has topped the bestsellers...
How Australians fared at the Fair
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Byron Writers Festival has announced its initial 2026 author line-up; Sahar Rabah is the winner of this year’s Calibre Essay Prize; we hear how Australia’s diminished Bologna cohort fared at...
Booktopia counting down ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ Archive
Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Booktopia is counting down the top 50 finalists in its annual ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ promotion. On 25 January, Booktopia began announcing the finalists, with 10 finalists revealed each day. The top...
ABIAs 2016 date, venue announced Archive
Wednesday, 13 January 2016
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) will be held on 19 May at the Art Gallery of NSW this year. The awards will be hosted by comedian Kitty Flanagan and...
‘The Girl on the Train’ tops ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ poll Archive
Thursday, 3 December 2015
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (Doubleday) has topped a reader poll by ABC’s The Book Club to select the five best books of 2015. Also in the top...
Curry, Ferguson appointed to Copyright Agency board Archive
Thursday, 26 November 2015
Ventura Press publisher Jane Curry and journalist Adele Ferguson have been appointed to the Copyright Agency’s board. Curry and Ferguson replace Eleanor Curtain and Malcolm Knox as the board’s author-journalist and...
Adelaide Writers’ Week named Best Community Event Archive
Friday, 20 November 2015
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) was named Best Community Event at the 2015 Australian Event Awards in Sydney on 17 November. The annual award is presented to the event that best ‘engages...
ABC Books acquires rights to Mitchell Johnson autobiography Archive
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
ABC Books has acquired the rights to Australian cricketer Mitchell Johnson’s as-yet-untitled autobiography, to be published in the second half of 2016. ABC Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Australia, announced...
Jackson wins Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship Archive
Thursday, 12 November 2015
New Zealand poet Anna Jackson has won the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2015.The fellowship provides the winner with a three-month residency in Menton, France, where Mansfield lived and wrote...
‘Overland’ Victoria University Short Story Prize 2015 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 10 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers have been announced. Barry Lee Thompson won the $6000 first prize for his story ‘Their Cruel...
Lu Rees Archives renamed the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature Archive
Thursday, 29 October 2015
The Lu Rees Archives, housed at the University of Canberra, has been renamed the National Centre for Australian Children’s Literature. The centre said in a statement that ‘the new name succinctly states...
Heather Fisher wins 2015 Lady Cutler Award Archive
Monday, 19 October 2015
Librarian and teacher Heather Fisher has won this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished service...
Overland Story Wine Prize 2015 winners announced Archive
Tuesday, 13 October 2015
The winners of Overland’s Story Wine Prize 2015 have been announced. Melissa Manning received the $4000 first prize for her story ‘Woodsmoke’, which will be published in the next issue of...
ABC’s ‘The Book Club’ launches 2015 best books poll Archive
Friday, 9 October 2015
ABC’s The Book Club is conducting a poll to select the five best books of 2015.Readers are invited to select their favourite book published in 2015 from a shortlist of...
Women in Literary Arts Australia announces steering committee Archive
Tuesday, 6 October 2015
The newly formed organisation Women in Literary Arts Australia (WILAA) has announced its steering committee. Joining the organisation’s founder, writer and producer Lefa Singleton Norton, are: writer and academic Eloise...
Momentum to take Twitter pitches from authors Archive
Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum will run its first Twitter-pitch session on 25 September. Australian and international authors are invited to tweet a pitch for their completed, unpublished novel up to...
