Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Sydney writer Persephone Nicholas has won this year’s National Seniors Literary Prize for her novel Burned. The National Seniors Literary Prize is sponsored by Random House Australia. Nicholas will receive a...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
Penguin Australia has released two new cooking apps, creating a series of ‘Best of’ cooking apps based on recipes from its Lantern cookbook authors. The two new apps, Best of...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a new service to offer its members advice about US tax issues. Similar to the ASA’s new contract negotiation advisory service, the...

Tuesday, 12 February 2013
The Australian Book Review (ABR) is seeking proposals for its eighth fellowship. The ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship is worth $5000 and is for an article ‘on the performing arts’...

Friday, 8 February 2013
The program for the 2013 Somerset Celebration of Literature, to be held between 13 and 15 March on the Gold Coast in Queensland, has been released. The festival, which focuses...

Friday, 1 February 2013
Hardie Grant has announced the finalists in its stationery competition. As reported by Books+Publishing, the publisher called for designers, illustrators and artists to submit a concept for three stationery pieces—a...

Thursday, 31 January 2013
WritingWA has announced that it will create a new website called Proximity to provide its regional members with greater access to writers’ festivals. The website, which will be launched in...

Wednesday, 30 January 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) will stage an all-night writing camp this month as part of White Night Melbourne. According to the White Night website, the free ‘All Nighter’ event will feature...

Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Australian-based author Malla Nunn has been nominated for the 2013 Edgar Allan Poe Awards for her novel The Silent Valley (Macmillan), published in the US as Blessed Are the Dead...

Wednesday, 23 January 2013
The dates for the 2013 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF), held annually in the Bali village of Ubud, have been changed to 11-15 October to avoid a clash with the...

Wednesday, 23 January 2013
The Wheeler Centre has announced its next round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships, sponsored by Readings. The successful applications for intake one, which will run from 11 February to 19 April,...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013
The former Collins Booksellers store in Beechworth, Victoria, is now operating as an independent bookstore under the name Beechworth Books. The store left the Collins group in 2012 and is now a member...

Tuesday, 22 January 2013
Angela Bennetts, Alice Fenton, Mitchell Oakley Smith and former Random House publicist Antonia Hayes have been appointed as the creative co-directors for the 2013 and 2014 National Young Writers’ Festivals...

Thursday, 17 January 2013
The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award has launched reading guides for 12 works by 10 previous recipients, including reading guides for The Ghost’s Child by Sonya Hartnett and The Arrival by...

Thursday, 17 January 2013
Screen Australia has announced that a film adaptation of Craig Silvey’s novella The Amber Amulet (A&U) will premiere at Berlinale, the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival, which runs from 7-17 February 2013. The...

Wednesday, 16 January 2013
Macleay Bookshop in Potts Point, NSW, is up for sale. The bookstore, established in 1954 as Clay’s Bookshop, sells new release and second-hand titles. During 2012, the shop featured various book...

Monday, 14 January 2013
The finalists in the 2012 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Anna Campbell is once again in the running for the Favourite Australia Romance Author award, having won this...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that Antonia Hayes, Will Heyward and Sophie Langley are the recipients of its Digital Mentorship program. Hayes, a writer, photographer and former publicist for Random House, will...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Collins Booksellers are now selling the ‘Kobo Family’ devices. This includes the Kobo Touch, along with new devices the Kobo Glo, a front-lit, six-inch ereader; the Kobo Mini, a five-inch ereader; and...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Hardie Grant has launched an annual stationery competition. On its Facebook page Hardie Grant is calling for designers, illustrators and artists to submit a concept for three stationery pieces—a journal...

Wednesday, 9 January 2013
Bloomsbury has created a website called JustGreatReads to promote its ebooks to readers who may have received ereading devices over Christmas. The website, which launched on Christmas Day and will run...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Michelle Wright has won the 2012 Age Short Story Award, worth $1000, for her story ‘Maggot’, reports the Age. Graeme Simsion won the second prize for his story ‘Three Encounters with the...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Writer, director and actor Leah Purcell has been appointed as the 2013 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of her residency, which begins in...

Tuesday, 8 January 2013
Former Fullers Hobart events manager Rachel Edwards and Review of Australian Fiction editor Matthew Lamb have been appointed co-editors of Island magazine. Edwards and Lamb will replace editorial director Dale...