Melbournalia pop-up store returns for second year
Monday, 10 December 2012
The Melbournalia pop-up store has returned to Melbourne’s CBD for a second year, with a single store located at the Queen Victoria Markets. Melbournalia, the brainchild of Dale Campisi and Michael Brady...
Buzo a finalist for Morris Award
Friday, 7 December 2012
Australian YA author Laura Buzo has been selected as a finalist for the 2013 William C Morris Award for her 2010 debut novel Good Oil (A&U), published in the US...
‘King Brown Country’ wins George Munster Award
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
King Brown Country by Russell Skelton (A&U) has won the 2011 George Munster Award for Independent Journalism, presented by the University of Technology Sydney’s Australian Centre for Independent Journalism. The award...
Kobo Mini, Glo available from Bookworld
Wednesday, 5 December 2012
Online booksellers Bookworld and Angus & Robertson are now selling two of Kobo’s new ereading devices—the Kobo Mini and the Kobo Glo. The online stores are selling the five-inch Kobo...
Melbourne’s Westgarth Books closes
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Westgarth Books in Northcote, Melbourne, has closed, and its retail space is available for lease. The bookstore closed soon after holding a large ‘garage sale’ in September. Situated close to Westgarth Cinema, the...
EWF announces digital publication mentorships
Friday, 30 November 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) is calling for applications for a six-month digital publication mentorship in 2013. The festival said in a statement that it is looking for three writers...
Judges for new-look NZ Post awards announced
Friday, 30 November 2012
The judges for the 2013 New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. Listener book editor Guy Somerset, reo Māori author Paora Tibble, crime writer Vanda Symon and poet Bernadette Hall will...
Hager wins 2013 NZ Beatson Fellowship
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) has announced that Mandy Hager is the winner of the 2013 Beatson Fellowship. The fellowship, worth NZ$7000 (A$5500), also gives the recipient the...
Carmody appointed NZ arts festival’s writers week program manager
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Kathryn Carmody has been appointed as program manager of the 2014 New Zealand International Arts Festival Writers and Readers Week. Carmody is a publicist and former bookseller at Capital Books...
Brands responsible for moderating Facebook comments
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has said that brands will be responsible for comments by the public on their Facebook pages. The AANA has released guidelines on best practice for...
Powell to join NSW Writers’ Centre
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Rose Powell will join the New South Wales Writers’ Centre on 10 December in the role of projects officer for events and festivals. Powell, who will finish in her current...
Bookworld launches Christmas TV advertising campaign
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
Following the launch of its ‘Bookworld Price Guarantee’ to beat Amazon’s prices by 10%, online bookseller Bookworld has launched a Christmas television advertising campaign. The advertisement features the ‘King of...
ILF trivia night raises more than $14,500
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
More than $14,500 was raised for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) at a trivia night in Sydney on 14 November. ILF executive director Karen Williams told Bookseller+Publisher that more than $7000...
Kershaw wins Blake Poetry Prize for ‘Altar Rock’
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Western Australian poet Graham Kershaw has won the fifth Blake Poetry Prize for his poem 'Altar Rock', which addresses the mixed inheritance of white settlement in the Murchison district of...
Goldsworthy to examine Australian review culture in ‘ABR’ fellowship
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced that Kerryn Goldsworthy will be the ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellow, and will ‘write a feature article on the current state of book reviewing...
Cartland wins inaugural Overland Victoria University prize
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Literary journal Overland has announced that Tara Cartland’s story ‘Frank O’Hara’s Animals’ is the winner of the inaugural $6000 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers....
Dromer replaces Poiree at Nielsen BookData NZ
Thursday, 15 November 2012
David Dromer has replaced Martine Poiree as sales and marketing manager at Nielsen BookData New Zealand. The Publishers Association of New Zealand reports that Dromer was facilities manager when the...
New buying team for Avenue Bookstore
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Independent Melbourne bookshop Avenue Bookstore has made some changes to its book buying team following the departure of head book buyer Gina Collis in August. At the Avenue Bookstore in...
ACBA conference kicks off
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) annual conference kicked off yesterday in Brisbane with a day-long training program by Doug Fleener. The conference, which runs from 13 to 16 November,...
Wootten wins NZ mid-career writers grant
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The New Zealand Society of Authors has announced that Dunedin poet and novelist Sue Wootten is the winner of its new award for a mid-career writer. Also shortlisted were Anna...
PMP to cut jobs
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
PMP, parent company of Griffin Press, has announced it is making ‘headcount reductions’ as part of the second phase of its ‘transformation plan’. However, Ben Jolly, general manager of Griffin...
Duffy to join University Book Shop Otago
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
The Board of the University Book Shop Otago, in New Zealand, has announced the appointment of Phillippa Duffy to the role of general manager. Duffy has previously worked as sales...
‘ABR’ patrons to fund $10,000 ‘critic in residence’
Monday, 12 November 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced it will soon appoint its first ‘critic in residence’. Funded by the magazine’s patrons, ‘this will be an annual appointment worth $10,000,’ according...
Wood to launch long-form interview magazine
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Author Charlotte Wood is launching a soft-copy subscription magazine, to be produced as a PDF file sent to subscribers by email, called The Writer’s Room Interviews. ‘Not long ago, I...
Next round of Wheeler Centre fellowships announced
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
The Wheeler Centre has announced its next round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships, sponsored by Readings. The successful applicants in this round are Oliver Mol, who will work on his debut...
Dymocks launches podcasts
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Dymocks has begun producing podcasts, launching with a discussion of J K Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy and thus far including interviews with Pamela Stephenson and Richard Gill. Dymocks ecommerce manager...
Booktopia ranked 96 on ‘BRW’ Fast 100 list
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Online bookseller Booktopia was ranked 96th on this year’s BRW (Business Review Weekly) Fast 100 list. The rankings were revealed at an event in Sydney at the end of October....
New ASA website
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
The Australian Society of Authors has relaunched its website at www.asaauthors.org. The new site includes a dedicated news section, as well as an events calendar, resources and information on the...
‘Aurealis’ seeks official recognition
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
Australian fantasy and science-fiction journal Aurealis has launched a subscriptions drive, which it says will help it obtain official recognition as a professional market by the Science Fiction and Fantasy...
Readings forms event partnership with ‘The Monthly’
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Readings has partnered with The Monthly magazine to host a series of political discussions on modern Australia, called The Monthly Talks. In the first session in August, professor Robert Manne and Greens MP Adam Bandt discussed...
