Tuesday, 23 October 2012
The Bridport Prize, the UK writing competition open to all nationalities, has announced its shortlists. Categories include short story, poetry and flash fiction. As reported by Bookseller+Publisher, Australian and New Zealand...

Tuesday, 23 October 2012
A new QBD bookstore opened in Highpoint shopping centre in Melbourne’s west on 18 October. The new QBD outlet joins discount bookseller Last Page and an ABC Shop as the only dedicated...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
NewSouth Publishing has launched a new series of ‘short, sharp essays you can read on any electric device’, says publicist Matt Howard. The series, called QUICKeS, ‘are shorter than a...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Australian freight forwarding company Intramar is now in the control of receivers PPB Advisory. Receivers Nicholas Martin and Craig Crosbie said in a letter to suppliers that they were ‘assessing...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Readings managing director Mark Rubbo is running for a position as councillor in the Melbourne City Council (MCC) election on Saturday 27 October. Rubbo spoke about his vision for the city on...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
Black Inc. has announced the contributors for The Best Australian Essays 2012, edited by Ramona Koval, The Best Australian Stories 2012, edited by Sonya Hartnett, and The Best Australian Poems 2012,...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The shortlist for this year's Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), the children's choice book awards for New South Wales, has been announced. The list of titles is available on the website...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
A new centre for literacy called the 100 Story Building will be launched at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 30 October. The centre aims to give disadvantaged children the...

Wednesday, 17 October 2012
The Macquarie Dictionary has adjusted its definition of ‘misogyny’ to cover its current use as a synonym of ‘sexism’. While the original meaning of misogyny is ‘hatred of women’, dictionary editor Susan Butler said,...

Monday, 15 October 2012
Favel Parrett has been awarded the 2012 Australian Antarctic Arts Fellowship by the Australian Federal Government. Parrett, author of Past the Shallows (Hachette), will use the fellowship to research a novel...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has rebranded with a new logo and name. ‘We’re no longer referring to the organisation as “CAL”,’ it said. ‘We’ve gone back to using a...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
The Griffith Review has announced the winners of its Novella Project. When the journal announced the competition, a partnership with the Copyright Agency that sought ‘the best original novellas from citizens or residents of...

Wednesday, 10 October 2012
The legal case between Australian chef Bill Granger and Murdoch Books was settled in August, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Granger initiated a lawsuit against the publisher, which is now...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Margaret Atwood will appear in Perth as part of Perth International Arts Festival on 23 February, and will also appear in Brisbane as part of a Brisbane Writers Festival ‘Bookend’...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Facebook has announced it will test a special ‘want’ button on the social networking site, which will enable some users to flag images of products they wish to purchase. The...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
The works longlisted for the inaugural Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers have been announced, with the longlist of 19 heavily dominated by stories by...

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
The Australian television series The Slap, based on the novel of the same name by Christos Tsiolkas (A&U), has been nominated for an award in the drama category of the...

Monday, 8 October 2012
Writer Pip Adam; writer, director and actor Fiona Samuel; and poet, editor and painter Gregory O’Brien are among nine artists awarded foundation grants at this year’s Macquarie Private Wealth New...

Monday, 8 October 2012
The Federal Government’s Office of the Arts is seeking community feedback about the Public Lending Rights (PLR) and Education Lending Rights (ELR) schemes through an online survey. The survey, which...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
The Australian Book Review is seeking proposals for a sixth Fellowship. The ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship is open to writers with a ‘significant publication record’ and is for ‘a...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Literary journal Kill Your Darlings has announced it will run a one-day fiction writing workshop in November, with plans to run more, and to add longer courses, in 2013. ‘We’re...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
A new survey predicts tablet ownership by Australians who already use a mobile phone, will rise to 71% in a year’s time. Currently, nearly 40% of Australians who own a...

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
National Geographic Learning will be distributed by FLB Bookery from 1 October this year. ‘The distribution transition to FLB Bookery will be seamless,’ said the distributor in a statement. National...

Monday, 1 October 2012
Sue Hurley has won the 2012 Australian Book Review (ABR) Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize for her story ‘Patterns in Nature’. As reported by Bookseller+Publisher, Hurley was presented with the...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Anne Rodda has resigned from her position as general manager of the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Rodda, who has worked for the festival since 2008,...

Wednesday, 26 September 2012
A decision by New Zealand's Chief Censor that allows unrestricted sale of global best seller Fifty Shades of Grey has been welcomed by the book's local publisher, Random House New Zealand. In a...