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...

Monday, 24 September 2012
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...

Monday, 24 September 2012
The New South Wales Writers’ Centre has announced that executive director David Ryding is leaving the centre to join the Australia Council for the Arts in the role of program...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
HarperCollins’ science-fiction and fantasy imprint HarperVoyager has announced that it will accept unsolicited manuscripts for digital publication in Australia, the UK and the US for two weeks in October. As...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The longlist for this year’s Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been announced in the UK. To view the longlisted titles, see the Bookseller+Publisher website here. The winner of this...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The program for this year's National Young Writers Festival, part of the This is Not Art (TiNA) festival in Newscastle, has been launched. The program, which is available online here,...

Wednesday, 19 September 2012
The God Franchise: A Theory of Everything (Alan Dawe, Life Magic Publishing) is the winner of this year’s Ashton Wylie Charitable Trust Book Award in New Zealand. The award recognises...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Amazon unveiled an updated range of Kindle ereading devices on 6 September which includes a new line of Kindle Fire tablets and a new front-lit device called the Kindle Paperwhite....

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Readings is expanding its offering to customers beyond books and music, by hosting a tour to the Jaipur Literature Festival in India in January next year. Readings event coordinator Chris...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
ACP Magazines, owner of ACP Books, has been acquired by the Bauer Media Group, which purchased the company from private equity-owned Nine Entertainment Co. for $500 million, reports Print21. The...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Wheeler Centre has partnered with Zoos Victoria to create the Wheeler Centre Zoo Fellowships. Estelle Tang, Cate Kennedy, Sally Rippin and Judy Horacek will be writers in residence at...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The eighth annual Big Sky Readers and Writers Festival will be held in Geraldton, Western Australia on 14-16 September. The festival will include workshops, readings, panel discussions, pictures, music, art...

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has released a revised third edition of An Introduction to New Zealand Publishing (published with Whitireia Publishing). The book explains the publishing process...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival was held in Christchurch from 30 August to 2 September, returning after a four-year wait. The previous two attempts to stage the festival—in 2010 and...

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Booksellers NZ has announced it has discontinued a program established to label books that achieved a certain level in sales. The Premier Bestsellers program has been discontinued following discussions within...