Monday, 2 July 2012
The New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) has established a new grant for mid-career writers. Applications are now open for the inaugural grant, which is worth NZ$6000 (A$4700) and designed...

Friday, 29 June 2012
The program for the inaugural Bendigo Writers Festival, to be held between 10 and 12 August, has been announced. Among the writers participating in the festival are Alex Miller, Alexis...

Friday, 29 June 2012
The South Australian Writers’ Centre has announced a new writer-in-residence program for emerging writers. Applications are now open for the program, with two places to be offered this year. The...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Australian Society of Authors has announced that Dimitra Harvey has been awarded the 2012 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency, entitling the author to a one-week residency at Varuna, the...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
Arts Minister Simon Crean has announced that Rubert Myer will replace James Strong as chair of the Australia Council, with Robyn Archer appointed deputy chair. Myer is a former Chairman...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Melbourne Prize for Literature has removed the age limit from its Best Writing Award for 2012. In past years an age limit of 40 years and under applied for...

Wednesday, 27 June 2012
The Wheeler Centre has announced the first intake of writers for this year’s Hot Desk Fellowships, supported by the Readings Foundation. Among the first intake are Luke Ryan, Mel Campbell,...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The 2012 recipients of the State Library of Victoria creative fellowships have been announced. Among the recipients selected for funding are several with book-related projects. (Elizabeth) Jo Gilbert will work...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The full program of this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival has been released. Local authors attending the event include Michael Kirby, Thomas Keneally, Anna Rose, Jessica Watson, Gail Jones, Charlotte...

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has announced that Miles Franklin winner Anna Funder will appear as a headline author at this year’s festival. ‘I am not surprised the Miles...

Monday, 25 June 2012
The finalists for this year's Valerie Parv Award, presented by the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) for an unpublished manuscript, have been announced. This year's finalists are: Madeline Ash, Bridget...

Friday, 22 June 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the recipients of its fourth and fifth Patron’s Fellowships. Jennifer Lindsay is the recipient of the ABR Copyright Agency Fellowship ‘for a substantial...

Friday, 22 June 2012
Andy Griffiths, Sulari Gentill, B Michael Radburn, Karly Lane and Tania McCartney will be among the guests at the inaugural Griffith Readers’ Festival in September. The festival, which will be...

Friday, 22 June 2012
Two new prizes will be presented as part of this year’s Scarlet Stiletto Awards for crime writing. Melbourne’s Athenaeum Library will present a new prize for a short story featuring...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
ReadCloud has announced that it has signed with Random House, and more than 10,000 Random House ebooks will soon be available through ReadCloud-powered ebookstores. ReadCloud also recently announced that it...

Wednesday, 20 June 2012
The New South Wales state budget has been announced and includes funding to establish ‘experts and resources in the Office of the Small Business Commissioner that will work with small...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Speech Pathology Australia has announced the titles shortlisted for its Book of the Year awards. The shortlist consists of 43 titles across four categories—‘young children’, ‘lower primary’, ‘upper primary’ and...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The winners of the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will be announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Arts Minister Simon Crean on Monday 23 July at a ceremony at...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Australian author Kalinda Ashton has won a Betty Trask Award, awarded by the UK Society of Authors, for her novel The Danger Game (Sleepers Publishing). Ashton was one of four...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI) has joined the International Digital Publishing Forum and is part of the Indexes Working Group working to include indexes in the...

Tuesday, 19 June 2012
Literary journal Overland has announced a new short story prize worth $6000. The Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize will be judged by Enza Gandolfo, Overland editor Jeff Sparrow, deputy...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Fiona Skyring has won the 2012 Margaret Medcalf Award, presented by the West Australian government, for her book Justice: A History of the Aboriginal Legal Service of Western Australia (UWA...

Thursday, 14 June 2012
Indochine by Vietnamese-Australian chef Luke Nguyen (Murdoch) has been shortlisted in the Food and Travel Reader Awards, run by the UK’s Food and Travel magazine. The cookbook is in the...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Details for the 2013 IPEd National Editors Conference have been announced. The biennial conference will be held in Fremantle, WA, from 10-12 April 2013, and will be organised and hosted...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
Applications are now open for the Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships initiative, funded by the Readings Foundation. As previously reported by Bookseller+Publisher, the fellowships grant 20 writers access to a...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has approved a service agreement between the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) and Viscopy Limited, the not-for-profit rights management organisation for the visual arts...

Tuesday, 5 June 2012
The semi-finalists for Cosmopolitan's Fun Fearless Female Awards have been announced and voting is now open. The Author category includes: Lili Wilkinson (Love-shy, A&U), Loretta Hill (The Girl in Steel-Capped Boots,...