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The finalists for this year's Valerie Parv Award, presented by the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) for an unpublished manuscript, have been announced.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,...

Monday, 4 June 2012
Readings has published Melbourne artist Bruno Leti’s Workbook 15 in a limited edition of 200 copies. The book gives readers an insight into ‘the creative process of an artist’, and...

Monday, 4 June 2012
The program for the 2012 Reality Bites Literary Festival in Cooroy on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast has been announced. The festival, which focuses on literary nonfiction, will run from 26-29 July...

Monday, 4 June 2012
The 2012 Bridgetown Words in the Valley Writers Festival in south-west Western Australia will run from 28-29 July with a focus on ‘crime and intrigue’. Guests at this year’s festival...

Friday, 1 June 2012
The Red Room Company, a not-for-profit company which publishes new Australian poetry, has released an app called ‘The Disappearing’. The free app allows users to ‘explore’ poems with an interactive...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The program for the 2012 Townsville Literary Festival, which runs from 4-12 June, has been launched. Authors, illustrators and other presenters featured at this year’s festival include James Moloney, Matthew...

Wednesday, 30 May 2012
The annual Light in Winter Festival at Melbourne's Federation Square will this year run an inaugural International Festival of Literature, Ideas and Translation on 15-17 June. Celebrating the work of more...

Tuesday, 29 May 2012
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) will publish a new edition of An Introduction to Australian Book Publishing next month. The fifth edition of the book is edited by Richard Smart...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Aquarius Films has optioned the film rights to Melanie Joosten’s Berlin Syndrome (Scribe). Screenwriter Shaun Grant, writer of the screenplay for Snowtown, will adapt the book to film. Joosten said,...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
The Ampersand Project, a Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) initiative to publish books from unpublished emerging writers, has signed up Melbourne writer Melissa Keil. The project received 250 submissions after an...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
New Zealand poet Jeffrey Paparoa Holman has been awarded Creative New Zealand’s 2012 University of Iowa residency. Holman, the author of Best of Both Worlds: The Story of Elsdon Best...