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The Ampersand Project, a Hardie Grant Egmont (HGE) initiative to publish books from unpublished emerging writers, has signed up Melbourne writer Melissa Keil.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...

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Patricia Cornelius has been awarded the 2012 Patrick White Playwrights' Fellowship. Cornelius, whose play Do Not Go Gentle (Currency Press) won the 2011 Victorian Premier’s Award for drama, was announced...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
A new Greek writers festival will be convened by Helen Nickas and Konstandina Dounis. The Antipodes Writers Festival, to be held from 15 to 17 June at the Wheeler Centre,...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Australian label and ticketing printer TMA has been revealed as the company behind the mystery takeover bid for PMP, parent company of book printer Griffin Press, reports Print21. According to...

Tuesday, 22 May 2012
The Big Issue is accepting submissions for its 2012 fiction edition until 31 May. Academy Award-nominated actor James Franco has written a story that will feature in the magazine's annual...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Telemovie The Broken Shore, based on the novel by Peter Temple (Text), will receive part of a $5.6 million investment from Screen Australia that is spread among three adult and...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE), a community of 135 Catholic schools in South East Queensland, has chosen OverDrive to facilitate ebook and audiobook lending.  BCE have previously partnered with Softlink to...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
PMP, parent company of book printer Griffin Press, has announced that it has appointed Gresham Partners to provide financial advice about the indicative takeover bid it received in April. As...

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
ReadCloud announced this week that it has signed with Hachette and Penguin, and more than 20,000 ebooks from these publishers will be made available through ReadCloud-powered ebookstores this week. ReadCloud...

Monday, 14 May 2012
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced that it will offer an ABR Patron's Fellowship for ‘a major article with a film/television/media focus’ this year. The fellowship is sponsored by...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Literature Lane will be Melbourne’s newest laneway. An unnamed bluestone-paved lane off Little La Trobe Street, between Elizabeth and Swanston Street, will be named Literature Lane in celebration of the...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Allen & Unwin has announced it will launch a new ebook list of out-of-print Australian titles. The House of Books list will launch in June with 30 titles and the...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
The shortlist for the Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing has been announced. Judges shorlisted 15 authors from almost 300 entries. See the list of authors here. 'Creating this shortlist was extremely difficult...

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
A new Book Grocer store has opened in Albury, New South Wales. The store opened in April and is located on Olive Street in the city’s main shopping precinct.

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
The Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) has launched a new online portal for rights clearances. RightsPortal is designed to provide transactional rights clearance for users to reuse published works as well...

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Approximately 17,000 people visited Clunes in central Victoria on the weekend for the annual Clunes Booktown Festival, up from approximately 14,000 in 2011. Linda Newitt, one of the event’s organisers,...

Monday, 7 May 2012
The literature program for the 2012 Noosa Long Weekend Festival has been announced. The Noosa Festival, now in its 11th year, will run from 15-17 June in Noosa Heads, Queensland, with...

Monday, 7 May 2012
Dapto Library, part of Wollongong City Libraries is hoping to attract a younger generation of readers via a 20-somethings book club. The library has put out a call via its...

Monday, 7 May 2012
For one week, Text Publishing is running a social media promotion: for every new ‘like’ or follow they receive on Facebook or Twitter, Text will donate one new book to...