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...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Magabala Books has announced a new partnership with the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in Bali, Indonesia, which will involve a Magabala author participating in the writers festival each year....

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The annual Norman Lindsay Festival took place on Sunday 25 March at the Norman Lindsay Gallery in Faulconbridge, New South Wales. Named in honour of the author/illustrator of children's classic...

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
The Society of Editors (Vic) has changed its name to Editors Victoria. Editors Victoria established a Facebook page on 3 March and has launched a new website: www.editorsvictoria.org  

Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Two new online book columns have recently launched. The Conversation has started talking books with a column by Bronwyn Lea titled ‘The Mind Field’. Lea is a senior lecturer in...

Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Currency Press author Declan Greene has won the 2012 Max Afford Playwrights’ Award. Greene was awarded the prize for his script Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore P-rnography. Two of Greene’s other...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Cambridge University Press has announced it has appointed a dedicated trade sales representative. The publisher said it had ‘decided to service the trade channel directly’ following a recent review of...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The program for the ninth Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) in Melbourne has been announced. The festival begins with storytelling and performance at the Stories that Matter opening night gala on 24...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre has launched its ‘Programme Two’ with 10 events per week running from May to July. As part of the program, 10 writers will visit Melbourne from the...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The Victorian town of Clunes has been declared an international booktown by the International Organisation of Booktowns. This recognition places Clunes alongside 14 other international booktowns, including Hay-on-Wye in Wales,...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
A new exhibition celebrating the life and works of Patrick White opened on 13 April at the National Library of Australia in Canberra. ‘The Life of Patrick White’ marks 100...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
Biannual literary journal Seizure (ed by Alice Grundy) has launched a new novella competition open to Australian and New Zealand writers. The novella must be 20–50,000 words in length with the...