Thursday, 26 April 2012
Kim Scott will deliver the 2012 Miles Franklin Literary Award Oration on 1 May at Curtin University in Perth. Scott, who won last year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award for That...

Thursday, 26 April 2012
The program for this year’s Margaret River Readers & Writers Festival in Western Australia is now available online. This year’s festival will be held between 29 April and 6 May,...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
The Stella Prize Committee has announced that it will fund three places for women at a workshop on literary criticism run by the Australian chief literary critic Geordie Williamson at...

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Awa Press is a finalist in the 2012 Wellington Creative Gold Awards. The awards, which have been running since 1999, were initially set up in recognition of the region’s best...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Random House will launch a new Children’s Vintage Classics list in August. The list will be priced at $9.95 and will be promoted in a campaign to include a 'a...

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Literary blogger and former Bookseller+Publisher acting editor Angela Meyer has started an online video series ‘A Drink with…’ with episodes of 15 minute literary chats with authors in Melbourne cafes....

Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The finalists for the 2012 Sir Julius Vogel Awards have been announced. Awards are presented in the professional award categories for best novel, best youth novel, best novella/novelette, best short story, best...

Tuesday, 17 April 2012
The South Australian Government has appointed Mike Sinkunas as the state’s small business commissioner. Sinkunas, who has previously worked in education, computing and the SA public service, was appointed to...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Belvoir St Theatre in Sydney has created the new Balnaves Foundation Indigenous Playwright’s Award, which offers $20,000 for the creation of a new play by an Indigenous playwright. For the...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Dymocks has released its 101 Club list of the best books of all time for 2012, as voted by members of the company's Booklover loyalty program. The Book Thief (Markus Zusak,...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Dymocks has confirmed to Bookseller+Publisher that the Dymocks store in Ponsonby, Auckland, has closed. A spokesperson for Dymocks told Bookseller+Publisher that the store finished trading towards the end of 2011...

Thursday, 12 April 2012
Dymocks has confirmed that, as a consequence of his appointment to the Senate, newly appointed Foreign Minister Bob Carr has resigned from the Dymocks Board. There is, as yet, no...

Wednesday, 11 April 2012
Radio National’s Books and Arts Daily has launched a new book club which aims to revive interest in classic Australian novels. The book club, which launched on 30 March with...

Wednesday, 11 April 2012
The Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) has announced the winners of its 2011 National Literary Awards. The Sid Harta Literature Award was awarded to Into the Unknown: The Tormented Life...

Wednesday, 11 April 2012
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that Penguin will publish the winners of its Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. EWF said that Penguin will publish all pieces...

Wednesday, 11 April 2012
The 2012 Williamstown Literary Festival program has been launched and is available online. This year’s festival will be held on 5-6 May and will be located in the surrounds of...

Wednesday, 11 April 2012
The shortlists for the 2012 Hugo Awards for science-fiction have been announced. The nominations for Best Novel include Among Others (Jo Walton, Tor), A Dance with Dragons (George R R...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has announced the appointment of Martin Nakata to its board. Nakata holds the title of Chair of Australian Indigenous Education and is the director of...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Softlink, a Brisbane-based content and library management system developer, has announced it is now distributing OverDrive's ebook and audiobook service to corporate and academic libraries in Australia. Since last year...

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
HarperCollins has announced that it will be making a 'substantial donation' to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Fund with the royalties from Flood and A Generous Helping (Alison Alexander & Madonna...

Sunday, 1 April 2012
Michael Farrell has been announced by the Australian Book Review (ABR) as the winner of the eighth Peter Porter Poetry Prize for his poem Beautiful Mother.  Farrell, whose new collection...

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Allen & Unwin has announced that it will publish a new series of short stories as stand-alone ebooks in May, called A&U Shorts. The ebooks will be priced at $1.99 and...

Monday, 26 March 2012
The Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford in the UK have announced that Australian author Peter Carey is the latest recipient of the Bodley Medal. Carey will be presented...

Monday, 26 March 2012
Australian Poetry is currently running a campaign with 'crowd-funding' platform Pozible to raise money to deliver its national poetry festival online. This year’s festival will be held in Darwin between...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Australian authors Lara Fergus and Lili Wilkinson are among the finalists for this year’s Lambda Literary Awards, presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation in the US to celebrate achievement in...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Shearer’s Bookshop in Leichhardt, NSW, is a finalist in the Australian Small Business Champion Awards for 2012. The winners of this year’s awards will be announced on 21 April at...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
Overland literary journal has announced that Joel Ephraims has won the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for new and emerging poets. Ephraims won the $6000 prize for his poem...

Tuesday, 20 March 2012
The finalists for the 2011 Aurealis Awards have been announced. More than 700 entries were received for the awards, which are presented for works of speculative fiction written by Australian...