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...

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...