Wednesday, 28 May 2014
The Sydney Review of Books has launched an expanded newsletter, which includes a weekly round-up of literary news and events. Editor James Ley told Books+Publishing that the website will be updated to...

Wednesday, 28 May 2014
Alex Miller was presented in May with the University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award. The award is given to ‘an individual who has made an outstanding, long-term...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
New Zealand author Sean Monaghan has won the 2014 Jim Baen Memorial Writing Contest for his short story ‘Low Arc’. The award, which is presented in the US by the National...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Auckland mayor Len Brown has announced a new writers’ grant worth NZ$10,000 (A$9266) per year, reports Scoop. Speaking at the Auckland Writers Festival on 15 May, Brown announced that he will...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
Author and poet Alison Wong will take part in an inaugural writers’ exchange in China this year, reports Booksellers NZ. Wong, a New Zealand writer living in Australia, will join seven...

Wednesday, 21 May 2014
The inaugural Death in July festival for Australian women’s crime writing will be held at the Museum of Australian Democracy in Ballarat, Victoria from 4-5 July. Running in partnership with...

Wednesday, 14 May 2014
New biannual literary journal Gargouille has announced it is open for submissions. Founded by Sarah Wreford and Adriane Howell, the publication seeks ‘short stories, poetry, scripts, aesthetic essays, lost and found...

Tuesday, 13 May 2014
The Canberra Museum and Gallery will hold a retrospective exhibition of illustrator Bob Graham’s work. ‘A Bird in the Hand: a Bob Graham Retrospective’ will run from 16 May to...

Monday, 12 May 2014
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has announced the winner of the 10th Peter Porter poetry prize. Jessica L Wilkinson won the prize for ‘Arrival Platform Humlet’. Wilkinson’s poem was selected...

Monday, 12 May 2014
The winner of a new Hardie Grant Egmont competition will appear in a forthcoming ‘Billie B Mystery’ book by Sally Rippin. The competition was announced on the publisher’s Bookids Facebook...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion (Text) has been shortlisted for this year’s Waverton Good Read Award in the UK. Also shortlisted were: Just What Kind of Mother Are You?...

Wednesday, 7 May 2014
Sandra Arnold is the recipient of the 2014 Seresin Landfall Residency, reports Booksellers NZ. Arnold is the author of three books: A Distraction of Opposites (Hazard Press), Tomorrow’s Empire (Horizon...

Tuesday, 6 May 2014
Currency Press has won the ‘learning and education’ award in the ‘best of tablet’ category at this year’s Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) awards. Currency, together with the creative and...

Wednesday, 30 April 2014
Harlequin Australia’s digital-first imprint Escape Publishing has launched a competition to name one of its romance sub-genres. ‘In the next few months, the Escape Publishing website is being updated, and...

Thursday, 24 April 2014
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has named David Malouf as the magazine’s inaugural laureate, reports the Age. ABR editor Peter Rose told the Age that ‘the idea is to highlight...

Wednesday, 16 April 2014
Random House Australia has announced a romance fiction competition, with the winner to be published in an ebook collection by the company. Random House is running the competition, to promote...

Friday, 11 April 2014
Literary journal Overland has launched a new short story prize. The Overland Story Wine Prize is for original short fiction of up to 1000 words in length. The winning story will be published on...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Lonely Planet has developed a range of travel accessories that are now available for sale in bookstores. Branded with the Lonely Planet logo, the items include neck pillows, travel adaptors, luggage scales, combination...

Thursday, 10 April 2014
Writer, actor and comedian Shaun Micallef will replace Richard Flanagan as the closing keynote speaker at this year’s Australian Booksellers Associated (ABA) conference. The ABA said in a statement that...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Australian author Luke Preston has been shortlisted for a 2014 International Thriller Writers (ITW) award for Out of Exile (Momentum). Preston’s novel has been nominated in the ‘best ebook original...

Wednesday, 9 April 2014
Reader’s Digest has pulled LA Larkin’s Thirst (Pier 9) from an anthology of condensed novels after a Chinese printing company refused to print the book due to its references to...

Tuesday, 8 April 2014
Scribe UK editor-at-large Philip Gwyn Jones has signed his first deal for the publisher: a ‘nonfiction novel’ based on the life of killer Raoul Moat by journalist Andrew Hankinson. The Bookseller...

Wednesday, 2 April 2014
The National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) has commissioned short stories from several Australian crime writers for its forthcoming Fashion Detective exhibition. The exhibition, which runs from 9 May to 31 August at the Ian Potter...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Christine Piper has won the eighth Australian Book Review (ABR) Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, for her essay ‘Unearthing the Past’. Piper’s essay was chosen by judges Morag Fraser...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has announced its festival ambassadors for 2014. The five ‘established writers’, who will participate in a series of events at this year’s festival, are: authors...

Tuesday, 1 April 2014
Allen & Unwin will announce the winner of this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award on the evening of 22 April 2014, with the book to be available for sale from 23...