Friday, 21 March 2014
The Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing has opened up submissions to New Zealand students for its 2014 award. The award for emerging literary writers, presented by Monash University in conjunction...

Wednesday, 19 March 2014
Satirist and musician Casey Bennetto will host this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs). Bennetto, who has previously hosted several Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards, said he will ‘wear a spiffy...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
Australian playwright Noëlle Janaczewska is one of eight writers to win the 2014 Windham Campbell Prizes, presented by the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University. Janaczewska’s plays...

Wednesday, 12 March 2014
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that Daniel Wilson, chef and owner of Melbourne restaurants Huxtable and Huxtaburger and author of the Huxtabook cookbook (Hardie Grant), will design the...

Wednesday, 5 March 2014
Random House has partnered with online writing community Movellas.com and the Sony Reader Store to launch a writing competition for Australian teen writers. The Sony Young Movellist of the Year...

Tuesday, 4 March 2014
Teacher and Indigenous education specialist Sharon Galleguillos has joined the board of the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF), replacing Martin Nakata, who has finished his directorship. The ILF said in a...

Thursday, 20 February 2014
The audiobook Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein, narrated by Sasha Pick and produced by Australian audiobook company Bolinda, is a finalist in the Teen category of the Audie Awards,...

Wednesday, 19 February 2014
These Broken Stars, the first title of the YA science-fiction ‘Starbound’ trilogy by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner (A&U), will be adapted for a television series in the US, reports...

Thursday, 13 February 2014
Black Inc. has announced the editors for this year’s ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies. Amanda Lohrey is the editor of The Best Australian Stories 2014 and Robert Manne is the...

Monday, 10 February 2014
Te Papa Press publisher Claire Murdoch has joined the council of the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ), replacing former Huia Publishers managing director Robyn Bargh who has retired. Murdoch will...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Melbourne Writers Festival director Lisa Dempster has been shortlisted in this year’s Women’s Agenda Leadership Awards. Dempster, who has been director and CEO of the festival since the end of...

Monday, 3 February 2014
The first issue of the Writers in Conversation open-access literary journal is now available. The journal, which focuses on interviews with authors, editors and translators of literary works, is jointly...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton will be awarded an honorary Doctor of Literature from Victoria University of Wellington, reports Booksellers NZ. Catton, whose second novel The Luminaries (Granta) won the 2013 Man Booker...

Friday, 10 January 2014
Queensland creative writing student Donna Thompson has been shortlisted for the 2014 Digital Book Awards, to be held in New York on 14 January. Thompson is a finalist in the Ebook Fixed...

Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Melbourne radio program Aural Text broadcast its final show in December 2013. The program, which focussed on books and writing, was hosted by Melbourne writer, poet and musician Alicia Sometimes...

Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Graeme Simsion’s The Rosie Project (Text) has been selected for the Spring season of the Richard & Judy Book Club in the UK. Simsion’s novel, which was published by Penguin in...

Wednesday, 11 December 2013
The Swinburne Bookshop Co-op in the Melbourne suburb of Prahran has closed. All stock from the store has been moved to the bookshop at the Swinburne University campus in Hawthorn, where new shelving is...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Palgrave Macmillan will be renamed Macmillan Science and Education next year. The publisher said in a statement this week that the change will take place on 1 April 2014, at...

Tuesday, 10 December 2013
Random House Australia has released an Android version of its free New Books App, which is now available through the Google Play store in Australia and New Zealand. The app,...

Monday, 9 December 2013
Screen Australia has announced investment funding for the ABC’s television adaptation of Kate Grenville’s The Secret River (Text). The miniseries is being developed by producers Stephen Luby and Mark Ruse, along...

Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Western Australia-based publisher Pick-a-WooWoo has been named a finalist in the 2013 Regional Small Business Awards, presented by the Western Australian Government. Pick-a-WooWoo, which publishes Mind Body Spirit books for...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Sydney independent bookseller Pages & Pages Booksellers is offering Kobo ebooks to customers via its website. The bookseller is the first member of the Australian Booksellers Association to become an...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
New Zealand bookselling chain Whitcoulls is once again selling ebooks through Kobo after suspending its Kobo ebookstore in mid-October. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Whitcoulls suspended its ebookstore due to...

Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Scholastic Australia has confirmed to Books+Publishing that it has recalled all copies of the children’s book Thea Stilton and the Blue Scarab Hunt (Geronimo Stilton) after it was revealed that...

Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Journalist and editor Richard Ackland is the recipient of the 2013 PEN/Keneally Award for his contribution to promoting freedom of expression. Ackland, who is a legal columnist for Fairfax Media...