Wednesday, 30 October 2013
A new bookshop called Sneaky Fox Books has opened in the regional Victorian town of Clunes. The shop was offered in a ‘bookshop giveaway’ by its owners and Creative Clunes,...

Thursday, 17 October 2013
Australian author Tim Cope has won an award in the 2013 Banff Mountain Book Competition in Canada. Cope won the Adventure Travel category of the competition for his book On...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author Anna Funder will deliver the annual Dymphna Clark Lecture in Melbourne this week. Funder, whose debut novel All That I Am (Penguin) won numerous literary...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Publisher Inkerman & Blunt has issued stickers for booksellers to use to cover a poem by Queensland poet Graham Nunn in its collection Australian Love Poems 2013 (ed by Mark...

Thursday, 10 October 2013
Two New Zealand authors have been selected for the 2013 International Writing Program in Iowa City in the US. Whiti Hereaka and Craig Cliff are among 31 writers attending the program,...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Booksellers NZ has introduced electronic gift cards. The gift cards, launched on 1 October, can be purchased and redeemed at bookshops that are members of Booksellers NZ, and can be...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
The Berkelouw Books store in Newtown, Sydney, has announced that it is relocating to Hornsby. The store will begin accepting deliveries at its new location in Westfield Hornsby from 4...

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
New Zealand author Lloyd Jones is a finalist in the Arts category of the 2013 Wellingtonian of the Year Awards, also known as ‘the Wellys’, presented by the Dominion Post....

Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Black Inc. has announced the contributors for The Best Australian Stories 2013, edited by Kim Scott, The Best Australian Essays 2013, edited by Robert Manne, and The Best Australian Poems...

Monday, 7 October 2013
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has announced that the Governor General of Australia Quentin Bryce will deliver the 2013 Boyer Lectures next month. The lectures will be broadcast on Radio National...

Friday, 27 September 2013
The Collins Booksellers store in Warragul, Victoria closed at the start of September. Owner Heather Quirk told Books+Publishing that the she decided to close the store for a number of...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
A Queensland bookseller has won the Queensland Times’ Best Job in Town competition. Angie Niebel, manager of the Angus & Robertson store at the Riverlink shopping centre in Ipswich, was...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
Australian actor Cate Blanchett will make her film directorial debut with an adaptation of Dutch author Herman Koch’s novel The Dinner (Text). A bestseller in the Netherlands before being published internationally, The Dinner unfolds...

Tuesday, 24 September 2013
A TV cartoon based on Andy Griffiths’ The Day My Bum Went Psycho (Pan) premiered in Australia this month. The 80-episode series called The Day My Butt Went Psycho screened...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Discount book retailer the Book Grocer has opened a new store at Kangaroo Flat, just outside of Bendigo in regional Victoria. The store is located at Shop 52, Lansell Plaza, Kangaroo...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Brisbane author Robert Hoge was featured in this week’s episode of ABC TV’s Australian Story. Hoge, who was born with deformed legs and a large tumour covering his face, has...

Tuesday, 17 September 2013
In New Zealand, the University of Otago has announced the recipients of its 2014 fellowships for literature and children’s writing. The Robert Burns Fellowship has been awarded to poet Majella...

Friday, 6 September 2013
A number of book industry entries have been shortlisted in the Create Design Awards 2013, presented by Desktop magazine. The illustration in this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival website and posters, designed by Marc...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Five Mile Press has won the 2013 Licensee of the Year Award at this year’s Mattel licensing summit in Melbourne. The publisher was selected from more than 150 licensees...

Wednesday, 4 September 2013
The Mary Ryan’s bookstore in the Brisbane suburb of Bulimba has closed after eight years in business. The store, which was located on Oxford St in Bulimba’s retail precinct, closed...

Monday, 2 September 2013
The organisers of the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have achieved their $20,000 crowdfunding target in just under four weeks. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the money from the Pozible campaign will...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
HarperCollins New Zealand has announced that it is accepting unsolicited manuscripts via its website. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, HarperCollins Australia recently launched an online unsolicited submission program, ‘the Wednesday...

Wednesday, 28 August 2013
Pan Macmillan has announced a recall of Outlaw Bikers in Australia by Duncan McNab from Queensland bookstores. The publisher said in a statement that the book ‘has been recalled temporarily due to potential sub...

Friday, 23 August 2013
Millennium House Australia’s Earth Platinum World Atlas has been named the overall winner at the International Map Industry Association (IMIA) regional map awards. The atlas, the largest in the world,...

Wednesday, 21 August 2013
The Collins bookstore in Werribee, Victoria, will close at the end of September. The store, which is a previous recipient of the Collins Franchise of the Year Award, is located...