Tuesday, 5 December 2017
Amazon’s Australian store has officially launched, and is selling print books and 22 other product categories through its own store and marketplace. Online retailers selling books through Amazon's marketplace include...

Monday, 4 December 2017
Founder and co-CEO of Bolinda Rebecca Herrmann has been named Leader of the Year at the FutureBook awards, run by the Bookseller in the UK. As previously reported by Books+Publishing,...

Friday, 1 December 2017
Kathryn Heyman has won the Copyright Agency’s 2017 fellowship for mid-to-late career authors, worth $80,000. Heyman received the fellowship for her forthcoming memoir Words to Live By. The memoir explores how...

Friday, 1 December 2017
The teaching team for the Associate Degree in Professional Writing and Editing at Victoria’s RMIT University has won the university’s Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award. The team, which comprises Penny Johnson, Stephanie Holt,...

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
HarperCollins Australia imprint HQ will publish US actress Rose McGowan’s memoir Brave in Australia and New Zealand in January 2018. McGowan’s ‘memoir/manifesto’ will be a ‘pull-no-punches’ account of her life as an...

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
The Readings Foundation has chosen 15 Victorian organisations to share in $184,692 worth of grants in 2018. The grant recipients are: Ardoch Youth Foundation: $10,000 to run four writer-in-residence programs...

Wednesday, 29 November 2017
Melbourne-based author and editor Sophie Splatt has been selected for the Australia Council’s inaugural Seagull School of Publishing residency in Kolkata, India. Splatt will travel to Kolkata in January 2018...

Monday, 27 November 2017
The Queensland Writers Centre’s (QWC) #8WordStory campaign has ‘surpassed all expectations with over 10,000 entries submitted’, the organisation has announced. QWC invited members of the public to the submit stories...