Wednesday, 28 September 2016
New Zealand rugby player Dan Carter will receive the best autobiography prize at the 2016 Sportel Awards, to be held in Monaco on 25 October, for his book Dan Carter:...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
A documentary web-series looking back on the life of Indigenous author and activist Boori Monty Pryor, to be screened on the ABC’s iview portal, is one of 17 Victorian film...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
Affirm Press has announced the winners of its second Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House. The writers and their projects are: Angela J Williams, for her creative...

Tuesday, 27 September 2016
The Poet’s Voice has launched a new podcast series, called ‘The necessary poet’, which presents Australian writers, thinkers and poets discussing the work of a poet they consider to be...

Friday, 23 September 2016
Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker (Duffy & Snellgrove) and Sarah Wilson’s I Quit Sugar: Simplicious (Macmillan) have topped the Australian adult fiction and nonfiction bestsellers charts for July 2015-June 2016, respectively....

Thursday, 22 September 2016
Wildlife photographer and author Neville Peat has won the inaugural NZ$25,000 (A$24,195) Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Writers Award for nonfiction, to help support his project The Invading Sea. Peat...

Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Documents provided to the federal court suggest Penguin was warned about gaps in Belle Gibson’s cancer story prior to the publication of her cookbook The Whole Pantry, reports the Age....

Monday, 19 September 2016
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘Slippery migrants’ by James Bradley (the Monthly) ‘Beautiful contrivances’ by Susan...

Monday, 19 September 2016
The shortlist for the 2016 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as ‘the Nib’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Talking to My Country (Stan Grant, HarperCollins) Santamaria, A...

Friday, 16 September 2016
A one-day symposium on Australian women’s writing will be held at the State Library of NSW (SLNSW) on 3 November. The symposium is presented by the SLNSW, Western Sydney University’s...

Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Jeanne Ryckmans has resigned from the position of Nero Books publisher at Black Inc. Ryckmans was appointed to the position in 2013, when Black Inc. announced it was relaunching its...

Monday, 12 September 2016
Thirty writers, publishers and literary organisations have received funding in the Australia Council’s June grant round. Fifteen writers received individual grants of up to $50,000 each: Donna Abela, Jeannie Baker,...

Monday, 12 September 2016
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has responded to US author Lionel Shriver’s controversial opening keynote by scheduling a ‘right of reply’ event. Shriver spoke about cultural appropriation and political correctness...