Wednesday, 7 December 2016
The 13 participants selected for the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) Emerging Writers and Illustrators Mentorship program have been announced. The recipients of the 12 Copyright Agency Cultural Fund mentorships...

Tuesday, 6 December 2016
The Copyright Agency and APRA AMCOS, which supports Australian music creators, have launched a celebrity social media campaign ‘aimed at encouraging Australian audiences to respect creative property rights’. The campaign...

Friday, 2 December 2016
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has asked a dozen publishers to nominate their favourite books of 2016 published by other houses for a feature in its December issue. The publishers...

Friday, 2 December 2016
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that marketing and conference manager Steve Jones has left the ABA to pursue other interests. ABA CEO Joel Becker said Jones has been responsible...

Friday, 2 December 2016
Xoum Publishing has announced the shortlist for its inaugural XO Romance Prize for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted works and their authors are: Wendy Lee Davies for ‘The Drover’s Rest’,...

Thursday, 1 December 2016
The Readings Foundation has chosen 10 Victorian organisations to share $128,349 worth of grants in 2017. The grant recipients are: African Communities Foundation Australia: $15,000 to support a weekly seniors...

Thursday, 1 December 2016
Writers Victoria has announced the shortlist for the second Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds. The shortlisted writers and their works are: Jean Bachoura for ‘Night Falls’...

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
UWA Publishing has announced the shortlist for the 2016 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Anne-Marie Priest for ‘A Free Flame’, a...

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
The Australian Campus Booksellers Association (ACBA) has announced the recipients of its annual booksellers awards. Supplier Customer Service Person of the Year Awards (joint winners) Nick Evgenias (Oxford University Press)...

Wednesday, 30 November 2016
Anthony Pizzinga from Penguin Random House was named as this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year at the Australian Booksellers Association’s (ABA) Victorian booksellers and publishers Christmas party on 29...

Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Queensland-based publishing software company Typefi has won the Small Business category at the Australian Export Awards, which were hosted by Austrade and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry in...

Tuesday, 29 November 2016
The winners of the 2016 Overland Story Wine Prize have been announced. Melbourne-based writer Cameron Watson won the $4000 first prize for his piece ‘Sweeping’, a story exploring the role...

Monday, 28 November 2016
The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced the recipients of its inaugural Writing NSW Grants for early career writers, an emerging writing organisation, and a writer and technologist working on a...

Friday, 25 November 2016
Poet Sarah Holland-Batt has been awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship, worth $160,000 tax-free over two years. Holland-Batt is the author of two poetry collections, Aria and The Hazards (both...