Wednesday, 13 April 2016
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2016 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Book Guilt (Matt...

Wednesday, 13 April 2016
Readings has won the inaugural Bookstore of the Year Award at the 2016 London Book Fair International Excellence Awards. Readings was cited for ‘its community outreach, support of Australian authors...

Wednesday, 13 April 2016
New Zealand publisher Auckland University Press (AUP) has won the Academic and Professional Publisher Award at this year’s London Book Fair (LBF) International Excellence Awards, presented on 12 April. AUP...

Tuesday, 12 April 2016
The Copyright Agency has announced a new fund to support mid-to-late career authors and visual artists. The Create Career Fund will offer two $50,000 rounds each year, comprised of grants...

Monday, 11 April 2016
The Co-op has opened four stores at the University of South Australia and will open two more at Flinders and Adelaide universities by the end of the month. The stores...

Friday, 8 April 2016
ALS Library Services general manager Simon Woodley has been promoted to the role of managing director. Woodley replaces ALS owner Patricia Genat in the role. ALS said in a statement...

Thursday, 7 April 2016
The 2016 Northern Territory writers’ festival Wordstorm program has been launched. Indonesian writer Eka Kurniawan, author of Beauty is a Wound (Text), will be the international guest at this year’s...

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Hardie Grant Egmont publisher Niki Horin has joined Bonnier Publishing Australia as Five Mile Press publishing director. Horin began her publishing career at Five Mile Press 13 years ago as...

Wednesday, 6 April 2016
Former Books+Publishing editor-in-chief Matthia Dempsey has joined the Small Press Network as general manager. Dempsey takes over from Hannah Cartmel, who is returning to freelance editing. Cartmel has been acting...

Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Simon & Schuster has announced an Australian and New Zealand sales and distribution agreement to manage VIZ Media’s manga catalogue, which includes more than 1600 titles, with another 300 added...

Friday, 1 April 2016
A number of Australian and New Zealand writers have been shortlisted for the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. They are: ‘Black Milk’ (Tina Makereti, New Zealand) ‘Charmed’ (Jane Downing, Australia)...

Thursday, 31 March 2016
The 2016 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is now available online. Sixty international writers will attend this year’s festival, which runs from 16-22 May, with UK novelist,...

Thursday, 31 March 2016
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF) has announced its festival ambassadors for 2016. The five ‘established writers’ are cookbook author and TV presenter Adam Liaw; cartoonist First Dog on the Moon;...

Wednesday, 30 March 2016
Two Australian authors have been nominated for the 2016 RITA Awards, presented by Romance Writers of America (RWA) for ‘excellence in published romance novels and novellas’. M J Scott is...