Wednesday, 2 December 2015
Australian public policy think tank Grattan Institute has released its annual summer reading list for the Prime Minister. The list contains ‘books and articles that the Prime Minister, or any...

Tuesday, 1 December 2015
The University of Sydney’s Charles Perkin Centre has announced a $100,000 fellowship for a writer in residence to ‘join the fight against obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease’. Starting in mid-2016,...

Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Melbourne writer Calanthe Black has won Hardie Grant Egmont’s (HGE) 2015 Ampersand Prize for unpublished writers for her untitled YA sci-fi novel. Black’s entry was chosen from more than 250...

Tuesday, 1 December 2015
Potton & Burton managing director Emma Radcliffe has been awarded the inaugural W E and M L Forde Publishing Scholarship to the Yale Publishing Course, administered by the Publishers Association...

Monday, 30 November 2015
The Victorian creative industries taskforce, chaired by Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler, has presented its first report to the state government. The ‘Creative State, Global City’ report, which...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
The longlists for the New Zealand Book Awards have been announced. The longlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Antipodeans (Greg McGee, Upstart Press) Astonished Dice: Collected Short Stories...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Penguin Random House Australia and New Zealand has cut 18 jobs from its Australian offices, affecting staff in senior management, marketing and publicity, publishing, production and sales. Penguin Random House...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Elizabeth Harrower has won the 2015 Voss Literary Prize for her novel In Certain Circles (Text). The Voss Literary Prize is awarded to the best novel published in Australia in...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Collins Booksellers will donate a percentage of sales of selected books from its 2015 Christmas Reading Guide to the non-profit organisation beyondblue. Ten percent of the sales of 12 titles marked in...

Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the winners of this year’s Victorian Rep of the Year Award. The joint winners were Micheal Earp from Walker Books and Anthony Pizzinga...

Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Erik Jensen has won the 2015 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for his book Acute Misfortune (Black Inc.). Wright was presented with the award, worth $20,000,...

Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The 2016 Australian Book Design Awards will include a new award for Best Designed Scholarly and Reference Book, bringing the total categories to 16. Eligible titles for the new category include...

Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Creative Victoria has announced changes to its funding for organisations ahead of its 2017 funding cycle. Funding for the Organisations Investment Program has changed to four years for all organisations, up...

Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The federal government is set to repeal existing parallel importation restrictions (PIRs) on books after accepting the Competition Policy Review’s recommendations to drop PIRs. The government published a full response to the report on 24...

Tuesday, 24 November 2015
The winners of the Speech Pathology Australia 2015 Book of the Year Awards have been announced. The winners in the five categories are: Birth to three years Snail and Turtle...

Monday, 23 November 2015
The Grapple Annual No. 1 (ed by Duncan Felton), an anthology of prose, poetry, comics and art published by Canberra independent press Grapple Publishing, has won this year’s Most Underrated...

Monday, 23 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced. The winning titles in each category are: Older readers The Maze Runner (James Dashner, The Chicken...

Monday, 23 November 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Fiction Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) In Certain Circles...

Friday, 20 November 2015
The New Zealand government will collect a GST on ebooks and other digital products purchased online from overseas retailers from October next year. Revenue minister Todd McClay first announced the plan in...

Friday, 20 November 2015
The federal government’s controversial National Program for Excellence in the Arts (NPEA) has been scrapped, with $32m in funding returned to the Australia Council—just under a third of the $110m...

Thursday, 19 November 2015
Express Media has announced the shortlist for the Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award. The shortlisted writers are: Chloe Higgins Eliza Henry-Jones Ellen van Neerven Helen...