Tuesday, 20 October 2015
The University of Melbourne has appointed author Richard Flanagan as the Boisbouvier Founding Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, a new professorship to ‘advance the teaching, understanding...

Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in the UK....

Tuesday, 20 October 2015
The shortlist for the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Roy Higgins (Patrick Bartley, Penguin) The Short Long Book (Martin Flanagan, Random House) Sonny...

Friday, 16 October 2015
Six Australians and two New Zealanders have been nominated for the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Australians Ursula Dubosarsky, Libby Gleeson, Morris Gleitzman, Alison Lester, Melina Marchetta and Markus Zusak...

Thursday, 15 October 2015
Children’s book publisher Christmas Press has received $10,000 from Australia Post’s ‘Our Neighbourhood’ grant program to set up a new imprint. The publisher, which is based in Armidale, NSW, will use...

Thursday, 15 October 2015
Several writers and literary organisations have received a share of more than $1m in funding from the City of Melbourne as part of its annual Arts Grants program. The First...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University has awarded Michael Wilding the $10,000 Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal 2015 for his book Wild Bleak...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
Echo Publishing has launched its website. The mobile-friendly site, which was launched in early October, features dedicated author pages with links to authors’ social media and websites, book extracts, reviews...

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 ACT Book of the Year has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Snow Kimono (Mark Henshaw, Text) Into the Heart of the Himalayas (Jono...

Monday, 12 October 2015
The winners of this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) were announced at a ceremony at the State Library of Queensland on 9 October. The winners in each category are: Fiction...

Monday, 12 October 2015
Creative New Zealand has awarded NZ$540,000 (A$493,637) to the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) for a range of programs to increase international sales of New Zealand authors. The funding...

Friday, 9 October 2015
London-based Australian ebook producer Simon Collinson has published the results of his survey of international small publishers on their ebook businesses. Collinson gathered data from 59 publishers from nine countries,...

Thursday, 8 October 2015
Former Queensland Writers Centre CEO and crime and thriller writer Meg Vann’s short story ‘Provocation’ has been adapted into an online multimedia verse project, exploring the themes of female agency...

Wednesday, 7 October 2015
Margaret River Press directors John and Caroline Wood have launched a new literary events organisation in Perth. The Centre for Stories, located in the inner-city suburb of Northbridge, will run...