Friday, 22 May 2015
The Australia Council has cancelled its June grant round and suspended its six-year funding for organisations program, among other changes following $110m in funding cuts announced in the 2015-16 federal budget.The...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The winners of the 2015 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were announced in Sydney on 21 May.Pan Macmillan was one of the big winners of the night, taking out the...

Friday, 22 May 2015
The Copyright Agency has announced the recipients of its inaugural Publisher Fellowships to ‘conduct study or research into digital publishing, emerging business models and technologies’.The recipients are:  Chrysoula Aiellou, Scholastic,...

Thursday, 21 May 2015
Alan Sampson has won the 2015 Finch Memoir Prize for his entry Schools of Fish.Sampson, a Queensland high-school principal renowned for ‘transforming weak schools into centres of academic excellence’, writes in his...

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Dry (Jane Harper) Nikolai the Perfect (Jim McIntyre) Fine (Michelle Wright).  The judges also...

Wednesday, 20 May 2015
‘The transparent policies and programs of the old Australia Council—supported for 45 years by both sides of politics—look positively utopian’—two-time Miles Franklin Award-winning author Rodney Hall on cuts to the...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Entries have opened for the triennial Melbourne Prize for Literature, which includes a new $20,000 prize for an essay.The Writers Prize, which is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund,...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced.The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: Margot McGovern for Neverland, ‘an ambitious, complex story...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival has attracted a record crowd of more than 60,000 attendees, up 20% on last year, for the five-day festival that finished on Sunday.The festival, which celebrated...

Monday, 18 May 2015
A donation from the Norman Family Bequest in memory of Matt Richell has been presented to the Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF).The donation will allow the senior girls’ class from Tiwi...

Monday, 18 May 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival has released its schools’ program for 2015.This year’s schools’ program, which runs from 24 to 27 August, features Australian authors and illustrators including Andy Griffiths, Amie...

Monday, 18 May 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton) The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna, A&U) The...

Monday, 18 May 2015
Don Watson’s The Bush (Hamish Hamilton) has been named Book of the Year at the 2015 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, presented in Sydney on 18 May.Watson’s book also...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
Australian author Jane Rawson has launched a readathon for June and July to raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). Rawson has set up a website justread.com.au and is...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
The recipients of the Melbourne City of Literature Travel Fund have been announced.The travel fund, which offers grants of up to $3000, was launched in 2014 and aims to support Victoria’s literary...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
A TV adaptation of John Marsden’s ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’ series (Pan) is among the latest book-to-screen projects to receive funding from Screen Australia.The series will be adapted into six one-hour...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
New Brisbane-based independent publisher Bareknuckle Books will release its first book this month, one of six new titles planned for the next year.Bareknuckle Books will specialise in literary fiction, ‘upmarket’...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Booksellers are among the beneficiaries of a new tax breaks for small businesses introduced in the 2015-16 federal budget on 12 May.From budget night until the end of June 2017,...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
The government will cut $110m from the Australia Council over the next four years as part of changes announced in the 2015-16 federal budget on 12 May. Of the cuts to...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Queensland premier and arts minister Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced the state government will contribute up to $175,000 annually to the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), matching up to $125,000 in sponsor...