Monday, 1 December 2014
The 2014 PM’s Literary Awards will be broadcast by Sky News and SBS, according to a report in the Australian.The Australian reports that the ceremony, which will be hosted by Ray...

Monday, 1 December 2014
Novelist and poet John A Scott has won the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award for his short story ‘Picasso: A Shorter Life’.The award, worth $12,000, is offered by the University of...

Friday, 28 November 2014
British crime fiction author P D James has died, aged 94.James was best known for her series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She wrote 14 Dalgliesh...

Friday, 28 November 2014
Night Games by Australian author Anna Krien (Black Inc.) has won the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in the UK.Krien’s book, which explores sporting culture and...

Friday, 28 November 2014
A film based on Helen Garner’s nonfiction book Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Pan) is the latest book-to-film project to receive funding from Screen Australia. The film will be directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, who...

Friday, 28 November 2014
The Chart Collective, a not-for-profit publishing venture supported by the Lifted Brow, has launched an online publishing project that explores summer rituals.The ‘Longer Light’ series will feature 12 different works of writing,...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
Clare Wright has won the 2014 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for her book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Text).Wright was presented with the award, worth $20,000,...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
Brisbane’s Avid Reader Bookshop has announced plans to open a dedicated children’s bookshop next to its West End store.The new store, to be called Where the Wild Things Are Books...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
Journalist and author Helen O’Neill has been appointed to the board of the Copyright Agency, replacing children’s book author Libby Gleeson.‘[O’Neill] arrives at a time when there are exceptional challenges...

Wednesday, 26 November 2014
Debi Hamilton and Anthony Lawrence are the joint winners of the 2014 Newcastle Poetry Prize for their poems ‘Red Riding Hood Grows Old’ and ‘Itinerary’, respectively. The winners were announced at a...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Poetica, the ABC Radio National program ‘dedicated to the performance of poetry’, has been axed as part of the cuts announced by ABC managing director Mark Scott on 24 November,...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors have been longlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Books by Australian authors on the longlist are: The Narrow...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Seizure journal has announced the three editors for its 2015 Viva La Novella project. The successful applicants are Marisa Wikramanayake, Nicola Redhouse and Zoya Patel. Seizure is currently accepting novella...

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize for poetry has been announced. The shortlisted poets are: Bonny Cassidy Dan Disney Alison Flett Molly Guy Jill Jones Carmen Leigh...

Monday, 24 November 2014
Fiona McFarlane’s The Night Guest (Penguin) has been announced as the winner of the inaugural $6500 Voss Literary Prize.The Voss Literary Prize is dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian...

Monday, 24 November 2014
The Scarlet Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime to recognise short crime stories written by Australian women, were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 21 November.Perth writer Judith Bridge won...

Friday, 21 November 2014
The winners of the 2014 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.The winning books are:Picture books The Three Bears (Sort of) (Yvonne Morrison, illus by Donovan Bixley, Scholastic...

Friday, 21 November 2014
Independent Australian publisher Spineless Wonders has announced plans for a new series that combines short stories with authors’ reflections on them.Publisher Bronwyn Mehan told Books+Publishing that the ‘SW Fiction Plus’ series...

Thursday, 20 November 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) will launch its latest community literacy project, a resource to help parents prepare their children for school, in Broken Hill this week.Ready for School in...

Thursday, 20 November 2014
The ACT Book of the Year Award 2014 shortlist has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: 18 Days: Al Jazeera English and the Egyptian Revolution (Scott Bridges, Editia) Earthmasters: The Dawn...