Wednesday, 8 October 2014
‘The general mood was extremely positive with everyone excited about the past year’s results and the upcoming Christmas trading period’—Collins Booksellers financial controller Will Smith reports on the bookseller’s national...

Monday, 6 October 2014
Former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s memoir My Story (Knopf) is this week’s highest new entry, debuting in second place on the bestsellers chart. It’s behind The 52-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths &...

Friday, 3 October 2014
A forthcoming memoir from the former executive producer of TV breakfast show ‘Sunrise’ is the subject of legal action.Publisher MUP said in a statement that the Seven Network has issued...

Friday, 3 October 2014
Irish-Australian author Thomas Keneally has been presented with one of Ireland’s 2014 Presidential Distinguished Service Awards. The awards, which span numerous categories, including the arts, recognise the contribution of the Irish...

Friday, 3 October 2014
Six graphic novelists and comic artists will participate in a residential exchange between Taiwan and New Zealand as part of a program developed between the Publishers Association of New Zealand...

Friday, 3 October 2014
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains 11 reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in January to March. Included is a five-star review of A Small Madness by Dianne Touchell (A&U,...

Thursday, 2 October 2014
The New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards will include an additional award in 2015. ‘For the first time, The Premier’s Translation Prize includes the Multicultural NSW Early Career Translator Prize,’...

Wednesday, 1 October 2014
The Dorothy Butler Children’s Bookshop in the Auckland suburb of Ponsonby is up for sale, reports Booksellers NZ. Sheila Sinclair, owner of both the Children’s Bookshop in Christchurch and the...

Wednesday, 1 October 2014
‘It will help reach younger audiences with an expanded children’s and young adult program, live stream technology connecting the event to regional locations, and a new online resource of recorded...

Monday, 29 September 2014
There are few changes to this week’s bestsellers chart with familiar titles taking the top spots. The 52-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton, Pan) is in first place for the fourth week running, ahead of...

Monday, 29 September 2014
Literary journal Overland has announced that editor Jeff Sparrow will leave the role at the end of 2014. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, Sparrow was recently awarded a Sidney Myer...

Monday, 29 September 2014
The Tasmanian Writers Centre has published two children’s books and may publish more in future. The centre has published When I was a Boy in Sudan (narrated by Sarafino Enadio,...

Monday, 29 September 2014
The City of Sydney has increased its funding to the Sydney Writers’ Festival.The city will provide $360,000 in cash and $110,000 in in-kind support each year for the next three years....

Friday, 26 September 2014
The winner of Overland’s inaugural Story Wine Prize has been announced. ‘That inward eye’ by Leah Swann has won the $3000 prize and will be published on the label of a Story...

Friday, 26 September 2014
Tasmania’s biennial arts festival Ten Days on the Island has been renamed the Tasmanian International Arts Festival.Artistic director David Malacari told the ABC that the new name better describes the...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2014 Australia Book Prize shortlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Black Inc. has announced the contributors to its 2014 Best Australian Stories, Essays and Poems collections. J M Coetzee, Helen Garner, Clive James, David Malouf, Carrie Tiffany, Noel Pearson, Tim...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Majok Tulba has been announced as the winner of this year’s Kathleen Mitchell Award for young novelists.Tulba won the $20,000 award for his debut novel Beneath the Darkening Sky (Hamish...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
Books by male authors received on average 55.4% of coverage in Australia’s major newspapers and literary journals compared to 44.6% for books by female authors, the 2013 Stella Count has...

Wednesday, 24 September 2014
‘I welcome a review of Australia’s competition policies but hope that international postage and GST on imports are given as much weight, if not more, than the removal of import...