Wednesday, 29 October 2014
‘Sometimes in Australia, people pay far too much for books and that’s not very clever for what’s supposed to be the Clever Country’—Dymocks owner John Forsyth discusses parallel importation restrictions,...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Australian author Jackie French is a NSW finalist for the 2015 Senior Australian of the Year Award. French, the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-15, is the author of over 140...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
The winners of the Young Australian’s Best Book Awards (YABBAs), Victoria’s children’s choice awards, have been announced for 2014.The winning titles are:Picture storybooks The Dreadful Fluff (Aaron Blabey, Viking)  Fiction...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) has announced the shortlist for the Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year award, part of the 2014 Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) program. The...

Tuesday, 28 October 2014
Ceridwen Dovey’s Only the Animals (Hamish Hamilton) has won the inaugural Readings New Australian Writing Award. Dovey’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $4000 prize, which was established earlier this...

Monday, 27 October 2014
Richard Flanagan’s Man Booker Prize-winning Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) has climbed back up the bestsellers chart. The $32.95 trade paperback edition is the week’s fastest mover, climbing up...

Monday, 27 October 2014
Hardie Grant Egmont has announced that its Ampersand Project for unpublished YA authors will not be awarded this year. The publisher said in a statement that the project, which opened...

Monday, 27 October 2014
Australian author Anna Krien’s Night Games (Black Inc.) is among the seven titles shortlisted for the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in the UK, reports the...

Monday, 27 October 2014
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a new mentorship for children’s writers.The Edel Wignell Mentorship is supported by the literary income of children’s writer Edel Wignell, who has...

Friday, 24 October 2014
The longlist for the 2014 Walkley Book Award has been announced. The longlisted titles are: Breaking News: Sex, Lies and the Murdoch Succession (Paul Barry, A&U) Jacks and Jokers (Mathew Condon, UQP)...

Friday, 24 October 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced.The shortlisted poems are: ‘Penumbra’ (Brady Collard) ‘Soulchat’ (MTC Cronin) ‘either, Orpheus’ (Dan Disney) ‘Threnodials’ (Dave Drayton) ‘The Bridge’ (Ross...

Thursday, 23 October 2014
A number of books by Australian and New Zealand authors and illustrators have been included in the 2014 White Ravens list for international children’s and youth literature.The Australian titles on...

Wednesday, 22 October 2014
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the shortlist for this year’s Most Underrated Book Award (MUBA). The shortlisted titles are: Gardens of Fire (Robert Kenny, UWA Publishing) A Wrong...

Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Arts Victoria has announced its latest round of VicArts grant recipients.The program will provide $1.4 million in funding for 88 new creative projects by independent professional artists and arts organisations...

Tuesday, 21 October 2014
The nominations for the 2015 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in the UK, have been announced.Australian author Morris Gleitzman...

Tuesday, 21 October 2014
The winners of the 2014 Inky Awards, presented by the Centre for Youth Literature, were announced at the State Library of Victoria on 21 November.Will Kostakis won the Gold Inky...

Monday, 20 October 2014
The shortlists for this year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are:Fiction A World of Other People (Steven Carroll, Fourth Estate) The...

Monday, 20 October 2014
The Blood of Olympus: Heroes of Olympus (Rick Riordan, Puffin) is Percy Jackson’s final battle. It’s in first place on the bestsellers chart and the fastest movers chart this week....

Friday, 17 October 2014
The Wheeler Centre has announced the appointment of Emily Sexton as head of programming.Sexton has been creative producer and co-CEO of Melbourne’s contemporary art festival Next Wave for the past...

Friday, 17 October 2014
Tracy Farr’s novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press) will be broadcast as a 12-part reading on Radio New Zealand (RNZ), beginning on 29 October.Farr, who was...