Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Human Rights Nonfiction Literature Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: The Black War: Fear, Sex and Resistance in Tasmania (Nicholas Clements, UQP) Poetic Justice:...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Scarlet Stiletto Awards has been announced.Twenty-seven short stories by 23 women have been nominated for the awards, which recognise short crime stories written by Australian women. The list...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Amazon-owned audiobook retailer Audible has launched a promotion on its Australian website offering a free audiobook collection.The audible.com.au site, which went live on 15 January, is offering the free bundled audiobook #ListenUp Collection,...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Melbourne-based publisher and literary magazine The Lifted Brow (TLB) has appointed three new editors for its flagship print magazine. Jointly editing TLB in 2015 will be founding editor of TLB’s ‘Middlebrow’ arts and culture...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The winners of this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.Best Resource in Primary Education went to Connected 2013 - Level 2 I Spy, Level...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Melbourne writer Jennifer Down has won the inaugural Henry Handel Richardson Writing Competition for her short story ‘Pressure Okay’.  The competition, judged by Helen Garner and sponsored by Text Publishing,...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
The winners of the 2014 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs) have been announced.The winning titles and honour books in each category are:Picture storybooks The Dreadful Fluff (Aaron Blabey, Viking)...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Merlinda Bobis’ Fish-Hair Woman (Spinifex Press) has won a Philippine National Book Award in the category of Best Novel in a Foreign Language (English). Bobis is a Phillippines-born, Australia-based author and...

Wednesday, 12 November 2014
Brisbane Airport Corporation has selected 20 books about Brisbane and by Brisbane authors that will be displayed in the departure lounge for G20 delegates and media to take home, reports...

Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Author Paul Gorman has alleged that Vivienne Westwood, a biography of the British fashion designer written by herself and Ian Kelly (Picador), plagiarises his book The Look: Adventures in Rock...

Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Australian author Jackie French has been presented with this year’s NSW Senior Australian of the Year Award.French is the Australian Children’s Laureate for 2014-15 and the author of over 140...

Monday, 10 November 2014
The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors appearing at its 2015 event.Among the international guests participating in the festival, which runs from 19 to 22 February, are...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Sea Hearts by Margo Lanagan (A&U) and The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane (Penguin) are the joint winners of the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award. The prize is awarded every two...

Friday, 7 November 2014
The Australian Embassy Beijing has announced that A J Betts, Maxine Beneba Clarke, Tim Cope, Brooke Davis and Damon Young will be the guest authors at Australian Writers Week in...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Jo Chandler has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘TB and Me: A Medical Souvenir’, first published in the Global Mail.Chandler will receive a...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Avid Reader Bookshop is offering world leaders attending the G20 Summit in Brisbane in November a collection of free books with the proviso that they must pick the books up from...

Friday, 7 November 2014
Author and playwright Brian Castro is the 2014 recipient of the Patrick White Literary Award. Castro was presented with the $24,000 award on 7 November. The annual award was established...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
Australian author Hannah Kent has been shortlisted for the International Author of the Year Award in this year’s National Book Awards in the UK.Kent, who is shortlisted for Burial Rites...

Thursday, 6 November 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Harbinger’ (Stevi-Lee Alver) ‘dermOid’ (Beth Cardier) ‘Resistance’...