Monday, 1 September 2014
The titles shortlisted for the Australian Publishers Association Educational Publishing Awards have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are: Primary EducationPrimary Student Resource: Mathematics (Numeracy) Cambridge HOTmaths FUNdamentals iPad...

Thursday, 28 August 2014
Thousands of school children will read Aaron Blabey’s picture book Sunday Chutney (Puffin) during Read for Australia, a nationwide reading event to be held at 2pm (AEST) on 29 August during...

Thursday, 28 August 2014
The winners of this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards have been announced. The winners in each category are:Book of the Year Peter McLeavey: The Life and Times of a...

Thursday, 28 August 2014
Eleanor Catton will use her prize money from this year’s New Zealand Post Book Awards to set up a new reading grant for New Zealand writers, reports stuff.co.nz.Catton made the...

Thursday, 28 August 2014
The National Young Writers Festival (NYWF) in Newcastle, NSW, has announced its 2014 program.The festival, which runs from 2 to 5 October, will feature 80 artists across almost 80 events....

Thursday, 28 August 2014
Text Publishing has launched a new ‘responsive design’ website and membership program.Digital manager Michelle Calligaro told Books+Publishing that the website has been designed to be ‘really mobile friendly’.‘Before we created...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
The shortlist for Overland’s inaugural Story Wine Prize has been announced. The shortlisted stories are: ‘I thought maybe I could be a lounge singer’ by Lauren Aimee Curtis ‘Parts per million’...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Readings has announced the titles shortlisted for its $4000 New Australian Writing Award. The shortlisted titles are: After Darkness (Christine Piper, A&U) An Elegant Young Man (Luke Carman, Giramondo) Foreign...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
A new website promises to list new book releases by Australian authors ‘and nothing more’. The publishers of the website told Books+Publishing their identities are ‘purposely not being published as...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Magabala has announced the recipients for its Magabala Books’ Indigenous Creators Scholarships for 2014.The recipients are: Reggie Sultan from Darwin, who will use the funding to attend an illustrator’s workshop...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
The eighth Indigenous Literacy Day will take place around Australia next Wednesday 3 September. Among the events scheduled is a special celebratory event at the Sydney Opera House that will...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Hinkler has announced it has sold its international literacy program Engage Literacy to US publisher CapstoneCapstone is the exclusive distributor of the Engage Literacy program in North America, the UK...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
‘We hope that the “buy it now” button will deliver real benefits to users and revenue to authors, publishers, booksellers, and libraries’—ALIA chief executive Sue McKerracher on plans for libraries...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
The titles shortlisted for the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: The Promise (Tony Birch, UQP) Mogwie Idan: Stories of the...

Wednesday, 27 August 2014
Work on a new Berkelouw Books store in Port Macquarie, NSW, will begin in September. The store, which will open in Port Central Shopping Centre, will focus on ‘providing value to...

Tuesday, 26 August 2014
The shortlist for this year’s Colin Roderick Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Eldershaw (Stephen Edgar, Black Pepper) The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Richard Flanagan, Vintage) The...

Monday, 25 August 2014
Former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser has won the 2014 John Button Prize for writing on policy and politics for his book Dangerous Allies (MUP).Fraser’s book was selected for the $20,000 prize ahead of...

Monday, 25 August 2014
When he was a high school student, Tsukuru Tazaki’s four best friends announced that they never wanted to talk to him again, with no reason given. As a 36-year-old railway engineer...

Monday, 25 August 2014
Brenda Saunders has won the 2014 Scanlon Award for Indigenous Poetry.Brenda Saunders is a Sydney poet and artist of Aboriginal and British descent. She is the author of several collections...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) announced the winners for the 2014 Book Design Awards at a gala event in Melbourne on 22 August. The winning titles in each category...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre and Faculty of Arts announced the winners of the Peter Blazey Fellowship, the Ernest Scott Prize, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and the Affirm...

Monday, 25 August 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 Inky Awards have been announced. The awards are presented by the Centre for Youth Literature at the State Library of Victoria for local and international...

Friday, 22 August 2014
Random House has recalled copies of He Who Must Be Obeid by Kate McClymont and Linton Besser due to a ‘misidentification’ in the book. ‘The book contained a misidentification that...