Thursday, 6 November 2014
‘No one has time to read everything—or the money—so when you do pick up a book, you want to know it’s the right one’—Cheryl Akle on the launch of independent...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Australian author Lily Brett has become the first Australian to win the French literary award Prix Medicis Etranger.The award, which is given to the author of a work that has...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
The Australian Book Review (ABR) has appointed two new ABR Fellows. ‘The current ABR Ian Potter Foundation Fellowship (the third to be supported by The Ian Potter Foundation) attracted a...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Express Media has appointed Fiona Dunne as creative producer. ‘Fiona has experience across a number of festivals, events, and organisations, most recently through her work at Playwriting Australia,’ said the...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
A new online literary journal, Connect the Dots (CTD Journal), has been launched and is now open for submissions.Originally developed as a project for a creative writing subject offered by...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Perth retailers are allowed to trade for extended hours during the Christmas period after changes to trading hours by the Western Australian Government Department of Commerce, reports the ABC. Beginning...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) will hold its first dedicated children’s festival from 14 November to 4 December 2014. The Children’s Festival of Moving Stories features 25 authors in almost 40...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Writers Victoria and Melbourne-based bookseller Hares & Hyenas are among the businesses nominated for funding from ‘Kochie’s Business Builders’ $100K Rescue My Site’ competition.Writers Victoria has been nominated for the $25,000...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Adelaide-based publisher MidnightSun will publish its first children’s book in February 2015 following a successful crowdfunding campaign. One Step at a Time, written by Jane Jolly and illustrated by Sally...

Wednesday, 5 November 2014
Australia Post has opened ShopMate, an international postal-forwarding service in the US, reports Inside Retail. The ShopMate website allows Australian shoppers to buy goods from US retailers and have them...

Monday, 3 November 2014
Lucinda Gifford has won the inaugural Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize. Five Mile publisher Kay Scarlett said the judges of the prize felt Gifford had the ‘strongest individual style’ of...

Monday, 3 November 2014
Cheryl Akle announced the launch of new ‘independent book recommendations and news site’ Better Reading on 3 November 2014. The website at www.betterreading.com.au has been assisted by financial contributions from...

Monday, 3 November 2014
The nominees for the inaugural AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced. Administered by the recently launched AusRomToday website, the awards are intended to showcase Australian romance writing to readers worldwide. The...

Friday, 31 October 2014
Children’s book author and former teacher-librarian Jill Bruce is the winner of this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of...

Thursday, 30 October 2014
A new three-year research project funded by the Australian Research Council and undertaken by academics at Sydney’s Macquarie University will examine the impact of the changing publishing industry on authors,...

Thursday, 30 October 2014
Australian online publishing platform Tablo has announced a partnership with Pan Macmillan digital publishing imprint Momentum to discover ‘future bestselling authors while they’re still writing their books’. Tablo, which provides...

Thursday, 30 October 2014
The shortlist for a new Australian literary prize has been announced. The Voss Literary Prize is a new award dedicated to the memory of historian Vivian Robert Le Vaux Voss....

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...