Thursday, 19 June 2014
Australian author Evie Wyld has won the £10,000 (A$18,066) Encore Award for her novel All The Birds, Singing (Vintage). The annual award is presented for the best second novel from...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
Bec Kavanagh has been appointed education resource development officer for the Stella Prize.Kavanagh, a freelance writer and reviewer and founder of A Thousand Words Festival in Melbourne, will be responsible...

Wednesday, 18 June 2014
The shortlist for the 2014 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts, has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Nature’s Line: George Goyder—Surveyor, Environmentalist,...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
The Reading Hour has announced Australian actor and writer William McInnes is the national ambassador for the initiative in 2014.First held during the National Year of Reading in 2012, the...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Apple has reached a settlement with US states and consumers seeking damages over its ebook price-fixing, reports Joel Rosenblatt on Bloomberg. The settlement means the company will avoid a trial...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Wakefield Press has appointed Simon Collinson as the publisher’s ‘geek in residence’ until September. The role, which is part-funded by the Australia Council, will involve Collinson ‘developing ways to enhance Wakefield’s...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Writers Victoria has launched a new ‘professional development and networking opportunity’ for published writers, who will ‘use a newly released Australian novel as a starting point for facilitated conversation and...

Tuesday, 17 June 2014
Exisle has acquired Art in Nature, the first book by photographer David Rennie. Rennie was the 2013 winner of the Australian Geographic ANZANG Nature Photographer of the Year competition. His...

Monday, 16 June 2014
If:book Australia and publishing company Editia have announced they will run a Twitter competition to find new writers to appear in the forthcoming print title The N00bz: New Adventures in...

Monday, 16 June 2014
Adrian Stanley and Jane Harrison are the winners of the 2014 black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships. Each of the fellowships are worth $10,000 and include publication by Magabala Books. Stanley’s novel...

Friday, 13 June 2014
The shortlists for the Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards, including the PANZ Young Designer of the Year Award, have been announced.The titles shortlisted in the best...

Thursday, 12 June 2014
Over 14,000 people attended the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), the second festival under director Sam Twyford-Moore, breaking last year’s box office and attendance records.General manager Kate Callingham told Books+Publishing...

Wednesday, 11 June 2014
The finalists for the Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) Romantic Book of the Year award, known as ‘the Ruby’, have been announced.The finalists in each category are:‘Short sexy’: What the...

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
The 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List has been announced, with Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler both awarded Officer in the General Division (AO) for ‘distinguished service to business and...