Wednesday, 3 September 2014
‘If we in the print business want to survive, we have to make print an entirely different experience from reading digitally’—Melbourne Writers Festival guest Dave Eggers argues for a greater...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
The inaugural two-day Writers Victoria Manuscript Assessor Conference kicks off today in Melbourne.The conference, which is open to emerging and established assessors, will host discussions on the best practice, professional...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Literary journal Island has announced the launch of the WD Booth Charitable Trust/Island Emerging Writer Mentoring Program to ‘build the resilience and capacity of the writing sector in Tasmania’.The program...

Monday, 1 September 2014
Liam McIlvanney has won the 2014 Ngaio Marsh Award for Best Crime Novel for Where the Dead Men Go (Faber).McIlvanney won the NZ$1000 (A$895) award ahead of fellow shortlisted authors Paul Cleave (Joe...

Monday, 1 September 2014
The Stella Prize Schools Program will launch in Melbourne on 10 September with a free event for teachers, librarians, educators and students. The event will feature Australian authors Carrie Tiffany, Cate Kennedy...

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...