Monday, 2 December 2013
Books+Publishing is currently conducting its annual pre-Christmas survey of booksellers and publishers. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey online. Booksellers If you are a bookseller, please complete...

Friday, 29 November 2013
The guest line-up for the 2014 New Zealand Festival Writers Week, which will be held in Wellington between 7 and 12 March, has been announced. Among the international writers who will...

Friday, 29 November 2013
Pamela Williams has won this year’s Walkley Book Award for Killing Fairfax (HarperCollins). Williams received the award during the Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism at Parliament House in Brisbane...

Thursday, 28 November 2013
Scribe has announced the shortlist for its inaugural nonfiction prize for young writers, run in partnership with Express Media. The shortlisted pieces are: ‘A Year in Peru’ by Elizabeth Bryer...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
‘It is absurd to send stock to the US or UK in the knowledge that you are doing so solely for it to come back to our shores via Amazon’—Keiran...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
A number of Tasmanian writers will receive a share of more than $380,000 in funding from Arts Tasmania as part of the Tasmanian Government’s 2014 Individual Arts Program. The writers...

Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Penguin has launched its first series of Australian Classics, beginning with six titles spanning several generations of Australian writers. Launched in late November, the first six titles are: The Getting...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
The Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts, which will hold its inaugural event in London from 29 May to 1 June 2014, will be opened by Tim Winton....

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Western Australian writer Kate Fielding is one of 10 artists to receive this year’s Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships, each worth $160,000 over two years. Fielding, who is based in Kalgoorlie, is...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
US bookseller Barnes & Noble has launched Australian and other international Nook ebookstores, which are accessible via an app for devices with Windows 8.1. The move gives users in 32 countries and...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Publishers and distributors are asked to advise the Weekly Book Newsletter of their Christmas closing dates by 5pm this Monday 2 December. A full list will appear in the Weekly Book...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Sales Fiction—Text has sold US and Israeli rights to the sequel to The Rosie Project (Graeme Simsion) to Simon & Schuster and Miskal respectively; and US rights to an untitled...

Tuesday, 26 November 2013
US children’s book author and editor Charlotte Zolotow has died, aged 98. Zolotow was the author of more than 70 illustrated children’s books, beginning with The Park Book (HarperCollins) in 1944....

Monday, 25 November 2013
Literary journal Overland has announced that Jennifer Down’s short story ‘Turncoat’ has won the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers, with a prize of $6000. The two runners-up,...

Monday, 25 November 2013
The Scarlett Stiletto Awards, presented by Sisters in Crime to recognise short crime stories written by Australian women, were announced at a ceremony in Melbourne on 22 November. Candice Graham won the...

Monday, 25 November 2013
Jeff Kinney’s Hard Luck: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Puffin) is number one on the bestsellers chart for the second week in a row. Matthew Reilly’s latest novel, The Tournament (Pan),...

Friday, 22 November 2013
The Trust Company, trustee of the Miles Franklin Literary Award, has launched a free teaching resource to encourage the study of Australian literature in high schools. The resource, created in partnership...

Friday, 22 November 2013
Cengage Australia has announced that it has acquired the rights to future editions of all vocational education titles published by Pearson Australia. Paul Petrulis, vice president of higher education and Gale...

Friday, 22 November 2013
Eleanor Catton has been named Woman of the Year in the Lexus M2 Awards in New Zealand. Catton was named as the Woman of the Year at a ceremony in...