Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Dunedin children’s book illustrator and author David Elliot has won the 2014 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal, awarded annually for lifetime contributions to New Zealand children’s literature.  The award recognises Elliot’s...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) and the Copyright Agency (CAL)’s Cultural Fund have announced a new Asia-Pacific fellowship program for Australian writers. As part of the inaugural Writers...

Tuesday, 4 February 2014
SalesChildren’s—Hardie Grant Egmont and Little Hare have sold Canadian (English language) rights to Zac Power: Boot Camp and Zac Power: Swamp Race (HI Larry); German rights to Zac Power: Lunar...

Monday, 3 February 2014
UWA Publishing has launched a scholarly imprint called UWAP Scholarly.The imprint launched in January with two books, After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation edited by Carolyn D’Cruz and Mark...

Monday, 3 February 2014
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) occupies the top two spots in this week’s bestsellers chart. The film tie-in edition is at number one for the third week in a row,...

Monday, 3 February 2014
The shortlists for the 2014 West Australian Young Readers’ Book Awards (WAYRBA) have been announced.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Older readers Pathfinder (Scott Orson Card, Simon Pulse) Summer’s Dream...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
Fremantle Press has announced that Penguin Books will distribute its titles in Western Australia from May 2014.The publisher said in a statement that the move ‘is designed to streamline the...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has launched the program for its first Digital Writers’ Festival, to be held on 13-24 February. The purely online festival will feature sessions on genre...

Thursday, 30 January 2014
‘Good Australian writing needs good Australian bookshops to prosper. Without them Australian writers are one more endangered species whose bush has been bulldozed’—2014 Indie Award nominee Richard Flanagan

Thursday, 30 January 2014
The 2014 Adelaide Writers’ Week program has been launched.The event will run from Saturday 1 March to Thursday 6 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide, South Australia....

Wednesday, 29 January 2014
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2014 Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers’ Week in March. The visiting international...

Wednesday, 29 January 2014
SalesFiction—Random House has sold Taiwanese rights to The Elusive Language of Ducks (Judith White). Nonfiction—Michelle Anderson Publishing has sold Chinese complex-character rights to Taiwan to You Can Conquer Cancer (Ian...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
The film tie-in edition of Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) is number one on this week’s bestsellers chart, while the standard edition has climbed to number three. The standard edition is...

Tuesday, 28 January 2014
Cookbook author Stephanie Alexander is among the recipients of the 2014 Australia Day honours, presented by the Governor-General on 26 January as a ‘national and formal recognition for Australians who have made...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Helen Withycombe has joined the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne in the role of programming coordinator. Withycombe, who started in the role earlier this month, joins the...

Friday, 24 January 2014
In Books+Publishing’s pre-Christmas survey, booksellers were overwhelmingly impressed by the titles on offer, particularly in local fiction. While Nielsen BookScan’s figures show that fiction sales were down on the previous...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Online sales of print books were much stronger in Christmas 2013. Seventy-three percent of booksellers reported an increase in online sales compared to Christmas 2012, up from 13% who reported in increase in...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Several booksellers reported ‘the usual’ issues with slow deliveries, but a number reported that supply was better than last year. One NSW bookseller said: ‘In general stock supply seemed much...

Friday, 24 January 2014
Almost all of the publishers who participated in Books+Publishing’s post-Christmas survey described Christmas 2013 as ‘excellent’, with just two publishers describing sales during the Christmas period as ‘good’ or ‘okay’....