Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Charles Black, director at Bloomsbury and former chairman of UK family publishing house A&C Black, has died, aged 76. Black started working at A&C Black in 1960 and served as chairman...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Belinda Castles has won this year’s Asher Literary Award for her book Hannah and Emil (A&U). Castles was announced as the winner of the award at the Australian Society of Authors...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Anthony Lawrence has won the 2013 Blake Poetry Prize for his poem ‘Appellations’. Lawrence received the award, which is worth $5000, on 17 October. The judging panel, made up of...

Monday, 21 October 2013
Rick Riordan’s House of Hades (Puffin), the fourth novel in his ‘The Heroes of Olympus’ series, is number one on the bestsellers and highest new entries charts this week. Jamie Oliver’s Save...

Friday, 18 October 2013
The longlist for the 2013 Walkley Book Award has been announced.  The longlisted titles are: Killing Fairfax (Pamela Williams, HarperCollins) The Rise and Fall of the House of Bo (John Garnaut,...

Friday, 18 October 2013
The shortlists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each of the categories are: Best Book or Series in...

Thursday, 17 October 2013
Screen Australia has allocated $643,125 in funding to support the development of 18 new feature films, including film adaptations of books by Peter Carey, Melanie Joosten, Susan Duncan and Megan Abbott. Part...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Jennifer Compton has won the 2013 Newcastle Poetry Prize for her poem ‘Now You Shall Know’. Compton was presented with the award, which is worth $12,000, at a ceremony in...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
A number of Australian literary organisations and awards, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and Melbourne’s Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, have been named in a poll of...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
New Zealand author Eleanor Catton has won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries (Granta), with an award worth £50,000 (A$84,000) presented at London’s Guildhall on 15 October. Catton is the second...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and Hachette Australia have announced the writers that have been selected to attend this year’s Manuscript Development Program. The eight writers selected for the program...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Former literary agent Mary Cunnane has launched a new editing and publishing consultancy business. Cunnane, who announced the closure of The Mary Cunnane Agency in August, will offer ‘editorial services...

Wednesday, 16 October 2013
‘I am very aware of the pressures upon contemporary publishing to make money and to remain competitive in a competitive world, and I know that it is no small thing...

Tuesday, 15 October 2013
The shortlist for the 2013 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced.  The shortlisted stories are: ‘Dubbing Blows Cold’ (Liam Copland) ‘The Job’ (Robyn...

Monday, 14 October 2013
Former managing director of Hachette New Zealand Kevin Chapman has launched a new publishing business called Upstart Press. Chapman, who left Hachette earlier this year following a major restructure of...

Monday, 14 October 2013
There are no changes at the top of the bestseller chart this week, with Jamie Oliver’s Save with Jamie (Michael Joseph) and Andy Griffiths’ The 39-Storey Treehouse (Pan) retaining the top two...

Thursday, 10 October 2013
Six Western Australian children’s authors and illustrators have been selected to attend the 2014 Asian Festival of Children’s Content (AFCC) in Singapore as part of writingWA’s cultural exchange program with...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Walker Books has appointed a new sales team to manage all international sales of Walker Books UK, Candlewick Press and Walker Books Australia titles, reports the Bookseller. As part of...

Wednesday, 9 October 2013
Brisbane-based literary agency Alex Adsett Publishing Services (AAPS) has announced details of its first deals with Australian publishers. AAPS, which was established as a literary agency by publishing consultant Alex Adsett...