Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Ross McMullin has won the individual category of the 2013 Manning Clark House Cultural Awards for his book Farewell, Dear People (Scribe). McMullin’s book, a collection of 10 biographies of...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Sales Fiction—Hachette has sold Bulgarian and Latvian language rights to Wildflower Hill (Kimberley Freeman); Latvian language rights to Lighthouse Bay (Kimberley Freeman); Serbian language rights to The Book of Love...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Graham Davey, president of the Young Australians Best Book Awards (YABBA), has died. Davey was the president of YABBA for more than 20 years. During his career he served as...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Melbourne-based author and historian Kevin Wong Hoy has died, aged 65.  Australian Scholarly Publishing writes: ‘Kevin made a significant contribution to Chinese Australian history, having written and edited books and...

Wednesday, 17 April 2013
‘In only a few short years since they first started discussing the position of women in literature they have made something beautiful.’ Stella Prize winner Carrie Tiffany praised the work of the Stella Prize...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
The winners of the 2012 Australian Shadows Awards have been announced. Kirstyn McDermott won the novel category for Perfections (Xoum) and Kaaron Warren won the long fiction category for ‘Sky’ from...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Kobo has unveiled a new high-definition ereading device, which will be available from Australian and New Zealand retailers in June. The Kobo Aura HD is a front-lit, 6.8-inch device with...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Booksellers New Zealand has announced the program for its 2013 conference, to be held in Christchurch from 23-24 June. This year’s conference will focus on the theme ‘The future is in your...

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
If:book Australia has asked 12 writers to participate in its ‘N00bz challenge’ and digital publisher Editia will publish the writers’ experiences as a collection of essays.   The organisation has asked writers to become a N00b—slang for ‘newbie’ or...

Monday, 15 April 2013
Hinkler Books has announced an agreement with Ripley Entertainment to handle all sales, distribution and fulfillment of Ripley’s titles in Australia and New Zealand, effective from 4 April. Ripley’s titles...

Monday, 15 April 2013
When a family-owned furniture firm in New York explodes into flames in the middle of the night, destroying a museum containing priceless antiques along with it, a dark secret from the family’s...

Friday, 12 April 2013
The 2013 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is now available on the website. Tickets went on sale on Saturday 13 April, and the program was published as a liftout...

Thursday, 11 April 2013
The Australian Catholic University (ACU) has launched a new literature prize, the ACU Prize for Literature. The ACU said in a statement that the newly established prize ‘aims to support writers and to...

Thursday, 11 April 2013
The Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) has been contracted to manage New Zealand’s visiting international publisher program, Te Manu Ka Tau: Flying Friends (TMKT), at this year’s Auckland Writers &...

Thursday, 11 April 2013
Australian poet Jennifer Maiden has been shortlisted for the international Griffin Poetry Prize for her collection Liquid Nitrogen (Giramondo Publishing). The Griffin Poetry Prize, which is awarded annually to one...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The ABC has launched a new educational website aimed at providing online educational material to children, teachers and parents. The website, called Splash, is funded by the Federal Department of Broadband, Communication...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
The latest round of funding for the Copyright Agency’s Creative Industries Career Fund has been announced. Writers Zane Lovitt and Samia Khatun are two of the recipients to receive funding....

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
‘Every time Australia Post raises their postage rates it makes it harder to compete against overseas book retailers’—General manager of Pages & Pages Booksellers and Australian Booksellers Association president Jon...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Peter Workman, founder of New York publisher Workman Publishing Company, has died aged 74. Workman helped to first publish The Silver Palate Cookbook  by Julee Russo in 1981 and through the...

Wednesday, 10 April 2013
Author and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has died, aged 85. Jhabvala was born in Germany and lived in the UK, in India and the US. She wrote 12 novels, 23...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Pan Macmillan has announced that Tracey Cheetham has been appointed to the newly created role of publicity and marketing director. Cheetham, who has already started in the new role, was...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
The Copyright Agency has announced $266,300 in new funding for Reading Australia, a website designed to promote Australian literary works. The agency said in a statement this week that the...

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Author Nadia Wheatley and illustrator Ron Brooks have been nominated by IBBY Australia as the Australian candidates for the 2014 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The International Board of Books for Young People...