Wednesday, 28 November 2012
The Copyright Agency distributed ‘a record $141.6 million’ to its members in 2011/12, according to its annual report, released ahead of its AGM to be held today. Of this, payments...

Wednesday, 28 November 2012
The short story ‘Shadows’ by Josephine Pennicott has won the 2012 HarperCollins First Prize in this year’s Sisters in Crime Scarlet Stiletto Awards. Pennicott’s story ‘about obsession, grief and the...

Wednesday, 28 November 2012
The winners of this year’s Kids Reading Oz Choice (KROC) Awards, the children’s choice book awards for the Northern Territory, have been announced. The winning titles are: Picture storybooks Very...

Tuesday, 27 November 2012
The New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement were announced on 26 November in Wellington. Albert Wendt was awarded the prize for fiction, Sam Hunt was awarded the prize for poetry,...

Tuesday, 27 November 2012
The owners of the Melbourne property that houses Lonely Planet are advertising to sell the property. Colliers International, on behalf of Trilogy Capital Group, is currently seeking expressions of interest for...

Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Playwright and author Greg McGee has been awarded the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2013. The Fellowship provides the winner with a residency of at least six months in Menton,...

Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Australian Greens deputy leader Adam Bandt has introduced a private member’s bill calling for an amendment to the Fair Work Act to protect casual workers, reports Inside Retailing. However, small...

Monday, 26 November 2012
The Small Press Network (SPN) plans to launch a year-long roadshow in 2013 that will involve events in each state. SPN general manager Zoe Dattner told Bookseller+Publisher that the network...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Australian author Margo Lanagan is among the authors whose books have been selected by Publishers Weekly for its annual ‘best books’ of the year. Lanagan’s Sea Hearts (A&U), published as...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Tony Birch has won this year’s Melbourne Prize for Literature Civic Choice Award for his novel Blood (UQP). Birch was named as the recipient of the $5000 award on 23...

Monday, 26 November 2012
Text has acquired ANZ rights in Janet Frame’s previously unpublished novel In the Memorial Room. The novel by the late author ‘draws on her own experiences in Menton, France as...

Friday, 23 November 2012
Jo Chandler has won the inaugural Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘Storm front’, published in her book Feeling the Heat (MUP). Chandler has won a...

Friday, 23 November 2012
Much-loved Australian author Bryce Courtenay has died aged 79. Courtenay died at his home in Canberra on Thursday 22 November. The bestselling author had been suffering from terminal gastric cancer. Courtenay’s publisher...

Thursday, 22 November 2012
The Leading Edge Group has told Bookseller+Publisher that it is ‘business as usual’ for the group following the announcement that it is in ‘preliminary merger discussions’ with Armidale Investment Corporation...

Thursday, 22 November 2012
The Australia Council for the Arts has awarded Indigenous writer and poet Herb Wharton the Australia Council Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature. The $50,000 award is presented annually to...