Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Rod Gibson, writer, poet and performer affectionately known as the ‘Poet Lorikeet of the north coast', has died aged 60. Gibson wrote poetry, short stories, novels, film scripts, and plays...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Booksellers, publishers, libraries, schools and other organisations across the country will celebrate the fifth Indigenous Literacy Day today, 7 September 2011. At the Brisbane Writers Festival Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) founder...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The winners of this year's Queensland Premier's Literary Awards were announced in Brisbane on 6 September. The winning titles in the book-related categories are:Fiction Book Award ($25,000)Reading Madame Bovary (Amanda...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Eloise Keating reviews House of Sticks (Peggy Frew, Scribe) and Clare Hingston reviews The Golden Door (Emily Rodda, Scholastic).

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The shortlist for the 2011 Man Booker Prize has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:The Sense of an Ending (Julian Barnes, Jonathan Cape)Jamrach's Menagerie (Carol Birch, Text)The Sisters Brothers (Patrick deWitt,...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Bloodlines (Rachael Meade, Razorbill) is the first book in the 'Bloodlines’ teen vampire romance series, a spin-off of Penguin’s ‘Vampire Academy’ series. The protagonist is a girl called Sydney, who...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Screen Queensland will launch a $40,000 development package for a literary work to be adapted for film or television at the 2011 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF), which begins today, 7...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
A number of prominent Australian authors are among 59 signatories to an open letter sent to the board of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) protesting proposed changes to the broadcaster's...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The board of Tasmanian literary journal Island Magazine will meet in two weeks to develop a strategy to keep producing the magazine, following the decision by Arts Tasmania last week...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Faber has announced a partnership with US distributor Perseus that will offer digital distribution services to publishers in the UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. ‘Faber Factory Powered...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
'As the Site Merchandiser for Google eBooks Australia, you are a self-starter who will ramp up quickly to build and maintain the merchandising program across all of our Australian retail...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
While Amazon extends its global reach with its acquisition of the Book Depository, for several home-grown online booksellers, it's the local touch that's proving a winner, reports Eloise Keating in...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:2000 UK bookshops have closed in the past six yearsprofits surge at Random Housenew...

Tuesday, 6 September 2011
The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne has announced that it will offer 20 new writers' fellowships in 2012. In her last public duty as director of...

Monday, 5 September 2011
Dymocks will launch a web-based publishing arm in October.To be called D Publishing, the business will allow users to upload draft manuscripts online 'and proceed to produce and publish their...

Monday, 5 September 2011
The 10pm Question by New Zealand author Kate De Goldi (A&U / Random House NZ) has won the Young Reader's Award in the 2011 Corine International Book Awards. The Corine...

Monday, 5 September 2011
WA heARTlines festival underwayThe 2011 heARTlines festival for children's literature and illustration in Mundaring, Western Australia, was officially launched on Friday 2 September. The biennial festival, which will run until...

Monday, 5 September 2011
The winners of this year's New South Wales Premier's History Awards were announced at an event in Sydney on 5 September. The Australian History Prize ($15,000) was awarded to Savage or...

Monday, 5 September 2011
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include:'New Horizons for Editing and Publishing', Australia's National Editors biennial conference: 7-9 SeptemberIndigenous Literacy Day: 7...

Monday, 5 September 2011
Kate Grenville's new novel Sarah Thornhill (Text) is continuing to generate interest, with her book again at the top of the most mentioned chart. Joining Grenville as a guest of the...

Monday, 5 September 2011
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Monday, 5 September 2011
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Monday, 5 September 2011
SeptemberDiane Armstrong, HarperCollins (Empire Day) NSW, Queensland and Victoria.Jay Bahadur, Scribe (Deadly Waters) Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.Peter Baines, Macmillan (Hands across the Water) Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.Leah Chishugi, Virago (A...

Sunday, 4 September 2011
In rights news this week:SalesNonfiction--HarperCollins Publishers has sold A Cook's Guide (Donna Hay) to Germany.Children's/YA--HarperCollins Publishers has sold and You Are A Star (Michael Parker & Judith Rossell) to North...