Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Larry Matthews, an author and artist who owned and ran {lanyop} lagniappe small art gallery in Dunedin, NZ, has died aged 50. Matthews' writing appeared in various New Zealand poetry...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Jane Morrow was announced as the recipient of the 2011/12 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 19 May. The fellowship, which was presented for the 12th time...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
HarperCollins has announced further details about the company's recent restructure, including a number of key staff appointments. The publisher said in a statement this week that James Kellow has been...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Cassandra Clare, author of ‘The Mortal Instruments’ series (Walker Books), answers a few questions, as does Fatima Bhutto, author of Songs of Blood and Sword...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Bob Graham and Christobel Mattingley have been nominated as the Australian candidates for the 2012 Hans Christian Andersen Awards. The winner of the 2012 awards will be announced in March...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Radical feminist writer and academic, Joanna Russ, best known for her feminist science-fiction classic The Female Man (1975), has died aged 74.   Russ won several awards for science fiction including the Nebula...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The winners of this year's Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelists Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 22 May. The winners are:Lisa Lang (Utopian Man, A&U)Gretchen...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
In rights news this week:SalesFiction--Random House has sold Who Sings for Lu (Alan Duff) to France.Nonfiction--Black Inc. has sold Turkish translation rights to The Shortest History of Europe (John Hirst)...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
'Have just ploughed through five novels in a row by male Australian writers, each single one of which seemed to involve a man with thin lips and strong arms standing...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
A record number of people attended this year's Auckland Readers and Writers Festival, with attendance figures up by more than 20% on 2010 figures. More than 32,000 visitors attended the...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The Sydney Story Factory, a not-for-profit centre designed to help children and young adults with writing, was officially launched at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 22 May. Fundraising is currently...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
How is digital changing the way publishers work? According to Pan Macmillan's head of digital publishing Victoria Nash, integrating digital publishing with traditional publishing processes means ‘asking more of the...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Neuropsychologist Dr Maureen P Molloy, an Australian pioneer in cognitive rehabilitation and a brain injury expert, has died aged 85. Molloy wrote Neuropsychological Rehabilitation: Recovery from Head Injury (with J...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Kirschbaum appointed to head Amazon's NY publishing arm Waterstone's sold for £53 million US$1...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
New Zealand author Peter Wells has been announced as this year's recipient of the Creative New Zealand Michael King Writers' Fellowship. Wells will use the NZ$100,000 (approximately A$75,000) fellowship to research and...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The Sydney Writers' Festival recorded its ‘second-largest SWF box office take ever' in 2011, according to festival publicist Emma Noble. ‘We hit our box office target--a bit over $625,000,' said...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Andrea Hanke reports from this year's VIP program industry forum: Digital was a popular topic at the Australia Council sponsored Visiting International Publishing (VIP) forum, which was held on 18 May...

Tuesday, 24 May 2011
The Throne of Fire (Rick Riordan, Puffin),  Book 2 of 'The Kane Chronicles', is top of the fastest movers chart followed by Water for Elephants (Sarah Gruen, A&U), a novel...

Monday, 23 May 2011
The shortlists for this year's Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards for women writers have been announced. The shortlisted titles for the $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for Women Writers, which recognises...

Monday, 23 May 2011
The winners of the 2010 Aurealis Awards have been announced. The winners are: Children's fiction (told primarily through words)'The Keepers' series (Lian Tanner, A&U)Children's fiction (told primarily through pictures)The Boy and...

Monday, 23 May 2011
A number of Australians have been shortlisted for the 2011 Locus Awards for science-fiction and fantasy writing, presented by the Locus Science Fiction Foundation. Zombies vs Unicorns (A&U), which features short...