Friday, 16 June 2017
A Bill amending the Copyright Act 1968 to simplify the use of copyright materials for libraries, educational institutions, archives and people with disabilities passed Federal Parliament on 15 June. From...

Thursday, 15 June 2017
Online bookseller Booktopia has been shortlisted in several categories in the 2017 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAs). Booktopia is a finalist for Best Pureplay Online Retailer, Best Mobile Commerce Site/Application...

Thursday, 15 June 2017
Jenny Nagle has joined the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ) as CEO, replacing former CEO Jackie Dennis. Nagle has worked in management, sales and marketing in trade and...

Thursday, 15 June 2017
The longlist for the 2017 Ngaio Marsh award for New Zealand crime fiction has been announced. The longlisted works are: Dead Lemons (Finn Bell, self-published) Pancake Money (Finn Bell, self-published)...

Thursday, 15 June 2017
Melbourne writer Christian White has won the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an Unpublished Manuscript for his novel Decay Theory. The $15,000 award was presented at the opening night...

Tuesday, 13 June 2017
The winners of the 2017 Ditmar Awards for Australian science-fiction, fantasy and horror writing were announced at the 56th Australian National Science Fiction Convention Continuum 13 in Melbourne on 11 June. The...

Tuesday, 13 June 2017
The shortlists for the 2017 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best illustrated book: Bad Hair Day...

Friday, 9 June 2017
The publishers of New Philosopher and Womankind magazines, Antonia Case and Zan Boag, will open a specialist bookshop and tea atelier, called Poet 130, in Hobart in early July, reports...

Thursday, 8 June 2017
The longlist for the inaugural Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award has been announced. The longlisted authors and their works are: Alice Bishop for ‘A Constant Hum’ Ashley Kalagian Blunt...

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
The Fair Work Commission has announced a 3.3% increase to minimum wages effective from 1 July 2017, lifting the minimum wage from $17.70 per hour to $18.29 per hour. The...

Wednesday, 7 June 2017
Writers Rebecca Slater and Scott McCulloch and poet Caitlin Maling are among the 12 recipients of the 2017 Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarships, worth $50,000 each. Maling will use the scholarship...

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that planned cuts to weekend penalty rates for retail workers will be phased in over four years. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, in February...

Tuesday, 6 June 2017
The shortlist for Lip magazine’s annual Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘Aftermath’ by Alice Bishop ‘Burning Day’ by Kristin Meachem...

Monday, 5 June 2017
Catherine Fox and Tracey Spicer have been selected as finalists for the Walkley Foundation’s Women’s Leadership in Media Award. Fox was cited for her nonfiction book Stop Fixing Women (NewSouth),...