Monday, 20 February 2017
Sydney bookseller Pages & Pages has put together an anti-Trump reading list and has pledged to donate $1 to the Refugee Council of Australia for every book purchased from the list. The...

Friday, 17 February 2017
The Australia Council has announced the recipients of its Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) 2015-16 project fund. The recipients are: Books+Publishing ($9790) Wenona Byrne ($9400) Giramondo ($7000) Mis Zalozba ($10,000) Benython...

Friday, 17 February 2017
Writers Victoria has announced a new three-year Write-ability program for aspiring writers with disability in regional Victoria.    The Write-ability Goes Regional and Online program will begin in April in...

Friday, 17 February 2017
The recipients of the University of Melbourne’s Asialink Arts Residencies Program for 2017 have been announced. Writers receiving residencies in Asian countries are: Lyn Dickens, India: Dickens will ‘work on...

Thursday, 16 February 2017
New Zealand Book Council CEO Catriona Ferguson has been appointed as Publishing Association of New Zealand (PANZ) director. Ferguson replaces outgoing director Anne de Lautour, who is stepping down from...

Wednesday, 15 February 2017
The shortlist for the 2017 Seizure Viva La Novella competition has been announced. The shortlisted authors and their works are: Luke Horton for ‘The Peacock’ Amy Nicholls-Diver for ‘Falling Asleep’...

Wednesday, 15 February 2017
Copyright Agency cultural fund manager Zoë Rodriguez has announced her departure after 13-and-a-half years at the organisation. Rodriguez joined the Copyright Agency as a lawyer, first coordinating and then leading policy...

Tuesday, 14 February 2017
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced the editors selected to attend the 2017 Residential Editorial Program (REP), which will be held at the Melbourne Business School Conference Centre in...

Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Literary agent Selwa Anthony is suing author Kate Morton in the New South Wales Supreme Court over an alleged breach of contract, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. Anthony took legal...

Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Literary organisations are among the 83 arts groups participating in a new service working towards improving Victorian arts workers’ mental health. The Wheeler Centre, Writers Victoria, the Emerging Writers Festival...

Monday, 13 February 2017
The Australia Council will allocate $10m over two years from its reserves to provide grants to the small-to-medium sector. An Australia Council spokesperson told ArtsHub its board made the decision...

Thursday, 9 February 2017
The ACT government has announced it will provide an additional $230,000 for arts projects in 2017 after artists protested the drop in funding from the previous year. In December, ACT arts...

Thursday, 9 February 2017
Poet and scholar Selina Tusitala-Marsh has been made an honorary literary fellow as part of the New Zealand Society of Authors’ (NZSA) annual Waitangi Day Honours. NZSA president Kyle Mewburn...

Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Anne Tonner has won the 2017 Finch Memoir Prize for her manuscript ‘Cold Vein’, an account of her daughter’s battle with anorexia. Judge Maggie Mackellar said Tonner’s memoir had a...