Tuesday, 27 October 2015
The shortlist for the second annual Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize has been announced. The shortlisted illustrators are: Aṥka (WA) Suzanne Houghton (NSW) Adam Celeban (NSW) Juliette Rajak (SA) Amy...

Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Royal Zoological Society of NSW has announced the winner of the 2015 Whitley Awards and its commended titles. The Whitley Medal was awarded to Biology and Evolution of Crocodylians (Gordon Grigg...

Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Stephanie Bishop’s The Other Side of the World (Hachette) has won the 2015 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Bishop’s novel was chosen from a shortlist of six for the $4000 prize, which was established...

Monday, 26 October 2015
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival has cancelled a number of events in its 2015 program, which runs from 28 October to 1 November in Bali, Indonesia, on the advice...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
The winners of the 2015 New Zealand Prime Minister’s Awards for Literary Achievement have been announced. Joan Metge, a social anthropologist who has written several books on Māori history and society...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Meredith Fletcher has won the top prize at the Victorian Community History Awards (VCHA) for her book Jean Galbraith: Writer in a Valley (Monash University Publishing). Fletcher’s biography of Galbraith,...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia: Volume Three: Nation (NewSouth) has won the 2015 Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) Australia Book Prize. The prize, worth $3500,...

Wednesday, 21 October 2015
The finalists for this year’s Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The finalists in each of the categories are: Best Resource in Primary Education ‘Connectors’ fiction...

Tuesday, 20 October 2015
The University of Melbourne has appointed author Richard Flanagan as the Boisbouvier Founding Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne, a new professorship to ‘advance the teaching, understanding...

Tuesday, 20 October 2015
Several Australian authors and illustrators have been nominated for the 2016 Carnegie and Kate Greenaway medals, presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) in the UK....

Tuesday, 20 October 2015
The shortlist for the inaugural Australian Sports Book of the Year award has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Roy Higgins (Patrick Bartley, Penguin) The Short Long Book (Martin Flanagan, Random House) Sonny...

Friday, 16 October 2015
Six Australians and two New Zealanders have been nominated for the 2016 Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. Australians Ursula Dubosarsky, Libby Gleeson, Morris Gleitzman, Alison Lester, Melina Marchetta and Markus Zusak...

Thursday, 15 October 2015
Children’s book publisher Christmas Press has received $10,000 from Australia Post’s ‘Our Neighbourhood’ grant program to set up a new imprint. The publisher, which is based in Armidale, NSW, will use...

Thursday, 15 October 2015
Several writers and literary organisations have received a share of more than $1m in funding from the City of Melbourne as part of its annual Arts Grants program. The First...

Wednesday, 14 October 2015
The Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University has awarded Michael Wilding the $10,000 Colin Roderick Award and H T Priestley Memorial Medal 2015 for his book Wild Bleak...