Friday, 30 October 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) NSW branch has awarded its 2015 Aspiring Writers’ Mentorship Program Charlotte Waring Barton Award to Derina McLaughlin for her story about ‘a young girl’s belief...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
A number of book adaptations are among the nominees for this year’s Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards. The film The Dressmaker, adapted from Rosalie Ham’s novel...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
Joan London has won the 2015 Patrick White Literary Award. The annual award was established by Patrick White using the proceeds of his 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature, and is...

Thursday, 29 October 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers has been announced.  The shortlisted stories are: ‘The Conservation of the Stars’ (Michalia Arathimos)...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
Christine Kenneally has won this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing for her piece ‘The past may not make you feel better’, published in her book The Invisible History...

Wednesday, 28 October 2015
The latest recipients of the Melbourne City of Literature Travel Fund have been announced. First launched in 2014, the travel fund provides grants of up to $3000 to help people...

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...