Thursday, 19 November 2015
Express Media has announced the shortlist for the Outstanding Achievement by a Young Person in the Literary Arts Award. The shortlisted writers are: Chloe Higgins Eliza Henry-Jones Ellen van Neerven Helen...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Australian Publishers Association (APA) held a roundtable discussion with independent booksellers and publishers in Sydney in October, the first in a planned series of...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
‘We joke that people are putting their ereaders on the top shelf along with their fondue sets’—Booksellers NZ CEO Lincoln Gould on the strong recent results for the New Zealand print...

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Jane Kembrey from NewSouth Books has won the Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) NSW Rep of the Year Award, presented at the ABA NSW Booksellers Party in Glebe on 17 November. Stephanie...

Monday, 16 November 2015
A new bookstore, The Book Bird, has opened in Geelong West in Victoria. Owner Anna Tweed opened the Pakington Street store in October after previously working as a bookseller at Otago...

Friday, 13 November 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the shortlist for this year’s NSW Rep of the Year Award.  On the shortlist are: Dianne Dipietro, Penguin Random House Kay Drury, Allen...

Friday, 13 November 2015
Macquarie University researchers are surveying Australian trade and educational publishers for the second stage of their three-year research project into the impact of the changing publishing industry on authors, publishers and readers. The...

Friday, 13 November 2015
The 2015 Australian Photobook of the Year Award has expanded to include categories for self-published and trade-published works. The awards ‘celebrate excellence and innovation in photo book creation, and provide...

Thursday, 12 November 2015
Poet Chris Wallace-Crabbe has won the 2015 Melbourne Prize for Literature, presented every three years to a Victorian author ‘whose body of published or produced work has made an outstanding...

Wednesday, 11 November 2015
More than 180 bookstores have taken part in the inaugural New Zealand Bookshop Day on 31 October, an initiative launched by Booksellers NZ to ‘celebrate the unique place bookshops have...

Tuesday, 10 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 Kids Own Australian Literature Awards (KOALAs), New South Wales’ annual children’s choice awards, have been announced. The winning titles and honour books in each category...

Monday, 9 November 2015
Australian fantasy and horror author Angela Slatter has won a World Fantasy Award for best collection for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings (Tartarus Press). Slatter, who shared the award...

Monday, 9 November 2015
Suzanne Houghton has won the second annual Five Mile Press Illustrator Prize and a $4000 contract with the publisher. Acting managing director Kay Scarlett said in a statement that Houghton’s entry...

Friday, 6 November 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Walkley Book Award, which ‘celebrates the value and importance of long form journalism’, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Acute Misfortune: The Life and...