Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Walker Books has announced a partnership with new UK publisher Old Barn Books, which will include Australian and New Zealand distribution of Old Barn Books’ children’s and gift book titles. Old...

Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The National Library of New Zealand has named C K Stead as the 2015-17 New Zealand Poet Laureate.Stead, the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, novels and literary criticism, will...

Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The Copyright Agency has re-signed Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Pearson to its etextbook subscription service LearningField for a further three years.The three publishers join a number of other publishers offering ongoing support...

Monday, 10 August 2015
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing.The shortlisted works in each category are:Best novel Sweet One (Peter Docker,...

Monday, 10 August 2015
Writers Victoria has announced the 2015 winners of its Glenfern Fellowships and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition.Glenfern Fellowships were awarded to Audrey El-Osta for her poetry collection ‘Primavera’; Jacquie Byron...

Friday, 7 August 2015
The first South Australian Hachette Mentoring Program, offered in partnership with the SA Writers Centre, has been jointly awarded to Rose Hartley and Liana Skrzypczak.Hartley and Skrzypczak will work with...

Thursday, 6 August 2015
The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced.The biennial awards, previously known as the Tasmanian Literary Prizes, were rebranded in March. A new Young Writer’s Prize was also...

Wednesday, 15 July 2015
The winners of the 2015 Kibble and Dobbie Literary Awards have been announced at a ceremony at the State Library of New South Wales.The $30,000 Nita B Kibble Literary Award,...

Wednesday, 15 July 2015
‘Although there are some regular successes in terms of rights sales of Oz titles into various territories around the world, it’s haphazard, and there are some good titles I suspect...

Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Alan Atkinson’s The Europeans in Australia: Volume 3: Nation (UNSW Press) and Tom Brooking’s Richard Seddon, King of God’s Own: The Life and Times of New Zealand’s Longest-Serving Prime Minister...

Wednesday, 15 July 2015
Literacy consultant, teacher and author Jill Eggleton has won the Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for ‘outstanding contribution to New Zealand children’s literature and literacy’.As a teacher, Eggleton implemented literacy programs...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Outgoing Readings books division manager Martin Shaw will join Alex Adsett Publishing Services this month.Shaw, who is moving to Germany, has joined the company as a literary agent specialising in...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The annual Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI) has announced its 2015 program.Presented by the Sydney Opera House and the Ethics Centre, the festival invites ‘thinkers and culture creators’ from around...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Hachette Australia has cancelled a tattoo promotional campaign around the new ‘Millennium’ title, The Girl in the Spider’s Web (MacLehose Press), due to complaints that the stunt was offensive. Originally labelled as ‘tatvertising’,...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has appointed author and Women of Letters founder Michaela McGuire as its new festival director and co-CEO, beginning on 20 July.McGuire replaces outgoing festival director...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
Readers Feast Bookstore, Kay Craddock Antiquarian Bookseller and the Melbourne Athenaeum Library, who form the ‘Readers’ Walk’ alliance, will launch the new art installation Hands in Print on Collins Street...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015
The Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Burdekin Readers and Writers Festival are among the recipients of Arts Queensland’s latest round of Projects and Programs funding.ABR, which is based in...

Monday, 13 July 2015
Former Random House New Zealand publisher Nicola Legat has been appointed as the first publisher of Massey University Press, following the press’ launch in February 2015.Legat, also a former editor...

Friday, 10 July 2015
The first chapter of Harper Lee’s forthcoming novel Go Set a Watchman (William Heinemann) will be published by Fairfax websites this afternoon, reports the Sydney Morning Herald. The extract, as well...