Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The shortlist for the 2015 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing has been announced.The shortlisted authors and their manuscripts are: Margot McGovern for Neverland, ‘an ambitious, complex story...

Tuesday, 19 May 2015
The Auckland Writers Festival has attracted a record crowd of more than 60,000 attendees, up 20% on last year, for the five-day festival that finished on Sunday.The festival, which celebrated...

Monday, 18 May 2015
A donation from the Norman Family Bequest in memory of Matt Richell has been presented to the Indigenous Literary Foundation (ILF).The donation will allow the senior girls’ class from Tiwi...

Monday, 18 May 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival has released its schools’ program for 2015.This year’s schools’ program, which runs from 24 to 27 August, features Australian authors and illustrators including Andy Griffiths, Amie...

Monday, 18 May 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton) The Eye of the Sheep (Sofie Laguna, A&U) The...

Monday, 18 May 2015
Don Watson’s The Bush (Hamish Hamilton) has been named Book of the Year at the 2015 New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards, presented in Sydney on 18 May.Watson’s book also...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
Australian author Jane Rawson has launched a readathon for June and July to raise money for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF). Rawson has set up a website justread.com.au and is...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
The recipients of the Melbourne City of Literature Travel Fund have been announced.The travel fund, which offers grants of up to $3000, was launched in 2014 and aims to support Victoria’s literary...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
A TV adaptation of John Marsden’s ‘Tomorrow, When the War Began’ series (Pan) is among the latest book-to-screen projects to receive funding from Screen Australia.The series will be adapted into six one-hour...

Thursday, 14 May 2015
New Brisbane-based independent publisher Bareknuckle Books will release its first book this month, one of six new titles planned for the next year.Bareknuckle Books will specialise in literary fiction, ‘upmarket’...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Booksellers are among the beneficiaries of a new tax breaks for small businesses introduced in the 2015-16 federal budget on 12 May.From budget night until the end of June 2017,...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
The government will cut $110m from the Australia Council over the next four years as part of changes announced in the 2015-16 federal budget on 12 May. Of the cuts to...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Queensland premier and arts minister Annastacia Palaszczuk has announced the state government will contribute up to $175,000 annually to the Queensland Literary Awards (QLA), matching up to $125,000 in sponsor...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
‘It drives home the point that the technology is there to charge GST to all goods and services coming from offshore’—ABA CEO Joel Becker on the government’s announcement that it...

Wednesday, 13 May 2015
Monash University in Melbourne will no longer offer its postgraduate courses in publishing and editing, citing a fall in demand.The current semester was the last to accept new students in its publishing...

Tuesday, 12 May 2015
TV rights to Rebecca Starford’s debut memoir Bad Behaviour: A Memoir of Bullying and Boarding School (A&U) have been optioned by director Pip Karmel and Amanda Higgs, co-creator and producer...

Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Federal treasurer Joe Hockey has announced the government will extend the 10% GST to digital downloads, including ebooks, from overseas from 1 July 2017, under new measures introduced in the...

Monday, 11 May 2015
A new bookstore, Little Gnome, will open in the Brisbane suburb of Wynnum on 30 May.Belinda Ellis, who will run the store with her son Jack Le Roux, told Books+Publishing...

Monday, 11 May 2015
Nora Roberts’ The Liar (Hachette) continues its run as Australia’s number one bestseller for the third consecutive week, followed by Truth or Die (James Patterson, Century) in second spot and...

Monday, 11 May 2015
HarperCollins Australia will reprint David Day’s Paul Keating: The Biography with amendments, after the former Prime Minister disputed the book’s claim he suffers from dyslexia or reading difficulties.In a statement,...

Friday, 8 May 2015
A new online bookshop that allows self-published authors to sell print copies of their books direct to consumers has launched this week.Bocabel, which is registered in Australia but is promoted...