Thursday, 23 April 2015
The shortlist for the Australian Book Review (ABR) Peter Porter Poetry Prize has been announced.The shortlisted poems are: ‘As Wasps Fly Upward’ (Judith Beveridge) ‘Vantage’ (Eileen Chong) ‘Janus’ (Toby Fitch)...

Wednesday, 22 April 2015
‘When I was growing up as an editor in trade publishing, a house was perceived to have done exceptionally well if it made double-digit profitability in a given year. The...

Wednesday, 22 April 2015
The longlist for the 2015 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal has been announced.The longlisted titles are: Amnesia (Peter Carey, Hamish Hamilton) Golden Boys (Sonya Harnett, Hamish Hamilton) Keeps (L K...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Murray Middleton has won this year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award for his short-story collection When There’s Nowhere Else to Run.The book was chosen by author Rohan Wilson, bookseller Jenny Barry and the...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Film rights to Stephen and Sally Damiani’s family memoir Cracking the Code (Random House) have been optioned by M4 Entertainment (formerly Mushroom Pictures), with script development already in progress. Executive...

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
The Wheeler Centre has announced its latest round of ‘hot desk’ fellowships. Twenty writers will participate in the fellowship this year, including seven in the first intake from 11 May...

Monday, 20 April 2015
True stories are in demand this week, as two memoirs top the highest new entries and fastest movers charts. Somebody That I Used to Know (The Five Mile Press), Bunkie...

Friday, 17 April 2015
The inaugural History Writers’ Festival will be held at Readers’ Feast Bookstore in Melbourne this weekend, the 18-19 April.Interviews with authors and panel discussions will be held every two hours on...

Thursday, 16 April 2015
The program for this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF), to be held in Melbourne from 26 May to 5 June, has been launched.The festival begins with an ‘opening night extravaganza’...

Thursday, 16 April 2015
Penguin has announced that the final book in Isobelle Carmody’s long-running ‘Obernewtyn’ series will be published later this year. The seventh and final book in the series, The Red Queen,...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise $25,000 for an inaugural Scholarships and Access Fund for writers from diverse backgrounds, to coincide with the centre’s 25th...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the shortlists for the 2015 Book Design Awards. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Best Designed Literary Fiction Book A Fairy...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Thames & Hudson Australia has appointed Daniel Watts as its new managing director, succeeding Jodie Spiteri-James, who announced her resignation in October last year. Watts was previously regional director for...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
‘To discover a book on display in a well-staffed, lovingly maintained shop, to hold it in your hand then to sneak off and buy the same book online, is really...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Reading & Enjoying Australian Literature (REAL) Awards, which acts as a shortlist for children’s choice book awards in the Australian Capital Territory (COOL Awards), New...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North (Vintage) and Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (Picador) have been shortlisted for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.Ten books in total...

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Readings’ books division manager Martin Shaw is leaving the Melbourne bookseller in early July.Shaw, who has worked at Readings for 21 years, told Books+Publishing he was moving to Germany for...

Tuesday, 14 April 2015
A campaign calling for the New Zealand government to lower the GST-free threshold on online purchases from NZ$400 (A$393) to NZ$25 (A$24.52) has been launched by Retail NZ and Booksellers NZ.Under the...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has launched a crowdfunding project to help send young Melbourne writers to international and domestic literary festivals.The ‘30 Under 30’ project, which coincides with the 30th year of MWF, is aiming...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The bestsellers chart has a new number one this week, with Paula Hawkins’ debut thriller The Girl on the Train (Doubleday) claiming the top spot for the first time after nine consecutive...

Monday, 13 April 2015
The 2014 Aurealis Award winners were announced at a ceremony in Canberra on Saturday 11 April. The winning titles were:Fantasy novel Dreamer’s Pool (Juliet Marillier, Pan Macmillan)  Science-fiction novel Peacemaker...