Wednesday, 1 April 2015
‘If their proposal was implemented, the diversity of Australian books available to Australian consumers would be significantly reduced for a benefit both small and unlikely’—Australian Publishers Association president Louise Adler...

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
The longlist for this year’s Miles Franklin Literary Award has been announced.The longlisted titles are: In Certain Circles (Elizabeth Harrower, Text) Golden Boys (Sonya Hartnett, Hamish Hamilton) The Eye of...

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Author Ursula Dubosarsky and illustrator Bronwyn Bancroft have been nominated by IBBY (International Board of Books for Young People) Australia as the Australian candidates for the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Awards.Dubosarsky and...

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
A group of Australian academics have been awarded funding from the Romance Writers of America’s (RWA) Academic Research Grant Program.Beth Driscoll from the University of Melbourne, Lisa Fletcher from the...

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
The Storylines Children’s Literature Charitable Trust in New Zealand has announced its list of notable books for 2015.The Storylines 2015 Notable Books List was announced on 30 March in Auckland....

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
The Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF) has announced the appointment of three new staff and a new festival bookseller.Joanna Trilling has joined the festival as communications manager, Mouche Phillips has joined...

Monday, 30 March 2015
Three Australian authors have been nominated for the Romance Writers of America (RWA) 2015 RITA Awards.The RITA Awards, which recognise excellence in romance novels and novellas, are divided into 12...

Monday, 30 March 2015
Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief (Picador) has topped the Dymocks 101 Club list of the best 101 books of all time for 2015, as voted by members of the company’s Booklover...

Monday, 30 March 2015
Jo Goodman has been posthumously awarded the Leila St John Award by the Victorian branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA). The award is presented annually for outstanding...

Friday, 27 March 2015
WritingWA has teamed up with regional Western Australia TV station Westlink to present a monthly program on WA writers and books.‘Cover to Cover’ will be hosted by broadcaster Meri Fatin...

Friday, 27 March 2015
The 2015 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) program has been launched and is now available on the website.Forty-five international authors will attend this year’s festival, which will be held from 18-24 May,...

Thursday, 26 March 2015
The Bush by Don Watson (Hamish Hamilton) has been named Indie Book of the Year at the 2015 Indie Awards, presented by Leading Edge Books in Sydney on 25 March.Watson also won...

Wednesday, 25 March 2015
‘It seems that in cities like Sydney and Melbourne, wherever a bookshop closes, another opens. However, could it be that in the ACT bookshops will only end up existing in...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
In South Australia, the Shop Distributive and Allied Employees’ Association (SDA) union and the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Business SA have struck a deal to abolish some penalty rates...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Online women’s magazine the Hoopla has announced it is to close, citing an increasingly competitive online market as the cause. The Hoopla was launched in 2011 by Wendy Harmer and Jane Waterhouse,...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Canberra independent bookstore Electric Shadows will close before June as the store’s building has been sold for redevelopment and will be demolished.The store first opened in 1987 under owner Andrew Pike and named after the...

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
The biennial Tasmanian Literary Prizes have been rebranded as the Premier’s Literary Prizes and expanded to include an award for young Tasmanian writers.The Young Writer’s Prize, worth $5000, is open...