Thursday, 2 August 2018
Gabrielle Wang’s novel for younger readers, A Ghost in My Suitcase (Puffin), has been adapted to a theatre production and will premiere at the Playhouse Arts Centre Melbourne from October 18-21...

Thursday, 2 August 2018
The winners of the Griffith Review’s Novella Project competition have been announced. The winning authors and their works are: 'All the things I should have given' by Miriam Sved 'Distance' by...

Wednesday, 1 August 2018
The winners of this year’s Affirm Press Mentorship Award have been announced. The winning authors and their works are: ‘The Things She Owned’ by Katherine Arguile, set in Tokyo during...

Tuesday, 31 July 2018
Sydney-based production company Aquarius Films has begun casting for the film adaptation of Tim Winton's 2001 novel Dirt Music (Penguin), reports ABC News. Winton's story of 'fragile characters, secrets, strangers and revenge...

Monday, 30 July 2018
Two Victorian schools have received government funding for projects that work in partnership with local writers as part of the inaugural Creative Learning Partnerships (CLP) program. A partnership between the...

Friday, 27 July 2018
The winners of the 2018 Publishers Association of New Zealand (PANZ) Book Design Awards have been announced. New China Eyewitness: Roger Duff, Rewi Alley and the Art of Museum Diplomacy...

Thursday, 26 July 2018
Dinuka Mckenzie, a Sydney-based writer and environmental planner, has won the inaugural Affirm Press/Tablo ‘The Perfect Crime’ competition for her manuscript 'Flood Debris'. Mckenzie receives an editorial and publishing mentorship...