Wednesday, 24 May 2017
Comedian and presenter on the ABC’s The Checkout Ben Jenkins will replace Magda Szubanski as the host of the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) at the Art Gallery NSW on...

Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Harlequin executive senior editor Annabel Blay has released her Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship report into fiction editing in the US following a 10-week placement in New York. In her report...

Tuesday, 23 May 2017
Academic Marguerite Johnson has been awarded the inaugural Australian Book Review fellowship for a proposed essay on Joan Lindsay’s Picnic at Hanging Rock. Johnson’s essay, ‘Mapping Gender, Sexuality and the Environment:...

Monday, 22 May 2017
Novelist Di Morrissey and literary agent Margaret Connolly will be inducted into the ABIA Hall of Fame at a ceremony on 25 May in Sydney. Morrissey will be presented with...

Monday, 22 May 2017
A number of Australian authors have been longlisted for the UK Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) 2017 Dagger awards. The Dry by Jane Harper (Macmillan) has been longlisted for the Gold...

Thursday, 18 May 2017
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has written to communications minister Mitch Fifield urging the government to extend the Public Lending Right (PLR) and Educational Lending Right (ELR) schemes to include...

Thursday, 18 May 2017
Nick Hardie-Grant has been appointed managing director of Hardie Grant’s marketing and custom-publishing business Hardie Grant Media, effective from 5 June. Hardie-Grant takes over from co-founder Fiona Hardie, who has...

Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Author Mireille Juchau and playwright Alana Valentine have been awarded Writer in Residence fellowships at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre. Both writers will receive $100,000 and will spend...