Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Walker Books has announced a partnership with new UK publisher Old Barn Books, which will include Australian and New Zealand distribution of Old Barn Books’ children’s and gift book titles. Old...

Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The National Library of New Zealand has named C K Stead as the 2015-17 New Zealand Poet Laureate.Stead, the author of numerous collections of poetry, short stories, novels and literary criticism, will...

Tuesday, 11 August 2015
The Copyright Agency has re-signed Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and Pearson to its etextbook subscription service LearningField for a further three years.The three publishers join a number of other publishers offering ongoing support...

Monday, 10 August 2015
The Australian Crime Writers Association (ACWA) has announced the shortlists for this year’s Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing.The shortlisted works in each category are:Best novel Sweet One (Peter Docker,...

Monday, 10 August 2015
Writers Victoria has announced the 2015 winners of its Glenfern Fellowships and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition.Glenfern Fellowships were awarded to Audrey El-Osta for her poetry collection ‘Primavera’; Jacquie Byron...

Friday, 7 August 2015
The first South Australian Hachette Mentoring Program, offered in partnership with the SA Writers Centre, has been jointly awarded to Rose Hartley and Liana Skrzypczak.Hartley and Skrzypczak will work with...

Thursday, 6 August 2015
The longlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes have been announced.The biennial awards, previously known as the Tasmanian Literary Prizes, were rebranded in March. A new Young Writer’s Prize was also...