Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Dunedin in New Zealand has been designated a UNESCO Creative City of Literature. The city is one of four newly designated Cities of Literature, the others being Granada, Spain; Heidleberg,...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
The Australia Council has announced the successful applicants in its ‘new work’ grant categories. Fiona McFarlane (The Night Guest, Penguin) and Courtney Collins (The Burial, A&U) are among the authors...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Ross Halpin has won the inaugural Rosalind Sharbanee Meyer Writers Award. The award, worth $1000, is planned to be an annual prize for books ‘with a Jewish theme’ published by...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Six Australian publishers will visit India in January as the Australia Council’s first delegation to the country. An Australia council spokesperson told Books+Publishing the delegation would ‘promote Australian literature at festivals...

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
New genre publisher Horror Australis will publish its first title in 2015. Cthulhu: Deep Down Under is an anthology of fiction about H P Lovecraft’s ‘Cthulhu mythos transposed to Australia’....

Monday, 1 December 2014
The winners of the inaugural AusRomToday Reader’s Choice Awards have been announced.The winners in each category are:Best new author:J L PerryBest established author:Amy AndrewsAuthor of the year:Annie Seaton Cover of...

Monday, 1 December 2014
Jamie Oliver is climbing up the bestsellers chart in the lead-up to Christmas. Three of his titles are among the week’s fastest movers, with Jamie’s Comfort Food (Michael Joseph) at the...

Monday, 1 December 2014
The 2014 PM’s Literary Awards will be broadcast by Sky News and SBS, according to a report in the Australian.The Australian reports that the ceremony, which will be hosted by Ray...

Monday, 1 December 2014
Novelist and poet John A Scott has won the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award for his short story ‘Picasso: A Shorter Life’.The award, worth $12,000, is offered by the University of...

Friday, 28 November 2014
British crime fiction author P D James has died, aged 94.James was best known for her series of detective novels starring policeman and poet Adam Dalgliesh. She wrote 14 Dalgliesh...

Friday, 28 November 2014
Night Games by Australian author Anna Krien (Black Inc.) has won the 2014 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award in the UK.Krien’s book, which explores sporting culture and...

Friday, 28 November 2014
A film based on Helen Garner’s nonfiction book Joe Cinque’s Consolation (Pan) is the latest book-to-film project to receive funding from Screen Australia. The film will be directed by Sotiris Dounoukos, who...

Friday, 28 November 2014
The Chart Collective, a not-for-profit publishing venture supported by the Lifted Brow, has launched an online publishing project that explores summer rituals.The ‘Longer Light’ series will feature 12 different works of writing,...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
Clare Wright has won the 2014 Waverley Library Award for Literature, known as the ‘Nib’, for her book The Forgotten Rebels of Eureka (Text).Wright was presented with the award, worth $20,000,...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
Brisbane’s Avid Reader Bookshop has announced plans to open a dedicated children’s bookshop next to its West End store.The new store, to be called Where the Wild Things Are Books...

Thursday, 27 November 2014
Journalist and author Helen O’Neill has been appointed to the board of the Copyright Agency, replacing children’s book author Libby Gleeson.‘[O’Neill] arrives at a time when there are exceptional challenges...