Monday, 8 September 2014
The Small Press Network has released a draft program for its third Independent Publishing Conference, which will be held in Sydney from 13 to 14 November. The first day of...

Monday, 8 September 2014
The winners of the 2014 Ned Kelly Awards for crime writing were announced at the Brisbane Writers Festival on 6 September.The fiction award went to Adrian McKinty for In the...

Monday, 8 September 2014
The winners of the NSW Premier’s History Awards have been announced as part of the official launch of NSW History Week. The awards, which total $75,000 in prize money, incorporated...

Monday, 8 September 2014
Following the success of the bestselling The 39-Storey Treehouse, Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton have returned with The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan). The 13 new ‘storeys’ feature a rocket-powered carrot-launcher, a ninja...

Monday, 8 September 2014
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the appointment of Michael Webster as chair of the SPN board.‘Michael’s career in the Australian book industry has spanned more than forty years...

Friday, 5 September 2014
The University of Queensland Press is publishing a series of ‘UQP Modern Classics’.The new series features early works from Australian authors previously published by UQP that have been ‘repackaged for...

Friday, 5 September 2014
Books+Publishing’s latest Junior newsletter contains six reviews of children’s and YA books publishing in October and November.Included is a review of The Three Billy Goats Gruff from Little Hare’s new...

Thursday, 4 September 2014
Melissa Lucashenko has won the 2014 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing for her novel Mullumbimby (UQP).The $20,000 award was presented at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne as part...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The winners of the Wilderness Society’s 2014 Environment Award for Children’s Literature were announced at the Little Bookroom in Melbourne on 2 September. Bush Baby Rescue: Juliet Nearly a Vet Book...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) is staging its eighth Indigenous Literacy Day today (Wednesday 3 September) to raise money for Indigenous literacy.A number of booksellers and publishers are donating a percentage...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
The 2014 Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) kicks off today and runs until 7 September.As previously reported by Books+Publishing, more than 200 writers and illustrators will participate in this year’s festival, which is...

Wednesday, 3 September 2014
‘If we in the print business want to survive, we have to make print an entirely different experience from reading digitally’—Melbourne Writers Festival guest Dave Eggers argues for a greater...

Tuesday, 2 September 2014
The inaugural two-day Writers Victoria Manuscript Assessor Conference kicks off today in Melbourne.The conference, which is open to emerging and established assessors, will host discussions on the best practice, professional...