Monday, 15 August 2011
WA regional writers' festivalsAuthors Alan Carter and Judy Nunn were among the special guests at the 2011 Kimberley Writers Festival, which took place between 29 and 31 July. The festival,...

Sunday, 14 August 2011
The finalists for the 2011 Copyright Licensing Limited (CLL) Writers' Awards have been announced in New Zealand. The awards, which celebrate their 10th anniversary this year, are New Zealand's richest for nonfiction....

Sunday, 14 August 2011
The winners of this year's Romantic Book of the Year Awards, known as the R*BY Awards, were announced on 13 August at the annual Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) conference...

Wednesday, 10 August 2011
The Dymocks store in Burwood, NSW, was named Store of the Year at the 2011 Dymocks national conference, held this week. Simon & Schuster received the Publisher of the Year...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Crumb pulls out of Australia visitCartoonist Robert Crumb, who was due to visit Australia as part of the Graphic 2011 festival at the Sydney Opera House, has pulled out, reportedly...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The winners of this year's Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) Children's Book Awards have been announced. The winning titles are:Esther Glen Award for junior fictionShadow of...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Trade events coming up, as shown on our events calendar, include:The Friends of the University Book Fair : 6-13 AugustRomance Writers of Australia 20th national conference: 11-14 AugustKSP Speculative Fiction...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Since 1989 the Australian wool industry has been cut to only a third of its size. Charles Massy explains the decline of the wool industry in Breaking the Sheep's Back...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011
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Tuesday, 9 August 2011
August Robert Adamson, UQP (Surface to Air) Sydney and Melbourne.Joseph Braude, Scribe (The Honoured Dead) Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney. Paul Daley and Mike Bowers, MUP (Armageddon) Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
In the Sydney suburb of Centennial Park, two nurses, a housekeeper and a solicitor attend to Elizabeth Hunter as her expatriate son and daughter convene at her deathbed. But in...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The titles shortlisted for the 2011 Australian Publishers Association (APA) Australian Educational Publishing Awards have been announced. The shortlisted works are: Primary SchoolBest Student Learning Print or Blended Resource--Arts/Science/HumanitiesAustralian Middle...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
In rights news this week: SalesFiction--Allen & Unwin has sold Portuguese rights for When We Have Wings (Claire Corbett); Catalan rights for The Distant Hours and The Forgotten Garden (both...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Nancy Wake, author and decorated World War II French resistance fighter, has died in London aged 98. Wake wrote The Autobiography of the Woman the Gestapo called the White Mouse (1985) and...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced an overhaul of the way it funds Australian publishers. The board has developed a new funding system based...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Jenni Overend, author of children's books and poetry, has died aged 55. Her first book, Princess Grandma (1994) won the Australian Multicultural Book of the Year Award. Her other books...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
On Fancy Goods this week, Bec Kavanagh reviews The Bridge (Jane Higgins, Text), Sarina Gale reviews Harry Curry: Counsel of Choice (Stuart Littlemore, HarperCollins) and Andrea Hanke reviews the audiobook...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Dee Murch, New Zealand book designer and editor, has died aged 39. Murch worked in both a permanent and freelance capacity for New Holland Publishers for over seven years; was a...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
Festival goers were treated to three sunny and warm days at this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF), held between 5 and 7 August. On the opening night of the...

Tuesday, 9 August 2011
The shortlist for the 2011 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society. Shortlisted poems include: 'Via Negativa The Divine Dark' by Robert...