BWF releases 2018 schools program
Wednesday, 30 May 2018
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has released its 2018 Word Play program, designed for students from prep to year 12. The Word Play program will run from 4-7 September at...
MWF 2018 schools’ program released
Wednesday, 23 May 2018
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has released its 2018 schools' program, which will run from 27-30 August. Held at Melbourne's Federation Square, the 2018 MWF schools' program will focus on...
EWF 2018 program launched
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced its 2018 program, which runs from 19-29 June in venues across Melbourne’s CBD and surrounding suburbs. Timmah Ball, Tony Birch and Neil Morris...
SWF 2018: ticket sales down but box office third-highest in festival history; Lee tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 16 May 2018
This year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) recorded 51,362 ticketed sales worth over $1.28 million—down on last year's earnings but still the third-highest box office earnings in the organisation’s history. The...
Repeal book event at Dublin International Literature Festival cancelled by local council
Thursday, 3 May 2018
An event at Dublin’s International Literature Festival that planned to discuss an anthology of writing about the movement for reproductive rights in Ireland was cancelled by Dublin City Council (DCC) after the...
Dark Mofo announces full program for ‘literature, film and ideas’ event
Thursday, 3 May 2018
Tasmania’s midwinter festival Dark Mofo has announced the program for the Dark and Dangerous Thoughts (DDT) two-day symposium, a showcase of ‘literature, film and ideas’ that runs from 9 to...
ABIAs 2018 shortlists announced
Thursday, 19 April 2018
The shortlists for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Force of Nature (Jane Harper,...
Australian publishers report ‘optimistic’ Bologna; feminism and diversity remain points of interest
Wednesday, 18 April 2018
Australian publishers have reported a busy and ‘positive’ Bologna Children’s Book Fair (26-29 March), with ongoing demand for middle-grade fiction, books with a focus on feminism and diversity, and illustrated...
Clarke to headline inaugural Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival
Thursday, 12 April 2018
Melbourne Spoken Word & Poetry Festival has launched its inaugural 2018 program, which will be held from 17 May to 3 June. The 18-day festival is hosted by local arts...
EWF announces 2018 festival ambassadors
Tuesday, 10 April 2018
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced the five writers appointed ambassadors for the festival’s National Writers’ Conference, which runs from 23-24 June at the State Library of Victoria. The...
ABA announces 2018 conference program; Currie, Batistich to give keynotes
Friday, 6 April 2018
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the program for its 2018 conference, to be held at QT Hotel in Canberra from 17-18 June. The conference will be organised around...
ALIA releases report on library support for Sustainable Development Goals
Thursday, 5 April 2018
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) has launched a report investigating how Australian libraries contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The report highlights the important role...
Australian Book Design Awards 2018 longlist announced
Tuesday, 27 March 2018
The 2018 Australian Book Design Awards longlist has been announced. Longlisted titles in some of the categories are: Best Designed Commercial Fiction Cover And the Fire Came Down (Emma Viskic, Echo),...
Melbourne Jewish Book Week launches inaugural program
Monday, 26 March 2018
Melbourne Jewish Book Week has launched its inaugural 2018 program, which will be held from 3 to 9 May. The week-long program of Jewish writing, literary culture and ideas is...
FWF announces 2018 Victorian festival program
Friday, 23 March 2018
The Feminist Writers Festival (FWF) has launched the program for its Victorian festival, which will be held in Melbourne and Geelong from 25-27 May. The Victorian program is the first...
134,000 attend AWW 2018; Krasnostein tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) has reported 134,000 people attended the 2018 festival, which ran from 3 to 8 March. Attendance was up slightly compared to last year’s event, which recorded...
Queenscliffe Literary Festival keynote speakers announced
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The Queenscliffe Literary Festival, running 5–27 May 2018, is celebrating its fourth year. The festival features acclaimed and emerging Australian authors in conversation, at writing workshops and special events, across all weekends...
Editors NSW: Unreadability: what makes text unreadable
Wednesday, 21 March 2018
The presentation and its title are inspired by Philip Bryan’s excellent presentation on unreadability at the September 2017 IPEd conference. Presenter Juliet Richters will outline the different issues that can...
SWF 2018 program announced
Friday, 16 March 2018
The program has been announced for this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 30 April to 6 May. Sixty international guests and 400 Australian writers, academics and public...
Claire Miller on ‘Between the Covers, Behind the Counter’
Thursday, 15 March 2018
On 27 February, a group of publishers, booksellers and other children’s literature enthusiasts gathered in Fremantle at children’s bookstore Paper Bird Books & Arts for ‘Between the Covers, Behind the...
Auckland Writers Festival 2018 program released
Thursday, 15 March 2018
The program for the 2018 Auckland Writers Festival has been announced. This year’s festival, which runs from 15 to 20 May, will be headlined by Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård...
Varuna to offer five creative writing fellowships for regional NSW writers
Thursday, 15 March 2018
Varuna, the National Writers' House has opened applications for a two-week residency for writers living in regional New South Wales and the greater Sydney area. Funded by Create NSW, Varuna...
CBCA announces dates, theme for 13th National Conference
Thursday, 15 March 2018
The Children's Book Council of Australia’s (CBCA) 13th National Conference will be held in Canberra from 31 May to 2 June 2019. The theme 'And Now They’re Laughing' will celebrate...
Leading Edge Books announces conference program
Wednesday, 14 March 2018
Leading Edge Books has released the program for its 2018 conference, to be held from 25-27 March at the Hotel Grand Chancellor in Hobart, Tasmania. Entrepreneur and author Andrew Keen...
Dyer to step down from SWF, joins AWW as director
Friday, 9 March 2018
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that CEO Jo Dyer will step down from the role in June 2018, following the upcoming festival which runs from 30 April to...
Hay Festival announces #VOTE100BOOKS campaign
Friday, 9 March 2018
In the UK, the Hay Festival has announced a campaign to select 100 books by women from the last 100 years to be celebrated at its festivals in the UK...
ABIA 2018 longlists announced
Thursday, 8 March 2018
The longlists for the 2018 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. The titles in each category are: General fiction book of the year Force of Nature (Jane Harper,...
20,000 attend PFWW; Beer tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Twenty thousand people attended the 2018 Perth Festival Writer’s Week (PFWW), which ran from 19 to 25 February. Attendance was down on last year’s event, but a festival spokesperson said...
New spec fic festival announces headliners Kaufman, Kristoff and Canavan
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
The creators of the Morning Bell literary podcast have announced a new festival focusing on speculative fiction and ‘the craft of writing’. The Speculate Literary Festival will run on Saturday...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2018 winners announced; Winton donates prize money to Ningaloo Reef protection
Monday, 5 March 2018
The winners of the 2018 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature were announced at a ceremony on 3 March as part of Adelaide Writers’ Week. The winners in each category are:...
