Inaugural NZ LGBTIQ literary festival to be held in February
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
New Zealand author and Auckland Writers Festival co-founder Peter Wells has announced the inaugural LGBTIQ writers festival samesame but different will run from 12-14 February 2016 as part of the...
UK Society of Authors calls for higher festival fees
Wednesday, 9 December 2015
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has called on literary festivals to reconsider what they pay authors after survey results found most authors are being paid within the...
SPN conference returns to Melbourne; indie publishers strong in nonfiction, reports BookScan
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) fourth Independent Publishing Conference returned to the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 19-21 November after being held in Sydney last year. SPN membership manager Hannah...
Inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival to launch in Melbourne
Thursday, 19 November 2015
A new writers’ festival dedicated to Indigenous writing will be held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 19-21 February. Blak & Bright, the inaugural Victorian Indigenous Literary Festival, will...
CBCA announces 2016 conference program
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
The Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) has announced the program for next year’s national conference, to be held at the Menzies Hotel in Sydney from 20-21 May. The conference, entitled ‘Read: Myriad...
New CEO, artistic director for Clunes Booktown Festival
Thursday, 12 November 2015
Creative Clunes has announced the appointment of a CEO and artistic director for the Victorian town’s 10th Booktown Festival, to be held from 30 April to 1 May. Richard Mackay-Scollay has...
Bookish dates for 2016
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
January Jaipur Literature Festival: 21-25 January Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards: (TBA) January February Taipei International Book Exhibition: 16-21 February Emerging Writers’ Festival Digital Writers’ Festival: (TBA) February Perth Writers Festival:...
Sports Writers Festival to launch with ‘mini-fest’ in Melbourne
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
A new writers’ festival specialising in sports writing will hold a ‘mini-fest’ on 21 November in Melbourne ahead of its first full program in 2016. The Sports Writers Festival was created by...
Australian, Cambodian writers feature at inaugural Kampot Writers and Readers Festival
Wednesday, 11 November 2015
Books+Publishing’s Andrew Wrathall reports from Kampot: The inaugural Kampot Writers and Readers Festival (KWRF), featuring Cambodian, Australian and other international writers, artists and musicians, was held in Kampot, Cambodia, from...
Krznaric, Genova to headline 2016 Perth Writers Festival
Thursday, 5 November 2015
The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors on its 2016 line-up. International guests appearing at the festival, which runs from 18-21 February, include UK pop-philosopher Roman Krznaric;...
Paul Kelly to headline inaugural Kampot Writers & Readers Festival in Cambodia
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
The inaugural Kampot Writers & Readers Festival in Cambodia, running 5-8 November, has announced its program. Australian musician and author Paul Kelly and Cambodian human rights activist and musician Arn...
ABA, Leading Edge conferences to be held in Canberra in 2016
Tuesday, 20 October 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) and Leading Edge Books will hold their 2016 conferences at the QT Hotel in Canberra. This is the fourth year in a row that the...
SPN announces 2015 Independent Publishing Conference program; Indyk, Chapman to deliver keynotes
Monday, 19 October 2015
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the program for its 2015 Independent Publishing Conference, which will run in Melbourne from 19-21 November. The conference kicks off with an Industry...
Romance goes mainstream at RWA conference 2015
Wednesday, 2 September 2015
The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) conference, which was held from 21-23 August at the Park Hyatt in Melbourne, attracted over 400 attendees, the largest in the organisation’s 24-year history....
Dymocks Glenelg wins top award at Dymocks national conference
Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Dymocks Glenelg in Adelaide has won the Chairman’s Award for Retail Excellence at this year’s Dymocks national conference, which was held in Surfers Paradise from 16-18 August.Awards were also presented...
SPN appoints new conference manager, announces 2015 conference dates
Wednesday, 29 July 2015
The Small Press Network (SPN) has appointed Lefa Singleton Norton as its conference manager for the 2015 Independent Publishing Conference, to be held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 19-21 November.SPN...
Diversity and teen engagement discussed at 2015 Reading Matters conference
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
International authors Laurie Halse Anderson, Sally Gardner, Priya Kuriyan and Sara Farizan were among the guests at this year’s Reading Matters conference, which ran from 28-31 May in Melbourne. The...
Close to 60 indie bookstores attend 2015 Leading Edge Conference
Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Representatives from close to 60 independent bookstores from across Australia attended this year’s Leading Edge Book conference, held in Melbourne from 15-16 May.Leading Edge marketing manager Galina Marinov told Books+Publishing...
More than 350 attendees, busiest trade exhibition in years at 2015 ABA conference
Tuesday, 19 May 2015
Over 350 booksellers, suppliers and other industry members attended this year’s Australian Bookseller Association (ABA) Conference, which was held at the State Library of Victoria from 17-18 May.ABA CEO Joel Becker...
Hachette named Publisher of the Year at 2015 Leading Edge Books Conference
Monday, 18 May 2015
A number of awards were presented at this year’s Leading Edge Books Conference in Melbourne on 16 May.Hachette was named Publisher of the Year, breaking Allen & Unwin’s five-year winning...
‘The 52-Storey Treehouse’ wins Booksellers Choice Award at 2015 ABA Conference; bookseller awards announced
Monday, 18 May 2015
Andy Griffiths and Terry Denton’s The 52-Storey Treehouse (Pan) has won the Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award at the Australian Booksellers Association’s ‘Celebrating Bookselling’ dinner and awards night on 17...
‘Word nerds’ assemble at editing and indexing conference
Friday, 15 May 2015
Write | Edit | Index was the first conference jointly hosted by the Institute of Professional Editors (IPEd) and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Indexers (ANZSI), incorporating the...
Booksellers NZ conference program released
Wednesday, 18 March 2015
The theme of this year’s Booksellers NZ Conference is ‘Changing Hearts and Minds: Future Proofing Your Business’, to be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Auckland on 21 June.Confirmed sessions...
Leading Edge announces 2015 conference guest speakers, draft program
Monday, 16 March 2015
The 2015 Leading Edge Books Conference, to be held at the Rydges on Swanston in Melbourne from 15-16 May, will feature a keynote address by Brian Walker, CEO and founder...
Keeping up with the kids: Chris Kunz on the Kidscreen conference
Thursday, 12 March 2015
Chris Kunz, freelance editor and writer and former children’s publisher at Random House, attended the Kidscreen conference for children’s entertainment professionals in Miami in February. She reports on partnerships between...
Grant delivers keynote at UK independent publishing conference
Friday, 6 March 2015
Hardie Grant Books chief executive Sandy Grant has delivered the keynote address at this year’s Independent Publishers Guild spring conference in Oxfordshire, UK, reports the Bookseller. In his keynote, Grant...
ABA announces 2015 conference program, partnership with Miles Franklin Award
Friday, 6 March 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the program for this year’s conference, to be held at the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 17-18 May. Hiroshi Sogo, director of...
LBF to hold social media conference
Monday, 23 February 2015
The London Book Fair (LBF) will stage its first social media conference on trends in global publishing, reports the Bookseller. The online conference, called ‘Around the World in 8 Hours’,...
Inaugural Historical Novel Society conference to be held in March
Friday, 13 February 2015
The inaugural Historical Novel Society of Australasia (HNSA) conference will be held in Sydney from 20-22 March.The conference opens with a reception and a debate on the relationship between historical...
Joint Australia-New Zealand library conference announced
Thursday, 12 February 2015
The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) and Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa (LIANZA) have announced they will hold a joint library conference in Australia in 2018 and another in...
