Inaugural Rock & Roll Writers Festival to be held in Brisbane in April Archive
Tuesday, 19 January 2016
The inaugural Rock & Roll Writers Festival will be held at The Brightside in Brisbane on 2-3 April. The festival was founded by former band managers Leanne de Souza and...
Writers call for boycott of literary festivals that don’t pay speakers Archive
Monday, 18 January 2016
In the UK, a numbers of writers have called for publishers and fellow authors to boycott festivals that don’t pay speakers’ fees, reports the Bookseller. The calls come after Society...
Pullman resigns as Oxford Literary Festival patron over refusal to pay authors Archive
Friday, 15 January 2016
In the UK, author Philip Pullman has announced his resignation as Oxford Literary Festival patron over its refusal to pay speakers, reports the Bookseller. Pullman told the Bookseller it was...
Featherston to hold second Booktown event in May Archive
Friday, 15 January 2016
Featherston, New Zealand, will hold its second major Booktown event from 20-22 May this year. The town held its first Booktown event in October last year as part of its...
Perth Writers Festival 2016 program released Archive
Thursday, 14 January 2016
The full program for the 2016 Perth Writers Festival, which runs from 18-21 February, has been released. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, UK pop-philosopher Roman Krznaric will give the festival’s...
Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature 2016 shortlists announced Archive
Monday, 11 January 2016
The shortlists for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature have been announced. The shortlisted titles in each category are: Fiction The Anchoress (Robyn Cadwallader, Fourth Estate) A Million Windows...
Inaugural NZ LGBTIQ literary festival to be held in February Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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 Archive
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...
