Tuesday, 23 June 2009
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Thursday night, Tim Winton has been announced as the 2009 winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award ($42,000), with Breath (Penguin), making...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its 2009/10 Creative Fellowships, worth a total of $185,000. Now in their seventh year, the Fellowships allow writers, artists,...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
A lost masterpiece rescued and rediscovered … be one of the first to see restored Australian classic Wake in Fright. As a special offer for WBN subscribers, we are offering...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Phillip Gwynne's novel The Build Up is to become a 13-part drama series, filmed in the Northern Territory by TMG Media for SBS Television. The series will be called Dusty,...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Tools of Change for Publishing meets Frankfurt OUP reference launches on iPhoneNew management structure at Random House...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
What is it about people these days and their obsession with vampires? As well as Stephenie Meyer claiming her usual top positions in the Bestseller charts this week, Claudia Gray’s Stargazer...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Australian Copyright Council--2009 Training program, 23-26 June, SydneyThe Future of the Book conference, 24-25 June,...

Monday, 22 June 2009
The 2009 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) were presented last night, Tuesday 23 June, at a gala event at Sydney's Sofitel, hosted by Tara Moss. The 20 awards honour and recognise...

Monday, 22 June 2009
The winners of the 2009 Galley Club Awards have been announced.The awards, in their 33rd year, celebrate excellence in book and magazine production. The ceremony was held on Friday 19...

Monday, 22 June 2009
Stuart Beattie, co-writer of the epic Australia, will make his directorial debut with John Marsden’s Tomorrow, When the War Began, first published by Pan in 1994 and aimed at young adults.Beattie...

Monday, 22 June 2009
Independent Australian publisher Hardie Grant Books has announced the launch of a new company in London.Jane Aspden, former managing director of Mitchell Beazley, will take on the founding MD role,...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
'For writers themselves, they really do crave a place where they can go and meet and talk and be pulled out of isolation. That's why the bar's going to be...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a study which CEO Maree McCaskill said showed the Australian ‘domestic book market is in reality priced cheaper than the United Kingdom and...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Doris Mousdale, former retail business manager for Dymocks New Zealand's head office, is to open her own bookstore, Anthology, on Teed Street, Newmarket, in August. Mousdale's move into bookselling comes...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Among the many stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week:Debut author wins A$175,000 Impac PrizeUS ebook sales up 228% in a monthWaterstones trial 3-for-2 on...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
In rights news this week Fremantle Press has sold the Italian-language rights to The Children's House of Belsen (Hetty Verolme) to Citta Aperta. UWA Publishing has purchased Anna Enquist's Contrapunt...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
DA Information Services has announced it has acquired The Foreign Language Bookshop's library division. The division, now called Languages Direct, supplies LOTE (Languages Other Than English) books and audiovisual material to...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Dymocks and Hachette Children's Books have partnered in a new literacy initiative, Books Before Bedtime. The initiative aims to get parents and children in a regular bedtime reading routine.Hachette Children's...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
UWA Publishing is the new name and imprint replacing The University of Western Australia Press, based in Claremont, Western Australia. UWA Publishing director Terri-ann White told WBN the name change...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
WBN subscribers, please note that the email address you receive your WBN from will change in coming weeks.The new email address will be wbn@emailthorpe.com.au. Please add this address to your email...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
James Patterson and Michael Connolly duel with Stephenie Meyer this week on top of the Bestsellers chart. Patterson’s Swimsuit is at number one and Connolly’s The Scarecrow at number three,...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Miles Franklin Literary Award winner announced, 18 JuneView from the outside: Migrant stories--State Library of...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
American journalist and author Fleur Cowles has died, aged 101. As well as being editor of Flair magazine, she wrote; Bloody Precedent, Friends and Memories and She Made Friends and...

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Beat poet and novelist Harold Norse has died, aged 92. He wrote experimental cut-up novel Beat Hotel and many poems.

Tuesday, 16 June 2009
Writer and teacher Suzanne Peterson has died, aged 64. Her works included Harry’s Child, which she wrote when she was 19, and Crying in the Garden.