Wednesday, 11 May 2016
Former Lantern designers Daniel New and Evi Oetomo have opened a Sydney-based studio ‘devoted to designing beautiful books’, called OetomoNew. New was previously art director and Evi Oetomo was senior...

Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Seventeen literary organisations and almost 40 writers and writing groups have received Australia Council grants as part of its $11.2m February grants round. The 17 literary organisations received a combined...

Tuesday, 10 May 2016
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has received a $461,350 Catalyst grant for its Western Sydney and regional NSW touring program to ‘boost accessibility to reading and literature’ among children of...

Monday, 9 May 2016
Author Charlotte Wood has been awarded the University of Sydney’s $100,000 Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence fellowship. As previously reported by Books+Publishing, the university announced the fellowship for a...

Thursday, 5 May 2016
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has raised $285,000 in the first quarter of 2016, and has secured a new $10,000 sponsorship from 1010 Printing, which will fund three of its...

Thursday, 5 May 2016
New Zealand writer Tina Makereti has been announced as one of five regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for her short story ‘Black Milk’. Makereti’s coming-of-age story won...

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
The Melbourne UNESCO City of Literature has launched a new website and a grant program for bookstores. The website includes an events calendar, which organisations can upload their events to;...

Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Australian spec-fiction author Deborah Kalin has been shortlisted in the Shirley Jackson Awards for ‘outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic’. Kalin is in...

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Affirm Press will publish an illustrated autobiography by former Test cricketer Dennis Lillee in November as part of its ‘Icon’ series of sports autobiographies. The book will include previously unseen...

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Ellen van Neerven has won this year’s Nakata Brophy Prize for Young Indigenous Writers, administered by Overland and Trinity College at the University of Melbourne. Van Neerven was selected for the prize...

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Overland has announced a new residency program ‘aimed at addressing a lack of opportunities for marginalised writers’, with the inaugural program to focus on women writers who are the sole...

Tuesday, 3 May 2016
Five literary sector organisations have received a total of $140,200 from the Catalyst—Australian Arts and Culture Fund as part of its first annual $12m funding round, announced on 2 May....

Monday, 2 May 2016
The shortlists for this year’s Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIAs) have been announced. They are: General fiction book of the year The Lake House (Kate Morton, A&U) Close Your Eyes (Michael Robotham,...

Thursday, 28 April 2016
The winners of the 2016 George Robertson Award, which recognises long and distinguished service to the publishing industry, were announced by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) on 27 April. The...