Monday, 21 September 2015
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has appointed Mitch Fifield as federal Arts Minister and Kelly O’Dwyer as Small Business Minister.In a statement, Turnbull said that Fifield, who has also been appointed Communications...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Melbourne’s RMIT University has awarded fellowships to writers Alice Pung and Michele Lee for writing residencies in China.Pung was awarded the Writers Immersion and Cultural Exchange Program (WrICE) Established Writer...

Monday, 21 September 2015
Hachette Australia has announced the shortlist for its inaugural Richell Prize, run in partnership with the Emerging Writers’ Festival and the Guardian.The shortlisted entries are: ‘&’ by Jonathan O'Brien ‘No...

Friday, 18 September 2015
The winners of the Australian Publishers Association (APA) Educational Publishing Awards were announced at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 17 September.RIC Publications was named Publisher of the Year for Primary and...

Friday, 18 September 2015
A number of Australian writers and book industry professionals have ‘questioned the intentions’ of inaugural Book Council of Australia chair Louise Adler in an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The State Library of NSW has announced a new biennial Indigenous Writers Prize, to be part of the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.  The $30,000 prize is intended to ‘acknowledge the...

Wednesday, 16 September 2015
The shortlist for this year’s Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing has been announced.The shortlisted pieces are:  ‘Why Aren’t We Dead Yet’ by Idan Ben-Barak (Why Aren’t We Dead Yet?,...

Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Marcus Westbury’s Creating Cities, a crowdfunded, self-published book about the transformation of the city of Newcastle, has topped its Amazon ebook sales category several days after its launch.Westbury, the founder...

Tuesday, 15 September 2015
Affirm Press has announced the winners of the inaugural Affirm Mentorship Award, run in partnership with Varuna, the Writers’ House.Three writers were chosen from 149 submissions, with the Affirm Press editorial...

Monday, 14 September 2015
The shortlists for the Tasmanian Premier’s Literary Prizes were announced at the opening of the Tasmanian Writers and Readers Festival on 11 September.The shortlisted titles in each category are:Tasmania Book...

Monday, 14 September 2015
The Australia Council has announced its Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program will run alongside the Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) in May next year.Australia Council arts strategy executive director Wendy Were...

Monday, 14 September 2015
Scribe has announced the longlisted titles for its third annual nonfiction prize for young writers.The prize, run in conjunction with Express Media, offers the winner a cash prize of $1500;...

Friday, 11 September 2015
The shortlists for this year’s Queensland Literary Awards (QLA) have been announced.The shortlisted titles are:Fiction A Short History of Richard Kline (Amanda Lohrey, Black Inc.) The Golden Age (Joan London,...

Friday, 11 September 2015
The federal government has announced the terms of reference for the Book Council of Australia and that Australian Publishers Association (APA) president and Melbourne University Publishing CEO Louise Adler will...

Friday, 11 September 2015
South Australian author Cath Kenneally has been chosen as the inaugural Copyright Agency J M Coetzee Writing Fellow at the University of Adelaide.The $30,000 fellowship, funded by the Copyright Agency’s...

Friday, 11 September 2015
The Copyright Agency has awarded its inaugural $40,000 Author Fellowship to Mark Henshaw.The fellowship, aimed at mid-to-late career authors, is one of several fellowships established by the Copyright Agency to mark...

Thursday, 10 September 2015
The Council for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) has announced the 2015 Australia Book Prize shortlist. The prize, worth $3500, is part of the CHASS Australia Prizes program,...

Thursday, 10 September 2015
SBS has programmed a new seven-part podcast series featuring stories written and read by early-career Australian writers.The ‘True Stories’ series is based on the theme of ‘High School’ and celebrates...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
The judging panels for the 2015 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards (PMLAs) have been revealed on the PMLA website, showing few changes to the 2014 panels.Sydney Institute executive director and Weekend Australia...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
The winners of the 2015 Australian Family Therapists’ Awards for Children’s Literature have been announced.Crashing Down by Kate McCaffrey (Fremantle Press) has won the $1500 Older Readers Award. The book tells the story...

Tuesday, 8 September 2015
ABC Television director Richard Finlayson has issued a statement outlining the network’s reasons for not broadcasting last year’s Prime Minister’s Literary Awards ceremony in December, following a report in the...