Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Thirty-four writers and literary organisations have been awarded a total of $780,337 in the Australia Council's first grant round for 2018. Nineteen writers and groups received arts projects funding, worth up...

Wednesday, 9 May 2018
Moreland City Council, in Melbourne’s northern suburbs, will offer a new $3000 writer-in-residence program this year. Offered to three writers, the three-month residency program aims to support writers by providing...

Tuesday, 8 May 2018
Melbourne independent bookseller Readings will refurbish its flagship Carlton shop, after 20 years in its current location. The Lygon Street shop will be closed for approximately seven weeks from Tuesday,...

Monday, 7 May 2018
Author Emily Maguire has been awarded the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre Writer in Residence fellowship. Maguire will receive $100,000 and will spend a year based at the centre...

Monday, 7 May 2018
The Copyright Agency has announced the two recipients of its $15,000 publisher fellowships: Spineless Wonders publisher Bronwyn Mehan and Monash University Publishing director Nathan Hollier. The fellowships aim to support...

Friday, 4 May 2018
The Wheeler Centre has announced it will launch a new $150,000 initiative for developing writers called The Next Chapter. Established by the Wheeler Centre in conjunction with the Aesop Foundation,...

Thursday, 3 May 2018
Perth-based comics artist Campbell Whyte has been nominated for the 2018 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards for his book Home Time: Under the River (Top Shelf Productions). Whyte’s book was...

Thursday, 3 May 2018
Brio Books has announced a new unpublished manuscript prize, the Carter Brown Mystery Writing Award. Established in conjunction with the Carter Brown Foundation and US-based Stark House Press, the new...

Thursday, 3 May 2018
University of Western Australia Publishing (UWA Publishing) has announced it will expand the eligibility of the next Dorothy Hewett Award for an Unpublished Manuscript to all Australian writers and permanent...

Wednesday, 2 May 2018
The shortlist for the inaugural Michael Gifkins Prize for an unpublished novel has been announced. The shortlisted works, and their authors, are: ‘When Curlews Call’ (H E Crampton) ‘Caught Between’...

Wednesday, 2 May 2018
The Melbourne City of Literature, as part of its 10th anniversary, has announced it will partner with the Wheeler Centre to present a two-day event in November to ‘celebrate where...