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A new research project, led by lecturer Millicent Weber at the Australian National University (ANU), will investigate ‘how audiobooks are reshaping Australian book culture, including publishing, circulation and reading practices’.... Read more |
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Kathryn Lomer has won the $15,000 first prize in the 2024 Furphy Literary Award for the short story ‘Nothing about Kissing’. Lomer is a poet, YA author and novelist from... Read more |
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The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) has announced the recipients of its two 2024 residential fellowships to be held at Varuna, the National Writers’ House. Recipients of the 2024 fellowships are... Read more |
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Varuna, the National Writers’ House has announced the three recipients of the 2024 Ann Moyal Nonfiction Fellowship. The recipients are Anna Hickey-Moody, director of the Arts and Humanities Institute at... Read more |
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Affirm Press has acquired world rights to three books by author-illustrator Brentos. Brentos’ first children’s book, Australia: From dawn to dusk (Affirm), was shortlisted for the CBCA award for a... Read more |
In the UK, Ferdia Lennon has won the £5000 (A$9816) Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize for Glorious Exploits (Fig Tree), reports the Bookseller. Chosen from a shortlist of six, the winning... Read more |
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Cockatoo is the new Australian wildlife picture book from Kaye Baillie and Max Hamilton, the team behind the CBCA-shortlisted title When the Waterhole Dries Up. In this story, Baillie has followed her... Read more |
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