The first line-up of authors has been announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 4-9 March 2017. Among the international guests are UK true-crime writer Kate Summerscale; US essayist... Read more
The winners of the inaugural Hope Prize for short stories, administered by the Brotherhood of St Laurence, has been announced. Catherine Moffat won the $5000 first prize for her story... Read more
Melbourne comics bookstore All Star Comics will present the first Women in Comics Festival, to be held in the store from 10-11 December. The festival bills itself as a celebration of... Read more
The finalists for the New Zealand Content Counts Education Awards have been announced. The finalists in each category are: Primary NZ Curriculum Mathematics: Connecting All Strands—Level 3B (Maryanne Tipler, Caxton... Read more
UK author Kathryn Evans has won the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book Award for her YA novel More of Me (Usborne), reports the Bookseller. Evans’ book is the... Read more