Thirty-seven writers, publishers and other literary organisations have been awarded a total of $938,117 in the Australia Council’s first grants round for 2017. Nineteen writers received arts projects grants of... Read more |
Author Mireille Juchau and playwright Alana Valentine have been awarded Writer in Residence fellowships at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre. Both writers will receive $100,000 and will spend... Read more |
The winners of the 2017 New Zealand Book Awards were announced at a ceremony at the Auckland Writers Festival on 16 May. Catherine Chidgey won the NZ$50,000 (A$46,380) fiction prize... Read more |
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) artistic director and CEO Lisa Dempster will step down following this year’s festival, which runs from 25 August to 3 September. Dempster was appointed in 2012... Read more |
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The Romance Writers of Australia (RWA) has released the program for its 2017 conference, to be held in Brisbane from 11-13 August under the theme ‘Love Gone Wild’. International guests... Read more |
In the UK, the shortlist for the Orwell Prize for Books 2017 has been announced. The titles shortlisted for the £3000 (A$5547) prize for political writing are: Citizen Clem (John... Read more |
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