School publishing director of Oxford University Press Australia & New Zealand (OUP ANZ) Lee Walker has been appointed president of the Australian Publishers Association (APA). Walker, who commences the position... Read more
Writers Victoria has announced the second round of recipients for the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund. Thirteen successful writers, translators and publishers were selected from 124 applicants to receive a... Read more
University of Melbourne academic and author Cordelia Fine has been longlisted for the 2018 Orwell Prize for Books, for her book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of our Gendered Minds (Icon... Read more
HarperCollins imprint Avon Books has acquired world rights to a psychological thriller from debut Australian author Ingrid Alexander, reports the Bookseller. The book, titled The New Girl, is described as... Read more
Three members of the Nobel Prize committee, which selects the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, have resigned from their positions in protest over how sexual misconduct allegations were... Read more