The Stella Prize has announced it has appointed Michelle Scott Tucker as its new executive director. Tucker is the author of Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the... Read more
An anthology by Australian speculative-fiction publisher Twelfth Planet Press has won a 2018 Locus Award for science-fiction and fantasy, announced at a ceremony in Seattle, in the US, on 23... Read more
Quinn Eades has won the 2018 Mary Gilmore Award for his poetry collection Rallying (UWA Publishing). The award was presented by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) at its... Read more
The shortlist for the 2018 Australian Christian Book of the Year been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Mr Eternity: The Story of Arthur Stace (Roy Williams & Elizabeth Meyers, Acorn... Read more
A group of Swedish cultural figures have joined together to bestow an alternate literature award to replace this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, reports the Guardian. As previously reported, the... Read more
US chain bookseller Barnes & Noble (B&N) has fired CEO Demos Parneros after 14 months in the role, reports Publishers Weekly. In a brief statement, the retailer said Parneros will... Read more
