The Leading Edge Group (LEG) has announced several changes to its staff, including a redundancy. In an email to suppliers, director of business services Kate Levy announced she would step... Read more
The shortlists for the 2019 Woollahra Digital Literary Awards, for writing first published online or electronically, have been announced. Fiction ‘Toot toot’ (Rachel Ang, Going Down Swinging) ‘Osaka’ (Alexander Bennetts,... Read more
The longlist for the 2019 Peter Carey Short Story Award has been announced. The 14 longlisted stories are: ‘Elisabeth Kubler Ross’ (Paige Clark) ‘Mother’s Arbour’ (Jessica Andretta) ‘Beasley’s Corner’ (Jessica... Read more
Claire G Coleman has been shortlisted in the debut category of the US-based Neukom Institute Literary Arts Award for speculative fiction, for her novel Terra Nullius (Hachette). The award is... Read more
Aaron Blabey’s latest ‘Bad Guys’ book (Episode 9: The Big Bad Wolf, Omnibus) is this week’s number one bestseller, moving up from fifth spot last week to take out the... Read more
English poet Simon Armitage has been named the UK’s poet laureate, after Imtiaz Dharker turned down the position earlier this month. The Guardian reports that Armitage ‘had no hesitation whatsoever about... Read more