The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that the 96th annual conference and trade exhibition will be held at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney from 21–22 June 2020. In conjunction... Read more
Writing WA has announced a new literary medal for ‘an individual who has made a substantial contribution to the vitality and success of Western Australia’s literary culture’. Produced by the... Read more
The New England Writers’ Centre (NEWC) has partnered with Varuna, The Writers’ House to offer a one-week fellowship to writers residing in the federal electorate of New England. The recipient... Read more
Joyce Chew’s short story ‘Water bodies’ has won this year’s Overland Victoria University (VU) Short Story Prize. Chosen from a shortlist announced earlier this month, the winning story ‘reflects on... Read more
Matthew Reilly’s dystopian time-travel thriller The Secret Runners of New York leads the Australian YA bestsellers chart for July, unseating the film tie-in edition of Storm Boy, which has dropped to... Read more
Springer Nature and German university consortium Projekt DEAL have signed a memorandum of understanding on what the organisations are calling the ‘world’s largest transformative open access agreement’, reports the Bookseller.... Read more
