Australian Poetry has announced joint winners of the 2019 Anne Elder Award: Cham Zhi Yi for blur by the (Subbed In) and Gareth Sion Jenkins for Recipes for the Disaster... Read more
Author Claire G Coleman will work on a script for Melbourne’s Malthouse Theatre, having been named one of two participants in the Theatre’s 2020 Malcolm Robertson Writers Program. Coleman told... Read more
In the UK, Faber chief executive Stephen Page has told the Bookseller the publisher’s sales are down by ‘about a third year on year for print’ during the country’s lockdown... Read more
In the UK, Roger Robinson has won the £10,000 (A$19,250) Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Prize for his poetry collection A Portable Paradise (Peepal Tree Press). ‘The spirit of place in... Read more