Please note there will be no Daily newsletter next Monday, 8 March, due to the Labour Day public holiday (Victoria, South Australia, ACT and Tasmania). Also due to the public... Read more
Writers Victoria has announced that Mandy Sayer has been awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Australian silent filmmakers the McDonagh sisters. Between 1926 and... Read more
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the winners of its 2021 Award Mentorship Program for Writers and Illustrators. Children’s and YA Inda Ahmad Zabri Bianca Breen Kay Crabbe... Read more
Penguin Random House Australia (PRH) has acquired ANZ rights to Talking About a Revolution, a new nonfiction title by Sudanese-Australian writer Yassmin Abdel-Magied, from Clare Forster of Curtis Brown. In... Read more
For the second year running, Boy Swallows Universe and The Barefoot Investor have come out on top as the year’s overall bestselling Australian books in their respective categories, with The Barefoot Investor the... Read more