Educational publishing in Australia is in trouble and authors are paying the price, according to an Australian Society of Authors (ASA) report released this week. The... Read more |
Steven Carroll has won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in the South East Asia and South Pacific region for The Time We Have Taken... Read more |
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, Australian author Sonya Hartnett has been announced as the winner of this year’s Astrid Lindgren Memorial... Read more |
As reported in a WBN Special Bulletin last week, the longlist for the 2008 Miles Franklin award has been announced. The nine novels selected are:... Read more |
Australian author Gail Jones has been included on the longlist for this year’s Orange Prize for Fiction. Jones, the only Australian on the longlist, has... Read more |
The veracity of two more ‘misery memoirs’ has been called into question. Margaret Jones’s Love and Consequences (Riverhead US) and Misha Defonseca’s Surviving with Wolves (Piatkus)... Read more |
Schwartz Media, publisher of the Monthly magazine, Quarterly Essay and Black Inc., has launched a new internet TV venture, SlowTV (slowtv.com.au). SlowTV will deliver online video content–interviews,... Read more |
The NSW Writers’ Centre will present the 2008 Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival on Saturday 29 March, co-presented by the UTS Centre for New Writing. Guests... Read more |
Six novels have been shortlisted for the 2008 ABC Fiction Award. The six shortlisted authors come from three states: three from Victoria, two from New... Read more |
An award-winning YA book has come under fire for its ‘sexual imagery’. A Lilydale High parent says that, with over 100 swear words, Phillip Gwynne’s... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Swancon 2008 – Australian national science fiction convention, 20-24 March,... Read more |
Among the many international booktrade stories added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Penguin US to launch ‘e-classics’ Borders reduces range to... Read more |
Number one in the Highest New Entries chart this week is Mr Paparazzi. This book details the world of paparazzi photographer Darryn Lyons, a ‘self-made... Read more |
British science fiction writer Sir Arthur C Clarke has died aged 90. Author of more than 100 fiction and nonfiction books, he came to fame... Read more |
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