Clunes Booktown Festival 2016 program announced
The program for the 2016 Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 30 April to 1 May in Clunes, Victoria, has been announced. This year the festival celebrates its 10th...
Creative Clunes awarded grant to travel to Paju Book City, South Korea
Creative Victoria has awarded a $12,000 grant to Creative Clunes for a delegation to travel from Clunes in Victoria to Paju Book City in South Korea to develop collaborative projects...
Clunes Booktown Festival 2015 program announced
The program for the 2015 Clunes Booktown Festival has been released.Among the authors at this year’s festival, which will be held from 2-3 May in Clunes, Victoria, are Michael Mori,...
Clunes Booktown for Kids festival this weekend
Clunes’ inaugural Booktown for Kids festival will be held this weekend in the central Victorian town of Clunes with a Schools’ Day on Friday 31 October and a Family Day on...
Clunes appoints Hollingworth with Arts Victoria funding, announces inaugural kids festival
Clunes Booktown has appointed Sheila Hollingworth as part-time manager. The festival has previously been run by volunteers but has received funding from Arts Victoria to create the paid part-time manager...
Clunes Booktown Festival attracts 18,000
Around 18,000 people attended this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival on 3-4 May in the central Victorian town of Clunes. Clunes Booktown director Tess Brady told Books+Publishing that ‘highlights included the talks by the...
Clunes Booktown Festival program announced
The program for the 2014 Clunes Booktown Festival has been released. Among the authors due to appear at this year’s weekend event, to be held on 3 and 4 May...
New bookshop opens in Clunes
A new bookshop called Sneaky Fox Books has opened in the regional Victorian town of Clunes. The shop was offered in a ‘bookshop giveaway’ by its owners and Creative Clunes,...
Thousands flock to Clunes for annual Booktown Festival
Booksellers have reported strong sales and author events attracted record crowds at this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival, with up to 18,000 people visiting the central Victorian town for the event....
Booktown launches Sunday Selection program
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is launching a year-round program of writers’ talks. The Sunday Selection program will...
Creative Clunes announces international events
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...
International projects in the works for Clunes
Creative Clunes, the organisation behind the annual Clunes Booktown Festival in regional Victoria, has announced that it is working on four cultural and arts programs with similar organisations in South...
Changes at Clunes Booktown
Stephen Samuel has replaced Tess Brady as the director of Clunes Booktown festival. Brady and other members of the festival team, Creative Clunes secretary Tim Hayes and deputy chair Graeme...
Samuel replaces Brady as Clunes festival director
Stephen Samuel has been appointed as the director of the Clunes Booktown festival, replacing Tess Brady who has stepped down from the role after directing the festival since the inaugural...
Booktown Festival attracts 17,000 to Clunes
Approximately 17,000 people visited Clunes in central Victoria on the weekend for the annual Clunes Booktown Festival, up from approximately 14,000 in 2011. Linda Newitt, one of the event’s organisers,...
Clunes recognised as international booktown
The Victorian town of Clunes has been declared an international booktown by the International Organisation of Booktowns. This recognition places Clunes alongside 14 other international booktowns, including Hay-on-Wye in Wales,...
Books, history, dress-ups: dare we say the Clunes ‘Back to Booktown’ fair has it all?
To quote our Weekly Book Newsletter (circa May 2009) at last year's annual Clunes 'Back to Booktown' fair: Rose Michael and her Arcade Publications colleague Dale Campisi (pictured) garnered local...
In brief
Nam Le wins PEN/Malamud AwardNam Le has added the PEN/Malamud Award to his impressive list of prizes awarded for his debut publication, The Boat (Penguin). The prize, for excellence in...
On Fancy Goods this week
On our Fancy Goods blog this week: Matthia Dempsey attends the launch of the program for this year's Emerging Writers Festival; in the light of the recent Miles Franklin controversy...
Clunes book fair attracts the crowds
The annual Clunes Book Town event held from 2 to 3 May attracted ‘a very good turnout' and saw the town overrun with secondhand books, according to publisher Rose Michael...