Book industry figures to attend Australia Fest in India
Australian authors, publishers and literary festival programmers are among the guests at Australia Fest, a six-month festival comprising more than 75 events across 20 Indian cities. Supported by the federal...
Inaugural Rock & Roll Writers Festival to be held in Brisbane in April
The inaugural Rock & Roll Writers Festival will be held at The Brightside in Brisbane on 2-3 April. The festival was founded by former band managers Leanne de Souza and...
International library news
UK librarians to crowdfund library festivalIn the UK, a group of librarians have launched a crowdfunding campaign to establish a National Public Library Festival, reports the Bookseller. Librarians Richard Veevers...
SA Writers Centre to hold romance writers festival
The SA Writers Centre in Adelaide will hold a romance writers festival from 14 to 15 June. ‘Weekend Romance: A Fair to Remember’ will feature guests including Helene Young, Fiona...
Oz, NZ festival of literature and arts events announced, tickets on sale
The ‘first wave of events’ for the inaugural Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts in London have been announced and tickets are now on sale.The four-day program,...
Winton to open Oz, NZ Festival of Literature and Arts
The Australia and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts, which will hold its inaugural event in London from 29 May to 1 June 2014, will be opened by Tim Winton....
Oz, NZ festival of literature and arts to be held in the UK
A festival of Australian and New Zealand literature and arts will be held in London for the first time in May 2014. The four-day festival, which covers literature, theatre, film...
Eye of the Storm festival program announced
The program for this year’s Eye of the Storm festival, to be held in Alice Springs from 25-28 April, has been announced. This year’s festival will kick off on 25 April...
Tasmania’s The Shock of the Now literary festival program released
Tasmania’s literary festival The Shock of the Now has released its program. The festival, which runs from 16-17 and 22-24 March in Hobart, features a keynote address from Peter Singer...
Rankin and Greenwood top bestsellers at relocated Crime and Justice Festival
The 2012 Crime and Justice Festival was held over the weekend in its new home on Collins St, Melbourne, having previously been located at Abbottsford convent. Festival organiser Mary Dalmau...
Interview: Jane O’Hara, director/CEO of the Brisbane Writers Festival
Over 5-9 September, Jane O’Hara will deliver her final Brisbane Writers Festival and celebrate the festival’s 50th anniversary. She spoke to Andrew Wrathall. What do you anticipate will be the...
Kimberley Writers Festival to be held this month
The eighth annual Kimberley Writers Festival will be held in Kununurra, Western Australia, between 27 and 29 July. Among the writers participating in this year’s event are Amanda Curtin, Stephen...
Griffith Readers’ Festival guests announced
Andy Griffiths, Sulari Gentill, B Michael Radburn, Karly Lane and Tania McCartney will be among the guests at the inaugural Griffith Readers’ Festival in September. The festival, which will be...
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,...
Australian Poetry launches ‘crowd-funding’ campaign for online festival
Australian Poetry is currently running a campaign with 'crowd-funding' platform Pozible to raise money to deliver its national poetry festival online. This year’s festival will be held in Darwin between...
In brief
Hyland, Catton on Orange Prize longlistM J Hyland (This is How, Text) and New Zealand author Eleanor Catton (The Rehearsal, A&U) are among the authors on the longlist for this...