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....
Ubud Writers & Readers Festival annouces line-up
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced a number of authors attending this year’s festival, which will run from 11-15 October. International authors include: Lionel Shriver (US); Irvine Welsh (UK); Danny Morrison...
NZ Book Council International Travel Fund grants announced
The New Zealand Book Council has announced the recipients of its 2013 International Travel Fund grants. Eight writers and illustrators will receive grants to attend international literary festivals and share New...
EWF program announced
The program for the tenth 2013 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) in Melbourne has been announced. The festival will begin with a gala event on 23 May, featuring a keynote address from...
Auckland Writers & Readers Festival program announced
The program for the 2013 Auckland Writers & Readers Festival, to be held between 15 and 19 May, has been released. New Zealand’s largest festival of ‘literature and ideas’ will...
Australian Festival of Travel Writing program announced
The program for this year’s Australian Festival of Travel Writing, to be held in Melbourne from 22-24 March, has been announced. This year’s festival will kick off on Friday 22...
2013 Somerset Celebration of Literature program released
The program for the 2013 Somerset Celebration of Literature, to be held between 13 and 15 March on the Gold Coast in Queensland, has been released. The festival, which focuses...
BWF launches creative collaboration project
The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) is calling for submissions from creative organisations and networks to run collaborative events during the 2013 festival. The ampers&nd project is aimed at organisations such...
Changes at Auckland Writers & Readers Festival
Anne O’Brien has been appointed as festival director of Auckland Writers & Readers Festival (AWRF) beginning 1 January. (See news.)
2013 Adelaide Festival program launched
The program for the 2013 Adelaide Festival, to be held between 1 and 17 March 2013, has been launched. Next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week will be held between 2 and...
Twyford-Moore appointed EWF director
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) has announced that Sam Twyford-Moore will take over the role of festival director from Lisa Dempster, who announced in April that she would be stepping...
MWF 2012: box office up 10%; Griffiths, Callow top bestsellers list
The 2012 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) recorded the festival’s highest box office earnings to date, with tickets sales up 10% on the 2011 festival. More than 50,000 people attended this year’s...
Write Around the Murray Festival kicks off this week
This year’s Write Around the Murray Festival in Albury, in regional NSW, will be held between 5 and 9 September. Among the guests at this year’s festival are Andrew Croome,...
New readers’ festival for Canberra
The inaugural Canberra Readers’ Festival will be held on 22 September. The festival is being organised by Libraries ACT and is supported by the Canberra Theatre Centre, which will host...
In brief
New library opens in regional Victoria The new Campaspe Regional Library in Echuca in regional Victoria was officially opened on 24 August. The Campaspe Shire Council contributed more than $4.6...
Birrell appointed SWF director
The Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF) has announced that Jemma Birrell has been appointed as the new artistic director of the festival. SWF said in a statement that Birrell will begin...
‘1835’ wins Age Book of the Year
The winners of this year’s Age Book of the Year Awards were announced on 23 August at the opening of the Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) at Melbourne Town Hall. 1835:...
Boo, Griffiths top sellers at BBWF 2012
Books by Katherine Boo and Andy Griffiths were the top sellers at this year’s Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF), according to festival bookseller Collins Booksellers Byron Bay. Behind the Beautiful Forever by Boo...
Maribyrnong Library Literary Festival kicks off this month
This year’s Maribyrnong Library Literary Festival in Melbourne’s west will run between 31 August and 9 September. The festival will open on Friday 31 August with a 1920s-themed gala with...
Dempster appointed director of MWF
Outgoing director of the Emerging Writers’ Festival Lisa Dempster has been appointed director of the Melbourne Writers Festival. (See news.)