Monash University to stop offering publishing and editing courses
Monash University in Melbourne will no longer offer its postgraduate courses in publishing and editing, citing a fall in demand.The current semester was the last to accept new students in its publishing...
EWF Monash Prize 2014 winners announced
The winners of the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing have been announced.The first prize, worth $4000, was awarded to UNSW student Emily Riches for her short story ‘Unfruitful’.The...
EWF Monash Prize 2014 shortlist announced
Fifteen writers from 10 universities have been shortlisted for the 2014 Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) Monash University Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing. The shortlisted titles, along with author and their university, are:...
Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing expands to New Zealand
The Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing has opened up submissions to New Zealand students for its 2014 award. The award for emerging literary writers, presented by Monash University in conjunction...
Talkback: The book industry under the new government
What do you think will happen to the Australian book industry under the new government? Books+Publishing asked three publishers. Martin Hughes, publisher, Affirm Press Apart from a clutch of new books by...
NT History Book Award winners announced
Two books published by Melbourne-based university presses have won this year’s Chief Minister’s Northern Territory History Book Award. Tiwi: Arts, History, Culture by Jennifer Isaacs, published by Melbourne University Press’...
The Two Frank Thrings (Peter Fitzpatrick, Monash University Publishing)
The rise of commercial cinema in Australia and the nascence of our independent film industry provide a fascinating backdrop to this meticulous academic biography of the two Frank Thrings, father...