15 May 2019
Editors NSW is running a presentation on the basics of copyright and common copyright issues in publishing, presented by Australian Society of Authors (ASA) legal services manager Olivia Lanchester. Topics...

15 May 2019
Editors Victoria is holding a dinner meeting with Joe Reich, the recently appointed director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week. Reich will speak about what’s involved and what it’s like to...

8 May 2019
Applications for The Next Chapter 2019 are now open. Run by the Wheeler Centre, The Next Chapter is a scheme for supporting new Australian writers. It offers 10 writers funding...

8 May 2019
The Melbourne chapter of the Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC) will host its second quarterly meeting at 6pm on Wednesday 19 June at the Affirm Press offices in South Melbourne with...

1 May 2019
The Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award has opened entries for nine prizes across four categories, presented by the Waverley Council for excellence in research in the creation of...

17 April 2019
Editors NSW is running a workshop on grammar with Tony Spencer-Smith. The workshop will cover the basics of parts of speech through to the tricky aspects of misplaced modifiers and...

17 April 2019
Varuna has announced a six-day residency that allows for all participants to be immersed in the writing and crafting of poetry, aiming to extend and explore creative and critical capacities....

10 April 2019
Submissions are now open for the 37ºSouth’s Books at MIFF (BaM) program. Australian and NZ publishers and literary agents who are film rights holders of books that have cinematic potential...

10 April 2019
Editors Victoria is holding a dinner meeting featuring Peter Davies. Formerly the assistant manager, reports and communications, in the Victorian Attorney-General’s department, Davis will reveal the ins and outs of...

27 March 2019
artsACT is undertaking an evaluation of the ACT Book of the Year Award, as part of reviewing all arts funding programs to inform the development of the ACT Arts Funding...

27 March 2019
Editors NSW is running a presentation on educational publishing, presented by Dr Gurdish Gill. The presentation will look at the fast-paced world of educational publishing: how it functions and what...

20 March 2019
The Australian Book Designers Association (ABDA) has announced the winners presentation for the 2019 Australian Book Design Awards will be held at the State Library of New South Wales on...

20 March 2019
The recently launched Melbourne chapter of the Publishers Publicity Circle (PPC), will hold its first meeting at 7 pm on Thursday, 21 March, at the Penguin Random House offices in...

20 March 2019
Publishers Association of NZ (PANZ) has announced it has opened entries for the 2019 Book Design Awards. All entry forms and criteria are also available on the website. Entries close...

27 February 2019
The Australian Publishers Association has opened nominations for the George Robertson Awards. The awards acknowledge the contribution made by people who have devoted 30 years or more of distinguished service to...

27 February 2019
For its first meeting of the year, the Victorian branch of IPEd (Editors Victoria) is trialling a new venue: the Coffee Head Cafe in Camberwell. The guest speaker will be...

20 February 2019
Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced that nominations are now open for the ABIA Business Awards in the categories: Publisher of the Year Small Publisher of the Year Retailer of...

13 February 2019
Applications for the 2019 Hardcopy program are now open. Hardcopy is a professional development program for emerging Australian writers, and the focus for the 2019 program will be on nonfiction....

13 February 2019
Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) announces that the CBCA Awards will be hosted by the Victorian Branch. The event schedule is as follows: Notable Books will be revealed on CBCA...

13 February 2019
Editors NSW is running a workshop on intermediate to advanced Word, presented by Denise Tsagaris. This Microsoft Word workshop will provide experienced users with the skills to work with document...

6 February 2019
Australian Publishers Association (APA) would like to remind publishers that nominations for the Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) close 5pm, Monday 11 February. See the Nominations page for award category descriptions...

30 January 2019
Nominations for the 2019 Speech Pathology Australia Book of the Year Awards are now open. These awards are in their 16th year and promote children’s literacy. Nominations close on Friday,...

23 January 2019
Entries are now open for the $15,000 Daisy Utemorrah Award for an unpublished manuscript of junior or YA fiction. Honouring the late Ngarinyin Wunambal Elder and author Daisy Utemorrah, this...

16 January 2019
Nominations are open for the 2019 Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA). Categories include: Biography Book of the Year Picture Book of the Year (ages 0-6) Book of the Year for...

16 January 2019
The Editors NSW February meeting features a presentation by Jane Novak, a literary professional with more than 20 years experience. Her talk will focus on how agents can help foster...

16 January 2019
Editors NSW is running a workshop titled 'The art of manuscript assessment', presented by Kaaren Sutcliffe. The workshop is aimed at editors who conduct reviews of manuscripts and is also...

12 December 2018
The UK-based Association of Illustrators (AOI) in partnership with US-based Directory of Illustration announces that the World Illustration Awards (WIA) 2019 is open for entries. Illustrators, commissioners, agents and tutors...

12 December 2018
Melbourne Book Market will be held on Sunday, 16 December at Queen Victoria Market for a special Christmas event. The market includes booksellers of secondhand, remainder, new release and self-published...

12 December 2018
The Australian Reading Hour (ARH) is calling out for involvement in its event on 19 September 2019. ARH is seeking ambassadors for 2019, preferably one children’s and one adult author. Suggestions...