Indigenous Literacy Day 2024 to include launch of three bilingual titles
Monday, 2 September 2024
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) has called for registrations ahead of its annual Indigenous Literacy Day, which is running this Wednesday, 4 September, and will feature a film, a livestreamed...
Readings chair to run new festival, Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival program launched
Monday, 2 September 2024
A new Carlton-based writers’ festival and the 2024 Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival will both take place this November. Readings chair Mark Rubbo is launching a new literary festival, to be...
NT Writers Festival postponed until October
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
The NT Writers Festival has been postponed due to Covid-19 and is now scheduled to take place from 1 to 4 October in Darwin. Festival director Fiona Dorrell said the...
EWF 2020 to take place ‘entirely online’
Thursday, 2 April 2020
The Emerging Writers Festival (EWF), which runs from 16–23 June, usually in Melbourne, will take place online as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Festival organisers ‘made the proactive decision...
Record book sales at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
Record book and catering sales at Adelaide Writers’ Week, which ran from 29 February to 5 March, indicate the highest recorded attendance numbers at the festival, according to director Jo...
LEB conference postponed
Monday, 16 March 2020
Leading Edge Books (LEB) has postponed the upcoming LEB conference, scheduled for 22–24 March, in response to the coronavirus pandemic. LEB said in a statement this morning that it has...
Evaristo, Taddeo, Jamison among 2020 SWF lineup
Friday, 13 March 2020
The program has been announced for the 2020 Sydney Writers’ Festival (SWF), which runs from 27 April to 3 May. Over 400 local and international writers, journalists and public figures...
SWF says it is ‘cautiously proceeding’ ahead of program launch tonight
Thursday, 12 March 2020
This year's Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) will still go ahead as planned, according to a statement from organisers today. The 2020 festival program is due to be announced at 7pm...
S&S, Nielsen withdraw from LEB conference
Thursday, 12 March 2020
Simon & Schuster Australia (S&S) and Nielsen Book Australia will not attend this year’s Leading Edge Books (LEB) Conference, which is due to run from 22–24 March in Brisbane. In...
WestWords to host day-long writing festival
Wednesday, 11 March 2020
Western Sydney literature organisation WestWords will host a day-long event in celebration of the ways in which Western Sydney has ‘shaped many diverse and cultural stories’. A Celebration of Writing...
Bottomley to give keynote at ABA conference
Thursday, 5 March 2020
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced the full program for its 2020 conference, to be held at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney from 21–22 June. International guest Nic Bottomley,...
Clunes Booktown Festival 2020 program announced
Monday, 2 March 2020
The program has been announced for this year’s Clunes Booktown Festival, to be held from 2–3 May. Over 30 authors will appear at the festival, including Andy Griffiths, Garry Disher,...
BookUp announces first keynotes
Friday, 28 February 2020
The Australian Publishers Association has announced the first keynote speakers for its inaugural book industry conference BookUp. Demographer Claire Madden will present ‘Generational change: where is Australia going?’, a look...
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Monday, 17 February 2020
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Expand your audience at Shanghai
Monday, 17 February 2020
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Magabala, OzCo to hold First Nations Writers’ Residency in Broome
Monday, 17 February 2020
Magabala Books and the Australia Council have announced a new residency for mid-career Indigenous writers, to be held in Broome from 4–13 May 2020. The First Nations Writers' Residency is...
Expand your audience at Bologna
Sunday, 16 February 2020
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Tapsell, Dalton, Boochani announced for NT Writers Festival 2020
Thursday, 13 February 2020
The NT Writers Festival (NTWF) has announced the first authors for its 2020 festival, to be held from 14–17 May. Running under the theme ‘Gunamidirra garawa birditj/When the Tides Turn’,...
VIPs, inaugural fellows announced for SWF 2020
Monday, 10 February 2020
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests attending the 2020 Visiting International Publishers (VIPs) program, to be held from Wednesday, 29 April to Friday, 1 May, alongside...
LBF to host audiobook summit
Friday, 7 February 2020
The London Book Fair (LBF) is launching a new audiobook summit, to be held on 10 March. Audio HQ will include sessions on the size of the UK market and...
Expand your audience at London Book Fair
Thursday, 6 February 2020
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Taipei book fair postponed due to coronavirus
Monday, 3 February 2020
The Taipei International Book Exhibition (TIBE), originally scheduled for 4–9 February, has been postponed until 7–12 May as a result of the spreading coronavirus epidemic. The Ministry of Culture, Taiwan...
Brasch joins Melbourne Jewish Book Week as festival director
Monday, 3 February 2020
Writer and teacher Nicolas Brasch has been appointed festival director of Melbourne Jewish Book Week (MJBW). Brasch is the author of more than 400 books, mainly for children and young...
Full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week 2020 announced
Wednesday, 29 January 2020
The full program for Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 29 February to 5 March under the theme ‘Being Human’, has been announced. In total, 117 writers, poets, journalists and...
Full program announced for 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas Weekend
Monday, 20 January 2020
The full program has been announced for the 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas weekend, which runs from 21–23 February. International guests attending the festival include English children’s author Julia...
Book events in 2020
Tuesday, 7 January 2020
January International Cairo Book Fair, Egypt (22 January–4 February) International Kolkata Book Fair, India (29 January–9 February) Jaipur Literature Festival, India (23–27 January) New Delhi World Book Fair, India (4–12...
SPN conference 2019: ‘Extremely positive’ feedback from delegates
Wednesday, 4 December 2019
The Small Press Network’s (SPN) eighth Independent Publishing Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 21–23 November. SPN general manager Tim Coronel said that 180 tickets were...
Broadside festival: Garner tops bestsellers
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
More than 16,000 people attended the inaugural Broadside festival on 9–10 November at the Melbourne Town Hall. Run by the Wheeler Centre, the festival featured international guests including UK author...
Not taking cues from Melbourne and Sydney: Sisonke Msimang on Perth Festival’s Literature & Ideas program
Wednesday, 13 November 2019
Earlier this year writer Sisonke Msimang was appointed curator of Perth Festival's 2020 Literature & Ideas program, which will include events with local authors Bruce Pascoe, Melissa Lucashenko and Charlotte...
Pascoe, Gaiman to headline 2020 Perth Festival Literature & Ideas weekend
Friday, 1 November 2019
The program for Perth Festival’s Literature & Ideas weekend, running from 21–23 February 2020, has been announced. Based around the themes of land, money, power and sex, the literature and...
