Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Booktopia is counting down the top 50 finalists in its annual ‘Australia’s Favourite Author’ promotion. On 25 January, Booktopia began announcing the finalists, with 10 finalists revealed each day. The top...

Thursday, 26 November 2015
Ventura Press publisher Jane Curry and journalist Adele Ferguson have been appointed to the Copyright Agency’s board. Curry and Ferguson replace Eleanor Curtain and Malcolm Knox as the board’s author-journalist and...

Friday, 20 November 2015
Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) was named Best Community Event at the 2015 Australian Event Awards in Sydney on 17 November. The annual award is presented to the event that best ‘engages...

Thursday, 12 November 2015
New Zealand poet Anna Jackson has won the Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship for 2015.The fellowship provides the winner with a three-month residency in Menton, France, where Mansfield lived and wrote...

Tuesday, 10 November 2015
The winners of the 2015 Overland Victoria University Short Story Prize for New and Emerging Writers have been announced. Barry Lee Thompson won the $6000 first prize for his story ‘Their Cruel...

Monday, 19 October 2015
Librarian and teacher Heather Fisher has won this year’s Lady Cutler Award, presented by the New South Wales branch of the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) for distinguished service...

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
The winners of Overland’s Story Wine Prize 2015 have been announced. Melissa Manning received the $4000 first prize for her story ‘Woodsmoke’, which will be published in the next issue of...

Friday, 9 October 2015
ABC’s The Book Club is conducting a poll to select the five best books of 2015.Readers are invited to select their favourite book published in 2015 from a shortlist of...

Tuesday, 6 October 2015
The newly formed organisation Women in Literary Arts Australia (WILAA) has announced its steering committee. Joining the organisation’s founder, writer and producer Lefa Singleton Norton, are: writer and academic Eloise...

Wednesday, 23 September 2015
Pan Macmillan’s digital-only imprint Momentum will run its first Twitter-pitch session on 25 September. Australian and international authors are invited to tweet a pitch for their completed, unpublished novel up to...

Thursday, 10 September 2015
The University of Otago in New Zealand has announced the recipients of its 2016 fellowships for literature and children’s writing. The Robert Burns Fellowship, which is ‘designed to encourage imaginative New...

Thursday, 10 September 2015
Madeline St John’s 1993 novel The Women in Black has been adapted into a stage musical Ladies in Black. The musical will premiere with the Brisbane Theatre Company in November, followed...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
The Co-op’s University of Queensland St Lucia store trainee manager Thomas Riek has been named a finalist in the National Retail Association’s (NRA) Young Retailer of the Year Award. Twenty-five-year-old...

Wednesday, 9 September 2015
Scholastic Australia and the National Maritime Museum in Sydney will co-produce an interactive exhibition based on a book in the popular ‘Horrible Histories’ series by author Terry Deary and illustrator Martin...

Tuesday, 1 September 2015
Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and the New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) have announced the four recipients of the 2015 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grants, each worth NZ$5000 (A$4466). The winner...

Wednesday, 19 August 2015
Kay Craddock Antiquarian Booksellers has been included in this year’s Melbourne Lord Mayor’s Commendations program, which recognises the city’s iconic, long-running small businesses. Owner Kay Craddock will be awarded a...

Thursday, 13 August 2015
Fremantle Press has launched a new website, which includes dedicated sections for schools and book clubs. The site, which is customised for mobile phones, emphasises reader engagement with authors through social...

Wednesday, 12 August 2015
Australian Book Review has announced the shortlist for this year’s Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize, worth $8000. The shortlisted stories are: ‘Borges and I’ by Michelle Cahill (Aus); ‘Crest’ by...

Tuesday, 28 July 2015
The Co-op has won an award for Best Site Optimisation and Design at the 2015 Online Retail Industry Awards (ORIAS). The Co-op CEO Peter Knock said in the past year the...

Tuesday, 21 July 2015
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has launched an upgraded bookshop events page on its website. ABA members can now add event information direct to the site, while the page also includes...

Friday, 19 June 2015
The Mudgee Readers’ Festival (MRF) in regional NSW has announced the program for its 2015 festival, to be held on 15 and 16 August. The line-up includes authors Don Watson, Ramona...

Friday, 12 June 2015
The Mildura Writers Festival and PEN Melbourne have launched the inaugural Mildura Indigenous Writers Award, with support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund. The Mildura Indigenous Writers Award, worth $700, will...

Monday, 1 June 2015
Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin (Vintage) and Red Dog (Vintage), will deliver the opening night address at the 2015 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), to be held on...

Tuesday, 26 May 2015
The Golden Age by Joan London (Vintage) and Only the Animals by Ceridwen Dovey (Hamish Hamilton) are the joint winners of the 2015 NSW Premier’s People’s Choice Award. The People’s Choice Award is chosen online by...