Expand your audience at Bologna
Sunday, 16 February 2020
Build international buzz and rights leads for your standout titles in our monthly rights newsletter. Reach over 7000 overseas publishers, rights agents, subagents and industry professionals each month. Don’t miss...
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...
First writers announced for Adelaide Writers’ Week
Wednesday, 30 October 2019
The first writers have been announced for next year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week, which runs from 29 February to 5 March. International guests include Nigerian novelist Chigozie Obioma, Omani novelist and...
LEB to hold 2020 conference in Brisbane
Monday, 21 October 2019
Leading Edge Books (LEB) will hold its annual conference on 22–24 March at the Sofitel Brisbane Central. The conference program for Sunday, 22 March includes member forums, a keynote presentation,...
SPN conference 2019 industry research day program announced
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
The Small Press Network (SPN) has announced the program for its industry research day as part of the 2019 Independent Publishing Conference, which will run at the Wheeler Centre in...
APA announces new industry conference BookUp
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has announced a new conference for the Australian book industry called BookUp. Aimed at ‘all book publishing people’, the one-day event will explore the future...
SPN announces conference keynotes
Thursday, 3 October 2019
The Small Press Network has announced three keynote speakers for its 2019 Independent Publishing Conference, to be held at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne from 21–23 November. Claire Squires, director...
Jaipur Literature Festival returns to Adelaide
Monday, 30 September 2019
The Adelaide Festival Centre’s OzAsia Festival will host the second Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF) Adelaide on November 1–3. More than 60 guests will appear at 40 free events as part...
Lucashenko, Wright announced for inaugural Bangkok literary festival
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Australian authors Melissa Lucashenko and Clare Wright will feature among 25 speakers at the inaugural Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival, running from 16–17 November. Lucashenko will speak at the festival's...
‘The patriarchy has it coming’: Festival director Tam Zimet on Broadside
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Writers including Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld and Helen Garner have recently been announced as part of the line-up for the Wheeler Centre's inaugural Broadside feminist ideas festival. Sarah Farquharson spoke...
Zadie Smith, Curtis Sittenfeld to appear at inaugural Broadside feminist festival
Tuesday, 17 September 2019
The Wheeler Centre has announced a two-day feminist ideas festival, Broadside, to be held at the Melbourne Town Hall from 9–10 November. UK author Zadie Smith, US novelist Curtis Sittenfeld,...
BWF: YA, women authors top bestsellers
Friday, 13 September 2019
The State Library of Queensland (SLQ) bookshop recorded a 5.9 percent growth in sales at the Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) bookstore from the previous year, thanks to ‘the strong six-day...
MWF reports strong box office takings; Ben Folds tops bestseller chart
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) expects to tally total ticket sales of more than $600,000 for its 2019 program, the second festival under artistic director Marieke Hardy. According to preliminary data,...
Inaugural Terror Australis Festival program launched
Tuesday, 27 August 2019
The program for the inaugural Terror Australis Readers and Writers Festival, which runs in various locations in Tasmania’s Huon Valley from 31 October to 3 November, has been announced. With...
ABA announces 2020 conference dates
Friday, 23 August 2019
The Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) has announced that the 96th annual conference and trade exhibition will be held at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney from 21–22 June 2020. In conjunction...
Full program announced for Ubud 2019
Thursday, 15 August 2019
The full program has been announced for the 2019 Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF), which runs from 23–27 October in Ubud, Indonesia. Joining a total of 180 speakers from...
Homecooked Comics Festival to run 17–18 August in Melbourne
Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Homecooked Comics Festival is a two-day indie comic book festival, featuring book launches, children's activities, workshops and a free market day, where comics creators will sell their work, alongside representatives...
Highest ever box office sales at 2019 Byron Writers Festival; Indigenous authors dominate bestsellers
Wednesday, 14 August 2019
This year’s Byron Writers Festival attracted the highest box office sales in its 23-year history, according to event organisers. The festival, which ran from 2–4 August in Byron Bay, attracted...
