Be the first to see The Edge of Love–the film tie-in of The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (Hachette Livre Australia) Thomas’ lyrical, passionate, poetic... Read more |
As reported in a WBN special bulletin on Friday, the winners of this year’s CBCA (Children’s Book Council of Australia) Book of the Year awards... Read more |
The shortlist for the 2008 Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards was announced last Thursday 13 August. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes include:... Read more |
Melbourne has been named a City of Literature by the United Nations’ cultural arm UNESCO. The recognition is the result of an official bid–brought together... Read more |
Customers of Landmark School Supplies can expect ‘business as usual’, following the company’s acquisition by Campion Education, according to managing director of Campion, James Cathro.... Read more |
Text Publishing has announced the shortlisted titles in its new Young Adult Writing Prize. ‘The inaugural Text Publishing Young Adult Writing Prize has been an... Read more |
The program for this year’s Brisbane Writers’ Festival, which runs from 17 to 21 September, has been released–with an exciting array of over 220 authors... Read more |
The second biennial Tasmanian Living Writers’ Week began on 15 August and runs to 24 August. Shannon Challis, special projects officer of arts@work, which coordinates... Read more |
With only two days until the Melbourne Writers’ Festival kicks off in Federation Square, many events have already sold out, including the keynote address with Germaine... Read more |
Macquarie University is hoping to continue publishing the editing and publishing style guide Australian Style online in future, after the federal government announced that it... Read more |
CBCA Book Week kicks offThe 2008 CBCA Children’s Book Week kicked off last week with the announcement of the CBCA Book of the Year award... Read more |
Among the articles added to our Around the World blog in the past week: Obama book plan backfires Enid Blyton is still the UK’s favourite... Read more |
‘This is censorship by fear and it sets a very bad precedent indeed.’–Salman Rushdie (or ‘Scruffy’ as he’s known by some) as quoted in the Independent, on... Read more |
Trade events coming up over the next week, as shown on our events calendar, include: Society of Editors (NSW) workshop; Preparing for the Accreditation Exam,... Read more |
Stephenie Meyer is it this week. She has not just one title in the charts, but the top four spots in the Bestsellers. Her most... Read more |
New Zealand biographer Dianne Haworth has died. Her works included Give a Man a Horse: the Remarkable Story of Sir Patrick Hogan; Tears in the... Read more |
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