Barbara Jefferis Award 2014 shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year’s Barbara Jefferis Award has been announced.The shortlisted titles are: Sufficient Grace (Amy Espeseth, Scribe) The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Tracy Farr, Fremantle Press)...
Binks wins 2014 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency
Danielle Binks has won the Australian Society of Authors (ASA)’s 2014 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency for her unpublished YA novel ‘The True Constant’.The annual residency offers one week’s stay...
ASA Children’s Picture Book Illustrators 2014 grants announced
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the successful applicants for its Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ Initiative. Funded by the Australia Council for the Arts, the grants support ‘the...
More prize money, new eligibility criteria for 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a number of changes to the Barbara Jefferis Award.In 2014, the award’s prize money will increase from $35,000 to $55,000, with $50,000...
ASA announces 2013-14 mentorship recipients
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the recipients of its 2013-14 mentorships for emerging writers and illustrators. Twelve applicants have been selected for this year’s program and will...
CAUL, ASA announce research fellowships
The Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) have announced a new fellowship program to provide authors with access to university libraries’ special collections....
ASA writers’ congress covers digital publishing, copyright, remuneration
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) inaugural National Writers’ Congress, Authorship 20/20, which was held from 17-19 October at the National Maritime Museum in Sydney, attracted around 200 attendees and, according...
Castles wins Asher Literary Award 2013
Belinda Castles has won this year’s Asher Literary Award for her book Hannah and Emil (A&U). Castles was announced as the winner of the award at the Australian Society of Authors...
ASA launches manuscript development service
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has launched a manuscript development service to support authors with a substantial work-in-progress. As part of the service, an author nominates a developmental editor...
Loukakis, Cunningham respond to Australia Council restructure
Last week’s announcement of the new Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has been met with some concern from the book industry over the lack of representation of...
Bent awarded 2013 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that Hannah Bent has won the 2013 Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency, entitling the author to one week’s stay at Varuna, the...
ASA National Writers’ Congress details announced
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has released details about its inaugural National Writers’ Congress, Authorship 20/20, which will celebrate the association’s 50th anniversary in Sydney from 17-19 October. Guest speakers for the congress include...
Masson re-elected as chair, Day as treasurer of ASA board
Sophie Masson has been re-elected as chair and David Day as treasurer of the Australian Society of Authors (ASA) board. Masson, Irina Dunn, Helen O’Neill, Chris Pash, Mark Carthew, Robyn Sheahan-Bright...
ASA Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ grants announced
The recipients of the 2013 Australian Society of Authors’ (ASA) Children’s Picture Book Illustrators’ grants have been announced.The Emerging Illustrator’s grant of $5000 was awarded to Marc Martin for The River. The...
ASA celebrates 50 years; National Writers’ Congress to be held in October
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with a National Writers’ Congress in October. The ASA, which was founded in 1963, will also hold...
Lucashenko to present ASA Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that Melissa Lucashenko, ‘one of the most important Indigenous literary voices in contemporary Australian culture’, will deliver the 2013 Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture at the...
ASA announces 2012-13 mentorship recipients
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the recipients of its 2012-13 mentorships for unpublished authors and illustrators. Twelve applicants have been selected for this year’s program and will...
Copyright Agency, APA and ASA to deliver educational publishing seminar in March
The Copyright Agency, Australian Publishers Association (APA) and Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will partner for the first time to deliver a seminar on education publishing in Sydney in March. The...
ASA launches licensing program for digitised journal content
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced the establishment of a licensing program to manage online sales of digitised works originally published in print journals. The DigiJournals program, a...
ASA to hold ‘One Word, One Day’ events again in 2013
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced that it will hold its ‘One Word, One Day’ events again this year to raise funds for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF)....