Australian Short Story Festival 2020 cancelled
The organising committee of the Australian Short Story Festival (ASSF) has announced the 2020 festival will not go ahead in October in Adelaide as planned, due to the Covid-19 pandemic....
EWF 2020 to take place ‘entirely online’
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...
‘The patriarchy has it coming’: Festival director Tam Zimet on Broadside
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...
RMIT students to host 2018 Odyssey Literary Festival on genre
Students from RMIT University’s Professional Writing and Editing program will host the Odyssey Literary Festival in Melbourne on 13 September. This year’s festival, which is held at RMIT's Kaleide Theatre,...
Inaugural NZ LGBTIQ literary festival to be held in February
New Zealand author and Auckland Writers Festival co-founder Peter Wells has announced the inaugural LGBTIQ writers festival samesame but different will run from 12-14 February 2016 as part of the...
UK Society of Authors calls for higher festival fees
In the UK, the Society of Authors (SoA) has called on literary festivals to reconsider what they pay authors after survey results found most authors are being paid within the...
Farr selected for inaugural Mildura Writers Festival Residency
Australia-born, New Zealand-based author Tracy Farr has been selected for the inaugural Mildura Writers Festival Residency. Farr, whose debut novel The Life and Loves of Lena Gaunt (Fremantle Press) was...
New staff, bookseller for Byron Bay Writers Festival
The Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF) has announced the appointment of three new staff and a new festival bookseller.Joanna Trilling has joined the festival as communications manager, Mouche Phillips has joined...
Murakami to headline 2015 Auckland Writers Festival
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami will headline the 2015 Auckland Writers Festival, featuring in just one session on 16 May at the Aotea Centre.Joining Murakami will be more than 150 authors in...
Mouillot, Dessaix bestsellers at Adelaide Writers’ Week
Book sales were up 17% at this year’s Adelaide Writers’ Week with memoirs from Miranda Richmond Mouillot and Robert Dessaix the top-sellers at the festival bookshop, reports festival director Laura...
Canberra’s Noted writers’ festival launches program
Canberra’s ‘experimental’ writers’ festival Noted has launched its first program.The program is divided into three streams—live, digital and professional development—and features a range of emerging writers and artists.The live stream...
Attendance up at Perth Writers Festival; ‘Just Mercy’ tops bestseller list
Around 44,000 people attended this year’s four-day Perth Writers Festival (PWF), up from 38,500 last year.PWF program manager Katherine Dorrington told Books+Publishing that the festival’s Family Day in particular was ‘hugely...
Adelaide Writers’ Week 2015 program launched
The 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week program has been launched.The event will run from Saturday 28 February to Thursday 5 March at the Pioneer Women’s Memorial Garden in Adelaide. As previously reported...
Mantel, Gilbert to participate in Perth Writers Festival, 2015 line-up announced
The Perth Writers Festival has announced a number of authors appearing at its 2015 event.Among the international guests participating in the festival, which runs from 19 to 22 February, are...
Oz, NZ festival announces 2015 dates
The Australian and New Zealand Festival of Literature and Arts has announced the dates for its 2015 event. The London-based festival, which held its inaugural event in May 2014, will...
New name for Tasmania’s Ten Days on the Island festival
Tasmania’s biennial arts festival Ten Days on the Island has been renamed the Tasmanian International Arts Festival.Artistic director David Malacari told the ABC that the new name better describes the...
Ubud announces 2014 program
The Ubud Writers & Readers Festival (UWRF) has announced the full program for its 11th festival, which will run from 1-5 October in Bali, Indonesia.Among the line-up are a number...
Gollancz to host sci-fi and fantasy festival at Waterstones
In the UK, science-fiction and fantasy (SFF) imprint Gollancz has released the program for its inaugural festival, which will be held in conjunction with London bookshop Waterstones Piccadilly, and will...
Clunes appoints Hollingworth with Arts Victoria funding, announces inaugural kids festival
Clunes Booktown has appointed Sheila Hollingworth as part-time manager. The festival has previously been run by volunteers but has received funding from Arts Victoria to create the paid part-time manager...
Byron Bay Writers’ Festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’ in regional roadshow
The Byron Bay Writers’ Festival will run a regional roadshow in the lead-up to this year’s festival to ‘promote lesser known writers’.The roadshow, which has received one-off funding from the...