If:book and Editia announce Twitter comp to unearth new writers
If:book Australia and publishing company Editia have announced they will run a Twitter competition to find new writers to appear in the forthcoming print title The N00bz: New Adventures in...
if:book launches ‘N00bz’ challenge
If:book Australia has asked 12 writers to participate in its ‘N00bz challenge’ and digital publisher Editia will publish the writers’ experiences as a collection of essays. The organisation has asked writers to become a N00b—slang for ‘newbie’ or...
200 attend EWF in Brisbane
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) event in Brisbane in October attracted an audience of 200, with organisers describing the event as going 'remarkably well'. EWF director Lisa Dempster told the...
Emerging Writers Festival launches ‘crowd-funding’ campaign to run Brisbane mini-conference
The Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) may be coming to Brisbane. EWF director Lisa Dempster told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the festival hoped to run a mini-conference on 15 October...
BISG submissions: ABA calls for reduction in 30/90-day rules, action on pricing; APA calls for TitlePage funding, ABS collection
Submissions to the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) closed on 31 January, and will soon be made public on the website of the Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research....
Bligh announces new ‘State of Writing’ initiative: Qld Writers Centre to relocate
Queensland Premier and Minister for the Arts Anna Bligh last night announced a new initiative that will connect various literary organisations in the state. The initiative, A State of Writing,...
if:book–new Australian institute of the future of the book
Kate Eltham, CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre, announced on Thursday during the Melbourne Writers Festival digital publishing program that Australia is to have its own Institute of the Future...