Hermanoczki wins inaugural Affirm Press Creative Writing Prize
Affirm Press has announced the winner of its inaugural Affirm Press Creative Writing Prize, presented in association with the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts.Suzanne Hermanoczki has won the prize...
Affirm Press launches creative writing prize with Melbourne Uni
Affirm Press has launched a new prize that will give Melbourne University creative writing students the opportunity to have their manuscripts published by Affirm Press. The winner of the Affirm...
Funder to deliver Dymphna Clark lecture in Melbourne
Miles Franklin Literary Award-winning author Anna Funder will deliver the annual Dymphna Clark Lecture in Melbourne this week. Funder, whose debut novel All That I Am (Penguin) won numerous literary...
Peter Blazey, Wesley Michel Wright, Ernest Scott prizes announced
The University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre, School of Culture and Communication and Faculty of Arts announced the winners of the Peter Blazey Fellowship, the Wesley Michel Wright Prize and the...
‘Larrikins’ wins 2013 Ernest Scott Prize
Larrikins: A History by Melissa Bellanta (UQP) has won the 2013 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts. Judges Mark Finnane from Griffith...
Ernest Scott Prize 2013 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2013 Ernest Scott Prize for history, presented by the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Webs of Empire: Locating...
2012 Australian Centre Literary Awards winners announced
The winners of this year’s cultural awards from the University of Melbourne’s Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 1 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. The...
2011 Australian Centre Literary Awards winners announced
The winners of this year's cultural awards from the University of Melbourne's Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 2 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Miles...
2011 Australian Centre Literary Awards winners announced
The winners of this year's cultural awards from the University of Melbourne's Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 2 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Miles...
Digital platform from Cengage Learning gives campus booksellers opportunity to sell ebooks
Campus booksellers are being given the opportunity to sell electronic versions of textbooks as a result of a new digital platform launched by Cengage Learning called CengageBrain. Cengage launched the...
2011 Ernest Scott Prize winners announced
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa and how it led to the Settlement of Australia by Emma Christopher (A&U) and A Three-Cornered Life: The Historian W...
2011 Asher Literary Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's Asher Literary Award, presented to a female writer whose work carries an anti-war theme, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Swamplands (Van Badham, play)Tales from...
APA accreditation for Uni of Sydney publishing course
The Masters of Publishing course at the University of Sydney has received accreditation from the Australian Publishers Association (APA), making it the third tertiary publishing program in the country to...
Book industry study builds picture of a ‘diverse but worried industry’
The University of Melbourne Book Industry study, being undertaken in partnership with the Australian Publishers Association and Thorpe-Bowker, has found more than half of respondents nominate territorial copyright as their...