First OzCo Book2 grants recipients announced
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le, Anna Krien and Favel Parrett...
Gray honoured with 2011 OzCo Emeritus Award
Poet Robert Gray is the recipient of this year's Australia Council for the Arts' Writers' Emeritus Award. Gray, who released his first collection of poetry in 1973, was presented with...
OzCo VIP Program 2012 guests announced
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests for next year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers Week in March 2012. International guests confirmed...
2012 Residential Editorial Program details announced
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of Australia Council for the Arts have announced details about the 2012 Residential Editorial Program (REP), to be held in May...
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Dymocks wins online retail awardDymocks has won the Online Retail (Media & Entertainment) category at the 2011 Amber Awards, presented for excellence in online services in Australia and New Zealand....
Writing Australia launches program, unpublished manuscript award
National writing organisation Writing Australia has officially launched its program, with details about a new award for unpublished manuscripts, a national conference, and an author touring program now available online....
Australia Council announces changes to publisher funding
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced an overhaul of the way it funds Australian publishers. The board has developed a new funding system based...
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PM's Lit Awards winners announced this weekThe winners of this year's Prime Minister's Literary Awards will be announced on Friday 8 July in Canberra. As previously reported by the Weekly...
Masson, Tuffield join OzCo VIP program committee
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced that Pippa Masson, literary agent at Curtis Brown and Aviva Tuffield, fiction acquisitions editor at Scribe, have joined the committee for the...
Morrow awarded Beatrice Davis Fellowship
Jane Morrow was announced as the recipient of the 2011/12 Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers' Festival on 19 May. The fellowship, which was presented for the 12th time...
Delahunty appointed Writing Australia national director
Former Victorian Arts and Education minister Mary Delahunty has been appointed national director of Writing Australia. In a statement from the organisation this week, interim chair Christine Gallagher said that...
Delahunty appointed Writing Australia national director
Former Victorian Arts and Education minister Mary Delahunty has been appointed national director of Writing Australia. In a statement from the organisation this week, interim chair Christine Gallagher said that...
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Children's book to raise money for Christchurch All proceeds from the sale of a new children's book will be donated to the Red Cross to support the rebuilding of Christchurch...
BISG submissions: over 100 submissions from booksellers, publishers, libraries, industry groups made public
The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has made more than 100 submissions to the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) available to the public on its website. Submissions to...
Additional guests announced for 2011 SWF VIP program; international guests to visit Auckland
Further to the Weekly Book Newsletter article SWF visiting publishers announced, the Australia Council for the Arts has announced additional guests for this year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) program at...
BISG submissions: over 100 submissions from booksellers, publishers, libraries, industry groups made public
The Department of Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has made more than 100 submissions to the Book Industry Strategy Group (BISG) available to the public on its website. Submissions to...
OzCo launches Writing Australia
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced that five Australian state-based writers' centres have joined together to form a national organisation called Writing Australia. The...
OzCo to launch Writing Australia
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced that five Australian state-based writers' centres will join together to form a national organisation called Writing Australia. The...
Kocan honoured with 2010 OzCo Emeritus Award
Peter Kocan AM is the recipient of this year's Australia Council for the Arts' Writers' Emeritus Award. Chair of the Australia Council Literature Board, Dennis Haskell, will present the $50,000 award...
Kroetsch appointed to head Adelaide Writers’ Week; event to go annual from 2012
The Adelaide Festival announced last week that Laura Kroetsch has been appointed as the new executive producer of Adelaide Writers' Week. Festival organisers also announced that Writers' Week will move to an...