Llewellyn steps down as Centre director
Caro Llewellyn, the former director of PEN World Voices Festival who was appointed director of the Melbourne's new Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in December, has announced that she...
Llewellyn appointed director, Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
Caro Llewellyn, former artistic director of the Sydney Writers' Festival and director of the New York-based PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, has been appointed the director of Melbourne's...
SLV Summer Read program launched
The State Library of Victoria has launched the Summer Read program for 2008. A selection of 20 titles which celebrate the diversity of Victorian writing were chosen by a panel...
Inky award winners
The winners of the 2008 Inky Awards have been announced. The Inkys are Australia's teen choice book awards, administered by the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature through...
Melbourne named a UNESCO City of Literature
Melbourne has been named a City of Literature by the United Nations' cultural arm UNESCO. The recognition is the result of an official bid--brought together by a steering committee led...
SLV Fellowships announced
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its annual Creative Fellowships, worth a total of $185,000. Now in their sixth year, the Fellowships allow writers, artists,...
Reader’s Feast gets medieval with SLV
Melbourne's Reader's Feast Bookshop has stepped back in time in its role as the official bookseller to the State Library of Victoria's (SLV) new exhibition The Medieval Imagination.Reader's Feast's Mary...
Victoria selects its favourite summer reads
Max Barry's novel Company and Barry Heard's Vietnam memoir Well Done, Those Men, both published by Scribe, are Victoria's favourite summer reads, according to the State Library of Victoria (SLV). Now...
In brief
Rivers and Siems leave Phoenix to found Teaching SolutionsHaving sold their shares in Phoenix Education to their partner David Stewart, Barney Rivers and Ruth Siems have now founded a new...
Over 3000 teens vote for Inky winners
The State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Literature has announced the winners of the inaugural Inky awards, Australia's first teenage choice book prize. The Golden Inky goes to Notes...
Vic Prem’s Awards shortlist
The shortlist for the 2007 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards has been announced. The titles in the running for the book-based prizes are: The Vance Palmer Prize for FictionThe Time We...
SLV fellowships
The State Library of Victoria has announced the recipients of its annual Creative Fellowships, this year worth a total of $165,000. The Fellowships allow writers, artists, historians and others to...
$9 million for Centre for Books and Ideas at SLV
The Victorian Government made good on its pre-election promise for a new literature centre in Melbourne when it allocated $9 million to the State Library of Victoria (SLV) for a...
Victoria votes for ‘Three Dollars’
Elliot Perlman's Three Dollars (Picador) was voted Victoria's favourite story set in Victoria in the inaugural Reading Victoria program at the State Library of Victoria. The library's reader development program...
Book lovers embrace literary speed dating
The first literary speed dating event hosted by the State Library of Victoria (SLV) on 6 December--entitled Text Appeal--was ‘an outrageous success' according to the SLV's Matt van Hasselt. ‘It...
SLV launches Victorian ‘Book Idol’
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) launched its Reading Victoria summer reading program on 7 December, with the announcement of the recommended reading list. The list recommends 20 novels set...
Melbourne to bid for UN City of Literature status
A pre-election proposal from the newly re-elected Labor state government in Victoria promises a $9 million package ‘to support writers, literary organisations and festivals' in a bid to have Melbourne...
SLV fellowships
The State Library of Victoria (SLV) has announced the recipients of its annual creative fellowships and the Redmond Barry Fellowship.The creative fellowship program is funded by the State Library of...