Big names announced for 2008 Adelaide Writers’ Week; VIP program to Adelaide
A number of big-name expat Australian authors will be returning home for next year's Adelaide Writers' Week, which has just announced its author line-up. Pater Carey, whose new novel His...
SWF wraps up
The Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) has wrapped up for another year, with new festival director Wendy Were concluding that her first program had ‘been successful on every level.'Attendances at this...
Tenth SWF kicks off
The 2007 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) is underway, under the banner 'a city transformed by words.'By the time the festival's official opening address is presented tonight by award-winning British writer Andrew O'Hagan, more...
VIPs call for appointments
The Australia Council is now calling for appointments with the 12 guests of this year's Visiting International Publisher (VIP) Program.Meetings will take place at 30-minute intervals on Thursday 31 May...
Visiting International Publishers program line-up announced
The line-up for this year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program has been announced. Senior publishers, editors and agents visiting Australia and the Sydney Writers' Festvial as part of the program are: Catherine Argand...
Australia/Canada Publishers’ Exchange
The Canadian Consulate General has announced Jeanne Ryckmans as the successful candidate for the inaugural Australia/Canada Publishers' Exchange.Ryckmans, publisher of fiction and nonfiction for Vintage, Knopf, Random and Arrow at...
Canadians seek Aussie publisher
The Canadian Consulate General, in conjunction with the Australia Council (OzCo), is funding the pilot of an Australian/Canadian publisher exchange as an extension of OzCo's successful Visiting International Publisher program.The...