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Campbell steps down as BWF director
5 February, 2009 The Brisbane Writers Festival (BWF) has announced that Michael Campbell will not be renewing his contract as festival director.
Rolley appointed guest SWF director
5 February, 2009 The Sydney Writers' Festival has announced the appointment of Chip Rolley as a guest artistic director for 2010, with current director Wendy Were to return in 2011 following maternity leave. 
3 February, 2009 Publishing's annual quiet period is officially over. 
28 January, 2009 The People of the Book is among the top five fiction titles on the Goodreads book social networking site after the Goodreads team. 
28 January, 2009 Enigma: A Magical Mystery by Graeme Base (Viking) has been nominated for an Edgar award by the Mystery Writers of America. 
28 January, 2009 Unless you have been living under a rock for while--which sounds rather enticing, not to say cool in this Melbourne heat--you will be familiar with Stephenie Meyer and her dominance in the charts. 
28 January, 2009 Four books have been shortlisted for the 2008 Blake Dawson prize for business literature. 
28 January, 2009 I Am Not Esther by Fleur Beale (Longacre Press) has won the 2009 Storylines Gaelyn Gordon Award in New Zealand. 
28 January, 2009 On the Jellicoe Road (known as Jellicoe Road in the US) by Melina Marchetta (Viking) has won the 2009 Michael L Printz Award in the US. 
28 January, 2009 The winning Australian science fiction, fantasy and horror titles in this years Aurealis Awards have been announced. 
27 January, 2009 Unfortunately, Alastair Campbell--former advisor to prime minister Tony Blair-- has been receiving a few unfavourable reviews here and overseas for his first novel All in the Mind. 
21 January, 2009 In what could be a welcome break from the Stephenie Meyer-induced frenzy currently in the charts, word-nerds can note that the Australian Oxford Mini Dictionary is first in the Fastest Movers chart this week, followed by the The Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary.
Writers at the Convent program released
21 January, 2009 The program for the second annual Writers at the Convent festival, organised by Reader's Feast bookstore, has been announced.
Australian self-published author jailed for three years in Thailand
21 January, 2009 Following his arrest for lese-majeste (offences against the crown) in Thailand, Australian writer Harry Nicolaides has been given the minimum sentence of three years jail in Bangkok, after pleading guilty. 
21 January, 2009 The Landscape of Farewell by Alex Miller (A&U) has been awarded the Annual Best Foreign Novels, 21st Century Award in Beijing. 
19 January, 2009 Now that the summer holidays are drawing to a close, the thin, holiday-period-sized book sections in our newspapers are reverting to their former thickness. 
15 January, 2009 A national survey of Australian book sellers has identified the biggest selling titles over the Christmas period. 
14 January, 2009 It comes as no surprise that Stephenie Meyer is still hogging the Bestseller list, this time with New Moon (Little, Brown) as top gun, and four more following, including the two versions of Twilight (Little, Brown). 
14 January, 2009 Several Australian authors did well in the UK in 2008. The Bookseller reports that Kate Morton's The Forgotten Garden (A&U) was number 11 in the overall charts, followed by Markus Zusak with The Book Thief (Picador) at number 15. 
14 January, 2009 Three ‘mini festivals' will replace the Canberra Readers' and Writers' Festival this year, according to ACT Writers Centre director Anne-Maree Britton. 
12 January, 2009 Welcome to the first issue of MX for 2009! We hope everyone enjoyed a well-earned festive break and that strong book sales continue past the Christmas shopping period. 
7 January, 2009 The prestigious Manning Clark House National Cultural Award for an Individual has gone to Alex Miller, whose most recent novel is Landscape of Farewell (A&U).
7 January, 2009 In the retail days around Christmas Stephenie Meyer held her Bestseller lead with New Moon and Eclipse (Hachette), followed by J K Rowling’s slim volume of magical fairytales The Tales of Beedle the Bard (Bloomsbury). 
7 January, 2009 Gunyah, Goondie & Wurley: the Aboriginal Architecture of Australia (Paul Memmott, UQP) is the recipient of the 2008 Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies' (AIATSIS) Stanner Award. 
7 January, 2009 Human Rights Overboard: Seeking Asylum in Australia authors Linda Briskman, Susie Latham and Chris Goddard have been awarded the Literature Nonfiction Award as part of the 2008 Human Rights Medal awards. |
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