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Tredinnick wins inaugural Blake Poetry PrizeMark Tredinnick, author of The Little Red Writing Book (UNSW Press), has won the inaugural Blake Poetry Prize in the Blake Prize for Religious Art.Published 12 September, 2008 
Mark Tredinnick, author of The Little Red Writing Book (UNSW Press), has won the inaugural Blake Poetry Prize in the Blake Prize for Religious Art. Tredinnick wins $5000 and the winning poem will be published in the magazine Wet Ink. Source: http://www.booksellerandpublisher.com.au/articles/2008/09/09477/ This article from Thorpe Bowker's Weekly Book Newsletter and Media Extra is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2008, Thorpe-Bowker More from Book News Archive
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.7 January, 2009
Byron Bay Writers' Festival date and location change
The organisers have announced that this year's Byron Bay Writers' Festival (BBWF) will be held on the new grounds of Belongil Fields, Byron Bay.7 January, 2009 
The best selling book in Australia in 2008, according to figures from Nielsen BookScan, was 4 Ingredients, selling some 288,000 copies last year (on top of the 131,000 copies it sold in 2007).7 January, 2009 
Welcome to the final issue of MX for 2008!15 December, 2008 
No surprises in the charts this week as Christmas book-buying gets underway with gusto.10 December, 2008
Omar Musa wins poetry slam
Canberra's hip-hop poet Omar Musa has won the 2008 Australian Poetry Slam.10 December, 2008 
Australian author Steve Toltz's A Fraction of the Whole (Hamish Hamilton) has been beaten out by New Yorker music critic Alex Ross with The Rest is Noise (Picador) for the Guardian First Book prize for 2008.10 December, 2008 |
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