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APA releases new price study
17 June, 2009 The Australian Publishers Association (APA) has released a study which CEO Maree McCaskill said showed the Australian ‘domestic book market is in reality priced cheaper than the United Kingdom and right on the nose with the United States'. 
15 June, 2009 Writer, lawyer and activist Noel Pearson has written a book about his own life called Up from the Mission: Selected Writings. 
10 June, 2009 Author Joshua Gans, whose book Parentonomics is published by New South, has written a piece on the parallel importation debate in Melbourne's Age newspaper, arguing for the ‘complete relaxation of restrictions'.
Brisbane Writers' Festival ‘Word Play' kids' program launched
10 June, 2009 The Brisbane Writers' Festival program for young readers, writers and illustrators ‘Word Play' has been announced. 
10 June, 2009 The Brain That Changes Itself by Norman Doidge is top of the Fastest Movers chart this week. 
10 June, 2009 The 2009 Ditmar Awards for Australian science fiction, fantasy, and horror were presented on Sunday June 7 at Conjecture in Adelaide.
Byron Bay Writers' Festival line-up announced
10 June, 2009 The full line-up for Byron Bay Writers Festival (BBWF) 2009 has been announced. 
9 June, 2009 Brian Castro, multiple award-winning author of Shanghai Dancing, is back with a new book in the form of three interwoven novellas. 
5 June, 2009 It was only a matter of time before much-lauded book The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas reached the top of the charts, in this case the Fastest Movers chart.
Reading Matters Conference 2009
5 June, 2009 The Reading Matters Conference--Australia's leading youth literature event for professionals and young people--was held from the 28 to the 30 May at the State Library of Victoria and Storey Hall, RMIT.
Queensland Writers Centre/Hachette launch 2009 Manuscript Development Program
5 June, 2009 The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and Hachette Australia manuscript development program for fiction writers in 2009 has now opened.
5 June, 2009 Matchbox Pictures has announced that it has secured the rights to Christos Tsiolkas' The Slap (A&U), to be adapted for television. 
2 June, 2009 Two very different books have had the same amount of interest in the news this week. 
27 May, 2009 Jane Curry Publishing delivers the goods this week as My Mum's Got Cancer takes pole position in the Highest New Entry charts.
Croggon wins Pascall Prize
27 May, 2009 Alison Croggon, poet, author, and Melbourne theatre critic for the Australian and the blog Theatre Notes, has been awarded the 2009 Pascall Critic of the Year prize, worth $15,000. 
27 May, 2009 Kate De Goldi has been awarded the 2009 New Zealand Post Book of the Year Award for The 10pm Question (A&U), announced in a ceremony in Auckland on Wednesday 20 May. 
27 May, 2009 Sydney-based author Julia Leigh has won the £10,000 ($A20,383) Encore Award for a second novel for Disquiet (Penguin)
Lord Mayor's Creative Writing Awards
27 May, 2009 A new creative writing initiative in Victoria--the Lord Mayor’s Creative Writing Awards--was announced at the opening night of the Emerging Writers’ Festival in Melbourne on Friday 22 May.
Nahlous awarded Beatrice Davis fellowship
27 May, 2009 Alexandra Nahlous was announced as the winner of the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship at the Sydney Writers' Festival on Thursday 21 May.
VIPs at SWF
27 May, 2009 The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program was again an important part of the Sydney Writers Festival (the annual VIP program alternates between the Sydney and Adelaide festivals).
Naparstek is The Monthly's new editor
27 May, 2009 Ben Naparstek, a 23-year-old, Melbourne-based recent university graduate, has been named the new editor of the Monthly. 
27 May, 2009 Carleen Bryant, the mother of Martin Bryant, is reportedly suing Fairfax Media over the publication of Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making of a Mass Murderer (Robert Wainwright and Paoloa Totaro), reports Crikey.
Coalition for Cheaper Books: list demonstrates 'ludicrous impact' of PIRs
27 May, 2009 The Coalition for Cheaper Books, which includes the Dymocks bookselling chain, has released a price comparison of a number of books by authors who appeared at the recent Sydney Writers' Festival, which Coalition spokesperson and Dymocks CEO Don Grover said ‘demonstrates the ludicrous impact of parallel importation restrictions on the price of books in Australia'.
Rein launches new early literacy program
27 May, 2009 Indigenous Literacy Day patron Therese Rein yesterday launched a new early childhood literacy program that will see sets of board books being given to all children under school age in several Indigenous communities. |
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