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13 May, 2009 2009 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award shortlist announced Nielsen BookData has announced the shortlist for the 2009 Nielsen BookData New Zealand Booksellers' Choice Award, worth $NZ2500 ($AU1986). 
13 May, 2009 The shortlists for the Kibble Literary award and Dobbie Encouragement award 2009 have been announced.
Children's lit alliance announces Melbourne, Sydney forums
13 May, 2009 The recently formed Australian Children's Literature Alliance (ACLA) has announced it will hold two forums in Melbourne and Sydney. 
13 May, 2009 Australian author Michelle de Kretser is shortlisted for the Orange Prize Shadow Youth Panel Prize, for her book The Lost Dog (A&U). 
13 May, 2009 Hachette Australia has announced an urgent recall of Betrayed by P C and Kristen Cast (Atom), ‘due to a printing error'. 
11 May, 2009 Three books nabbed top place on the MX Most Mentioned chart this week.
BPANZ Announces New Book Design Award
6 May, 2009 The Book Publishers Association of New Zealand (BPANZ) has announced two new awards as part of its annual Book Design Awards
Wright to speak at The Dreaming festival
6 May, 2009 Miles Franklin award winning author Alexis Wright will be among the speakers at The Dreaming International Indigenous Festival.
Clunes Book Fair Attracts The Crowds
6 May, 2009 The annual Clunes Book Town event held from 2 to 3 May attracted ‘a very good turnout' and saw the town overrun with secondhand books, according to publisher Rose Michael who was there under the name 'Melbourne by the book', selling secondhand books on the city as well as Arcade Publications and ‘micropublishers' such as Affirm Press and the Hungry Girls.
Auckland Prepares For Writers and Readers Festival
6 May, 2009 The Auckland Writers and Readers Festival kicks off next Wednesday 13 May, running until 17 May. 
6 May, 2009 Penguin Australia has announced it will publish Peter Carey's forthcoming novel Parrot and Olivier in America. 
6 May, 2009 True Colours by Lisa Davies graces the top of the Highest New Entries chart this week.
Queensland Writers Centre/Hachette launch 2009 Manuscript Development Program
6 May, 2009 The Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and Hachette Australia manuscript development program for fiction writers in 2009 has now opened.
Indigenous Literacy Project patron Rein to launch new early literacy program
6 May, 2009 This year's Indigenous Literacy Project campaign will kick off with an official launch by patron Therese Rein on 26 May. 
5 May, 2009 Irfan Yusuf's Once Were Radicals: My Years as a Teenage Islamo-Fascist topped the MX charts this weekend as reviewers sought to find out what drove a young Muslim Australian boy--who should have been preoccupied with girls and cars--to believe he should die for an Islamic cause. 
30 April, 2009 Michael J Fox, he of Family Ties and Back to the Future TV and film fame, comes number one in the Highest New Entries this week with Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist.
Eye of the Storm: 2009
30 April, 2009 The Northern Territory Writers' Festival will be staged in Mparntwe/Alice Springs, from 1-4 May.
2009 YABBA shortlist announced
30 April, 2009 The 2009 YABBA shortlist has been announced, compiled from student nominations across Victoria.
Booksellers prepare for Back to Booktown
30 April, 2009 The ‘Back to Booktown' Weekend for Booklovers in Clunes, Victoria, is on this coming weekend, 2-3 of May. 
30 April, 2009 Sydney-based writer Michael Rose has been shortlisted in Canada's Arthur Ellis Awards. 
30 April, 2009 Australian authors Margo Lanagan and Julia Leigh are among the finalists for this year's Shirley Jackson Awards (US), given for ‘outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic'. 
30 April, 2009 How to Heal a Broken Wing, by Australian author/illustrator Bob Graham (Walker Books), has been shortlisted for the 2009 CILIP Kate Greenaway Medal.
Emerging Writers' Festival program launched
30 April, 2009 The 2009 Emerging Writers' Festival (EWF) program has been launched.
Baker named Queensland's 2009 poet-in-residence
30 April, 2009 Hinemoana Baker has been announced as Queensland's 2009 Poet-in-Residence. |
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