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Shuttleworth appointed program manager at MWF
The Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF) has appointed Mike Shuttleworth as its new program manager. Shuttleworth, formerly program manager at the State Library of Victoria's Centre for Youth Litera...
More than 45,000 attend MWF 2011
More than 45,000 people attended the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival, held between 25 August and 4 September. Festival director Steve Grimwade told the Weekly Book Newsletter that the festival's organ...
2011 Australian Centre Literary Awards winners announced
The winners of this year's cultural awards from the University of Melbourne's Australian Centre in the Faculty of Arts were announced on 2 September during the Melbourne Writers Festival. Miles Frankl...
2011 Ned Kelly Awards winners announced
The winners of this year's Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing were announced in Melbourne on 31 August. The Diggers Rest Hotel by Geoffrey McGreachin (Viking) won the best fiction category,...
'There Goes the Neighbourhood' wins 2011 John Button Prize
There Goes the Neighbourhood: Australia and the Rise of Asia by Michael Wesley (NewSouth) has won this year's John Button Prize for public policy writing. Wesley, who receives a cash prize of $20,000,...
'Indelible Ink' wins Age Book of the Year
The winners of the 2011 Age Book of the Year awards were announced on 25 August at the opening keynote address of the Melbourne Writers Festival. Indelible Ink (Fiona McGregor, Scribe)...
2011 Asher Literary Award shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's Asher Literary Award, presented to a female writer whose work carries an anti-war theme, has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Swamplands (Van Badham, play)Tales...
2011 Ned Kelly Awards shortlists announced
The shortlists for this year's Ned Kelly Awards for Australian Crime Writing have been announced. The shortlisted titles are: Best First FictionPrime Cut (Alan Carter, Fremantle Press)Line o...
MWF 2011 program launched
As reported on Bookseller+Publisher online on 29 July, the program for the 2011 Melbourne Writers Festival (MWF), which runs from 25 August to 4 September, has been launched, with over 400 writers par...
In Brief
ReadHowYouWant to launch UK titlesCustomised printing company ReadHowYouWant (RHYW) has announced that it will soon be producing titles from a number of UK publishers, as a result of a new contract si...
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