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The program for the 2012 Adelaide Writers' Week, to be held between 3 and 8 March during the Adelaide festival, has been released. Among the international authors who will participate in the event are...
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) has announced a new one-off grants initiative for children's picture book illustrators. Applications are now open for emerging, developing and established illus...
The Australia Council for the Arts has confirmed to the Weekly Book Newsletter that Dennis Haskell has stepped down as chair of the Literature Board. A spokesperson for the Australia Council told the ...
More ReadCloud ebookstores launchedMore independent Australian bookstores have launched their ebookstores with ReadCloud. Birchalls, Bookshuttle, Books and Beyond, Megalong Books, Melbourne University...
Federal Arts Minister Simon Crean announced an independent review of the Australia Council for the Arts in December 2011, the first major review of the council since the mid-1980s. Minister Crean said...
Eligibility criteria for OzCo publishing grants now onlineEligibility criteria and application details for publishing grants from the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts are now ava...
Poet Robert Gray is the recipient of this year's Australia Council for the Arts' Writers' Emeritus Award. Gray, who released his first collection of poetry in 1973, was presented with the $50,000 awar...
The Australia Council for the Arts has announced the guests for next year's Visiting International Publishers (VIP) Program, to be held during Adelaide Writers Week in March 2012. International g...
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le, Anna Krien and Favel Parrett will each receive a $...
The Australian Publishers Association (APA) and the Literature Board of Australia Council for the Arts have announced details about the 2012 Residential Editorial Program (REP), to be held in May 2012...