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The Australia Council's annual accolade for writers over 65, the $50,000 writers' emeritus award, will be shared by Christopher Koch and Gerald Murnane. Koch is a two-time winner of the Miles Fra...
The Australia Council-sponsored Visiting International Publisher (VIP) program will be held this year in conjunction with Adelaide Writers' Week. The list of confirmed participants to date ...
[this item ran last week with a number of typographical errors: WBN apologises for any inconvenience caused] The Australian Publishers Association and the Literature Board of the Australia Council are...
The Australian Publishers Association and the Literature Board of the Australia Council are calling for applicants to attend the fifth biennial Residential Editorial Program (REP) in late May 200...
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) and the Australia Council have welcomed developments in Western Australia and New South Wales intended to increase the study of Australian literature in schools...
An Australia Council-hosted round table discussion of the study of Australian literature in schools and universities held in Canberra yesterday has recommended that the federal government should &lsqu...
Ex-MP sued for defamation by ex-NSW policeFormer NSW parliamentarian Peter Breen is being sued for defamation by two retired police officers over references in Breen's self-published book Life as a Se...
While book publishing so far has not been as affected by the advent of the web and digisation as other media industries, it was unrealistic to expect that situation to last, delegates to an industry s...
The 2007 Sydney Writers' Festival (SWF) is underway, under the banner 'a city transformed by words.' By the time the festival's official opening address is presented tonight by award-wi...
The federal government has announced the renewal of the Australia Council's base funding agreement, worth $418 million over three years. The announcement by Arts and Sport Minister Rod Kemp came...