The winner of the Bronze Quill Award for Poetry in 2020 is Asha Rajan for ‘Thirteen Ways to Count Your Chickens’. Other winners: Runner-up: Geraldine Day for ‘The Visit’ Highly …
Untapped is a collaboration between authors, libraries and researchers, working together to identify Australia’s lost literary treasures and make them available once more The project is digitising culturally important out-of-print …
The results of the Australian Society of Authors survey are in! More than 1400 participants responded to the survey, which included the question, What is your average annual income from …
The shortlist for the Small Press Network’s Book of the Year Award has been anounced. Congratulations to Charmaine Papertalk-Green, whose book Nganajungu Yagu has been included on the shortlist. Congratulations …
Congratulations to Western Australian author Mohammed Massoud Morsi, whose novel The Palace of Angels (Wild Dingo Press) has been shortlisted for the 2020 Voss Literary Prize. He is among six …
If you missed the 2020 Colin Simpson Memorial Lecture (or wish to rewatch it), it is now available to watch online. Presented by Tony Birch, the 2020 lecture explores ‘The Power of …
The Australian Society of Authors has announced four new board members. They are: Danielle Code Sophie Cunningham Kelly Gardiner Melissa Lucashenko Liz Anelli has also been re-elected to serve another …
Congratulations to all Western Australian authors and publishers who have been included on the shortlists for the 2020 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. Catch a Falling Star by Meg McKinlay has …
The Federal Government is conducting an Inquiry into Australia’s Creative and Cultural Industries and within this framework has called for submissions to be made. You can read more about the …
Writing NSW runs an annual series, Honouring Australian Writers. In 2020, the focus will be on Western Australian author Katharine Susannah Prichard in a series of online events throughout November, …
