Indigenous Literacy Day is a national celebration of Indigenous culture, stories, language and literacy. Through activities on the day, the ILF focus their attention on the disadvantages experienced in remote communities and encourage the rest of Australia to raise funds and advocate for more equal access to literacy resources for remote communities.

Penguin Random House Australia announces the establishment of the inaugural Penguin Random House Australia Literary Prize.

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2017 Miles Franklin Award Shortlist Announced

The winner of the 2017 Stella Prize is Heather Rose for her novel The Museum of Modern Love.

Australian Independent Booksellers are thrilled to announce The Dry by Jane Harper as their favourite Australian book from last year and the winner of The Indie Book Awards 2017 Book of the Year.

The Indie Book Awards celebrate the best of Australian writing as chosen by independent booksellers, members of Leading Edge Books, and the role indie booksellers play in supporting Australian writers and publishing.

Congratulations to all Shortlisted authors and their publishers!

We look forward to the announcement of the Indie Books Awards Book of the Year and Category Winners at the Leading Edge Books Conference on 20th March.

Australian independent booksellers, members of Leading Edge Books, are proud to announce the Longlist for The Indie Book Awards 2017.

Author Paul Beatty wins The 2016 Man Booker Prize for The Sellout, a satire of US racial politics, making him the first American writer to win award.

Paul Beatty, Deborah Levy, Graeme Macrae Burnet, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Szalay and Madeleine Thien are announced as the six shortlisted authors for the 2016 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.

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Saturday 13th of August 2016 - All Day

National Bookshop Day promotes local bookshops - #LoveYourBook

The longlist, or ‘Man Booker Dozen’, for the £50,000 Man Booker Prize is announced was announced on 27th July.

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood (Allen & Unwin) has won the 2016 Stella Prize for women’s writing.

Charlotte Wood was presented with the $50,000 prize at an awards ceremony in Sydney on 19 April. She was chosen from a shortlist of six that

Tonight in Sydney, Australian Independent Booksellers, announced The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood as their favourite Australian book from last year and the winner of The Indie Book Awards 2016 Book of the Year.

The individual category winners in Fi

The Stella Prize has announced the six extraordinary books on the 2016 Stella Prize shortlist.

From more than 170 entries, this year’s Stella Prize judges – author and academic Brenda Walker (chair); writer and social commentator Emily Maguire; award-wi