Congratulations to our authors who have been shortlisted in various categories for the 2016 ABIA awards! Rosie Batty and Bryce Corbett, Richard Glover, Rosie Waterland, David Walliams, Fiona Katauskas and Beck and Matt Stanton!
We’re thrilled to announce and congratulate Darren Holt who won the Best Designed Commercial Fiction Award at the Australian Book Design Awards 2016 for his stunning cover of KING RICH by Joe Bennett.
See who’s in town for the Festival!
We’ve put together a comprehensive guide to all the events to watch out for at the 2016 Sydney Writers’ Festival.
Read a guest blog ‘Point of Origin’ from Stephen Graham Jones, author of the surreal coming-of-age story, Mongrels which is available for pre-order now!
Congratulations to our fabulous authors who have won over the reading public in the Reader’s Choice Awards for the 2016 ABIA Awards. Rosie Waterland’s memoir The Anti-Cool Girl has just won the Reader’s Choice for the Matt Richell Award for new writer of the year! And Richard Glover’s memoir Flesh Wounds has won the Reader’s Choice for Biography Book of the Year!
Author Talk
In conversation with Sarah Kanowski Brisbane Powerhouse Theatre 119 Lamington St, New Farm QLD 4005
Monday, May 23
7:30 PM
JONATHAN FRANZEN @ Powerhouse Theatre, Brisbane
Author Talk
In conversation with Jonathan Green The Athenaeum Theatre 188 Collins St Melbourne
Wednesday, May 25
6:45 PM
JONATHAN FRANZEN @ The Wheeler Centre, Melbourne
Literary Lunch
Better Read Than Dead 265 King St Newtown
Saturday, May 28
3:00 PM
KELLY DOUST @ Better Read Than Dead
Festival
Winthrop Hall UWA Crawley
Saturday, May 28
7:00 PM
JONATHAN FRANZEN @ Perth Writers Festival
Author Talk
Haydon Allen Theatre, ANU http://www.anu.edu.au/events/anuthe-canberra-times-meet-the-author-event-with-daniel-omalley
Monday, May 30
6:00 PM
DANIEL O'MALLEY @ Hayden Allen Theatre, ANU
Author Talk
Haydon Allen Theatre, ANU http://www.anu.edu.au/events/anuthe-canberra-times-meet-the-author-event-with-daniel-omalley
Monday, May 30
6:00 PM
DANIEL O'MALLEY @ Hayden Allen Theatre, ANU
Author Signing
Thursday, June 2
Louise Park (Poppy Rose) @ Margaret River Bookshop
Literary Lunch
Grand View Hotel, 49 North St, Cleveland QLD 4163
Thursday, June 2
12:30 PM
TARA MOSS @ Dymocks Carindale
Author Talk
Lourdes Hill College, 86 Hawthorne Rd, Hawthorne
Thursday, June 2
6:00 PM
TARA MOSS @ Riverbend Books, Women of World Festival
Author Talk
Ipswich Library, 40 South St, Ipswich QLD
Friday, June 3
TARA MOSS @ Ipswich Library, QLD
Author Signing
Friday, June 3
Louise Park (Poppy Rose) @ Barefoot Books
Author Talk
Avid Reader Bookshop, 193 Boundary St, West End
Saturday, June 4
11:00 AM
TARA MOSS @ Avid Reader, Brisbane