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- Anthropic, an Ai company, will pay authors $1.5B to settle lawsuit over pirated chatbot training material.
- Khin Myint, author of Fragile Creatures: A Memoir, has won the 2025 Maragaret and Colin Roderick Literary Award.
- The Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2025 shortlist has been announced:
- The Queensland Literary Awards 2025 shortlist has been announced:
- Queensland Premier’s Award for a Work of State Significance: Australian Gospel: A Family Saga / Lech Blaine, Black Witness / Amy McQuire, Everything is Water / Simon Cleary, Warra Warra Wai / Darren Rix and Craig Cormick, Yanga Mother / Cheryl Leavy and Christopher Bassi
- Queensland Premier’s Young Publishers and Writers Awards: Alex Philip, Olivia J Bennett, Sean West, Svetlana Sterlin
- The University of Queensland Nonfiction Book Award: Black Convicts / Santilla Chingapipe, Murriyang: Song of Time / Stan Grant, Näku Dhäruk: The Bark Petitions / Clare Wright, The Season / Helen Garner, Warra Warra Wai / Darren Rix and Craig Cormick
- The University of Queensland Fiction Book Award: Nightingale / Laura Elvery, Rapture / Emily Maguire, Wild Dark Shore / Charlotte McConaghy, Little World / Josephine Rowe, Out of the Woods / Gretchen Shirm
- Young Adult Book Award: Don’t Let the Forest In / CG Drews, Into the Mouth of the Wolf / Erin Gough, Liar’s Test / Ambelin Kwaymullina, My Brother, Finch / Kate Gordon, Return to Sender / Lauren Draper
- Children’s Book Award: All the Beautiful Things / Katrina Nannestad, Little Bones / Sandy Bigna, Spirit of the Crocodile/ Aaron Fa’Aoso and Michelle Scott, Summer of Shipwrecks / Shivaun Plozza, Thunderhead / Sophie Beer
- Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection: The Oblong Plot / Chris Andrews, Tintinnabulum / Judith Beveridge, Kangaroo Unbound / Luke Johnson, The Infant Vine / Isabella G Mead, Mixed Business / Alan Wearne
- David Unaipon Award for an Emerging Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Writer: Eskos / Vika Mana, Finding Billy Brown / ES Crismani, Neurodiverging into [He]ARTS / BS Windon
- Glendower Award for an Emerging Queensland Writer: The Burning Season / Karen Lee, Commonplaces / Gillian Hagenus, The Curse / Bronte Coates, Easy Living / Mindy Gill, The Lyrebirds / Dani Ringrose
- The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award: Annette Kellerman, Australian Mermaid / Grantlee Kieza, Bina: First Nations Languages, Old and New / Gari Tudor-Smith et al, Black Convicts / Santilla Chingapipe, Dirrayawadha / Anita Heiss, Everything is Water / Simon Cleary, First Name Second Name / Steve MinOn, Nightingale / Laura Elvery, Red Dirt, Blue Lights / Tess Merlin
- The Davitt Awards 2025 winners have been announced:
- Adult Novel: To the River / Vikki Wakefield
- Nonfiction Book: The Lasting Harm / Lucia Osborne-Crowley
- Young Adult Novel: Into the Mouth of the Wolf / Erin Gough
- Children’s Novel: The Midwatch / Judith Rossell
- Best Debut Book: What I Would Do to You / Georgia Harper
- Kerry Greenwood Reader’s Choice: What Happened to Nina? / Dervla McTiernan
- The Queenstown Writers Festival program for 2025 has been announced.
- The NSW History Awards winners for 2025 have been announced:
- Australian History Prize: Warra Warra Wai / Darren Rix and Craig Cormick
- General History Prize: Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation / Robyn Arianrhod
- NSW Community and Regional History Prize: Yirranma Place: Stories of a Darlinghurst Corner / Alana Piper
- Digital History Prize: One Mind, One Heart / Larissa Behrendt, Michaela Perske and Clare Wright
- Young People’s History Prize: Our History: Bold Ben Hall / Sophie Masson
- Anzac Memorial Trustees Military History Prize: Rock and Tempest: Surviving Cyclone Tracy and its Aftermath / Patricia Collins
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The Cathartic Memoir – I’ve journeyed from contempt to enthusiasm
Why write and publish a memoir? Will anyone be interested?
If I was running a 45 minute training session for indie authors what would be on the curriculum?
Here an experienced indie author publisher shares 4 topics every aspiring self-publisher needs to know.
Self-publish your book by raising funds through crowdfunding
You can fully finance you project (and more) if you apply the necessary effort.
Is Goodreads good for authors?
Estimated reading...
What is typesetting?
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Social media marketing for authors
Social media...
Have you got the book hierarchy blues?
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The economics of selling your book
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What 99.9% of authors don’t know.
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