Next Saturday, August 10, is National Bookshop Day and Electric Shadows Bookshop is hosting a fund-raising event for the Indigenous Literacy Foundation. It’s a morning tea with Dr Andrew Leigh, the member for Fraser. He will speak about his latest book, Battlers and Billionaires: the story of inequality in Australia. The morning tea is on from 10am to 11.30am (suggested donation $5) at Shop 2/40 Mort Street, Braddon. Phone 6248 8352. Email: esb@electricshadowsbookshop.com.au.

Jane Caro, Matthew Ricketson, Malcolm Schmidtke and Charlotte Violante have judged the inaugural Editia Prize for long-form journalism/short non-fiction. The winning entry, by NSW author Carly Lorente, is a look at the lives of Central Australian women through the eyes of a social worker who spent 10 months there working for an indigenous women’s council. Lorente has won a $2500 publishing deal with Editia.

Canberra author Kaaron Warren has won the novella category of the Shirley Jackson Awards, presented annually for ‘‘outstanding achievement in the literature of psychological suspense, horror, and the dark fantastic’’. The first Australian winner, Warren picked up the award for Sky, published in the Twelve Planets Press collection Through Splintered Walls.

A set of booklets about Canberra’s early history is now complete, with the addition of a sixth, titled Beyond the Boundaries by Centenary of Canberra History and Heritage Adviser Dr David Headon. The new booklet gives a detailed account of the 1911-12 design competition for Australia’s new national capital and the intense politicking that went on behind the scenes. Limited numbers of the booklet set are available from the Canberra Museum and Gallery, ACT libraries (Civic, Belconnen, Woden, Tuggeranong, Gungahlin, Erindale, Dickson, Kippax, Kingston) and the reception area at the Nara Centre, on the corner of Constitution Avenue and London Circuit.

Saturday and Sunday: 10am to 5pm The conference Writing the Australian Landscape is on at the National Library of Australia. Keynote speaker Murray Bail delivers the Kenneth Binns Lecture. Featured speakers include Bill Gammage, Matthew Condon, Adrian Hyland and Ros Moriarty. Two days $120, Single day $70. Bookings and information: nla.gov.au.