News
01 February
What better way to start the new year and celebrate Australia Day than by reading our first new book for 2012 – The Good, the Bad and the Unlikely: Australia’s Prime Ministers by Mungo MacCallum. Chockfull of entertaining facts about our twenty-seven leaders, it’s an absolute must-read for every Australian.
We’ve got a huge year of books coming up and we can’t wait to share it with you. You can view our January – June catalogue online to see what else we’ll be publishing in the first half of this year.
01 February
The Wheeler Centre’s first programme of events will be published on Friday 3 February at wheelercentre.com, but here’s a taste of what’s to come. Tickets are available now for An Evening with Alain de Botton. This is a limited release only, with the full complement of tickets on sale with the rest of the programme.
Lastly, being short on free time doesn’t mean you have to miss catching up on what our speakers have to say. Check out the Wheeler Centre’s YouTube channel, you’ll find concise wisdom and asides from many of our guests. It’s just like being there, albeit very briefly.
23 January
The Australian Society of Authors is delighted to announce a new initiative for 2012. Emerging, developing and established Children’s Picture Book illustrators are invited to apply for grants to assist with the creation of a new picture book. Projects may not be fully formed but illustrators are encouraged to demonstrate their project to the best of their ability.
The initiative aims to establish a ‘best-practice’ methodology for assessing applications from picture book illustrators for the Australia Council’s New Work funding category. It has arisen from an understanding that illustrators may find it difficult to apply for grants given the extremely nascent quality of their works-in-progress.
For guidelines and application forms, please visit our website.
This one-off initiative is funded by Australia Council for the Arts, and managed by the Australian Society of Authors. Eligibility criteria apply – please read the guidelines carefully.
Applications close 29 February 2012.
23 January
Submissions for Issue Three of Triptych Poets are now open. We’re after your best 15 – 25 poems. We will accept suites that include poems that have been previously published, however we prefer suites with mostly unpublished poems. Submissions close on 1 March 2012.
For more details go to: http://www.blemishbooks.com.au/triptych.shtml
20 January
The Great Raven takes a liking to George Ivanoff’s Gamers' Challenge
Ships in the Field, an immigration experience, gets a great review at Sue Bursztynski’s blogspot and some more great press here
The Key to Starveldt by Foz Meadows gets a good rap here
The e-book version of Sean McMullen’s Changing Yesterday is now live here
The e-book version of Paul Collins’s Mole Hunt is now live here
The e-book version of The Key to Starveldt by Foz Meadows is now available here
20 January
Spineless Wonders presents 140 WONDERS – a writing competition in celebration of the 2012 Year of Reading and the world of digital publishing. Submit a story of any genre for a chance to win a Kobo eReader! Sound easy? That’s not it. The competition is paying homage to digital writing by restricting stories to 140 characters max – the number of characters allowed in a Twitter post.
The winner will also published on Spineless Wonders’ Twitter page along with finalists.
More information is available at the Spineless Wonders website and on the 140 WONDERS Facebook Page
Happy writing!
20 January
Black Pepper Publishing is excited to announce their latest releases, The Peastick Girl** and The Bearded Chameleon are both due out in Febuary.
The Peastick Girl** follows the story of Teresa Matheson, her sisters Mollie and Cass, and the untimely and mysterious death of their mother. Teresa has returned to Wellington after five years in Melbourne where she has written a quest novel for younger readers, had two affairs, and met the demon Arkeum. The Peastick Girl is a complex tragi-comedy of manners.
A lyrical, understated intensity of emotion that is almost unbearable to read
Fia Clendinnen, ABR
Click here for more details of
forthcoming and previous Black Pepper titles, including
covers, author biographies and book excerpts.
14 December
Announcing The Novella Project, a collaborative venture between Griffith REVIEW & the Copyright Agency Ltd.
In recent years, publishing costs and market pressures have contributed to the demise of the novella in print. However, thanks to advances in digital publishing and the rise of social media and e-readers, some industry experts are predicting that this may be the beginning of a ‘golden age’ for novellas.
Griffith REVIEW is pleased to announce a competition open to all residents and citizens of Australia and New Zealand, calling for submissions for The Novella Project, a new publishing initiative supported by the Copyright Agency Ltd.
Submissions will be evaluated by a panel of judges and the winning selections will be featured in late 2012 in Griffith REVIEW’s fourth annual New Fiction Edition.
In addition to publication, winners will receive a share of the prize pool of $30,000 plus a share of royalties from digital sales of each novella sold separately as an eSingle.
For Guidelines for Submissions including information on Terms and Conditions and the Entry Fee follow the link.
Submission deadline: 26 April 2012
14 December
The dotdotdash Collective is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit organisation. Our journal, dotdotdash, was established in 2009 with the aim of creating a friendly and engaging space for art and words, with a particular focus on promoting art and literature in Western Australia. Subscribeathon is our effort to increase the readership of our journal and to help finance future issues of dotdotdash. Our Facebook page for Subscribeathon is here.
14 December
In true festive spirit, Illura Press have decided to continue to offer free postage for the ‘Lentil as Anything’ cookbook right up until Christmas! And with all profit going directly to Lentil as Anything it make’s the perfect gift!
Lentil as Anything: Food, Culture, Community is a coffee table/cookbook celebrating food, writing, and cultural diversity—with profiles of key chefs at the Lentil as Anything restaurants, their favourite mouth-watering recipes, interviews with staff members, and writing from established Australian authors Arnold Zable, Alice Pung and Tara June Winch.
Through the lives, struggles, and triumphs of many wonderful people, Lentil as Anything: Food, Culture, Community captures the essence of community in a unique cultural and culinary work of exceptional depth.
Order directly through our website or pick it up at any of the Lentil as Anything restaurants for RRP $54.00. It is also available at the following Melbourne bookstores before Christmas; other states to follow soon.
· * Berkelouw Books (Armadale)
* Books for Cooks (Fitzroy)
* Brunswick St Bookstore (Fitzroy)
* Convent Gallery Bookshop (Abbotsford Convent)
* Coventry Street Bookstore (South Melbourne)
* Dymocks (Camberwell)
* Embiggen Books (Melbourne)
* Hill of Content (Melbourne)
* Paperback Bookshop (Melbourne)
* Readings (Carlton)
* Readings (Hawthorn)
* Readings (St Kilda)
* Stonnington Books (Malvern)
“Do give books—religious or otherwise—for Christmas. They’re never fattening, rarely sinful, and permanently personal.”
— Lenore Hershey
Subscribe to our RSS feed
Follow us on Twitter