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10 May

CLUNES BOOKTOWN 2012!

What a Winner!

10 May

SPUNC Announces Inaugural Independent Publishers’ Conference and New Prize for Small Publishers

November 2012 will see a new conference for publishing and a prize awarding an undervalued title…

08 May

LAUNCH! Editors Victoria

The Society of Editors Victoria Inc. has had a facelift and they’re ready to launch their new name, Editors Victoria, along with their new logo and website!

08 May

NEW RELEASE: The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women's Rights

SPINIFEX PRESS are thrilled to announce the release of ‘Unfinished Revolution’, which tells the story of the global struggle to secure basic rights for women and girls.

08 May

Submissions now OPEN! Cordite 39 & Cordite 40!

Submit your poetry and/or poetry reviews to Cordite!

Coeur De Lion makes it big on First Tuesday Book Club! [04.01.2011]

x6_cover_with_aa coeur de lion’s multi award winning X6 received an unexpected plug from speculative fiction author Max Barry on ABC TV’s First Tuesday Book Club. or transcript at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s3081293.htm under ‘Max Barry’.

This caps off a fantastic year for the anthology which includes a World Fantasy Award win for Margo Lanagan’s X6 novella ‘Sea-Hearts’ and a Ditmar, Aurealis and Sir Julius Vogel Award for Paul Haines’s ‘Wives’, which Max rightly describes as ‘soul baringly horrific’.

You can view the video here.