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12 June

The Asher Literary Award

The Asher Literary Award is offered biennially to a female author whose work carries an anti-war theme. It is valued at $10,000.

12 June

SPINELESS WONDERS - prose poetry & microfiction competition

SPINELESS WONDERS invites you along for the action ride in the inaugural joanne burns Award for prose poem/microfiction. Deadline: September, 30th 2013

05 June

Pay what you like...

To celebrate the launch of their new eBook Bookstore, Blemish Books is asking readers to name their price!

03 May

The 2013 SPN roadshow continues at the Clunes Booktown Festival

The second event in the Small Press Network’s roadshow series takes place this weekend, featuring authors from three SPN members.

21 February

SPN roadshow kicks off in Sydney on March 5th: Publishing Insider

As part of the Small Press Network’s suite of member services in 2013 we are running a roadshow of 13 events across Australia – the first one is about to kick off!

NEW RELEASE TITLES: Fremantle Press [12.07.2012]

Creepy & Maud by Dianne Touchell – YA fiction

Hilarious and heartbreaking, Creepy & Maud charts the relationship between two social misfits, played out in the space between their windows.

Creepy is a boy who watches from the shadows keenly observing and caustically commentating on human folly. Maud is less certain. A confused girl with a condition that embarrasses her parents and assures her isolation.

Together Creepy and Maud discover something outside their own vulnerability — each other’s. But life is arbitrary; and loving someone doesn’t mean you can save them.

Red Dirt Talking by Jacqueline Wright – adult fiction Winner of the TAG Hungerford Award, 2010

It’s build-up time in the north-west town of Ransom, just before the big wet, when people go off the rails. In the midst of a bitter custody battle, Kuj, an eight year old Aboriginal girl, goes missing.

Annie, an anthropology graduate newly arrived from Perth, is increasingly distracted from her work by the mystery surrounding Kuj’s disappearance.

As Annie searches for the real truth beneath the township’s wild speculations, she find herself increasingly drawn towards Mick Hooper, a muscly, laid-back Aussie bloke with secrets of his own.

Sabrina’s Juicy Little Book of Citrus by Sabrina Hahn – gardening

‘Sabrina’s gardening knowledge combined with her wicked sense of humour and passion for the environment guarantees an amusing and practical answer to almost any question …’ ABC’s Gardening Australia

Popular columnist, ABC broadcaster and landscape gardener Sabrina Hahn says no plants generate more questions than citrus.

This pocket-sized gardening book is packed with juicy tips on how to grow happy healthy citrus plants in your garden. Bringing together lemons, limes, grapefruits, kumquats, oranges and much more, you’ll love this quick, practical and environmentally-friendly guide to common problems.