Fiona Wright is a writer, editor and critic from Sydney. Her book of essays Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger won the 2016 Nita B. Kibble Award and the Queensland Literary Award for non-fiction, and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize and the NSW...
We are delighted that Alexis Wright has been awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship. First awarded in 2011, the Sidney Myer Creative Fellowships provide grants of $160,000 over two years to individual artists, arts managers and thought leaders in the humanities....
We’re thrilled that Michael Mohammed Ahmad has been named one of the Sydney Morning Herald’s Best Young Novelists, 2015, for his book The Tribe. The judges said: Ahmad tackles this difficult subject matter with breathtaking honesty, gesturing towards a...
We are delighted that The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna has been shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards in the Older Readers category. Teacher resources and reading group notes can be found here. To view all of the...
Giramondo has published two titles by Western Sydney writers in recent months. Pick them up for the special price of $35 (including postage). The Incredible Here and Now by Felicity Castagna is a YA novel told through a series of vignettes from the perspective of...
We’re delighted that four Giramondo authors have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards this year. Shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry are: open sesame, Michael Farrell Here, There and Elsewhere, Vivian Smith First Light,...
