Pictured: Ali Alizadeh, author of Towards the End Towards the End by Ali Alizadeh was launched by Philip Mead, at the Paperback Bookshop in Melbourne on 20 February, 2020. Below is an edited version of Mead’s launch speech. Welcome everyone. I’m delighted to be...
We are thrilled to announce that three Giramondo titles have been shortlisted in the 2019 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards. They are Saudade by Suneeta Peres da Costa for the Fiction Prize, and Sun Music: New and Selected Poems by Judith Beveridge and Newcastle...
Pictured: Eunice Andrada, author of Flood Damages Flood Damages by Eunice Andrada was launched by award-winning poet and fiction writer, Michelle Cahill, at the Red Rattler Theatre in Marrickville, NSW, on Thursday 10 May, 2018. Below is an edited version of...
Photo credit: Robin Wallace-Crabbe A eulogy delivered by Ivor Indyk at Beverley Farmer’s memorial service at Queenscliff on Sunday 29 April 2018. It is difficult to write a formal eulogy for Beverley Farmer, because she was herself so much a writer of process....
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...
