Giramondo Publishing

We are delighted to announce that Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2018 Magarey Medal for Biography for her book, Tracker. Tracker, which also won the Stella Prize earlier in the year, is a collective memoir of the charismatic Aboriginal leader,...

19 June2018 We are thrilled that Border Districts by Gerald Murnane and No More Boats by Felicity Castagna have been shortlisted for the 2018 Miles Franklin Literary Award. The announcement was made at a ceremony in Canberra on Sunday, 17 June. Giramondo...

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 Cahill's launch speech.  ...Flood Damages is...

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...

Image credit: Connor Tomas O'Brien 15 April 2018 Our heartfelt congratulations to Alexis Wright, who has been named winner of the 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker. Her book is a collective memoir on the visionary Aboriginal leader,...

Felicity Castagna’s fiction novel No More Boats has been shortlisted for the 2018 NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The book, which is about the unravelling of a man and a nation set against the backdrop of the Tampa Crisis, is competing in the Multicultural...

27 March 2018 Fiction writers Gerald Murnane and Ali Alizadeh have been longlisted for the 2018 Australian Literature Society (ALS) Gold Medal for their respective works Border Districts and The Last Days of Jeanne d’Arc. The ALS Gold Medal is an annual...

27 March 2018 Vanessa Berry and Brian Castro have each taken out first prize at the 2018 Mascara Avant-garde Awards for works published last year. Berry's Mirror Sydney (recently longlisted for the ABIA awards), has topped the nonfiction...

20 March 2018 We are proud to announce that nine Giramondo authors will be appearing at this year’s Sydney Writers' Festival. Running from 30 April to 6 May at a new temporary location at Carriageworks, the program – designed around the theme of ‘power’ by...

We are thrilled following the announcement that Tracker by Alexis Wright and This Water: Five Tales by Beverley Farmer have been longlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize. Read the judges' comments below and visit the Stella Prize website for details...

5 February 2018 We're pleased to announce that Giramondo authors Ashleigh Young and Felicity Castagna will be appearing at this year's Adelaide Writers' Week (3–8 March 2018). Young will be speaking at two sessions alongside Patricia Lockwood, Sarah...

19 January 2018 Giramondo poets Corey Wakeling and Shevaun Cooley will be appearing across six sessions at the 2018 Perth Writers Week as part of the Perth International Arts Festival. The authors are both originally from Western Australia, with Cooley an...

Congratulations to Alexis Wright for being shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Nonfiction for her most recent book, Tracker, and to Jennifer Maiden for being shortlisted for the Victorian Premier's Literary Award for Poetry for her...

We congratulate Antigone Kefala for being shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry with her poetry collection, Fragments. Judges’ comments Antigone Kefala’s Fragments is a searing enactment of memory. Time demolishes us all in little...

This year the Judith Wright Calanthe Award, given to an outstanding collection of poetry by an Australian writer, was awarded to Antigone Kefala for her poetry collection Fragments. About the poet Antigone Kefala has written four works of fiction,...

A note from Ivor Indyk, Giramondo Publisher It is extraordinary how devoted we are to the north, when we take our literary bearings in Australia. Of course there is not a lot to the south of us in the way of literary precedents to follow, but to the east and west, in...

Brian Castro, author of Shanghai Dancing and The Garden Book, will attend this year's International Literature Festival being held in Berlin. Castro has been selected to attend the festival as part of the Literatures of the World program, which features world-renowned...

Congratulations to Aden Rolfe who has won this year's Mary Gilmore Award, a prize given to the best first book of poetry published in the previous year. About the poet Aden Rolfe is a writer and editor whose practice includes poetry, performance writing and criticism....

Award-winning poet, Alan Wearne, writes here about his most recent poetry collection, These Things Are Real. The collection is available here. Yes, poetry is an elitist pursuit, since not everyone can write it, nor can everyone read and enjoy it. Yet it is still the...

Congratulations to Michelle Cahill whose short story collection Letter to Pessoa won the UTS Glenda Adams Award for New Writing, a prize which recognises a published book of fiction written by an author who has not previously published a book-length work of narrative...

We are thrilled to announce that two Giramondo authors have been shortlisted for 2017 NSW Premier's Awards: Antigone Kefala is shortlisted for her poetry collection, Fragments, for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, and Michelle Cahill is shortlisted for her short...

Indigenous poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has won the 2017 Windham-Campbell award for poetry. She has said that the prize money, which totals A$215,000, is 'going to change my life completely'. Of Eckermann, the Windham-Campbell Prize website states: 'Through song and...

Giramondo author Sean Rabin has been shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier's Award for Fiction with his novel Wood Green set in a village on the slopes of Mt Wellington in Tasmania. Previously, the novel was shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian...

We are delighted to announce that Lisa Gorton has co-won the 2016 Prime Minister's Literary Award for Fiction. Michael Farrell was also shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award for Poetry. You can listen to Lisa's chat about her award-winning book with the...

Fiona Wright has been awarded The University of Queensland Non-fiction Book Award for Small Acts of Disappearance: Essays on Hunger. Her collection of essays has also recently won the Kibble Literary Award and was shortlisted for the Stella Prize. Of Small Acts of...

The Guardians by Lucy Dougan has won the Western Australia Premier's Award in the poetry category. The award ceremony took place at the State Library of Western Australia on 3 October. Of the poetry collection, the judges said: 'Seemingly simple, actually very dense...

Alexis Wright has won the 2016 Kate Challis Award with her novel, The Swan Book. In their citation the judges noted: 'Alexis Wright’s The Swan Book is a sprawling, magnificent achievement, a remarkable imaginative vision of Australia as it was and is, and will be. Set...

Ali Cobby Eckermann's collection of poems, Inside My Mother, is one of three titles shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing. The winner of the $20,000 award will be announced on 7 September, coinciding with Indigenous...

Wood Green by Sean Rabin has been shortlisted for the 2016 Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction. Now in its third year, the aim of the award is to recognise 'exciting and exceptional new contributions to local literature'. On Wood Green the judges commented: 'Set...

Two Giramondo poets have been shortlisted for the 2016 Western Australian Premier’s Poetry Award: Lucy Dougan for The Guardians and Jennifer Maiden for The Fox Petition. The judges said of The Guardians: 'Seemingly simple, actually very dense poetry, Dougan’s...

We are excited to announce that Fiona Wright has won the 2016 Nita B Kibble Literary Award for her collection of essays, Small Acts of Disappearance. The Award, which is worth $30 000, celebrates female writers and their impact on life writing. The judges said: “With...

We’re excited that Battarbee and Namatjira by Martin Edmond has been shortlisted for the National Biography Award. The Award was established in 1996 by Dr Geoffrey Cains and is administered and presented by the State Library of NSW. The total prize value is $31,000 –...

We’re delighted that Fiona Wright has been shortlisted for the Kibble Award for Established Writers for her essay collection Small Acts of Disappearance. Established in 1994, the Kibble Awards recognise Australian female literary talent in honour of Nita Kibble, the...

We’re delighted that two Giramondo authors received awards at the 2016 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. joanne burns won the Kenneth Slessor Poetry Prize for brush of which the judges said: ‘While apparently modest in scope this intrepid and original poetry’s...

We are delighted to have so many authors shortlisted for this year’s NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.   Christina Stead Prize for Fiction Lisa Gorton The Life of Houses Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction Fiona Wright Small Acts of Disappearance Kenneth Slessor Prize...

We're thrilled that Judith Beveridge has been awarded the Peter Porter Poetry Prize for her work, 'As Wasps Fly Upwards'. On winning the prize, Judith said: I am deeply honoured to have won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, not only because of the high regard I have for...

The Swan Book continues to attract critical acclaim as it has been longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award 2014. For the full list of longlisted titles, click here. The Swan Book has also been shortlisted for the Stella Prize. The judges said: A hundred years...

We are delighted to have three authors on the shortlist this year for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Fiction The Swan Book, Alexis Wright The judges described The Swan Book as: A work of metaphysical and metaphorical originality, Wright has created a world...

Gig Ryan's New and Selected Poems was awarded the NSW Premier's Literary Award for poetry. The judges described the collection as 'uncompromising, intelligent and sophisticated'. For the full citation, click here. John Mateer's Southern Barbarians was shortlisted for...