The Giramondo Publishing Company was set up in December 1995 with the aim of publishing quality creative and interpretive writing by Australian authors. It seeks to encourage innovative and adventurous literary work that might not otherwise find publication because of its subtle commercial appeal; to stimulate exchange between Australian writers and readers and their counterparts overseas; and to build a common ground between the academy and the marketplace.
Initially these aims were expressed through the publication of the book-length literary journal HEAT, which is now in its second series, and appeares three times a year. HEAT has a national and international reputation as a showcase for contemporary writing from Australia, and from overseas, often in translation.
In 2002 the Giramondo Publishing Company began the publication of literary works by individual authors in its Giramondo book imprint. Many of these titles have won major Australian literary prizes, including the Miles Franklin Literary Award and the various state Premier’s Awards. Giramondo authors include poets Emma Lew, Judith Beveridge, Jennifer Maiden, Robert Gray and Alan Wearne, novelists Brian Castro, Gerald Murnane, Mireille Juchau and Alexis Wright, and essayists Louis Nowra, John Hughes, Beverley Farmer and Gerald Murnane.
Since March 2005, HEAT magazine and the Giramondo imprint have been published from the The Writing & Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney, which brings together writers, publishers, scholars and students concerned with the social and imaginative power of good writing.
The Giramondo Publishing Company enjoys support from the University of Western Sydney, the Literature Fund of the Australia Council, the NSW Ministry of the Arts and Sydney Grammar School. All our books are designed by the award-winning Australian designer Harry Williamson.
Alexis Wright wins the 2018 Stella Prize for Tracker
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 No More Boats Shortlisted for the 2018 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
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...
Gerald Murnane and Ali Alizadeh on the 2018 ALS Gold Medal Longlist
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...
Vanessa Berry and Brian Castro win at the 2018 Mascara Avant-garde Awards
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...
Nine Giramondo authors to feature at this year’s Sydney Writers’ Festival
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...
Alexis Wright and Beverley Farmer have been longlisted for the 2018 Stella Prize
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...
Ashleigh Young and Felicity Castagna to Appear at the Adelaide Writers’ Week
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...
Corey Wakeling and Shevaun Cooley to appear at the 2018 Perth Writers Week
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...
Alexis Wright and Jennifer Maiden have been shortlisted for the 2018 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
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...
Antigone Kefala has been shortlisted for the 2017 Prime Minister’s Awards
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...
Antigone Kefala wins the 2017 Queensland Literary Award for Poetry
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,...
Giramondo publishes the first title in its new Southern Latitudes series, devoted to writers from the southern hemisphere
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 to appear at the 2017 International Literature Festival in Berlin
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...
Aden Rolfe wins the 2017 Mary Gilmore Award
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....
A note from Alan Wearne on These Things Are Real
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...
Michelle Cahill has won the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Award for New Writing
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...
Antigone Kefala and Michelle Cahill have been shortlisted for the 2017 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
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...
Ali Cobby Eckermann awarded 2017 Windham-Campbell prize
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...
Sean Rabin’s Wood Green shortlisted for the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award
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...
Lisa Gorton wins and Michael Farrell shortlisted for the 2016 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
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 wins 2016 Queensland Literary Non-fiction Award
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...
Lucy Dougan wins the 2016 WA Premier’s Poetry Award
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 wins the 2016 Kate Challis Award for The Swan Book
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 shortlisted for the 2016 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Indigenous Writing
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...
Sean Rabin’s Wood Green has been shortlisted for The Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction
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...
Lucy Dougan and Jennifer Maiden shortlisted for 2016 WA Premier’s Poetry Award
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...
Fiona Wright winner of $30 000 Kibble Literary Award
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...
Martin Edmond’s Battarbee and Namatjira Shortlisted for National Biography Award
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 –...
Fiona Wright Shortlisted for the Kibble Award
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...
Joanne Burns and Lisa Gorton Winners of NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
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...
Giramondo Authors Shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Literary Awards
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...
Fiona Wright Shortlisted for the Stella Prize
We’re thrilled that Fiona Wright’s Small Acts of Disappearancehas been shortlisted for the Stella Prize. The judges say: ‘Small Acts of Disappearance is a collection of essays on anorexia, a disorder as disturbing as it is mysterious, even to its own sufferers....
Judith Beveridge shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2015
We're thrilled that Judith Beveridge's poetry collection, Devadatta's Poems, has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Awards 2015. For a full list of shortlisted titles, click...
Queensland Literary Awards Shortlistings
We are delighted to have two authors shortlisted for the Queensland Literary Awards. Lucy Dougan's The Guardians has been shortlisted for the Judith Wright Calanthe Poetry Prize and Nicholas Jose's Bapo has been shortlisted for the Steele Rudd Short Story Prize. For...
Felicity Castagna chosen for IBBY Australia Honour List
We're thrilled that Felicity Castagna's The Incredible Here and Now has been chosen at IBBY Australia's Honour Book for Writing. Of Felicity's work, the judges said: Dom dies in a car accident. Fifteen-year-old Michael has to learn how to live without his older...
Alexis Wright Awarded a Sidney Myer Creative Fellowship
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....
Jennifer Maiden awarded ALS Gold Medal
We are delighted that Jennifer Maiden has been awarded the 2015 ALS Gold Medal for her poetry collection Drones and...
Judith Beveridge Awarded Peter Porter Poetry 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...
Luke Carman wins NSW Premier’s New Writing Award 2015
We are delighted that Luke Carman has won the UTS Glenda Adams New Writing Award 2015 at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. The judges had this to say of Luke's work: Luke Carman’s witty collection of stories heralds a new, edgy and brilliant voice in Australian...
Michael Mohammed Ahmad, SMH Best Young Novelist 2015, Voss Prize Shortlisting
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 larger social...
Alan Wearne Honoured with Christopher Brennan Award
We are thrilled that Alan Wearne has been lauded with the FAW Christopher Brennan Award. The award celebrates lifetime achievement in poetry and recognises a poet who produces work of 'sustained quality and distinction'. Judges Jennifer Harrison and Philip Salom had...
Giramondo Titles Shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Award 2015
Giramondo is delighted to be well represented across three categories of the NSW Premier's Literary Award 2015 shortlists. In the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry, Judith Beveridge's Devadatta's Poems and John Mateer's Unbelievers or the Moor made the shortlist....
Felicity Castagna wins the Prime Minister’s Literary Award
We are thrilled that Felicity Castagna has won the Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction for her work The Incredible Here and Now. The award was presented at a gala dinner in Melbourne. For the full list of winners and shortlisted titles, click here....
Brian Castro Wins Patrick White Award
We're delighted that Brian Castro has won the Patrick White Literary Award. This award is for an author's body of work and was founded by White with the proceeds of his Nobel Prize for Literature. Giramondo has published four of Castro's works, Shanghai Dancing, The...
Felicity Castagna shortlisted for Prime Minister’s Award
We're delighted that Felicity Castagna's The Incredible Here and Now has been shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award, Young Adult Fiction. (For the full shortlist, click here) This follows on from her shortlisting on the CBCA Award Older Reader category...
Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Luke Carman Shortlisted for Readings New Writing Award
We're thrilled that Michael Mohammed Ahmad's book The Tribe and Luke Carman's An Elegant Young Man have been shortlisted for the inaugural Readings New Writing Award. A prize offered for a first or second book by an Australian author, the award 'aims to increase the...
Lisa Gorton Awarded Philip Hodgins Medal
At the Mildura Writers' Festival this year, Lisa Gorton was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal, an annual prize given to an Australian writer whose work reflects the standards and literary accomplishments that Philip Hodgins. Gorton's most recent book published...
Alexis Wright wins the ALS Gold Medal
Alexis Wright has been awarded the 2014 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal for The Swan Book. The judges' citation said: Alexis Wright's The Swan Book is a novel of serious political intent concerning the migration of stories, peoples, imaginations and cultures....
The Recluse Shortlisted for the Magarey Medal
We're delighted that The Recluse, Evelyn Juers, has been shortlisted for the Magarey Medal. The Magarey Medal for biography is a biennial prize of at least $10,000. The prize is awarded to the female author who has published the work judged to be the best biographical...
Luke Carman – 2014 Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Novelist
We're delighted that Luke Carman has been named one of the Sydney Morning Herald's Best Young Novelists in 2014 for An Elegant Young Man. The judges said that 'Carman’s prose blends literature and popular culture, punk and poetry, and transforms this rich seam of...
Congratulations Alexis Wright – The Swan Book shortlisted for the Miles Franklin
Left to right: Cory Taylor, Fiona McFarlane, Alexis Wright Photo: Janie Barrett, Fairfax Media The Swan Book by Alexis Wright has been shortlisted for the 2014 Miles Franklin Awards. In their citation, the judges said At some future date, in an Australia ravaged by...
Judith Beveridge Honoured with the Christopher Brennan Award
Judith Beverdige has received the FAW CHRISTOPHER BRENNAN AWARD. It is an award to honour an Australian poet who has written work of sustained quality and distinction. The FAW supplies a specially-cast bronze plaque designed by Michael Meszaros. Each year, the...
NSW Premier’s Shortlist 2014 – Castagna, Middleton and Wright
We're pleased to have three titles shortlisted for the NSW Premier's Literary Awards. You can read the judges' comments below. Ephemeral Waters, Kate Middleton Judges' comments: 'This long documentary poem tracks the Colorado River, a system in ecological crisis, in...
CBCA Shortlist – The Incredible Here and Now
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 shortlisted...
The Swan Book – Longlisted for the Miles Franklin, Shortlisted for the Stella
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...
Alexis Wright and Luke Carman shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal
We're thrilled to have two titles shortlisted for the 2013 Australian Literature Society Gold Medal. Alexis Wright, The Swan Book Luke Carman, An Elegant Young Man The ALS Gold Medal is awarded annually for an outstanding literary work in the preceding calendar...
Liquid Nitrogen Wins Victorian Prize for Literature
We're delighted that Liquid Nitrogen by Jennifer Maiden was awarded the prize in the poetry category of the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and also the overall prize, The Victorian Prize for Literature. You can view the judges' report here. Read Gig Ryan's...
Three Giramondo authors shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards
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...
All Giramondo Shorts now $19.95
Now all the Giramondo Shorts titles are available for the excellent price of $19.95 including postage. For a full list of the Shorts titles, click here. As a Christmas offer, you pick up the two latest Shorts, Ninety 9 by Vanessa Berry and An Elegant Young Man by Luke...
Liquid Nitrogen Shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize
We are thrilled that Jennifer Maiden's Liquid Nitrogen has been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize. The full judge's citation reads: Jennifer Maiden’s Liquid Nitrogen may very well be the most contemporary collection of poetry you’ll ever read....
Gerald Murnane Special Offer – Inland
Gerald Murnane is one of Australia's most important living writers whose idiosyncratic and finely wrought fictions are capturing the attention of a new generation of readers. Buy the newly republished Inland and receive two classic Murnane titles published by...
Poetry Pick ‘n’ Mix
To celebrate the excellent poetry titles we have published in the last twelve months we are offering any three of our five most recent poetry titles for the special price of $45 with free postage in Australia. This discount of over 40% is for a limited time only. The...
Fill Your Stockings with Shorts
For the book lover in your life, we're offering a special Christmas discount on our Shorts series. Pick up three fiction titles – Anguli Ma by Chi Vu, Street to Street by Brian Castro and Varamo by Cesar Aira – for $50 with free postage. Or for the non-fiction fan,...
Gig Ryan wins the NSW Premier’s Literary Award for Poetry
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...
Giramondo eBooks available now
Selected Giramondo titles are now available as eBooks, and can be purchased through (in alphabetical order): Amazon, Booki.sh, Fishpond, iBooks, Kobo, Ebooks.com, Ebrary, Netlibrary, Read How You Want, Overdrive, ReadCloud The digital editions offered are: Brian...