‘The title feels a little treacherous, almost illicit: a talking back that flies in the face of the ‘model minority’ imperatives we were brought up with – be quiet, lie low, know your place – all of which were amplified for women and girls.’

‘My PhD candidature in psychology at Deakin University had been confirmed, and I had just received Ethics Approval to begin my research. I went to my office as usual, but soon afterwards, started to suspect the everyday things that were happening around me. I had a strange feeling of fear, restlessness and suspicion that drove me out of my office.’

Anne de Marcken and Jonathan Buckley have won the 2022 Novel Prize for It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over and Tell. 

Rights were sold to And Other Stories (UK), who will publish Praiseworthy and Tracker, and to New Directions (US), who will publish Praiseworthy and Carpentaria.

The shortlisted works are Revenants by Adam Aitken,
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au, Harvest Lingo by Lionel Fogarty and Mirabilia by Lisa Gorton.

Melbourne-based poet Autumn Royal reflects on her debut collection, The Drama Student. The book was released in March 2023.

Au won both the Victorian Prize for Literature (worth $100,000) and the Fiction award (worth $25,000) at the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.

An up-to-date list of events featuring Giramondo authors, including book launches, festival appearances, and more.

Giramondo Publishing, Fitzcarraldo Editions and New Directions are pleased to announce the shortlist for The Novel Prize, the biennial award for a book-length work of literary fiction written in English by published and unpublished writers around the world.

Six years after it was first published, Shaun Prescott reflects on his debut novel The Town, released in a new edition in February 2023 with Giramondo. Prescott’s second novel, Bon and Lesley, was published in 2022.

The eulogy was delivered at the funeral of Antigone Kefala at St Spyridon Greek Orthodox Church, Kingsford NSW on Wednesday 14 December 2022.

Au has been nominated in the Fiction category for her novel Cold Enough for Snow, and Fogarty has been nominated in the Indigenous Writing category for his poetry collection, Harvest Lingo.

’His poems are blistering in their power, wonderfully subtle, objective and with no self-pity,’ write the judges of Jackson’s award-winning collection.

Laguna, the Serbian publisher of Cold Enough for Snow, interviews Jessica Au on her 2022 novel.

Lucy Dougan’s poetry collection Monster Field was launched in late November 2022 at The Balmoral Hotel in Perth, Western Australia. Here, we publish the launch speech given at the event by Josephine Wilson.

Antigone Kefala speaks with Giramondo Publisher Ivor Indyk about her books, her experiences, and her conceptions of poetry and prose.