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 where communication flows between ghosts, animals and humans, but it’s also frighteningly […]

Pat Grant will be speaking about his graphic novel, Blue, at the Brisbane Writers’ Festival this year. Luke Beesley will be appearing as a reader in residence at the Brisbane Square Library.

Alexis Wright, Chi Vu and Lisa Gorton will be appearing at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival this year.

We’re delighted that four Giramondo authors have been shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards this year.

We are thrilled that Jennifer Maiden’s Liquid Nitrogen has been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize.

Michael Farrell, Vivian Smith, Kate Fagan, Chi Vu, Michael Brennan, Pat Grant and Brian Castro have been recognised in major awards.

Alan Wearne’s latest collection, Prepare the Cabin for Landing, will be launched in Melbourne by Owen Richardson at Collected Works Bookshop on Thursday 14 February, 6 for 6.30pm.

We’re thrilled that Salon.com has listed Blue by Pat Grant as one of the top 10 graphic novels of 2012.

Lachlan Brown’s debut poetry collection, Limited Cities, will be launched on Tuesday 27 November at the Bankstown Arts Centre.

Alan Wearne’s latest collection of poetry, Prepare the Cabin for Landing, will be launched by Kate Middleton at Gleebooks on Sunday 25 November. Details here.

Brian Castro’s latest novella will be launched at Kinokuniya in Sydney by Bernadette Brennan on Thursday 11 October at 6.30pm.

Michael Farrell’s latest collection of poetry, open sesame, will be launched in Sydney at Sappho in Glebe on Sunday, 7 October at 3.30pm.

Alice Melike Ülgezer’s debut novel, The Memory of Salt, was launched at Readings, Carlton on Thursday 13 September 2012.

Here is Antoni’s Jach’s launch speech.

John Mateer’s Southern Barbarians was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. Jess Huon’s The Dark Wet was shortlisted in the inaugural Underrated Book of the Year Award. Fiona Wright has been awarded the Dame Mary Gilmore Award for Knuckled.

We are thrilled to have two poetry collections nominated for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2012. Gig Ryan’s New and Selected Poems and John Mateer’s Southern Barbarians. For more information and the full shortlist, click here.

Giramondo has now published seven titles in Giramondo Shorts, a new series of short form, short print run books, designed to take account of the new technologies of digital printing, and to appeal to a community of literary readers. The series carries a quote from Les Murray’s poem ‘The Dream of Wearing Shorts Forever’: ‘it is […]