‘ I was interested in what happens when someone grows too big for the space society allocates them. I kept hearing my grandmother telling me I was getting, Too big for my boots.’

‘Over years of editing, the often-surreal images of these poems have become as strong, if not stronger, than my own memories, particularly given they play out in very specific places – our backyard, on the Mernda Line train, in the medium lane at Northcote Aquatic, walking to my son’s school.’

Write the judges: ‘Cold Enough For Snow is a sublimely atmospheric novel that considers the transformation that occurs when an experience is drawn into the realms of memory and art.’

As well as being the artist behind the cover illustration of her debut novel Hospital, Sanya Rushdi illustrated a series of other scenes from the pages of the book. View them here along with their corresponding passages.

Read a poem from page 49 of the Melbourne-based poet’s 2023 collection, described by Chris Tse as ‘an unflinchingly honest look at life behind closed doors, where resentment simmers, generations clash, and individual dreams are set aside for the interests of family.’

‘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.