UWAP announces 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award shortlist
Date: 14 January 2020Category: Awards Local news
In December, UWA Publishing announced the shortlist for the 2020 Dorothy Hewett Award for an unpublished manuscript. The shortlisted authors and their works are: ‘The Sorry Tale of the Mignonette’... Read more
Ghost Bird (Lisa Fuller, UQP)
Date: 5 September 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews
Lisa Fuller was the recipient of the 2017 David Unaipon Award for an Unpublished Indigenous Writer for Ghost Bird. In this young adult novel, Stacey Thomson’s twin sister, Laney, is... Read more
Story you can hold: Tyson Yunkaporta on ‘Sand Talk’
Date: 21 August 2019Category: Features Interview Magazine feature story
In Sand Talk (Text, September), researcher and arts critic Tyson Yunkaporta looks at global systems from an Indigenous perspective. Reviewer Karen Wyld said the book ‘offers fuel for timely discussions... Read more
Angie Martin wins inaugural First Nations Fellowship for commercial writing
Date: 14 August 2019Category: Awards Local news
Harlequin has announced Angie Martin as the winner of the inaugural Commercial Fiction Fellowship for First Nation Writers, for her manuscript ‘Melaleuca’. Martin’s manuscript was chosen from a shortlist of... Read more
Harlequin announces shortlist for First Nations Fellowship
Date: 7 August 2019Category: Local news
Harlequin has announced the shortlist for the 2019 First Nations Fellowship for commercial fiction. The shortlisted writers and titles are: Julie Janson for ‘Desert Lands’ Melanie Saward for ‘Barks and the City’... Read more
Books by design: B+P magazine Issue 3 out now
Date: 6 August 2019Category: In the magazine
Issue 3 of Books+Publishing magazine is here, featuring Tyson Yunkaporta’s Sand Talk (Text, September) on the cover. Inside, Yunkaporta speaks with reviewer Karen Wyld about his motivations, his wood carving... Read more
The Tiniest House of Time (Sreedhevi Iyer, Wild Dingo)
Date: 25 July 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
The Tiniest House of Time is the well-researched debut novel by Sreedhevi Iyer, an Indian-Malaysian-Australian author. Matriarch Susheela Sastri is dying. Her granddaughter, Sandhya, born on the same date as... Read more
Sand Talk: How Indigenous thinking can save the world (Tyson Yunkaporta, Text)
Date: 27 June 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian Top reviews
Tyson Yunkaporta is a researcher, academic and arts critic. With ties to the Apalech clan in Far North Queensland, Yunkaporta combines his lived experiences and academic interests in this innovative... Read more
Australia’s Original Languages: An introduction (R M W Dixon, A&U)
Date: 30 May 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian Top reviews
Bob Dixon has an impressive academic and publishing career, which includes 50 years of researching Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages. Dixon’s latest book combines linguistics, colonisation history, anthropology and... Read more
One Careless Night (Christina Booth, Black Dog)
Date: 2 May 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews Think Australian Top reviews
Christina Booth is an award-winning author and illustrator who has previously collaborated with well-known Australian authors such as Colin Thiele and Jackie French. In One Careless Night, Booth recreates the... Read more
Tony Birch’s ‘The White Girl’
Date: 1 May 2019Category:
‘With a uniquely Australian setting, a compelling narrative, malevolent antagonists and determined female protagonists, The White Girl will appeal to a wide audience. Readers will find it hard to put down.’... Read more
The White Girl (Tony Birch, UQP)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Featured book review Think Australian Top reviews
Tony Birch’s latest novel tells the story of Odette Brown and her granddaughter Sissy, who live on the fringe of Deane, a fictional town situated between the mountains and the... Read more
Hitch (Kathryn Hind, Hamish Hamilton)
Date: 26 April 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Kathryn Hind was the recipient of the inaugural Penguin Australia Literary Prize in 2018 for Hitch, a contemporary novel set in Australia. The protagonist, Amelia, is a naive young woman... Read more
No place like home: Kelly and Kennedy on ‘Wilam: A Birrarung Story’
Date: 19 March 2019Category: Features Interview Junior
Aunty Joy Murphy, Andrew Kelly and Lisa Kennedy’s picture book Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Black Dog, April) follows Bunjil (wedge-tailed eagle) as he travels along Birrarung (Yarra River) to the... Read more
Wilam: A Birrarung Story (Aunty Joy Murphy & Andrew Kelly, illus by Lisa Kennedy, Black Dog)
Date: 7 March 2019Category: Junior newsletter Review list Reviews Think Australian Top reviews
Wilam is an illustrated children’s book about Birrarung (the Yarra River) and some of the native animals that live nearby. Aunty Joy Murphy, a Wurundjeri Elder, is the author of... Read more
Black is the New White (Nakkiah Lui, A&U)
Date: 1 February 2019Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Wyld, Howard, Younus announced as inaugural participants of Writers SA residency project
Date: 26 September 2018Category: Local news
Blakwork (Alison Whittaker, Magabala)
Date: 26 July 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list
Ameblin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina’s ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 11 July 2018Category:
New ‘Books+Publishing Junior’ reviews out now
Date: 6 July 2018Category: Recently published by B+P
Reaching out: Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina on ‘Catching Teller Crow’
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Features Junior newsletter Interview
Catching Teller Crow (Ambelin and Ezekiel Kwaymullina, A&U)
Date: 5 July 2018Category: Junior newsletter Featured book review Reviews Think Australian Top reviews
Inaugural digital participants announced for 2018 Hardcopy program
Date: 22 May 2018Category: Local news
Wyld receives Hardcopy scholarship for First Nations writers
Date: 10 May 2018Category: Local news
Welcome to Country: A Travel Guide to Indigenous Australia (Marcia Langton, Hardie Grant)
Date: 3 April 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian Top reviews
Growing up Aboriginal in Australia (ed by Anita Heiss, Black Inc.)
Date: 22 February 2018Category: Reviews Reviews newsletter Book review list Think Australian Top reviews
Richell Prize 2017 shortlist announced
Date: 3 October 2017Category: Awards Local news
Richell Prize 2017 longlist announced
Date: 29 August 2017Category: Local news
Rights round-up
Date: 22 June 2016Category: Rights round-up
Identity crisis? Andrew Nette on the state of Australian crime fiction
Date: 18 August 2015Category: Features