Wednesday, 13 May 2020
'Before we can ever call ourselves a free and equal society for all, multicultural Australia must be reflected in all the conversations and critiques that shape our nation’s stories.'—Writer and...

Wednesday, 29 April 2020
'When I was first starting out there were still people here who would think it was almost not worth publishing a book if it was not first published in London....

Thursday, 16 April 2020
'Part of the Australian story has been our struggle to face the difficult truths of our recent history. To me this is a book about what happens when there’s nothing...

Wednesday, 8 April 2020
'Covid-19 is an opportunity to ask ourselves as a nation why we take our artists and cultural organisations for granted. Why, even in an emergency, can’t we find the money...

Wednesday, 1 April 2020
‘The great debate is over what to do with forthcoming books: Do you move them, like the new James Bond movie ... Or do you plow ahead, and hope the...

Wednesday, 25 March 2020
'As review space has shrunk over the years, live events have become even more crucial. Writers' festivals, launches and events promote our books, our passion, our intellectual capital. They give...

Wednesday, 18 March 2020
‘There are things all Australians can do too—if you’re spending more time at home because you’re sick or self-isolating, please: stream Australian music; watch Australian movies and TV shows; read...

Thursday, 12 March 2020
‘I think we are in a period of stagnation. New titles continue to be published into the established categories, and readers are even more prone than before to act like...

Wednesday, 4 March 2020
‘While some complain about the expense of such events and inevitably their carbon footprint, the bigger trade fairs ... have never felt more vital. You only need to glance at...

Wednesday, 26 February 2020
‘A prize as supposedly prestigious as the Prime Minister’s Award has only a modest impact on sales, and in the case of poetry, none at all. Speaking generally, we have...

Wednesday, 19 February 2020
‘Overtime is an overlooked aspect of bookshop work: to be the expert bookseller that employers and customers expect takes a lot of private reading ... Yes, it is a pleasure...

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
'Writing probably doesn’t feel like the most crucial response here, and maybe it’s not. There is lots of other work to be done. But writing can help us see connections,...

Wednesday, 5 February 2020
‘A discussion that meaningfully grapples with diversity within the industry itself would have to involve an honest reckoning with the conditions that most of us have accepted for so long,...

Thursday, 30 January 2020
'Why can’t I find any Torres Strait Islander young adult literature? Is there some unconscious bias that has been turning these stories away? Is nobody looking for this diverse experience...

Wednesday, 22 January 2020
‘The climate crisis will continue to dominate headlines [in 2020], but it will affect us more on a practical, day-to-day level, including how we operate our businesses and how we...

Wednesday, 15 January 2020
'New-title publishing has become much riskier and more expensive for all publishers. They naturally react to that by publishing fewer new titles, and that describes the tactics of just about...

Thursday, 7 November 2019
‘You want to be debut, literary, or bestselling; you don’t want to be midlist. The midlist is like the middle class; it’s the group that gets squeezed. They don’t get...

Wednesday, 23 October 2019
‘It’s one thing to feel bad about losing. It’s another to feel you were never in the game ... Toxic thoughts and questions flood your mind when you can’t trust...

Wednesday, 16 October 2019
'As publishers we should be publishing political books from the left, from the right, from the centre. It's important we’re not retreating back to publishing the sort of liberal books...

Wednesday, 9 October 2019
‘There is no getting around it: for Australians, attending an international book fair always means a long-haul flight ... It’s also expensive. Yet the evidence is overwhelming, from lists of...

Wednesday, 2 October 2019
'Without independent artists, our larger companies have no talent pool, no new ideas and no future ... And this is the sector that now sees itself as a burning dumpster.'...