Wednesday, 5 October 2016
Founded in 2014, Melbourne-based Niche Press specialises in ‘quirky smaller-scale publications’ that might get overlooked by the mass market. ‘We use a different model that actively involves the creator in...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
A grassroots campaign to promote Australian YA books in a market dominated by US titles has been gathering momentum, writes Sophie Teague. To read this article, first published in Think Australian 2016,...

Wednesday, 28 September 2016
UWA Publishing was launched in 1935 at the University of Western Australia in Perth to produce textbooks for its students, and has since expanded into general fiction, poetry and nonfiction....

Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Each year Books+Publishing surveys Australian rights managers and literary agents to gauge the health of Australian rights trading and book exports. To read the results from the latest survey, published...

Wednesday, 21 September 2016
Launched in 2011, Sydney-based publisher Spineless Wonders specialises in short Australian stories in various formats. ‘In 2010, when I was writing, reading and teaching short fiction, there simply was no...

Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Anna Low from Potts Point Bookshop and Deb Force and Kate O’Donnell from the Younger Sun share their Christmas highlights for kids, from new releases to evergreen classics, in the...

Wednesday, 14 September 2016
Founded in Victoria in 2015, Empowering Resources specialises in children’s picture books and junior novels that ‘help people of any age explore complex and difficult emotional issues’. ‘We pride ourselves...

Wednesday, 7 September 2016
Melbourne author and blogger Karen Andrews started Miscellaneous Press in 2008 to self-publish her first children’s picture book. ‘My blog was doing very well at the time, with great traffic...

Wednesday, 7 September 2016
With Father’s Day behind us, it’s time to turn our attention to the books on offer this Christmas. Read our round-up of the adult highlights—from fiction to memoir, food and...

Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Harbour Publishing House, based on the South Coast of NSW, began publishing in 2014 and specialises in children’s literature. ‘What initially started as a project to celebrate local talent has...

Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Centre of Youth Literature program manager Adele Walsh was one of five hundred literature and literary experts from over 60 countries who descended on Auckland’s Aotea Centre to discuss the...

Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Established in 1994, NSW-based Brandl & Schlesinger publishes literary fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translation and academic journals. ‘My husband had worked as the publisher in Hungary’s first independent publishing company after...

Wednesday, 24 August 2016
Starting out as a summer pop-up shop, Melbourne’s The Younger Sun has stepped out of the shadows of the ‘Big Sun’ to become ‘a bit of an institution’, according to...

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
Melbourne-based Celapene Press released its first title—an anthology called Page Seventeen—in 2005 before specialising in children’s and YA fiction. ‘Our first children’s book was Machino Supremo by Mark Carthew and...

Wednesday, 17 August 2016
‘The rise of book blogging has seen people appreciating books as artefacts again, not just as stories. The saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” has less and less...

Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Serenity Press was founded in Perth in 2012 to create publishing opportunities for emerging Australian authors. ‘Our next project is really exciting and I feel that it is our biggest...

Wednesday, 10 August 2016
Is the book industry doing enough to promote books in a crowded marketplace, asks UWA Publishing director, author and former bookseller Terri-ann White in her latest column for Books+Publishing magazine.

Wednesday, 3 August 2016
Genre specialist Clan Destine Press, based in regional Victoria, first began publishing in 2010. Publisher Lindy Cameron told Books+Publishing: ‘Many author friends had experienced—from their Big Publishers—the old: “No we...

Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Sixteen children’s book specialists have been putting together the 16th annual ABA Kids’ Reading Guide over the past month, which is due out in November. Joanne Shiells takes a behind-the-scenes...

Wednesday, 27 July 2016
Melbourne-based Wild Dingo Press was founded in 2010 and specialises in stories of ‘individuals doing extraordinary things’. ‘Wild Dingo Press’s biggest success has been our first publication The Rugmaker of...

Wednesday, 20 July 2016
Earlier this year, Readings events manager Christine Gordon embarked on a research trip to observe how the bookstores of Paris and London run their events, and to gather some inspiration...

Wednesday, 20 July 2016
em PRESS, based in central Victoria, released its first book The People of Gariwerd—about the Grampians’ Aboriginal heritage—in 1999. ‘The primary focus of em PRESS is in connecting people to...

Wednesday, 13 July 2016
Mike Shuttleworth is the campaign manager for the Australian Children’s Literature Alliance, which administers the Australian Children’s Laureateship. He has also worked as an events programmer, curator and reviewer. Read...

Wednesday, 13 July 2016
NSW-based children’s publisher Christmas Press released its first titles in 2013. ‘We wanted to bring back the kinds of books we’d always loved as children—beautiful illustrated books featuring traditional tales...

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
‘Part of the Unity survival kit—it’ll be 49 Unity-years in September—is our determination that Unity continues as a viable forum for books, people and ideas. I know this sounds a...

Wednesday, 6 July 2016
Launched in 2012, Sydney-based Lacuna Publishing publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction that ‘challenges the status quo, introduces new ideas, shares untold stories, or presents a fresh perspective’. Founder Linda Nix...

Wednesday, 29 June 2016
Established in 2013, Tasmania-based Transportation Press publishes Tasmanian literature alongside work from around the world. ‘It began with the idea to publish a collection of new stories from Tasmania and...

Wednesday, 22 June 2016
Carody Culver looks at how five recipients of the Australian Booksellers Association James Patterson grants are faring with their proposals, and what they’ve learnt from the process. Read her article...