Staff changes at Black Inc.
At Black Inc., publicity and marketing manager Elisabeth Young has been promoted to the role of marketing director. Imogen Kandel, formerly marketing coordinator at the Melbourne Writers Festival and online editor...
Staff changes at Black Inc.
Black Inc. has announced a number of staff changes following a restructure of the publisher’s publicity and marketing team. Publicity and marketing manager Elisabeth Young has been promoted to the role...
‘Quarterly Essay’ celebrates 50 issues
Black Inc. is publishing the 50th issue of Quarterly Essay this year. The journal was founded in 2001 by Black Inc. owner and the Monthly publisher Morry Schwartz with its first...
McCamish, Williamson awarded Myer Foundation stipends
The Myer Foundation has announced the recipients of the inaugural Merlyn Myer Biography Stipends. The stipends, which are valued at $50,000 each, have been awarded to Thornton McCamish and Geordie...
Black Inc. relaunches Nero imprint for commercial titles
Melbourne-based publisher Black Inc. has relaunched its Nero imprint for commercial titles, expanding the list to include Australian-originated nonfiction titles. The publisher has also announced that Jeanne Ryckmans has joined the...
Publishers make the Arts Top 50 in the ‘Australian’
Griffith REVIEW founding editor Julianne Schultz, Melbourne University Publishing CEO Louise Adler, Text publisher Michael Heyward, Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler and Black Inc. owner Morry Schwartz have...
Publishers make the Arts Top 50 in the ‘Australian’
Griffith REVIEW founding editor Julianne Schultz, Melbourne University Publishing (MUP) CEO Louise Adler, Text publisher Michael Heyward, Lonely Planet founders Maureen and Tony Wheeler and Black Inc. owner Morry Schwartz have...
Black Inc. to launch new ‘Redbacks’ series in July
Black Inc. will launch a new series of ‘short books on big issues by prominent Australian writers and thinkers’ in July. The Redbacks series will launch with Battlers & Billionaires...
Black Inc. announces ‘Best Australian’ editors
Black Inc. has announced the editors of its annual ‘Best Australian’ series of anthologies. Kim Scott is editor of The Best Australian Stories 2013, Robert Manne is editor of The...
The proof is in the printing: Print-on-demand and short-run digital
Publishers regularly extol the virtues of print-on-demand (POD) and short-run digital printing. Eloise Keating asked several publishers to share recent examples of their benefits. Black Inc.’s US choice for POD...
Life, continued: Anna Goldsworthy on ‘Welcome to Your New Life’
In her second memoir, Anna Goldsworthy explores her experience of motherhood, including an irrational fear of losing her newborn down a composting toilet. Joanne Shiells spoke to the author. What...
Lohrey wins 2012 Patrick White Award
Amanda Lohrey is the winner of the 2012 Patrick White Literary Award. Lohrey was presented with the award in Sydney on 16 November. This year’s award is worth $23,000, up from...
The Best Australian Essays, Stories and Poems 2012 contributors announced
Black Inc. has announced the contributors for The Best Australian Essays 2012, edited by Ramona Koval, The Best Australian Stories 2012, edited by Sonya Hartnett, and The Best Australian Poems 2012,...
Interview with Catherine Deveny on ‘The Happiness Show’
Catherine Deveny describes her first novel, about a 30-something married comedian who reconnects with her ex, as ‘totally utterly unapologetically autobiographical’. She spoke to Carody Culver. You’ve got seven nonfiction...
Interview with Benjamin Law on ‘Gaysia’
Benjamin Law tells Andrew Wrathall about his new book of adventure gonzo-ish journalism, which explores queer culture in Asia. (See our review here.) While some dry academic books have been...
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East (Benjamin Law, Black Inc.)
Benjamin Law embarks on a wild ride through Asia to investigate queer culture in Gaysia. In Indonesia he meets the moneyboys who prostitute themselves to Western men, usually preferring the...
Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (Andrew Ford, Black Inc.)
Andrew Ford is a composer, critic and broadcaster—he presents The Music Show on ABC Radio National—whose knowledge of and passion for music is evident in the 34 essays collected in...
First OzCo Book2 grants recipients announced
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts has announced the first three writers to receive grants through its Book2 program. Nam Le, Anna Krien and Favel Parrett...
2011 John Button Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for this year's John Button Prize for writing on public policy has been announced. The shortlisted titles are:Quarterly Essay 40: Trivial Pursuit: Leadership and the End of the...
‘The Circle of Silence’ wins Walkley
Shirley Shackleton won the 2010 Walkley Book Award for The Circle of Silence: A Personal Testimony Before, During and After Balibo (Murdoch Books), announced at the Walkley Awards ceremony in Melbourne on...