Giramondo acquires McGregor’s ‘photoessay memoir’ on ‘Indelible Ink’
Giramondo has acquired world rights to a ‘photoessay memoir’ called A Novel Idea by Sydney author and performance artist Fiona McGregor, via Jane Novak of Jane Novak Literary Agency. A...
Introducing Giramondo
Sydney-based small press Giramondo has won most major literary awards in Australia with its list of ‘diverse, unusual and genre-defying’ fiction, nonfiction and poetry. Commissioning editor Nick Tapper spoke to...
Castagna’s ‘No More Boats’ sold into North America
Giramondo has sold North American rights to Felicity Castagna’s No More Boats to Europa Editions editor-in-chief Michael Reynolds in a pre-empt, via Rach Crawford at literary agency MacKenzie Wolf. The Miles Franklin-shortlisted...
Read ahead: Preview of 2014 titles
Kate Blackwood rounds up publishers’ top picks for 2014. Fiction Maxine Beneba Clarke’s debut short-story collection is Hodder and Headline sales and marketing director Justin Ractliffe’s top pick for 2014....
‘Knuckled’ wins Mary Gilmore Award
Knuckled by Fiona Wright (Giramondo) has won this year’s Mary Gilmore Award for poetry. Wright was announced as the winner of this year’s award at the Association for the Study...
Grundy joins Giramondo
Giramondo has announced that Alice Grundy joined the publisher this month in the newly created role of managing editor. Grundy, who previously worked as an editor at Murdoch Books, will continue in...
Addenda Publishing enters voluntary liquidation
New Zealand publisher and book distributor Addenda Publishing has been placed into voluntary liquidation and has ceased trading. The board and shareholders of the company have appointed chartered accountant Kim...
‘Carpentaria’ wins Miles Franklin
This year's Miles Franklin Literary Award has been won by Alexis Wright for her novel Carpentaria, published by Giramondo.The Miles Franklin is widely regarded as Australia's most prestigious literary prize,...
‘Carpentaria’ wins Miles Franklin
This year's Miles Franklin Literary Award has been won by Alexis Wright for her novel Carpentaria, published by Giramondo.The Miles Franklin is widely regarded as Australia's most prestigious literary prize,...
‘Carpentaria’ wins Miles Franklin
This year's Miles Franklin Literary Award has been won by Alexis Wright for her novel Carpentaria, published by Giramondo.The Miles Franklin is widely regarded as Australia's most prestigious literary prize,...