Publishing
Articles
- The Surrender to Truth in The Early Australian Novel
Hamer provides a survey of early Australian novels by writers including Henry Kingsley, Rosa Praed, Ada Cambridge, and Charles de Boos. The essay tracks the…
1 December 1965 - Review of Making Books: Contemporary Australian Publishing, edited by David Carter and Anne Galligan
This volume of writings from UQP is a timely contribution to a cultural arena currently caught up in discussions about publishing and books, about priorities…
1 May 2009 - Fiction
Harrison-Ford reviews the state of new fiction writing and publishing in Australia.
1 October 1977 - Lesbia Harford’s Homefront Warrior and Women’s World War I Writing
Sometime during the early 1920s, Lesbia Harford wrote The Invaluable Mystery, a novel which concerns Sally, an urban working-class woman, and her struggle to…
1 May 1995 - Australian Literary and Scholarly Publishing in Its International Context
Discusses the state of the Australian publishing industry (in particular the demise of local firms) in the context of developments in publishing in the USA…
1 May 1999 - Authors’ Statements [Frank Hardy]
Frank Hardy discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [John Morrison]
John Morrison discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Thelma Forshaw]
Thelma Forshaw discusses her approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [Peter Cowan]
Peter Cowan discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - Authors’ Statements [T. A. G. Hungerford]
T.A.G. Hungerford discusses his approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - A Survey
Wilding discusses his work as a writer, editor, critic and publisher.
1 October 1977 - Texts and Contexts of the Availability and Editing of Australian Texts
Except for passing comment little has been written about the urgent need for reliable editions of Australian literary texts and about the problems this involves…
1 May 1986 - Small Presses and Little Magazines in the 1970s
Small presses, little magazines. 'Why small?' Walter Stone would always ask, 'why little Why begin from a posture of defeat. Why believe the people who…
1 October 1980 - A Paperback Canon: The Australian Pocket Library
Details the development and production of the Australian Pocket Library, arguing that scrutiny of the Library allows for 'understanding the evolution of Australian cultural values'…
1 May 2000 - The Palmer Abridgement of ‘Such is Life’
In April 1936 Jonathan Cape, the London publisher, informed Vance Palmer that he had been thinking of re-issuing Joseph Furphy's Such is Life. But…
1 October 1978 - Editing ALS: A Memoir
Australian Literary Studies, launched by A.D. Hope in Hobart in August 1963, celebrates its fiftieth anniversary in 2013. This is an unusual span for…
1 June 2013 - Authors’ Statements [Anna Couani]
Anna Couani discusses her approach to writing.
1 October 1981 - In the Club: Australian Crime Fiction in the USA 1943-1954
Carol Hetherington investigates the inclusion of Australian authors in Doubleday’s Crime Club lists in the period 1943-1954. She argues ‘that the important common factor in…
1 October 2012 - The Creation of Rachel Henning: Personal Correspondence to Publishing Phenomenon
‘*The Letters of Rachel Henning* is the best-selling collection of correspondence ever published in Australia. Covering the years 1853 to 1882, the letters were first…
1 October 2012 - Rediscoverd Lawson Sketch of 1863 ‘Selection Farms’
‘Paul Eggert writes on the discovery of Henry Lawson’s prose sketch ‘Selection Farms’.
1 October 2012
Contributors
- Donna Coates
- Peter Cowan
- Anna Couani
- Bryony Cosgrove
- Paul Eggert
- Thelma Forshaw
- Clive Hamer
- Carl Harrison-Ford
- Frank Hardy
- T. A. G. Hungerford
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Laurie Hergenhan
- Carol Hetherington
- Neil James
- John Morrison
- Terri-Ann White
- Michael Wilding
- Michael Wilding
- Michael Wilding
- David Robert Walker