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Transit Lounge
Transit Lounge Publishing is an independent Australian literary small press founded in Melbourne in 2005. It publishes literary fiction, narrative and trade non-fiction. The books it publishes show the diversity of Australian culture. Distribution is by NewSouth. Transit Lounge was founded by two librarians, Barry Scott and Tess Rice. The first book they published was ''Sing, and Don’t Cry: A Mexican Journal'' by Cate Kennedy. In 2011 they published ''Tales from the Cancer Ward,'' a memoir by filmmaker Paul Cox. It is a member of the Small Press Network, a group of small and independent Australian publishers. Selected award-winning books *''The English Class'' (2010) by Ouyang Yu, winner of the Multicultural Award at the 2011 New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards *''Exile: The Lives and Hopes of Werner Pelz'' (2012) by Roger Averill, winner of the Non-fiction book at the 2012 Western Australian Premier's Book Awards *'' Black Rock White City'' (2015) by A. S. Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Small Press
A small press is a publisher with annual sales below a certain level or below a certain number of titles published. The terms "indie publisher" and "independent press" and others are sometimes used interchangeably. Independent press is generally defined as publishers that are not part of large conglomerates or multinational corporations. Many small presses rely on specialization in genre fiction, poetry, or limited-edition books or magazines, but there are also thousands that focus on niche non-fiction markets. Definitions In the United States, this has been mentioned as publishers with annual turnover of under $50 million, or those that publish on average 10 or fewer titles per year. Other terms for small press, sometimes distinguished from each other and sometimes used interchangeably, are small publishers, independent publishers, or indie presses. Independent publishers (as defined above) made up about half of the market share of the book publishing industry in the US i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Prize
The Russell Prize (Russell Prize for Humour Writing) is an Australian literary prize awarded every second year by the State Library of New South Wales to a humorous book. It was established in 2014 through a donation by Peter Wentworth Russell, "a farmer, businessman and passionate reader". A shortlist of six books is selected and publicly announced before the prize, which comes with a cash award of $10,000. In 2021 a second category, Humour Writing for Young People, was introduced for a work aimed at the 5–12 age group. Both winners were announced in June 2021. Russell Prize for Humour Writing Humour Writing for Young People References External links * {{Official website, https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/russell-prize-humour-writing Australian literary awards Awards established in 2015 Comedy and humor literary awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Book Publishing Companies Of Australia
A book is a medium for recording information in the form of writing or images, typically composed of many pages (made of papyrus, parchment, vellum, or paper) bound together and protected by a cover. The technical term for this physical arrangement is ''codex'' (plural, ''codices''). In the history of hand-held physical supports for extended written compositions or records, the codex replaces its predecessor, the scroll. A single sheet in a codex is a leaf and each side of a leaf is a page. As an intellectual object, a book is prototypically a composition of such great length that it takes a considerable investment of time to compose and still considered as an investment of time to read. In a restricted sense, a book is a self-sufficient section or part of a longer composition, a usage reflecting that, in antiquity, long works had to be written on several scrolls and each scroll had to be identified by the book it contained. Each part of Aristotle's ''Physics'' is called a bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyril Wong
Cyril Wong (; born 27 June 1977) is a poet, fiction author and literary critic. Biography Born in 1977, Cyril Wong attended Saint Patrick's School, Singapore, and Temasek Junior College, before completing a doctoral degree in English literature at the National University of Singapore. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies around the world, including the ''Atlanta Review'', ''Fulcrum'', '' Poetry International'', ''Cimarron Review'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Poetry New Zealand'', '' Mānoa'', '' Ambit'', ''Dimsum'', ''Asia Literary Review'', ''The Bungeishichoo'' (Japanese translation), the Norton Anthology '' Language for a New Century'', and ''Chinese Erotic Poems'' by Everyman's Library. He has been a featured poet at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, the Hong Kong International Literary Festival, the Sydney Writers' Festival, and the Singapore Writers Festival. ''Time'' magazine has written that "his work expands beyond simple sexuality ... to embrac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geraldine Wooller
Geraldine Wooller (born 7 November 1941) is an Australian novelist, short-story writer and essayist. Her novels are predominantly reflective works on the nature of love, friendship, loss and endurance. Wooller grew up in Perth, primarily raised by her Scottish mother. She commenced her tertiary education in the 1970s, the era of the second wave of feminism. Her working career has involved the administration of music education, public relations, schools liaison for prospective university students and teaching both foreign languages and English as a second language for adults. She was encouraged in her early writing and her work commended by the late Elizabeth Jolley. She now writes from her home in Perth and spends extended periods each year in southern Italy where much of her work is set. Her fifth titleCome out to Play a collection of short stories was published in 2017. Her latest title, Degree of Madness deals with themes of religiosity, derangement, lesbian love, hetero-se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonya Voumard
Sonya Voumard is an Australian writer and lecturer who has taught non-fiction for many years at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) and most recently at Southern Cross University. Voumard has published one work of fiction (2008), two book length works of non-fiction and several articles for Australian newspapers, magazines and literary journals. Prior to academia, Voumard spent over 20 years as a journalist working for major newspapers and magazines in Australia such as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and ''The Age''. Voumard's academic articles have also been published in Meanjin, Griffith Review and Island. In 2015, Voumard achieved a Doctorate of Creative Arts at UTS with her dissertation titled; "The Power Dynamics between Journalists and their Human Subjects". As an author and an essayist, Voumard's work encompasses a variety of themes but specialises in the ethics of storytelling and questions of story ownership in the context of non-fiction and memoir. Voumard's first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vicki Viidikas
Vicki Viidikas (25 September 1948 – 27 November 1998) was a twentieth-century Australian poet and prose writer. Her first poem, ''At East Balmain,'' was published when she was 19 years old. Her poetry, fiction and drawings were published in literary magazines, as well as several collections of poetry. She wrote prolifically up until her untimely death at 50 years old, which was much mourned in Australia's poetry community. Viidikas was an iconic member of the collection of Sydney poets now known as the “generation of ‘68”. The ‘ counter culture’ and her travels in Asia, especially India, are recurrent subjects in her poetry. Early life Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. Her mother, Betty Kunig, was Anglo-Australian, her father Estonian. She had a sister, Ingrid Lisners, who has been involved with publishing the collection ''New and Rediscovered'' in tribute to her sister. Viidikas attended schools in Queensland and Sydney, until the age of 15 w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nike Sulway
Nike Sulway (''née'' Bourke; born 1968) is an Australian novelist. Career Nike Sulway is a novelist, short story writer, researcher, and teacher who works across speculative and literary fiction. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Griffith University and is a graduate of the Clarion South Writers Workshop. Her short fiction and poetry have been published in a range of journals, including '' Lightspeed'', ''Shimmer'', '' Interzone'', '' Fantasy Magazine'', '' Review of Australian Fiction'', ''Meanjin'', ''Liminality'', '' Southerly'', ''Verity La'', '' Cordite Poetry Review'' and ''ASIM'' (''Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine''). She has also had works included in a range of anthologies, including The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, vol. 10 (edited by Jonathan Strahan), ''The Best of Shimmer'', ''Letters to Tiptree'', and ''Mythic Resonance''. As a novelist, she writes both mainstream or literary fiction, though her works consistently focus on the role of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Smith (author)
Aaron Smith is an author, freelance journalist and newspaper editor who writes for a range of print and online publications. His works have appeared in publications around the world. He has had two nonfiction books published in Australia, New Zealand, USA and the UK. Biography Aaron Smith was born in the UK and grew up in Tasmania, Australia. After studying environmental science at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, he worked as an actor and playwright in Melbourne, with productions in the 2003 Melbourne Comedy and 2002 Melbourne Fringe Festivals While traveling Asia and Latin America between 2005 and 2009, Smith started writing travel articles. Upon returning to Australia in 2009, Smith completed a master's degree in journalism from the University of Tasmania and now writes for various publications. His magazine articles have appeared in various print publications, includinAustralian Geographic Magazine Australian Traveller and Griffith Review. Smith is the editor of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Salom
Philip Salom (born 8 August 1950) is an Australian poet and novelist, whose poetry books have drawn widespread acclaim. His 14 collections of poetry and four novels are noted for their originality and expansiveness and surprising differences from title to title. His poetry has won awards in Australia and the UK. His novel ''Waiting'' was shortlisted for Australia's prestigious 2017 Miles Franklin Literary Award, the 2017 Prime Minister's Award for Literature and the 2016 Victorian Premier's Award for Literature. His well-reviewed novel ''The Returns'' (2019) was a finalist in the 2020 Miles Franklin Award. During the late 2020 pandemic, he published ''The Fifth Season''. In 2021 Salom was recognised with the Outstanding Achievement Award of the 4th Boao International Poetry Award. Biography Growing up on a farm in Brunswick Junction in the South West region of Western Australia, Salom had an isolated childhood before boarding at Bunbury during his high school years. He went on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Savage
Angela Savage (born 1966) is an Australian author. Biography Savage was born in Melbourne and educated at Siena College, Camberwell. She graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1989 with a BA (Combined Honours) in Criminology and the History and Philosophy of Science. She has worked for the Australian Red Cross in Southeast Asia, 1993–1998; for Sexual Health & Family Planning Australia in the South Pacific, 2000–2002; for the Victorian Council of Social Service, 2002–2007; and for the Association of Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres (Melbourne, Victoria), 2009–2014. Career Savage won the Victorian Premier's Unpublished Manuscript Award in 2004 for ''Thai Died''. Her first novel, based on this manuscript (''Behind the Night Bazaar,'' Text Publishing, 2006), was shortlisted for the 2007 Ned Kelly Award for Best First Fiction. Her second novel (''The Half-Child'', Text Publishing, 2010) was shortlisted for the 2011 Ned Kelly Award for Best Fiction. In 2011 she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Holland (author)
Patrick Gordon Holland is an Australian novelist and short story writer who has won several literary awards for his works about Australian bushrangers and Asian culture. Biography Holland grew up in outback Australia working as a horseman for local station owners. He later moved to Brisbane, Queensland, where he attained his PhD at Queensland University of Technology, researching non-place, sacred place and Japanese religio-aesthetics. Holland is an assistant professor of humanities and creative writing at Hong Kong Baptist University. He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association and was a judge of the 2016 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Literature Holland's writing is influenced by Greek Orthodoxy, to which he converted, and his experiences working in Asia and outback Australia. He has described his writing style as minimalist, and also 'ambient' with reference to Japanese literature, in particular the works of Yasunari Kawabata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
