Living life as a poem: playing with ideas of poetry
People can’t live by poetry alone. But I know I couldn’t live without it.
Rebekah Clarkson remembers storybooks buried in her childhood consciousness
I would have forgotten all about The Little House were it not for Helen Garner’s short essay reflecting on her visceral and enduring memory of a childhood storybook, The Journey of the Stamp Animals.
Backflip from Affirm Press?
A couple of years ago Affirm Press publically made a stand in favour of Australia’s strong independent bookshop culture by not supplying paper versions of our titles to Amazon or the Book Depository.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying About the Prose and Love My Inner Larrikin
I didn’t set out to write a larrikin. In fact I thought I was writing a serious book. But then Lachie Munro, the hero, or anti-hero of Something For Nothing emerged.
Meet Our New Assistant Editor, Coco McGrath
The plan was always to become an editor with a trade publisher (if you check my Grade 12 notebook it has ‘Book editor’ listed as #1 dream job, followed, for reasons I can no longer explain, by ‘Town Planner’).
Martin on his own (accidental) complicity in sexism in sport
Growing up, I never appreciated my privilege or paid it any mind to be honest.
Ten Things I Hate About Christmas
Affirm Press Sales & Marketing Director Keiran Rogers reflects back on Christmas 2016 and gives us the ten things he hates about Christmas
Martin on why it’s not as much fun if you’re only ever winning (except in golf)
What a year 2016 has been! And yet I’ve learned so little.
Perhaps the lessons of the recent past will reveal themselves when I’m not panicking about the hundred things undone, the Christmas shopping unshopped, and the promised blog piece for Grace heretofore unwritten. It’s been a bumper year for Affirm Press and we’ve continued the huge expansion of recent years. Blahdy blah. But like every other publisher, we’re weighing up the what ifs – what if we’d recognised what the least successful ten books would be, and focused all our energy on the top ten instead? Why does it never […]
Diving Deep for Charity
On 7 January I will face my fear of water and swim the world's largest open water event: the Lorne Pier to Pub. I agreed to take on the challenge nearly 12 months ago as a way of raising funds for domestic violence.
What Makes a Good Bookshop?
There are a few things I look for when I visit a new bookshop.