Affirm Press’ Varuna Mentorship Award Applications Open
This year application fees will be halved and a travel bursary provided for successful entrants with health care cards to make the award more accessible for low-income writers.
Paula Keogh on the Affirm Press/Varuna Mentorship
It was an intense and inspiring week. My first meeting with the editors became a three-hour discussion of my manuscript. I’d been working alone for years on my story; to talk about it with editors who had read my work deeply was my idea of heaven.
The Silver Sea raises $40,000 for Children’s Hospital
‘Profit-for-purpose books like this could be risky projects but, with the support of the booksellers, The Silver Sea has exceeded expectations ...'
Jane Godwin: Thinking About Colour
I have wanted to make a book about colour for young children for some time. As well as helping them make sense of the world, it’s a child’s first experience of the aesthetic, of art really, and of a visual, sensory, and emotional response.
Publishing, fast and slow: Martin on ‘slow’ media
Celebrate the ‘slow’ qualities of books—an ancient technology successfully withstanding the digital transformation of the world, created by devoted experts and curated by passionate people.
New partnership with Tablo to find the perfect crime.
This call-out is for fiction or narrative non-fiction around the theme, ‘The Perfect Crime’.
Bookseller in Spotlight: Michaelie Clark, Store Manager of Collins Warrnambool
I can’t go past our local literature. Victoria’s south-west is blessed with lots of literary talent.
The Books We Love From Other Publishers.
Here are a few of our holiday favourites.
Affirm Press to Work 26 January in Support of Changing the Date of Australia Day.
The Affirm Press team has unanimously voted to not observe the public holiday on 26 January in support of changing the Australia Day holiday to a more inclusive date for Australia's First Peoples.
Meet Nicole McKenzie
This year the Australian Publishers Association gave us a pretty fabulous gift through their Publishing Industry Internship Program.