Affirm Press Welcomes Tash Besliev as Kids Publisher
The appointment of Tash Besliev is a key part of the strategic plan for the independent publisher’s kids list.
Unique partnership with Sweatshop and Diversity Arts creates bold anthology, After Australia
Affirm Press is proud to partner with Diversity Arts Australia and the Western Sydney literacy movement Sweatshop to publish After Australia, an anthology of speculative fiction created by writers from Indigenous and culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
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We're looking for a junior to mid-level publicist to join our dynamic publicity and marketing team.
2015 Stella Prize Winner, The Strays, to Become Six Part Series
A UK/Australian co-production between See Pictures and Apogee Pictures has attracted an award-winning team for the production.
Australia’s The Dictionary of Lost Words tops the ‘hot list’ at Frankfurt
In 1901, the word ‘Bondmaid’ was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it.
Alice Robinson’s The Glad Shout Wins the 2019 Readings Prize for New Fiction
Alice Robinson’s The Glad Shout has won the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction, in the bookseller’s 50th anniversary year.
Three writers chosen for the Affirm Press Mentorship Award 2019
Three writers of middle grade fiction have been selected as the winners of the 2019 Affirm Press Mentorship Award in partnership with Varuna, which focuses on Young Adult and Middle Fiction manuscripts for the first time.
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Tricky’s Bad Day wins CBCA Book of the Year, Early Childhood
Tricky’s Bad Day by Alison Lester has won the 2019 Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) Award for Book of the Year, Early Childhood.
How would you like to be our new commissioning editor?
Following recent successes and having been named Australian Small Publisher of the Year in 2019, the team at Affirm Press is keen to maintain the momentum by recruiting an experienced, entrepreneurial editor who will love commissioning successful books across the breadth of our list (with the exception of the kids list, at least for now).