Caro Llewellyn’s first novel draws on her experience in the literary industry. She was CEO of the Wheeler Centre and ran literary festivals in Sydney and New York.
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The magazine has gained a cult following, partly by branding itself as a beacon of intellectualism. Here’s how it has changed, and stayed the same, over 100 years.
As executive orders ban teaching ‘gender ideology’ and ‘critical race theory’ and the Big Five publishers file a joint lawsuit against book bans, a new era begins.
‘When all novels are thrust upon you as words of genius,’ wrote George Orwell, ‘it is quite natural to assume that all of them are tripe.’
Mergers within the Australian publishing industry have significant implications for the literary culture.
China’s version of TikTok, Douyin, and its biggest social media app, WeChat, are transforming reading in China – with more influence than BookTok.
New, tech-driven developments, including new imprints by Microsoft and BookTok’s ByteDance, promise to make book publishing faster and more efficient. But what’s lost in the process?
Celebrity children’s books are a recurring phenomenon – from Jamie Oliver and Keira Knightley to Meghan Markle and Jimmy Barnes. But writing for children is harder than it might look.
A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’
Literary discourse requires authors of colour to produce “authentic” narratives. They are then required to embody this “authenticity” when presenting themselves in public.
The choices of author and illustrator Crockett Johnson during the printing process – as well as his civil rights advocacy – make it entirely within the realm of possibility.
According to Nielsen BookScan, Australia’s top lifetime bestseller is the Barefoot Investor followed by Fifty Shades of Grey, The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
It was celebrated as a lads mag in the 90s, and now it’s making a return. What’s changed?
More than 120 new titles for children have been published in Ukraine since the war began in February 2022.
Given the forthcoming retrial, anyone reporting or publishing must take care not to breach the law on contempt of court.
Technically, ChatGPT can do (some of) the work of a human editor. But an experiment comparing three separate human edits of a literary short story to edits by ChatGPT exposes AI’s serious limitations.
Meaningful engagement with diverse writers is still a struggle for the publishing industry.
A loving look at the artists who made the children’s publisher so popular.
Dozens of young writers were published first at Weaver Press, which believed in fiction as a way of telling the truth.
As digital media took off in the 2010s, few believed magazines could survive. While the industry isn’t what is once was, magazines are still very much alive, but why?
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Senior Lecturer, Writing, Department of Media and Communication, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor in Publishing Studies, University of Stirling
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Media and Communications, University of Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Language and Linguistics, Australian National University
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Faculty Research Manager, Macquarie University
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Distinguished Professor of Economics, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, Macquarie University
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Senior Lecturer, Literary Studies and Creative Writing, Monash University
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Director, Monash University Publishing, Monash University
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Lecturer, Publishing, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Journalism, University of Colorado Boulder
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Adjunct Associate Professor, University of New England
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ARC Future Fellow; Professor; Director, Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, The University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing and English, Edith Cowan University