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University Of Queensland Press
University of Queensland Press (UQP) is an Australian publishing house based in Brisbane, Queensland. Founded in 1948 as a traditional university press, UQP now publishes books for general readers across fiction, non-fiction, poetry, children's and young adult. History The University of Queensland Press was founded in 1948 as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the University of Queensland. Established as a publisher of scholarly works, UQP made its transition into trade publishing in the late-1960s, largely through poetry and the ''Paperback Poets'' series. Considered revolutionary at the time, ''Paperback Poets'' was a series of poetry editions established after the poet and novelist David Malouf expressed a desire to produce a new poetry format that was affordable and had mass appeal. Alongside Malouf's debut collection '' Bicycle and Other Poems'', the ''Paperback Poets'' series published volumes by writers such as Rodney Hall and Michael Dransfield. In 1990, UQP was the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Queensland
The University of Queensland is a Public university, public research university located primarily in Brisbane, the capital city of the Australian state of Queensland. Founded in 1909 by the Queensland parliament, UQ is one of the six sandstone universities, an informal designation of the oldest university in each state. UQ is also a founding member of edX, Australia's leading Group of Eight (Australian universities), Group of Eight and the international research-intensive Association of Pacific Rim Universities. The main #St Lucia campus, St Lucia campus occupies much of the riverside inner suburb of St Lucia, Queensland, St Lucia, southwest of the Brisbane central business district. Other UQ campuses and facilities are located throughout Queensland, the largest of which are the University of Queensland Gatton Campus, Gatton campus and the Herston campus, notably including the University of Queensland Mayne Medical School, Mayne Medical School. UQ's overseas establishments incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tara June Winch
Tara June Winch (born 2 December 1983) is an Australian writer. She is the 2020 winner of the Miles Franklin Award for her book '' The Yield''. Biography Tara June Winch was born in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia on 2 December 1983. Her father is from the Wiradjuri nation in western New South Wales, and she grew up in the coastal area of Woonona within the Wollongong region. She often explores the two geographical places in her fiction. She is based in Australia and France. Her first novel, ''Swallow the Air'' (2006), won several Australian literary awards. The judges for ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' Best Young Novelists award wrote that the book "is distinguished by its natural grace and vivid language" and that "as with many first books it deals with issues of family, growing up and stepping into the world. But it strives to connect these experiences to broader social issues, though never in a didactic fashion". In 2008 the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiativ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of University Presses
A university press is an academic publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ... house affiliated with an institution of higher learning that specializes in the publication of monographs and scholarly journals. This article outlines notable presses of this type, arranged by country; where appropriate, the page also specifies the academic institution that each press is affiliated with. It also notes whether a press belongs to the Association of University Presses (AUP), the Association of European University Presses (AEUP), Association of Canadian University Presses (ACUP), or the . Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Colombia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Estonia Ethiopia Finla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Book Industry Awards
The Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) are publishers' and literary awards held by the Australian Publishers Association (APA) annually in Australia since 2001. The awards celebrate "the achievements of authors and publishers in bringing Australian books to readers". Award recipients are first selected by an academy of more than 200 industry professionals, and then a shortlist and winners are chosen by judging panels. In 2025, ABIA is presenting 14 book awards, eight business awards, and the Lloyd O’Neil and Pixie O’Harris awards. History The Australian Book Publishers Association (ABPA) first presented the Lloyd O'Neil Award for "exceptional long service to the industry", at the annual awards night in 1992, in honour of publisher Lloyd O'Neil, after his death in February 1992. The first Pixie O'Harris Award was presented in 1994, in hour of book illustrator Pixie O'Harris, which recognises "publishers, editors, creators, booksellers, publicists and other industry r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prime Minister's Literary Awards
The Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards (PMLA) were announced at the end of 2007 by the incoming First Rudd ministry following the 2007 election. They are administered by the Minister for the Arts.Call for entries (22 February 2008) The awards were designed as "a new initiative celebrating the contribution of to the nation's cultural and intellectual life." The awards are held annually and initially provided a tax-free prize of A$100,000 in each category, making it Australia's richest literary award in total. In 2011, the prize money was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stella Prize
The Stella Prize is an Australian annual literary award established in 2013 for writing by Australian women in all genres, worth $50,000. It was originally proposed by Australian women writers and publishers in 2011, modelled on the UK's Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (formerly the Orange Prize for Fiction). The award derives its name from the author Miles Franklin, whose full name was "Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin." It was established by a group of 11 Australian women writers, editors, publishers and booksellers who became concerned about the poor representation of books by women in Australia's top literary prize, the Miles Franklin Award. "After a rapid acceleration in women's rights in the '70s and '80s, things have started to go backwards," Sophie Cunningham said in a keynote address at the 2011 Melbourne Writers' Festival. "Women continue to be marginalised in Australian culture and the arts sector – which likes to pride itself on its liberal values – is, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin Award
The Miles Franklin Literary Award is an annual literary prize awarded to "a novel which is of the highest literary merit and presents Australian life in any of its phases". The award was set up according to the Will (law), will of Miles Franklin (1879–1954), who is best known for writing the Australian classic ''My Brilliant Career'' (1901). She bequeathed her estate to fund this award. As of 2016, the award is valued at Australian dollar, A$60,000. __TOC__ Winners 1957–1969 1970–1979 1980–1989 1990–1999 2000–2009 2010–2019 2020– Controversies Author Frank Moorhouse was disqualified from consideration for his novel ''Grand Days'' because the story was set in Europe during the 1920s and was not sufficiently Australian. 1995 winner Helen Dale, Helen Darville, also known as Helen Demidenko and Helen Dale, won for ''The Hand That Signed the Paper'' and sparked a debate about authenticity in Australian literature. Darville claimed to be of Ukrainian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Award
A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded Literature, literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Many awards are structured with one organization (usually a non-profit organization) as the presenter and public face of the award, and another organization as the financial sponsor or backer, who pays the prize remuneration and the cost of the ceremony and public relations, typically a Sponsor (commercial), corporate sponsor who may sometimes attach their name to the award (such as the Orange Prize). Types of awards There are awards for various writing formats including poetry and novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a certain genre of fiction or non-fiction writing (such as science fiction or politics). There are also awards dedicated to works in individual languages, such as the Miguel de Cervantes Prize (Spanish language, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rae White
Rae White is a Brisbane-based poet and writer. White is non-binary and the founding editor of the online periodical ''#EnbyLife: Journal for non-binary and gender diverse creatives''. White's 2017 poetry collection ''Milk Teeth'' won the Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, was commended in the 2018 Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the 2019 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards. Their poetry and writing has been published in the Australian Poetry Journal, Capricious, Cordite, Meanjin, Overland, and Rabbit. White's poems have been described as "challeng ngnotions of category, identity, form and gender" and having an "ability to incorporate new techniques without alienating the reader". They are also involved in poetry judging panels, including the 2019 and 2020 ''Anne Elder Award''. They have a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Production from QUT. Published works * ''All the Colours of the Rainbow'' published by Hachette (2025) * ''Bird Beak + Rock Shard'' in ''Cel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicity Plunkett
Felicity Plunkett is an Australian poet, literary critic, editor and academic. Biography Felicity Plunkett is a writer of poetry, essays, and short stories, and a widely published critic. She has a BA (Honours) and PhD from the University of Sydney and began her career as a university academic. She was poetry editor at the University of Queensland Press from 2010 to 2018. In 2016, she wrote a lyric, ''Todesfuge'', for composer Andrée Greenwell's album, ''Gothic.'' She worked with composer Andrew Ford, writing "Respair" for his song cycle ''Red Dirt Hymns''. Awards and nominations * ABC Radio National 2003 Short Story Competition for "Sleeping Like a Baby" * Newcastle Poetry Prize, 2005, shortlisted for ''The Sea in a Sieve'' * Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2006 for ''October's Road'' and ''Inside Your Wardrobe'' * Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, 2007, for ''Articulate; Stitching the Night; Learning the Bones'' * Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, 2008, winner for ''Vanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Shapcott
Thomas William Shapcott (born 21 March 1935) is an Australian poet, novelist, playwright, editor, librettist, short story writer and teacher. Biography Thomas William Shapcott was born in Ipswich, Queensland, and attended the Ipswich Grammar School with his twin brother, who was born on the previous day (20 March 1935). (The writer is left-handed, but his twin is right-handed.) He left school at 15 to work in his father's accountancy business, but completed an accountancy degree in 1961. In 1967 he graduated in arts from the University of Queensland. His first artistic impulse was to be a composer. By age 19, he had written a number of works, but he turned away from music when he discovered a string quartet he had written unconsciously plagiarised a chamber work by Ernest Bloch. He then worked as a tax accountant, a profession that he pursued for 27 years. He was director of the Australia Council's Literature Board for seven years, and executive director of the National Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize
The Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, named in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, is a literary award for an unpublished poetry manuscript by a Queensland-based author. The prize was established in 2003 and currently comes with prize money of $2000 and a publication contract with the University of Queensland Press. Entry can be submitted from anyone residing in Queensland and the award is administered and managed by the Queensland Poetry Festival on behalf of Arts Queensland. Award winners 2003 Lidija Cvetkovic, ''War is Not the Season for Figs'' 2004 Jaya Savige, ''latecomers'' 2005 Nathan Shepherdson, ''Sweeping the Light Back Into The Mirror'' 2006 Angela Gardner, ''Parts of Speech'' 2007 Sarah Holland-Batt, ''Aria'' 2008 Felicity Plunkett, ''Vanishing Point'' 2009 Rosanna Licari, ''An Absence of Saints'' 2010 Vlanes (Vladislav Nekliaev), ''Another Babylon'' 2011 Nick Powell, ''Water Mirrors'' 2012 Rachael Briggs, ''Free Logic'' 2013 David Stavanger, ''The Spe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
