${article/topic_title}$ 'My Sister Chaos' wins Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction

Posted by Anonymous on 2012-04-19 14:00:00 (2315 views)

Lara Fergus's My Sister Chaos has won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction!

∇ Congratulations Lara! ∇

${article/topic_title}$ 'My Sister Chaos' finalist for Lambda Literary Award

Posted by Anonymous on 2012-03-20 13:00:00 (5105 views)

Congratulations to Lara Fergus! Her novel, My Sister Chaos, has been nominated in the Lesbian Debut Fiction category of the 24th Annual Lambda Literary Awards!

${article/topic_title}$ Publishing Triangle Awards

Posted by Anonymous on 2012-03-08 13:00:00 (1695 views)

Two Spinifex authors listed in US Publishing Triangle Awards. Lara Fergus' My Sister Chaos for Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction and Susan Hawthorne's Cow for the Audre Lorde Award for Lesbian Poetry.

Congratulations to our two authors!

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Susan Hawthorne, Cow, Lara Fergus, My Sister Chaos, Publishing Triangle Awards, Triangle, Triangle Awards, lesbian, poetry

${article/topic_title}$ Cow continues to entrance

Posted by Anonymous on 2012-02-13 22:00:00 (1638 views)

Cow by Susan Hawthorne continues to receive great reviews, check out this one in the Lambda Literary

${article/topic_title}$ Another Print Run

Posted by Anonymous on 2011-11-11 00:30:00 (1506 views)

The following titles are back from the printer and available now: Feminist Fables by Suniti Namjoshi, Daughters of the Dreaming by Diane Bell, Getting Real edited by Melinda Tankard Reist, Big Porn Inc edited by Melinda Tankard Reist and Abigail Bray and Cow by Susan Hawthorne

${article/topic_title}$ Big Porn Inc stirs the media pot

Posted by Anonymous on 2011-09-07 18:00:00 (1525 views)

Big Porn Inc is out and causing quite a stir: ABC Religion & Ethics website posted an edited extract from Helen Pringle’s piece, The Porn Report: A studied indifference to harm and an edited extract by Melinda Tankard Reist & Abigail Bray, Nothing Radical About Mass Market Masturbation. Cordelia Fine wrote this fabulous, thought-provoking piece in The Monthly, The Porn Ultimatum: The Dehumanising Effects of Smut. Melinda Tankard Reist featured on ABC’s The Drum and Q&A; and The Weekend Australian magazine published an extract from a personal story included in Big Porn Inc, The Impact of Pornography on My Life. And finally, this erudite piece from Helen Pringle on Online opinion: Pornography: Who’s sleeping with whom?

${article/topic_title}$ Angel Bread: Writing My Mother, Francesca Rendle-Short on writing her memoir

Posted by 59 on 2011-09-01 20:00:00 (1798 views)

Check out this heartfelt piece in Axon by Francesca on the writing of Bite Your Tongue and also two great reviews from Overland and Readings. Francesca also appeared on ABC RN Life Matters, watch this here.

${article/topic_title}$ Omissions

Posted by Anonymous on 2011-08-01 12:00:00 (1365 views)

Spinifex press would like to apologise to Suzanne Bellamy for failing to acknowledge her artwork on the cover of Finola Moorhead’s novel, Remember the Tarantella. The credit should read:

Cover art by Suzanne Bellamy “Starship” porcelain 1989.

We would also like to make the following acknowledgements:

Cover design by Deb Snibson, MAPG

Typeset by Palmer and Higgs

Printed by McPherson's Printing Group

${article/topic_title}$ Gail Dines may have left the country, but the pornography debate continues, mean

Posted by Anonymous on 2011-06-13 23:00:00 (1533 views)

A thought-provoking and genuine piece from Justine Toh on Loving our neighbours in pornland and this op ed by Gail: So who's the bunny as granddaddy of porn reweds?

${article/topic_title}$ Porn Wars at the Sydney Writers' Festival

Posted by Anonymous on 2011-06-01 19:30:00 (1556 views)

Gail Dines, Kate Holden, Catharine Lumby and Leslie Cannold (facilitor) debate the case for pornography at the Sydney Writers' Festival 2011. Listen here or watch here.