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30 Jan 2025

Morgan Yasbincek (‘Coming to Nothing’) Shortlisted for Writing WA Literary Coasters Initiative!

Congrats to Morgan Yasbincek. Extracts from her latest book Coming to Nothing have been shortlisted for the Writing WA Literary Coasters Initiative! Two poets…

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28 Jan 2025

‘Host City’ (David Kelly), ‘Holocene Pointbreaks’ (Jake Goetz) and ‘anything can happen’ (Susan Hampton) Shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards!

Felicitations to David Kelly, Jake Goetz, and Susan Hampton, whose respective works Host City (fiction), Holocene Pointbreaks (poetry) and anything can happen (non-fiction) have…

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13 Jan 2025

‘She Doesn’t Seem Autistic’ (Esther Ottaway) and ‘Afterlife’ (Kathryn Lomer) Longlisted for Tasmanian Literary Awards 2025!

Congratulations to Esther Ottaway, Poet (She Doesn’t Seem Autistic) and Kathryn Lomer (Afterlife), whose poetry collections have been longlisted for the Tim Thorne Prize…

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23 Dec 2024

Pitaya Chin’s ‘The Director and the Daemon’ Featured in ’25 Best Australian Books of 2024′! | Guardian Australia

Amazing to see Pitaya Chin’s The Director and the Daemon featured in Guardian Australia‘s ‘The 25 Best Australian Books of 2024’ list! Check it…

Book Review New Release

16 Dec 2024

‘Raging Grace: Australian Writers Speak Out On Disability’ Reviewed by Fiona Murphy | The Saturday Paper

‘There is an exuberance to the works within Raging Grace, both in feeling and form. Words gush across the page – splitting apart, colliding…

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15 Dec 2024

Puncher & Wattmann Submissions Period Now Open!

Got your manuscripts ready? Our submission period is open from today until January 15th! We’re on the look out for shit-hot writing with edge…

Book Review News & Awards

13 Dec 2024

Host City (David Owen Kelly), Only Sound Remains (Hossein Asgari), and The Director & The Daemon (Pitaya Chin) Featured in SMH/The Age’s ‘Best Books of 2024’!

Thrilled to see three Puncher & Wattmann books featured in The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age’s ‘The Year in Books: Writers Pick the Best Reads…

Book Review

10 Dec 2024

‘Object Permanence’ (Toby Fitch) and ‘The Inclination Compass’ (Gareth Sion Jenkins) Reviewed by Samuel J. Cox | Cordite

‘…in their desire to surmount the separation between visual and linguistic, the compartmentalisation of space and time enforced by our sequential written form, the…

Book Review

5 Dec 2024

Philip Salom’s ‘Hologrammatical’ Reviewed by Peter Kenneally | Sydney Morning Herald/The Age

‘Subterranean, crepuscular, and yet elegiac and soft.’ Read Peter Kenneally’s review of Philip Salom‘s poetry collection Hologrammatical in The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age:…

Book Review New Release

2 Dec 2024

‘Raging Grace’ Reviewed by Anders Villani | Australian Book Review

‘More than coherent narrative, then, Raging Grace evokes disabled subjectivities with poetic concision, contradictoriness, and phrasing.’ Anders Villani’s insightful review of the groundbreaking…

New Release News & Awards

30 Nov 2024

Slow Loris Series 5 Launch Happening Saturday, December 7th 5:30PM | Flippy’s Queer Bar

Join us for the launch of Slow Loris Series 5, happening Saturday December 7th 5:30PM at Flippy’s Queer Bar [646 Sydney Rd, Brunswick]! …

New Release

28 Nov 2024

A Report From the “Launch” of ‘A Workingman’s Cemetery’ (Tim Gooding)

A report from the “launch” of Tim Gooding’s brilliant and funny A Workingman’s Cemetery, which you can also buy from: A Workingman’s Cemetery

Book Review

21 Jan 2024

Geoff Page Reviews Near the Border

Drambuies of poetry: A well-turned selection Geoff Page Andrew Sant is a substantial yet somewhat elusive figure in contemporary Australian poetry. Born in London,…

Book Review

1 Oct 2022