UNSW Press News

Events for Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts

Bureaucrats and Bleeding Hearts: Indigenous Health in Northern Australia by Tess Lea

Melbourne Launch: Readings Carlton, 309 Lygon St, Carlton on Monday 22 September at 6:30pm, with guest speaker Don Watson.

Sydney Launch: Edwards Ford Building (foyer), School of Public Health, University of Sydney on Thursday 18 September at 6 for 6:30pm, with guest speakers Fred Chaney and Associate Professor Paul Torzillo.

Darwin Launch: Nicholas Rothwell from The Australian will launch Tess Lea's new book, with opening remarks by Dr David Ashbridge, CEO of NT Department of Health and Families, and comment by Dr John von Sturmer, anthropologist & artist.

WHEN: 5.30pm, Tuesday August 19
WHERE: Old Darwin Hospital Lands, access via Lambell Terrace, Larrakeyah
RSVP: Friday 15 August on 08 8946 6965 or sspr@cdu.edu.au

UNSW Press author wins Blake Poetry Prize

Congratulations to Mark Tredinnick, author of The Little Red Writing Book and the upcoming The Little Green Grammar Book, who has taken out the first ever Blake Poetry Prize in the Blake Prize for Religious Art. The Blake Poetry Prize has been established to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore the nature of spirituality in the twenty-first century. A second entry submitted by Mark was also named ‘highly commended’.

When I'm 64 Launch

When I'm 64: The New Retirement by Donna Gibbs will be launched on September 1 2008 at Joy Yeo Centre, Roseville College, 27 Bancroft Avenue, Roseville NSW at 5.30pm.

Big White Lie Shortlisted

Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia by John Fitzgerald has been shortlisted for the 2008 Queensland Premier's Literary Awards in the History Book category. The winners will be announced on September 16, 2008.

Events for Renovation Nation

Renovation Nation: Our obsession with home by Fiona Allon

Tuesday August 19, 6.30pm: Fiona Allon in conversation with journalist and author George Megalogenis at Readings Books, 309 Lygon Street, Carlton.

Friday August 22, 6.30 for 7pm: Fiona Allon in conversation with Sydney Morning Herald columnist Annabel Crabb at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe. RSVP: 02 9660 2333

Parentonomics Launch

Catherine de Fontenay will launch Parentonomics: An economist dad's parenting experiences by Joshua Gans at the Melbourne Writers' Festival, ACMI Function Space (groundfloor), Federation Square, Melbourne on Sunday August 31 at 12:00pm.
RSVP: marketing@unswpress.com.au

Events for "The F Word"

The F Word: How we learned to swear by feminism by Jane Caro and Catherine Fox

Tuesday June 17, 5.30-7pm - Launch by Wendy McCarthy at Lord Nelson, The Rocks

Thursday June 19, 6.30 for 7pm - In Conversation with Jane Caro, Catherine Fox and Catherine Lumby at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037, RSVP: 9660 2333

Tuesday July 8, 1pm - Jane Caro at Stanton Library

Sunday August 24, 10am - Launch by Leslie Cannold at the Melbourne Writers' Festival: ACMI Function Space (groundfloor), Federation Square, Flinders Street, Melbourne.
RSVP: marketing@unswpress.com.au

Ernest Scott Prize 2008

Congratulations to UNSW Press author John Fitzgerald who won the 2008 Ernest Scott Prize for his book Big White Lie: Chinese Australians in White Australia.
The prize is awarded for the most distinguished contribution to Australian or New Zealand history.

Selling Sex: A Hidden History of Prostitution by Raelene Frances was also shortlisted for the prize.

Bye-Bye Charlie Launch

Bye-Bye Charlie: Stories from the Vanishing World of Kew Cottages by Corinne Manning will be launched by the Hon Jenny Macklin MP on Saturday 23 August at 2.30pm at the Treetops Room, Melbourne Museum, 11 Nicholson Street, Carlton.

RSVP by August 8 to Udani Gunawardena on 03 9479 2430 or u.gunawardena@latrobe.edu.au

Howard's Fourth Government Launch

Howard's Fourth Government: Australian Commonwealth Administration 2004-2007 edited by Chris Aulich and Roger Wettenhall will be launched by Jack Waterford, Editor-at-Large of The Canberra Times.

WHERE: Law School Foyer, Building 6, University of Canberra

WHEN: Wednesday 2 July 2008 at 5.30 for 6.00pm

RSVP: Ms Sheila Egan, (02) 62015061 or Sheila.Egan@canberra.edu.au

Events for Politics in the Blood

Politics in the Blood: The Anthonys of Richmond by Paul Davey

July 8: Talk at the Sydney Institute, 41 Phillip Street, Sydney at 5.30 for 6pm. RSVP 2 9252 3366

June 12-14: Launch at the National Party Conference at Parliament House, Canberra.

2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards

Congratulations to UNSW Press author Tom Griffiths who won the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction at the NSW Premier's Literary Awards on Monday May 19, 2008.

Judges' comments:

"Tom Griffiths’ Slicing the Silence is a sustained meditation on wildness and landscape, on ice, ecology and story; it is a vivid history of human enterprise and folly at the farthest reaches of culture. It is an impeccably researched, deeply felt, and elegantly made work of literary nonfiction, the outstanding work among this year’s entries."

UNSW Press authors shortlisted for the 2008 NSW Premier's Literary Awards:

John Fitzgerald Big White Lie - Community Relations Commissions Award
Tom Griffiths Slicing the Silence - Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction
Glen Nicholls Deported - Gleebooks Prize
Peta Stephenson Outsiders Within - Community Relations Commissions Award and Gleebooks Prize

Events for "Believers"

Believers: Does Australian Catholicism have a future? by Paul Collins

Tuesday May 13, 7.30pm - Talk at "Spirituality in the Pub", Carlisle Castle Hotel, Newtown

Thursday June 26, 6.30 for 7pm - In Conversation with Stephen Crittenden at Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe 2037, RSVP: 9660 2333

Book Club

The Book Is Dead A book club for writers at Avid Reader - meet Sherman Young over i-chat on March 27, 7pm. Free event, RSVP essential. 3846 3422 or books@avidreader.com.au

Book Launch

Who Owns Our Health? by Thomas Faunce will be launched by Helen Watchirs, ACT Human Rights and Discrimination Commissioner, on 20th March 2008, at Paperchain Bookstore, Manuka 6.00pm.