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Monday, July 02, 2018 (13:45:00) The Australian Summit Against Sexual Exploitation (ASASE)
The problem of sexual exploitation is enormous. But at the same time, new opportunities to take back ground are emerging as societies around the globe recognise that what is needed to beat this insidious form of exploitation is a proactive, co-ordinated, multi-agency approach. Now, more than ever, the growing movement to end sexual exploitation needs to work together to establish a new norm – a world free of all forms of exploitation. At the summit, leaders from this movement, along with special guest speakers, will equip, encourage and inspire those who gather. And together, we will harness the combined power that unity brings and achieve real change for human dignity and justice in our State and Federal governments. Spinifex authors JULIE BINDEL, MELINDA TANKARD REIST, RENATE KLEIN and Spinifex contributor CAITLIN ROPER are all speaking at ASASE this year.
For further details please go to the ASASE website here.
Monday, April 23, 2018 (12:00:00) Feminist Publishers: BBC Conversations
Promoting women's writing around the world - Kim Chakanetsa brings together the heads of pioneering feminist publishing houses in Australia and India, and asks how they stay relevant in an age of self-publishing and e-books? Susan Hawthorne runs Spinifex Press in Queensland. She and her partner Renate Klein set it up in 1991 as a response to what they saw as a dearth of diversity in Australian publishing. She says that despite the proliferation of online platforms for writers to publish their work in recent years, they still find they need a real publisher to select, edit and promote them. Susan finds her books in a variety of ways, but is frustrated by the mainstream publishing sector's focus on 'star authors'. Susan is also a writer and her new novel Dark Matters is about a lesbian who is tortured. Urvashi Butalia co-founded India's first exclusively feminist publishing house in 1984, and now runs Zubaan books based in New Delhi. Her aim is to reflect the experiences of marginalised women and she says she is also seeing a resurgence of interest from young women - and young men - in the history of the women's movement in India. Urvashi is an award-winning author herself, whose best known book is The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India. LISTEN TO THEIR DISCUSSION HERE
Thursday, December 31, 2015 (12:00:00) Cow Shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Susan Hawthorne's intriguing book of poems Cow, has been shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry in the NSW Premier's Literary and History Awards. The winners of the 2012 NSW Premier’s Literary and History Awards will be presented at the State Library of NSW on 30 November.
State Library of NSW website.
Sunday, January 03, 2016 (09:00:00) Meeting of the International Committee of Independent Publishers
Susan will be speaking on the English language network, with an overview of the network's activities and focus on the English language network's digital strategies (examples of Australia and India).
For more information, visit the Allice website.
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 (09:20:00) Six-month residency in Rome
We are very happy to announce that Spinifex's very own Susan Hawthorne has been selected for a six month residency at the Whiting studio in Rome next year! Many thanks to the Australia Council for the Arts for making this possible. Congratulazioni! Complimenti! Bravo, Susan!
Thursday, December 31, 2015 (13:00:00) 'Bite Your Tongue' shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award
Francesca Rendle-Short's Bite Your Tongue has been shortlisted for the Colin Roderick Award! The Colin Roderick Award is presented annually by the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies at James Cook University and recognises ‘the best book published in Australia which deals with any aspect of Australian life’. The winner of this year’s award will be announced on 19 October. Congratulations, Francesca!
Wednesday, September 05, 2012 (12:00:00) Big Porn Inc highly commended in The Australian Educational Publishing Awards
Described by the judges as an edgy, modern and refreshing approach to content that is challenging and confronting. Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry is engaging and well written, offering a variety of ideas, values and confronting issues that can be used across a diversity of subject areas within the curriculum.
Sunday, August 19, 2012 (12:00:00) Big Porn Inc shortlisted in the Australian Educational Publishing Awards
Monday, July 16, 2012 (12:00:00) Dr Vandana Shiva is awarded the Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate Award, 2012
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