Spinifex director Susan Hawthorne reflects on the damaging effects and pervasiveness of porn in contemporary society after attending the Stop Porn Conference in Boston.

Hijabs and motherhood seem to be high on the news agendas this week.
Last week The Australian columnist Janet Albrechtsen questioned Western women's c...
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Susan Hawthorne, author of last year's Earth's Breath, will be giving two readings in San Francisco this month.

Solo event at The Sitting Room, 16 J...
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Lesley Thomson's book A Kind of Vanishing is a finalist for the People's Book Prize! We at Spinifex are crossing our fingers for her.

Voting for the prize is open, and if you fancy you can vote here.

Getting Real editor Melinda Tankard Reist has written a blogpost on Maggie Hamilton's new book What's Happening to Our Boys?. Maggie contributed a ch...
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Ariel Salleh, editor of Eco-Sufficiency & Global Justice, has a new article up on On Line Opinion about Labor's proposed resource tax. Ariel asks, 'C...
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Spinifex author Kathleen Barry has written on the Israeli flotilla for On Line Opinion. Kathleen's forthcoming book, Unmaking War, Remaking Men will be available as a print and eBook in October.

Read the latest editorial from Meanjin's Sophie Cunningham, inspired by hearing Luce Irigaray and reflecting on the women's voices, images and though...
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Betty McClellan discusses her new book, Unspeakable: A Feminist Ethic of Speech with Spinifex director, Susan Hawthorne at Readings Carlton on Mon 24...
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Where eBooks tread, metadata will follow. We've been writing lots of metadata for all of our books recently, and Susan Hawthorne has written a poem about it. You can find it at our blog.