http://spinifexpress.com.au/ Spinifex Press en-us Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT 1440 CPG-Nuke Dragonfly Spinifex Press News http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html http://spinifexpress.com.au/images/headback.png http://spinifexpress.com.au/ http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=257/ Our latest children’s book Blue and Other Stories by Suniti Namjoshi is almost at the printers, but before we launch it into the Earthisphere we’d love ten of you to read it and write a review. In return we ’ll give you a copy hot off the press as well as two of our other children’s books. And what will we do with your review you ask, well we’ll post it on our website, our Facebook page and we might even use it in our ‘press release’. Keep your word limit to under 100. If you’re up for the job, please email women@spinifexpress.com.au http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=257/ Tue, 04 Dec 2012 11:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=256/ 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. http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=256/ Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=255/ Spinifex director, Susan Hawthorne, is speaking at the International Committee of Independent Publishers in Paris, from October 4-6. 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. http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=255/ Thu, 04 Oct 2012 01:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=254/ 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! http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=254/ Fri, 21 Sep 2012 01:20:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=253/ 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! http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=253/ Thu, 13 Sep 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=252/ 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. http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=252/ Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=250/ 'Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Porn Industry' has made the Australian Educational Publishing Awards shortlist as a Secondary Reference Resource! http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=250/ Mon, 20 Aug 2012 03:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=249/ Congratulations to Dr Vandana Shiva, author of Soil Not Oil and Staying Alive, who has been honoured with the 2012 Fukuoka Grand Prize Laureate Award. For her powerful messages and the initiative in mobilizing people in a grassroots social movement, Dr. Vandana Shiva rightly deserves the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Prize. http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=249/ Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=248/ Lara Fergus's My Sister Chaos has won the Publishing Triangle Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction! ∇ Congratulations Lara! ∇ http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=248/ Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMT http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=247/ 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! http://spinifexpress.com.au/News/article/sid=247/ Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMT