University of Queensland Press

05/03/2024

💫 We’re hiring!

We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Marketing Senior Officer to join our award-winning publishing house. In this role, you will develop and implement UQP’s digital content strategy, support UQP’s brand and campaigns to increase engagement across digital channels and publicise UQP titles as required.

◼️ UQP is one of Australia’s oldest and most respected publishing houses, and three-time winner of the ABIA’s Small Publisher of the Year Award (in 2021, 2022 and 2023).

📆 Applications close Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11PM AEST.

👉 To learn more, and apply, visit https://bit.ly/4a03OIS

05/03/2024

🎉 We're delighted to share the news that Melissa Lucashenko's latest novel 'Edenglassie' has been longlisted for the 2024 Stella Prize.

'These are characters who need to exist in the world. Lucashenko’s testament to them and their stories makes us all bear witness.' The Stella Prize judges' comments

For the full report, visit the UQP blog.
https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/edenglassie-longlisted-for-the-2024-stella-prize

28/02/2024

🎉 Congratulations to the UQP authors who have been awarded places on the 2024 CBCAs Notable List.

🏆️ 'Meet Me at the Moon Tree' by Shivaun Plozza (Book of the Year: Younger Readers)

🏆️ 'The Garden at the End of the World' by Cassy Polimeni, illustrated by Briony Stewart (Book of the Year: Picture Books)

The 2024 CBCAs Shortlist will be announced 19 March.

https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-titles-on-the-2024-cbca-notables-list

26/02/2024

🎉 Happy publication day to our March new releases! To celebrate, we're giving away two copies of:

📙 'Always Will Be' by Mykaela Saunders
📗 'The Other Side of Daylight' by David Brooks
📕 'Breath' by Carly-Jay Metcalfe
📘 'Leo and Ralph' by Peter Carnavas Author/Illustrator

👇 To enter, make sure you’re following us and then tell us in the comments which book you'd like to read and why.

Competition open to Aus/NZ residents only, entries close 10am AEST Monday 1st Arpil, across Facebook & Instagram with winners announced in the comments. There'll be one winner for each platform. Good luck!

20/02/2024

💫 Acquisition news! 💫

We're thrilled to announce that UQP have acquired world rights to Larissa Behrendt's new novel, 'Alchemy'.

Larissa's previous novel with UQP was the bestselling 'After Story' winner of the Voss Literary Prize, and longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award.

Learn more about Larissa's latest work in the full announcement, below.

19/02/2024

Join Peter Carnavas Author/Illustrator for the launch of his latest book, 'Leo & Ralph' with Beyond the Book Literature Festival on the Sunshine Coast, this Thursday evening!

🪐 Coming March 2024, 'Leo & Ralph' is a stellar novel about space, starting over and the best friend you could ever imagine.

Tickets available here: https://beyondthebook.com.au/tickets

Here’s Florence, thinking about the treat she’ll get after our photo shoot for my novel, Leo and Ralph.
I’m incredibly proud of this book, about a boy and his imaginary alien friend. I’ll be launching it at Beyond the Book this Thursday evening, 5:30pm, at Immanuel Lutheran College. It’s a great chance for families to meet a bunch of authors, and I’d love to see you there.
Check out all the Beyond the Book details here: https://beyondthebook.com.au
It’s not too late to book talks and workshops with some of Australia’s finest book creators.

16/02/2024

🪐 Coming March 2024: 'Leo and Ralph' by Peter Carnavas Author/Illustrator

Join us at the launch of 'Leo and Ralph' at Beyond the Book on Thursday 22 February! Tickets and more information available here: https://beyondthebook.com.au/peter-carnavas

📘 Leo and Ralph have been best friends ever since Ralph flew down from one of Jupiter's moons. But now Leo's older, and Mum and Dad think it’s time to say goodbye to Ralph. When the family moves to a small country town, they hope Leo might finally make a real friend. But someone like Ralph is hard to leave behind...

Available to pre-order at your local bookstore or online with UQP.
https://www.uqp.com.au/books/leo-and-ralph

05/02/2024

The Flirtation of Girls - an evening with poet Sara Saleh
Friday 16 February 6.30 pm
Brunswick Library

Join award-winning poet and novelist, Sara Saleh as she discusses her new poetry collection, The Flirtation of Girls.

Sara’s stunning collection explores the lives of girls and women as they come into being amidst war, exile, and migration.

Sara is one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary poets and the recipient of
multiple prestigious awards including the Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize and
the Australian Book Review’s Peter Porter Poetry Prize.

Registrations essential. Book via Eventbrite: https://sarasaleh.eventbrite.com.au
or call Brunswick Library on 9389 8600.

Please contact the library before the event if you have any specific access requirements for you to fully participate.

01/02/2024

🎉 Congratulations Ellen van Neerven and Melissa Lucashenko for their wins tonight at the 2024 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards!

🏆 'Edenglassie' by Melissa Lucashenko has been awarded the prize for Fiction.
🏆'Personal Score' by Ellen van Neerven has been award the prize for Non-Fiction.

To read more about these awards and the judges' comments on these award-winning titles, visit the UQP Blog.

👉 https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/edenglassie-and-personal-score-win-victorian-premiers-literary-awards

31/01/2024

💫 Cover reveal! Coming June 2024: ‘Everything is Water’ by Simon Cleary Author

🍃 Four weeks, 344km and one inspiring river journey.

🏔 When novelist and experienced hiker Simon Cleary sets off to follow the course of the river that has so influenced his life, he hopes that by walking its banks — from its source to where it empties into the bay — he will better understand the power and impact of this immense waterway on the environment and communities who rely on it.

🗣️ ‘Everything is Water is a fearless, wondrous and irresistible account of a river journey and like any spirited journeyer, Cleary is awed, challenged and humbled at every bend, crossing and perilous flood point of the river he lives alongside, but hadn’t fully known.’ Sally Piper - Writer

🎨 Cover design by

👉 For more info and to pre-order, visit https://www.uqp.com.au/books/everything-is-water

30/01/2024

🎉 Happy publication day to our February new releases! To celebrate, we're giving away two copies of:
📙 'Gawimarra: Gathering' by Jeanine Leane
📗 'Pitfall' by Christopher Pollon
📕 'The Break' by Katherena Vermette (new edition)
📘 'The Strangers' by Katherena Vermette (new edition)
📔 'The Circle' by Katherena Vermette (the final instalment in this heart-rending, utterly immersive Indigenous family saga)

👇 To enter, make sure you’re following us and then tell us in the comments which book you'd like to read and why.
Competition open to Aus/NZ residents only, entries close 10am AEST Monday 26th February, across Facebook & Instagram with winners announced in the comments. There'll be one winner for each platform. Good luck!

23/01/2024

🏆 Vote now in the opening round of Booktopia's FAB Award!

The FAB Award celebrates the best Australian books of 2023. We're delighted that 'Women & Children' by Tony Birch and 'Edenglassie' by Melissa Lucashenko are among the Fiction titles eligible for voting.

Opening round closes 11/02/24. Learn more and cast your vote here:
https://www.booktopia.com.au/fab-award

19/01/2024

✨ UQP are thrilled to share the news that 'Edenglassie' has been shortlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awards (Fiction).

The Indie Book Awards were established in 2008 with the aim of celebrating the enormous depth and range of literary talent in this nation. This award is unique as all nominations and entries are voted on by independent Australian booksellers.

https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/edenglassie-shortlisted-for-the-2024-indie-book-awards

15/01/2024

💫 Cover reveal! Coming April 2024: 'The Gorgon Flower' by John Richards

🥀 In this gothic-inspired collection of stories, John Richards pushes the limits of what short fiction can be. With settings that range from rural France to medieval Italy and nineteenth-century Borneo, 'The Gorgon Flower' is an impressively crafted, engrossing debut by a bold new writer.

🗣 'A curious, clever, highly enjoyable read.' Amanda O'Callaghan

🎨 Cover design by Design by Committee. For more info and to pre-order, visit https://shorturl.at/yDNSY

12/01/2024

''The Flirtations of Girls/Ghazal el-Banat' is a rich collection filled with anger, sorrow, beauty, attitude, wit and humour.'

Read more:

In her prose and her poetry, Sara M. Saleh renders unique the ways people resist, transcend, adapt, make the best of things, compromise, endure, and lose hope and faith.

12/01/2024

🎬 Oombarra Productions has licensed the film and stage rights to Dr Ruth Hegarty’s David Unaipon award-winning novel, 'Is That You, Ruthie?', and the film rights to Hegarty’s 'Bittersweet Journey', from UQP, in a deal brokered by Erin Sandiford and Louise McCall.

👉 Read the full announcement on our blog:
https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/is-that-you-ruthie-and-bittersweet-journey-by-ruth-hegarty-uqp-optioned-for-screen-and-stage-by-oombarra-productions

08/01/2024

"Vivid, haunting and a deeply satisfying read, buy two copies of Pearl, one for yourself and one for the person in your life most deeply appreciative of beauty."

'Pearl' by Siân Hughes has been reviewed by Myfanwy Alexander for Nation Cymru.

Myfanwy Alexander Acclaimed poet Sîan Hughes has written a novel and you need to read it. It is a story as quiet and deep as the pools of water which feature so prominently in the narrative: its universal themes will resonate like the ripples from a casually-thrown stone. The novel takes its […]

22/12/2023

🎉 Thank you to our readers and authors for a stellar 2023 in books!

📚 The UQP team will be offline as we lose ourselves in our next favourite reads and dream up exciting new books for 2024. We’ll be back online bright and early in January 2024.

✨ Happy new year, from the UQP team.

19/12/2023

✨ We are thrilled to share that two UQP titles have been shortlisted for the 2024 Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards:

📕‘Edenglassie’ by Melissa Lucashenko in the Fiction category

📙‘Personal Score’ by Ellen van Neerven in the Non Fiction and Indigenous Writing categories

👉To read the judges' reports, visit the UQP Blog: https://bit.ly/3GPq1wJ

🏆The winners will be announced on 1 February 2024. Congratulations to all the shortlisted authors!

15/12/2023

🌱UQP are pleased to announce we have become ‘carbon positive’ this year, through making operational changes to reduce carbon emissions and offsetting the carbon it produces directly.

Read the full statement on Books+Publishing.

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08/12/2023

💫 We're delighted to announce that UQP has acquired ANZ rights to 'Memory is a Nesting Magpie' by Josie McSkimming, in a deal brokered by Gaby Naher of Left Bank Literary.

Written by the younger sister of Dorothy Porter, the book is a memoir that covers Porter’s life and McSkimming’s sibling relationship with Porter.

Read the full announcement at the UQP website: https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acquires-josie-mcskimming-memoir

07/12/2023

⚽ Spot Ellen van Neerven's 'Personal Score' in the Prime Minister's Summer Reading List for 2023!

"A new and transformative piece of sports writing, Personal Score is an essential read for anyone wanting to better understand sport, community, and power on sovereign land."

Six books we recommend the Prime Minister, and indeed all Australians read over the summer holidays.

07/12/2023

🎉 Congratulations Melissa Lucashenko, whose novel 'Edenglassie' has been longlisted for the 2024 Indie Book Awards!

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04/12/2023

💫 Cover reveal! 💫

Coming April 2024: 'Love, Death & Other Scenes' by Nova Weetman.

How do we become more after losing? Beloved Australian author Nova Weetman shares her heartfelt experiences with grief and loss while also celebrating the profound beauty of love and life.

Learn more at the UQP website:
https://www.uqp.com.au/books/love-death-other-scenes

01/12/2023

✨ UQP is delighted to announce that we acquired world rights to two new books from Tony Birch, a novel and a short story collection.

👉 Read full announcement here:
https://www.uqp.com.au/blog/uqp-acquires-two-new-books-by-tony-birch-appointment-to-the-royal-society-of-literature-school-library-named-in-honour

30/11/2023

💫 Coming March 2024: Leo & Ralph by Peter Carnavas Author/Illustrator.

From award-winning storyteller Peter Carnavas comes this stellar novel about space, starting over and the best friend you could ever imagine!

Learn more and pre-order here: https://www.uqp.com.au/books/leo-and-ralph

30/11/2023

Melissa Lucashenko was a motorcycle detailer, a house painter, a prison advocate, and a game show contestant before finding her way as a writer

29/11/2023

It’s 1965 Melbourne and young Joe Cluny is living with his mum, Marion, and sister, Ruby, in a tough, working-class suburb. When his Aunty Oona turns up, distressed and in need of somewhere to stay, Joe’s simple view of the world is challenged. He begins to understand that the women in his famil...