Transit Lounge Publishing

04/10/2024

Over 120 people were at Readings Carlton on 3 October to celebrate the launch of Matthew Hooper’s evocative debut novel A Cold Season. Matthew was in conversation with celebrated author Antoni Jach.
At the launch Matthew said ‘The book is called A Cold Season because I wanted to indicate that grief and sadness can last only a season. I mean this metaphorically. It could be a year. It could be ten years. When a season passes the grief can lessen. Of course, I recognise that with some losses we never get better but I wanted to mark it as a possibility. I also wanted to make reference to the winter, which acts like a character in the book.’
There was much love for Matthew in the room and he ended up signing a massive 80 books on the evening

01/07/2024

Congratulations Gregory Day

16/05/2024

Congratulations to Gregory Day from all at Transit Lounge on the Miles Franklin long listing for The Bell of the World!

03/05/2024

https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/awards/christina-stead-prize-fiction

Congratulations and good luck

03/05/2024

Congratulations and good luck

19/04/2024

Illuminating, hugely entertaining and well attended launch for The White Cockatoo Flowers: Stories by Ouyang Yu at Readings Carlton last night. Alice Pung was in conversation with Ouyang and began by describing his as ‘a punk literary superstar.’ And the conversation ranged from the state of awards, diversity in OZ writing and of course China.

07/03/2024

At Readings Carlton on Thursday 7 March Extinction Rebellion rewilded the footpath to celebrate the launch of Donna M Cameron’s The Rewilding. In an associated media release XR ‘applauded the emergence of writing in Australia that is clear-sighted about climate breakdown while telling rich and evocative stories that help us understand what it's like to be living in a time of unprecedented and growing crisis.’ Inside the store award-winning author Lucy Treloar expertly interviewed Donna about her amazing new novel, a breathless chase thriller that explores the rollercoaster relationship between a radical climate activist and a corporate whistleblower, both of whom are on the run.

30/06/2023

Visit to Readings at Doncaster Shoppingtown. Interesting use of staircase in centre celebrating NAIDOC week 2-9 July

30/03/2023

02/02/2023

Six wonderful titles on shortlist but no win. Congratulations to the all winners and all the writers shortlisted for the prizes. Thank you to the VPLA and the Wheeler Centre for a great night celebrating literature.

02/02/2023

Exciting. Waiting for announcement of winner of the Premier‘s Awards 2023. Good luck Brendan Colley’s The Signal Line.

24/12/2022

Peace, Love and a wonderful 2023
Season’s Greetings

23/10/2022

Today is the celebration of Goddess Kali who fights for integrity and destroys all the devils. The significance of Kali Puja is to eradicate all the negativity and bring positivity in one’s life and she is worshipped to bless devotees with health, wealth, prosperity, peace, protection and courage to fight against ills.
This image is a procession of Goddess Kali float being paraded in Kolkata by Tess Rice who was fortunate to be invited to be part of the celebrations.
The Goddess and the City - Kali and Kolkata photo book is available
from Transit Lounge Publishing and all good bookshops.

17/10/2022

Congratulations, that’s wonderful news.

05/10/2022

Thanks to all at Readings Carlton for hosting the fabulous launch of Moon Sugar by Angela Meyer last night. It was great to see so many members of the literary community attending. Particular thanks to Laura McPhee Browne, author of Cherry Beach, for so eloquently launching Angela’s new novel.

30/09/2022

Congratulations from all at Transit Lounge to Subhash Jaireth on Spinoza's Overcoat winning the ACT Book of the Year this evening. We are thrilled!

Jaireth wins ACT Book of the Year
30 September 2022
Canberra writer Subhash Jaireth has won the 2021 ACT Book of the Year for his essay collection Spinoza’s Overcoat: Travels with writers and poets (Transit Lounge).
Chosen from a shortlist of six, Jaireth receives $10,000 for his winning book, which explores the lives and travels of writers and poets including Franz Kafka, Mikhail Bulgakov and Paul Celan.
The award’s judges also named two highly commended entries: nonfiction book Oil Under Troubled Water: Australia’s Timor Sea intrigue (Bernard Collaery, MUP) and poetry collection Doggerland (Moya Pacey, Recent Work Press). Each highly commended book is awarded $2000, while the remaining shortlisted authors receive $1000.
Presented by the ACT government, the ACT Book of the Year aims to support the development of ACT-based writers, promote writing in the territory and contribute to a positive writing culture. The winner of last year’s award was Lisa Fuller for her debut YA novel Ghost Bird (UQP).

29/09/2022

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award is S.L. Lim for their novel, Revenge: Murder in Three Parts!

The judges said, ‘In choosing Revenge as our winner, we firstly discussed the almost painful sympathy we felt for the protagonist, Yannie. While other books on our shortlist were also emotionally involving, particularly the books by Down, Janson, and Wyld, we felt that Revenge edged ahead of these due to the freshness of its setting and the relevance of its message to everyone. None of us could recall reading a recent novel set in Malaysia, despite its proximity to Australia, nor one dealing with the ingrained sexism that robs girls and women of the chance to live a full life.

We admired Lim’s clear eye in addressing the internalised misogyny of their women characters and the agony of Yannie’s desires in a homophobic society. Revenge could be read as a revenge fantasy, and while this view is cathartic, it’s not just about one woman and her story.

Our deciding factor was the incredible way that Lim addresses the complex structural and cultural dynamics that prevented Yannie having agency over her own life. Revenge answers those people who say: why didn’t she just? Why didn’t she just leave, why didn’t she just say no, why didn’t she just do it anyway? Because Yannie loves the people who oppress her more than she loves herself, because of the messages she’s received since she was born.'

Transit Lounge Publishing

29/09/2022

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25/08/2022

Illustration of S.L. Lim by Viet-My Bui.

22/08/2022

Congratulations to S. L. Lim for making the short list. Good Luck.

We are thrilled to announce the 2022 Barbara Jefferis Award shortlist:

-Bodies of Light by Jennifer Down (Text Publishing )
-Ordinary Matter by Laura Elvery (University of Queensland Press)
-Benevolence by Julie Janson (Magabala Books)
-Revenge: Murder in Three Parts by S.L. Lim (Transit Lounge Publishing)
-Smart Ovens for Lonely People by Elizabeth Tan (Brio Books)
-The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld (Penguin Books Australia)

Our warm congratulations to the shortlisted authors 👏

Read more here: https://www.asauthors.org/news/2022-barbara-jefferis-award-shortlist-announced

18/08/2022

New book launch TOKYO MIDNIGHT by photographer Kip Scott and a stunning exhibition of images from the book.
Be sure not to miss it!

https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/libraries/whats-on/exhibitions/Pages/tokyo-midnight.aspx

https://whatson.melbourne.vic.gov.au/things-to-do/kip-scott-tokyo-midnight

https://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/community/libraries/whats-on/exhibitions/Pages/tokyo-midnight.aspx

07/08/2022

Dropped in to Red Kangaroo Books in Alice Springs. Great to see they had a couple of TLP titles on the shelves. The Rock by Aaron Smith and Night Blue by Angela O’Keeffe.

02/06/2022

Wonderful to experience the illuminated ‘spirit’ figures by artist Jason Wing who illustrated Transit Lounge author Cyril Wong’s Let Me Tell You Something About That Night in Haymarket lanes, Sydney.

29/05/2022

TL titles on the shelves at Berkelouw Bookstore, Paddington