Submissions have closed for the 10th – and final – Sleepers Almanac, and we’re busy reading lots of stories. This wonderful, critically acclaimed collection of short fiction (including some poetry, illustrations, and whimsy) has been coming out every year since 2005. In 2015, editors Lou Swinn and Zoe Dattner will publish the last ever issue. The pleasure we get every year from reading these submissions is immense. We can never publish every single story, though the quality is always extraordinary.
Pick yourself up a copy of a previous Almanac – this kind of fabulousness never goes out of date!
Down to the River is coming March 2015!
This courageous and timely second novel from SJ Finn explores the complex and painful territory surrounding our perception of child sex offenders and our own moral responses. In the small country town of Dungower, little goes on that local journalist Joni Miller can write about in any gritty detail. But when it becomes know that a convicted paedophile is living in their midst, the town is thrown into turmoil. Make sure you pick up a copy this autumn, and if you’re in Melbourne March 12th, join us for the launch.
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In a new agreement between Sleepers Publishing and former publisher Michael Duffy, a backlist of bestselling Australian titles published by Duffy & Snellgrove between 1994 and 2006 is now available as ebooks. Hits like John Birmingham’s He Died With a Felafel In His Hand, Peter Robb’s Midnight in Sicily and Rosalie Ham’s debut The Dressmaker (soon to be a film starring Kate Winslet) are just some of the titles Sleepers has made available to 100 ebook outlets including Amazon, Kobo and Apple. A full list of the titles currently available can be found right here.