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We’re Hiring: Managing Editor 14 Month Maternity Leave Role
We’re Hiring: Managing Editor 14 Month Maternity Leave Role
Thursday 7 October 2021
Pantera Press is seeking an experienced and accomplished person to manage our editorial team, overseeing a list of approximately 25–30 books a year across all genres, including a small number of illustrated titles. For the right candidate there would be opportunities to join the Leadership Team. Competitive Salary. To be considered…
Pantera Press to publish Human in collaboration with Ziggy Ramo
Pantera Press to publish Human in collaboration with Ziggy Ramo
Wednesday 29 September 2021
Pantera Press has acquired world rights for Human, the debut non-fiction book by artist Ziggy Ramo, to be published alongside Ramo’s forthcoming album of the same name, written in conjunction with the book during lockdown. Part memoir, part history and part cultural reckoning, Human will continue Ramo’s vital work of…
Pantera Press acquires ANZ rights for The Mother of All Shocks by Karen Pickering
Pantera Press acquires ANZ rights for The Mother of All Shocks by Karen Pickering
Wednesday 29 September 2021
Pantera Press is thrilled to announce the acquisition of ANZ rights for The Mother of All Shocks by Karen Pickering, acquired by Publisher Lex Hirst via Jacinta di Mase. The Mother of All Shocks is an exploration of how modern society places pressure on women to become mothers and then…
Liminal and Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist announced
Liminal and Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize longlist announced
Wednesday 15 September 2021
Following the success of the 2019 Liminal Fiction Prize and the 2020 anthology Collisions, we were thrilled to join Liminal for the 2021 Liminal & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize. Liminal have now announced the twenty longlisted writers, whose writing will feature in a forthcoming essay collection to be…
Pantera Press acquires world rights for The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About by Elfy Scott
Pantera Press acquires world rights for The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About by Elfy Scott
Tuesday 24 August 2021
Pantera Press has bought world rights for The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About, the debut non-fiction book by journalist, writer and presenter Elfy Scott. The One Thing We’ve Never Spoken About is a timely and ambitious investigation into the silence that surrounds complex mental health conditions in Australia, grounded…
Darkness is Golden by Mary Hoang sold to Audible Studios
Darkness is Golden by Mary Hoang sold to Audible Studios
Wednesday 4 August 2021
Pantera Press has sold audiobook rights to Mary Hoang’s Darkness is Golden: A Guide to Personal Transformation and Dealing with Life’s Messiness to Audible in a significant new deal. Darkness is Golden, Hoang’s debut book, integrates unique audio experiences called ‘sonic embodiments’, created alongside composer Phondupe (Rich Lucano), designed…
Pantera Press acquires world rights for THE REINDEER AND THE SUBMARINE by Beverley McWilliams
Pantera Press acquires world rights for THE REINDEER AND THE SUBMARINE by Beverley McWilliams
Wednesday 4 August 2021
Pantera Press has bought world rights for The Reindeer and the Submarine, the debut middle-grade novel by Beverley McWilliams. Inspired by true events, The Reindeer and the Submarine is a timeless story of adventure, hope, bravery and facing change told through the eyes of Pollyanna, a real-life reindeer who lived aboard and captured the hearts of the crew on HMS Trident…
Hassett to join Pantera Press; Hirst on parental leave
Hassett to join Pantera Press; Hirst on parental leave
Wednesday 26 May 2021
Pantera Press is thrilled to announce that Katherine Hassett will join our fast-growing team as Publisher. Hassett brings with her a wealth of trade publishing experience across a variety of commissioning and editing roles, most recently Associate Publisher for Non-fiction International at Harper Collins, as well as Senior Editor and…
LIMINAL & Pantera Press announce nonfiction prize worth $12,000 and new anthology
LIMINAL & Pantera Press announce nonfiction prize worth $12,000 and new anthology
Monday 26 April 2021
Following the success of the 2019 LIMINAL Fiction Prize and the 2020 anthology Collisions, we are thrilled to announce the LIMINAL & Pantera Press Nonfiction Prize for First Nations writers and Australian writers of colour, to be judged by award-winning writer Brian Castro, writer and researcher Dr Shakira Hussein, and…
Pantera Press acquires world rights for THE SCARLET CROSS by Lyn McFarlane
Pantera Press acquires world rights for THE SCARLET CROSS by Lyn McFarlane
Monday 1 March 2021
Pantera Press has bought world rights for The Scarlet Cross, a gripping debut psychological thriller, from Jane Novak Literary Agency. In The Scarlet Cross, Meredith Griffin is a talented nurse managing a large emergency department in New Westminster, a fictional city in the pacific northwest of North America. When women…