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Pantera Press express solidarity with Writing NSW
Pantera Press express solidarity with Writing NSW
Tuesday 11 August 2020
We at Pantera Press are devastated to learn that the future of Writing NSW is at risk following a decision by Create NSW to discontinue its long-term funding. We wish to express our solidarity with Writing NSW’s staff, instructors and members. We were also dismayed to see that the…
Pantera Press to publish COLLISIONS: A Liminal Anthology in November 2020
Pantera Press to publish COLLISIONS: A Liminal Anthology in November 2020
Tuesday 21 July 2020
Pantera Press is thrilled to announce the publication of Collisions: Fictions of the Future, a LIMINAL Anthology, in November 2020. Featuring both emerging and established Indigenous writers and writers of colour, longlisted for the inaugural LIMINAL Fiction Prize 2019, this collection showcases some of the best work that Australian literature…
PANTERA PRESS FOUNDATION DONATES $85,000: INCLUDING $70,000 IN UNTIED FUNDING TO ARTS ORGANISATIONS SURVIVING COVID-19
PANTERA PRESS FOUNDATION DONATES $85,000: INCLUDING $70,000 IN UNTIED FUNDING TO ARTS ORGANISATIONS SURVIVING COVID-19
Tuesday 16 June 2020
Pantera Press, one of Australia’s fastest growing independent book publishers, has donated $85,000 via the Pantera Press Foundation in FY2020. In addition to a donation, and staff and author matching, for bushfire relief earlier this year, we are pleased to announce that the Pantera Press Foundation has just donated a…
CEO Ali Green reflects on signing the first Pantera Press author eleven years ago today
CEO Ali Green reflects on signing the first Pantera Press author eleven years ago today
Friday 24 April 2020
Today is a really special day. At this exact moment eleven years ago I was sitting on an aeroplane with my dad, John Green, about to land at Perth airport. I can honestly say I had never been that excited to go to a casino, but that is where we…
Pantera Press acquires joint memoir by Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda
Pantera Press acquires joint memoir by Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda
Wednesday 15 April 2020
Pantera Press has bought ANZ rights to a powerful, searing memoir about identity, family and overcoming against all odds, by Lamisse and Hazem Hamouda, from Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. In January 2018, Hazem Hamouda left his Brisbane home for a family trip to his birthplace of Cairo, where his…
GLIMPSES OF UTOPIA by Jess Scully to be published in August 2020
GLIMPSES OF UTOPIA by Jess Scully to be published in August 2020
Thursday 2 April 2020
Pantera Press is thrilled to announce the publication of Glimpses of Utopia: Real ideas for a fairer world by Jess Scully in August 2020. It’s tempting to feel that the future is not about ordinary people and our needs. Climate change is accelerating; inequality is rising; governments aren’t listening. Jess Scully…
Pantera Press acquires IT’S ALL AN ACT by Shane Jenek
Pantera Press acquires IT’S ALL AN ACT by Shane Jenek
Tuesday 17 March 2020
Pantera Press has acquired ANZ rights for It’s All an Act, the debut memoir by Shane Jenek – the performer behind drag queen superstar Courtney Act – via Wendy Richards at Working Management. Boy, girl, artist, advocate: Courtney Act is more than just the sum of her parts. In 2003, Courtney…
#RainbowBookstack Giveaway!
#RainbowBookstack Giveaway!
Friday 28 February 2020
In celebration of Mardi Gras weekend, we’ve got a #RainbowBookstack and pack of Pride Pencils to give away! Enter via our Facebook or Instagram pages. Terms and conditions: Competition commences on Friday 28th February 2020 and closes at midnight Sunday 1st March 2020. Entry is open…
Pantera Press acquires THE PSYCHIC TEST by Gary Nunn from the Zeitgeist Agency
Pantera Press acquires THE PSYCHIC TEST by Gary Nunn from the Zeitgeist Agency
Wednesday 12 February 2020
Pantera Press has bought ANZ rights for The Psychic Test: An investigation into the supernatural industry, the debut work by journalist Gary Nunn, from Benython Oldfield at Zeitgeist Agency. The Psychic Test is a narrative nonfiction journey into the wild, widespread and surprisingly powerful world of psychics and clairvoyance. Nunn investigates why people in…
Pantera Press acquire ANZ rights for THE COVERED WIFE by Lisa Emanuel
Pantera Press acquire ANZ rights for THE COVERED WIFE by Lisa Emanuel
Thursday 23 January 2020
Pantera Press has bought ANZ rights for The Covered Wife, a powerfully compelling fiction debut by Lisa Emanuel, from Catherine Drayton at InkWell Management. In The Covered Wife an ambitious young lawyer finds herself falling under the thrall of an oppressive and potentially dangerous religious commune, and of one of…