Alice Grundy
Alice Grundy is an editor, researcher and teacher, with over 15 years’ experience working in book publishing, and a Visiting Fellow at ANU. She is the Australia Institute’s Press, Managing Editor and Research Manager.
What is the future of Australia’s embattled writers festivals?
For more than 65 years, book lovers have descended on Adelaide every summer for Australia’s longest running literary festival. That is, until this year, when around 180 invited authors (including me) boycotted Adelaide Writers Week, following the board’s decision to “uninvite” Palestinian-Australian author Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. The festival was cancelled.
It's time to rethink speeding fines
The current system is arbitrary, inconsistent and unfair - here's what we could be doing differently.
Every four hours a gun is stolen in Australia: new research
Gun violence has been in Australian headlines regularly in recent months.
5 new Australian publishers are making defiant, weird, grass-roots books
Perentie Press, Pink Shorts Press, Evercreech Editions, Aniko Press and Bakers Lane Books.
The Productivity Commission is floating AI copyright exemptions – with worrying implications for Australian authors and publishers
Australia can be a leader in this space, not a follower.
