Ginninderra Press

20/10/2025

Mervyn Bishop is a groundbreaking force in photojournalism, and it all started in Brewarrina at a young age with slides and a sheet strung up on the clothesline.

20/10/2025

https://www.smh.com.au/national/australias-first-indigenous-press-photographer-on-capturing-the-nation-s-history-20251019-p5n3n3.html?isMobileApp=true

Australia's first Indigenous press photographer, Mervyn Bishop, has opened up about capturing images of the moments that have shaped the nation.

20/10/2025

Congrats Gabrielle Journey Jones. What a thrill it was to launch ‘Arrangements’, your 4th collection of poetry with Ginninderra Press. Your spoken word performance and percussion - an absolute highlight!!😍🤩

08/10/2025

If you are heading to be sure to book for the launch of .white.and.colour

03/10/2025

Black, White & Colour. Catch Author Tim Dobbyn with Mervyn Bishop on ABC radio national today at 2 pm. In conversation on her program Speaking Out with Larissa Behrendt, hear about the recently released, collection of Mervyn Bishop's story and photography. Mervyn, while often celebrated for chronicling
the rising visibility of Indigenous Australians, Bishop is also proud of what he calls his “Whitefella pictures”. He carved his own path, deftly navigating the Black and White worlds of post-war Australia. Available Now - order here: https://ginninderrapress.com.au/product/black-white-colour-a-biography-of-mervyn-bishop-2/

26/09/2025

Gabrielle Journey Jones is a poet, percussionist and event producer born on sovereign Gadigal Land, Sydney, Australia. She is from Maori and African bloodlines and has lived on the Far South Coast NSW, Yuin Country since 2018 with her family. Gabrielle has shared her poetry at local, national and international events for 30 years. She has three other collections of poetry published by Ginninderra Press - Spoken Medicine (2017); Etymology of Courage (2021) and The Purpose of Truth (2023). Gabrielle is looking forward to launching her spoken word audiobook, performing of all four collections, made possible by a Le****ns Incorporated grant in 2024.Gabrielle facilitated and co-edited with Caren Florance "Material & Ephemeral" (2024) the Ekphrasis: Writing About Art Group anthology by 10 local poets reflecting on the 2024 exhibitions at the South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA) in Bega NSW. Gabrielle is inspired by creative communities which celebrate diversity, activism and inclusion. She has worked collaboratively with over 80 organisations in the past decade delivering poetry and drumming workshops and performances. Gabrielle is also a Senior Social Worker at NSW Health with the Integrated Violence, Abuse and Neglect Services (IVANS).

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24/09/2025

Recent Release by Michele Fermanis-Winward

My surname is Greek, from a tiny island off the Turkish coast. Kastellorizo, Walls in the Sun is the third in my collection of family stories from small islands, pioneers who made Australia their home. My home is on a ridge close to the summit of the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Here lichen cloaks the trees and winters are still fierce. In summer, bushfires threaten our homes and deadly snakes patrol our gardens. This is rich material to create poetry from. I aspire to defend the natural environment and promote social justice through my writing. I have lived as a visual artist and wordsmith. My poetry has been published widely in international anthologies and journals. I am a Varuna Alumnus and have eleven full collections under my name.

21/09/2025

Congratulations Faridah Cameron on your book launch earlier this month.

Purchase your copy here https://ginninderrapress.com.au/product/letters-to-dead-artists/

21/09/2025

RECENTLY LAUNCHED: Letters to dead artists by Hobart based Master of Arts Faridah Cameron.

Art has the capacity to speak to us across time and space. In these eleven letters the writer sets out to reply.

Some of the artists she addresses lived long ago and far away, others overlapped her own lifetime and experience. Remembering encounters with their work, her unguarded thoughts lead her back through childhood in Melbourne, art training in the Northern Territory, research trips to Europe, Japan and Mexico and arts practice in Tasmania.

The letters, which began as an exercise, become a valuable means of self-reflection and creative development.

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16/09/2025

Ring the Bells is a collection of new poetry
with an invitation to hear each poem
as a bell chime embracing light, dark, life and love – cyclic like the seasons.

In Ring the Bells, award-winning poet Colleen Keating
invites readers to listen closely —
to the chimes of joy,
the tolls of grief,
and the quiet notes of love
that echo through our shared human experience.

Moving through four sections —
Embracing Light,
Embracing Dark,
Embracing Life,
and Embracing Love — her poems ring with an acute awareness
of the world’s beauty and its brokenness.

From intimate moments in nature
to the great sweep of history and current events,
Keating’s lyrical voice finds hope, tenderness, and resilience
in the spaces where light filters through the cracks.

Colleen Keating has published seven books of poetry, including the best-selling 'Hildegard of Bingen' (Ginninderra Press, 2019).

She has won numerous awards and her poems have been published both nationally and internationally.

Her writing explores the paradox and wonder of nature, the realities of life, of inequality, injustice and the increasing threat to our natural environment.

Colleen writes on Ku-ring-gai land in Sydney, Australia and Darkinjung on the Central Coast, NSW.

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15/09/2025

TAKE A A GLIMPSE INTO RIVERBOY BY JIM EWING

Aye, it’s lovely, so lovely.”
A quiet moment on the water. A father who doesn’t say much. A boy starting to see more than he hears.
Set in a not-so-fictional town in Victoria’s Western District, Riverboy is for readers who love lyrical storytelling, larrikin humour, and Aussie history without the gloss.

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15/06/2025

🏏 PRE-ORDERS NOW OPEN! 🏏

Bodyline Casualty – The Bert Oldfield Story
By Gavin Gleeson | Foreword by Rick McCosker OAM
Published by Ginninderra Press

Bert Oldfield is one of Australian cricket’s most fascinating and underappreciated figures — and it’s time his story was told.

More than just the man behind the infamous fractured skull during the 1932–33 Bodyline series, Oldfield survived a WWI bomb blast, toured N**i Germany and Fascist Italy, discovered a young Don Bradman, became a champion for women’s cricket, re-enlisted in WWII, and even saved a lion from death row.

This gripping biography brings to life the courage, resilience, and extraordinary legacy of a man who helped shape the game — and left an indelible mark on Australian sporting history.

📅 Pre-orders open: June 16
📘 Release date: August 1, 2025
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