Awards and praise
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'Ginninderra Press deserves compliments for the spare design of their covers, the clarity of the typeface and typesetting, and the fact that their books are a pleasure to hold as well as to read.' – Canberra Times
2023
Bone Picker (Thomas Simpson) – Shortlisted, Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer, WA Premier's Book Awards 2023
2022
Coolamon Girl (Dianne Lucas) – Winner, Non-fiction 2021 (Small Press), ACT Notable Awards 2022
Utterly (PS Cottier) – Highly commended, Poetry 2020 (Small Press), ACT Notable Awards 2022; Shortlisted, ACT Book of the Year 2022
Olive Muriel Pink (Colleen Keating) – Highly commended, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022; Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
Love, Disappointment and Other Joys of Life (Helen Lyne) – Commended, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
Divertimento (Julie Thorndyke) – Shortlisted, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
The Beating Heart (Denise O'Hagan) – Shortlisted, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
2021
Terminally Poetic (Ouyang Yu) – Winner, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection, Queensland Literary Awards 2021
2020
Hildegard of Bingen (Colleen Keating) – Winner, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020; Winner, Non-fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
Desert Patterns (Colleen Keating) – Highly commended, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
Catching the Light (Suzanne Edgar) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2020
The Firing Line (Liz Newton) – Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
Mrs Rickaby’s Lullaby (Julie Thorndyke) – Shortlisted, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
2019
Backseat Drivers (Craig Cormick) – Winner, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2019
Conspiracy of Skin (Peter Mitchell) (Picaro Poets) – Highly commended, Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry 2019
Hildegard of Bingen (Colleen Keating) – Silver, Nautilus Awards 2019
2018
Keeping it in the Family (Pippa Kay) – Winner, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Picnic at Mount Disappointment (Melissa Bruce) – Highly commended, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Fire on Water (Colleen Keating) – Highly commended, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Black Mountain (Carol Chandler) – Commended, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Long Odds (Jennifer Shapcott) – Highly commended, Fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2018
George, Elise and a Mandarin (Terry Fewtrell) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2018
2017
Picnic at Mount Disappointment (Melissa Bruce) – Winner, Fiction, Woollahra Digital Literature Awards 2017
Fire on Water (Colleen Keating) – Silver, Nautilus Awards 2017
Afterlives (Christopher Palmer) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2017
2016
My Year With Sammy (Libby Sommer) – Winner, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2016
Building a City (Jennifer Horsfield) – Winner, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2016
Paths Into Inner Canberra (PS Cottier) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2016
A Call To Listen (Colleen Keating) – Equal third prize, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2016
Black Mountain (Carol Chandler) – Shortlisted, Seizure Viva La Novella Award 2016
2015
Uncle Adolf (Craig Cormick) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2015
2014
Meat Pies & Mumbling Blokes (Margitta Acker) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2014
Extravagance (Irene Wilkie) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2014
2013
Blue Roses of Orroroo (Margaret Visciglio) – Winner, People’s Choice Award, SA Writers Festival 2013
First... Then... (Melinda Smith) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2013
The Love Procession (Suzanne Edgar) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2013
The Cancellation of Clouds (P.S. Cottier) – Second prize, Poetry, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2013
Waiting for the Southerly (Susan McCreery) – Commended, FAW Anne Elder Award for a first collection 2012
2012
Indigo Book of Australian Prose Poems (edited by Michael Byrne) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2012
Hard Cases, Brief Lives (Warwick Anderson) – Shortlisted, Mary Gilmore Award 2010/11
2011
A Siege of Contraries (Helen Rose Mitchell) – Winner, People’s Choice Award, SA Writers Festival 2011
A Man of Emails (Michael Byrne) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2011
A Quiet Day (P.S. Cottier) – Highly commended, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2011
The Rough End of the Stick (Ian Rae) – Highly commended, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2011
2010
Hornet Bank (Gordon Reid) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
Before Afterwards (Leon Trainor) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
Of Cheese & Chutney (Ian McFarlane) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
Futures Trading (Craig Cormick) – Runner-up, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
The Wardrobe (Moya Pacey) – Runner-up, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
2009
Smoke & Mirrors (Kel Robertson) – Joint winner, Fiction, Ned Kelly Awards 2009; Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2009
Sleeping Alone (Michael Thorley) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2009
The Glass Violin (P.S. Cottier) – Highly commended, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2009
Still Life, Other Life (Barbara Fisher) – Highly commended, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2009
Bird in the Egg (Steve Holden) – Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2009
2008
Rainbow (Jennifer Horsfield) – Winner, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2008
Not a Flotation Device (Peter Frankis) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2008
Sundance of Shadow (Kylie Oakes) – Winner, Ron Euling Award for Writing 2008
Chooks in the City (Alyson Hill) – Commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2008
2007
Ghosts in the Helmet Trees (Rory Steele) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Secrets (edited by Stephen Matthews) – Winner, Children's, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Tangible Shadows (Dawn Bruce) – Winner, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2007
Famine in Newcastle (Ryan O'Neill) – Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2007
And They're Still Falling (edited by Olwyn Broder, Venie Holmgren & Anabel Macdonald) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
The Painted Lady (Suzanne Edgar) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Blundstones & a Brown Dog (Christopher Nailer) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Polishing the Silver (Jennifer Chrystie) – Commended, FAW Anne Elder Award for a first collection 2007
Until a Shrimp Learns to Whistle (T.M. Collins) – Shortlisted, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2007
2006
A Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet (Craig Cormick) – Winner, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2006
Southbound (Michael Byrne) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
How To Succeed Without Really Winning (George Huitker) – Winner, Memoir, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Frieda & the Cops (Elanna Herbert) – Runner-up, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Worlds Turned Upside Down (Rochelle Ball) – Runner-up, Memoir, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
It Can't Be Forever (Tamara Jermolajew) – Runner-up, Memoir, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Torture (Peter Reddy) – Runner-up, History, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Body Image Body Scrimmage – Yogie Award 2006 for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Participation
2005
Unfinished Journey (Michael Thwaites) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2005
Trouble in the Garden (Peter Frankis) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2005; Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2005
Mapless in Underland (Melinda Smith) – Commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2005
2004
You (Narelle Wickham) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (edited by Geoff Page) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Kiandra Gold (Hugh Capel) – Highly Commended, Fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Cold Touch (Lawrence Bourke) – Highly Commended, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Into the No Zone (Tim Metcalf) – Highly Commended, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
'How did the fire know we lived here?' (ed. Stephen Matthews) – Highly Commended, Non-fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Princess of Cups (Craig Cormick) – Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2004
2003
Cut Lunch (Chris Andrews) – Winner, FAW Anne Elder Award for a first collection 2003
2001
The Pomelo Tree (Margaret Bradstock) – Winner, Wesley Michael Wright Prize for Poetry
Blue (Jennifer Compton) – Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2001
2000
Collateral Damage (Geoff Page) – Highly Commended, ACT Book of the Year 2000
1999
Not Theirs the Shame Who Fight (Cleve Potter) – '...a jewel of First World War literature.' – Canberra Times
2023
Bone Picker (Thomas Simpson) – Shortlisted, Premier's Prize for an Emerging Writer, WA Premier's Book Awards 2023
2022
Coolamon Girl (Dianne Lucas) – Winner, Non-fiction 2021 (Small Press), ACT Notable Awards 2022
Utterly (PS Cottier) – Highly commended, Poetry 2020 (Small Press), ACT Notable Awards 2022; Shortlisted, ACT Book of the Year 2022
Olive Muriel Pink (Colleen Keating) – Highly commended, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022; Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
Love, Disappointment and Other Joys of Life (Helen Lyne) – Commended, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
Divertimento (Julie Thorndyke) – Shortlisted, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
The Beating Heart (Denise O'Hagan) – Shortlisted, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2022
2021
Terminally Poetic (Ouyang Yu) – Winner, Judith Wright Calanthe Award for a Poetry Collection, Queensland Literary Awards 2021
2020
Hildegard of Bingen (Colleen Keating) – Winner, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020; Winner, Non-fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
Desert Patterns (Colleen Keating) – Highly commended, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
Catching the Light (Suzanne Edgar) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2020
The Firing Line (Liz Newton) – Shortlisted, Non-fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
Mrs Rickaby’s Lullaby (Julie Thorndyke) – Shortlisted, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2020
2019
Backseat Drivers (Craig Cormick) – Winner, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2019
Conspiracy of Skin (Peter Mitchell) (Picaro Poets) – Highly commended, Wesley Michel Wright Prize for Poetry 2019
Hildegard of Bingen (Colleen Keating) – Silver, Nautilus Awards 2019
2018
Keeping it in the Family (Pippa Kay) – Winner, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Picnic at Mount Disappointment (Melissa Bruce) – Highly commended, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Fire on Water (Colleen Keating) – Highly commended, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Black Mountain (Carol Chandler) – Commended, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2018
Long Odds (Jennifer Shapcott) – Highly commended, Fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2018
George, Elise and a Mandarin (Terry Fewtrell) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2018
2017
Picnic at Mount Disappointment (Melissa Bruce) – Winner, Fiction, Woollahra Digital Literature Awards 2017
Fire on Water (Colleen Keating) – Silver, Nautilus Awards 2017
Afterlives (Christopher Palmer) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2017
2016
My Year With Sammy (Libby Sommer) – Winner, Fiction, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2016
Building a City (Jennifer Horsfield) – Winner, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2016
Paths Into Inner Canberra (PS Cottier) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2016
A Call To Listen (Colleen Keating) – Equal third prize, Poetry, Society of Women Writers (NSW) Awards 2016
Black Mountain (Carol Chandler) – Shortlisted, Seizure Viva La Novella Award 2016
2015
Uncle Adolf (Craig Cormick) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2015
2014
Meat Pies & Mumbling Blokes (Margitta Acker) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2014
Extravagance (Irene Wilkie) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2014
2013
Blue Roses of Orroroo (Margaret Visciglio) – Winner, People’s Choice Award, SA Writers Festival 2013
First... Then... (Melinda Smith) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2013
The Love Procession (Suzanne Edgar) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2013
The Cancellation of Clouds (P.S. Cottier) – Second prize, Poetry, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2013
Waiting for the Southerly (Susan McCreery) – Commended, FAW Anne Elder Award for a first collection 2012
2012
Indigo Book of Australian Prose Poems (edited by Michael Byrne) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2012
Hard Cases, Brief Lives (Warwick Anderson) – Shortlisted, Mary Gilmore Award 2010/11
2011
A Siege of Contraries (Helen Rose Mitchell) – Winner, People’s Choice Award, SA Writers Festival 2011
A Man of Emails (Michael Byrne) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2011
A Quiet Day (P.S. Cottier) – Highly commended, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2011
The Rough End of the Stick (Ian Rae) – Highly commended, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2011
2010
Hornet Bank (Gordon Reid) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
Before Afterwards (Leon Trainor) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
Of Cheese & Chutney (Ian McFarlane) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
Futures Trading (Craig Cormick) – Runner-up, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
The Wardrobe (Moya Pacey) – Runner-up, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2010
2009
Smoke & Mirrors (Kel Robertson) – Joint winner, Fiction, Ned Kelly Awards 2009; Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2009
Sleeping Alone (Michael Thorley) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2009
The Glass Violin (P.S. Cottier) – Highly commended, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2009
Still Life, Other Life (Barbara Fisher) – Highly commended, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2009
Bird in the Egg (Steve Holden) – Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2009
2008
Rainbow (Jennifer Horsfield) – Winner, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2008
Not a Flotation Device (Peter Frankis) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2008
Sundance of Shadow (Kylie Oakes) – Winner, Ron Euling Award for Writing 2008
Chooks in the City (Alyson Hill) – Commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2008
2007
Ghosts in the Helmet Trees (Rory Steele) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Secrets (edited by Stephen Matthews) – Winner, Children's, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Tangible Shadows (Dawn Bruce) – Winner, Society of Women Writers NSW Biennial Book Awards 2007
Famine in Newcastle (Ryan O'Neill) – Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2007
And They're Still Falling (edited by Olwyn Broder, Venie Holmgren & Anabel Macdonald) – Highly commended, Non-fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
The Painted Lady (Suzanne Edgar) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Blundstones & a Brown Dog (Christopher Nailer) – Highly commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2007
Polishing the Silver (Jennifer Chrystie) – Commended, FAW Anne Elder Award for a first collection 2007
Until a Shrimp Learns to Whistle (T.M. Collins) – Shortlisted, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award 2007
2006
A Funny Thing Happened at 27,000 Feet (Craig Cormick) – Winner, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2006
Southbound (Michael Byrne) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
How To Succeed Without Really Winning (George Huitker) – Winner, Memoir, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Frieda & the Cops (Elanna Herbert) – Runner-up, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Worlds Turned Upside Down (Rochelle Ball) – Runner-up, Memoir, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
It Can't Be Forever (Tamara Jermolajew) – Runner-up, Memoir, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Torture (Peter Reddy) – Runner-up, History, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2006
Body Image Body Scrimmage – Yogie Award 2006 for Outstanding Achievement in Youth Participation
2005
Unfinished Journey (Michael Thwaites) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2005
Trouble in the Garden (Peter Frankis) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2005; Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2005
Mapless in Underland (Melinda Smith) – Commended, Poetry, ACT Writing & Publishing Awards 2005
2004
You (Narelle Wickham) – Winner, Fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Indigo Book of Modern Australian Sonnets (edited by Geoff Page) – Winner, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Kiandra Gold (Hugh Capel) – Highly Commended, Fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Cold Touch (Lawrence Bourke) – Highly Commended, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Into the No Zone (Tim Metcalf) – Highly Commended, Poetry, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
'How did the fire know we lived here?' (ed. Stephen Matthews) – Highly Commended, Non-fiction, ACT Publishing Awards 2004
Princess of Cups (Craig Cormick) – Shortlisted, Arts Queensland Steele Rudd Australian Short Story Award 2004
2003
Cut Lunch (Chris Andrews) – Winner, FAW Anne Elder Award for a first collection 2003
2001
The Pomelo Tree (Margaret Bradstock) – Winner, Wesley Michael Wright Prize for Poetry
Blue (Jennifer Compton) – Shortlisted, NSW Premier's Literary Awards 2001
2000
Collateral Damage (Geoff Page) – Highly Commended, ACT Book of the Year 2000
1999
Not Theirs the Shame Who Fight (Cleve Potter) – '...a jewel of First World War literature.' – Canberra Times
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