Grattan Street Press Blogs

Our blog is home to emerging writers and editors who want their voices heard.

You can filter for book reviews, insights into publishing, and explorations of the Millennial and Gen Z experience through the links below:

Should the Japan Trip Stay in the Group Chat?

For locals, the consequences of overtourism go far beyond inconvenience. When destinations become content, locals risk becoming part of the…

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It Started With a Tote Bag: Book Merch and Identity

By Yaqi Ni I don’t know about you, but whenever I walk into a bookstore, I’m almost as excited to…

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Short, Fast, Addictive: The Rise of Vertical Micro-Dramas

Review by Tingou Liu From China to the world, vertical micro-dramas are becoming one of the fastest growing forms of…

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Weaponising White Victimhood: Ruby Hamad’s White Tears Brown Scars

Review by Ella Cigognini The ‘sisterhood’ that scaffolds contemporary feminism is fraught or—according to Dr Ruby Hamad—has never existed. The…

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To Write a Memoir is to Burn: Who Keeps the Ash?

To write a memoir is to set fire to your own life. Not all of it—you choose what to burn.…

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Solarpunk: Is This Science-Fiction Genre Inspiring Hope or Delusion?

Books can offer hope, solace and a common humanity that solarpunk leans into. Perhaps that’s why we’re seeing more solarpunk…

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What Kept You?

Raaza Jamshed’s debut novel arrives from Giramondo with endorsements comparing her to Omar Sakr and Yumna Kassab, but these comparisons, while…

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The Publishing Industry’s Diversity Problem: Still the Same Old Story

The benefits of improving diversity in the industry extend beyond the workforce to the authors and stories that end up…

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rock flight by Hasib Hourani

Using blank space, fragments and blacked-out text, rock flight captures how words can have an abundance of meanings. We are…

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Thomas Vowles’s ‘Our New Gods’: Desire and Disintegration in Queer Melbourne

Thomas Vowles’s debut ‘Our New Gods’, published in 2025, has all the tension of a psychological thriller paired with the…

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BOOK REVIEW: The Burrow by Melanie Cheng

Melanie Cheng’s Covid novel The Burrow follows the introduction of a pet rabbit into a grieving household. Like her first…

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Najis: A Memoir – Part Three

By Robert Douman In third and final extract from Najis: A Memoir, Sydney-based writer Robert Douman reflects on the challenges…

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Najis: A Memoir – Part Two

By Robert Douman In this second extract from Najis: A Memoir, Sydney-based writer Robert Douman recounts his family’s life in…

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Barbarians and Princesses: the (In)Authenticity of Female Characters Written by Men

By Mathilde Tobin In many ways Lyra was a barbarian. What she liked best was clambering over the College roofs…

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Stinkbug: A Corporate Thriller that Unravels Workplace Secrets

Sinéad Stubbins’ debut novel is a honed and confident exploration of women and work that will resonate with millennial and…

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Najis: A Memoir—Part One

In this first extract from Najis: A Memoir, Robert Douman recalls his family’s arrival in Melbourne from Iran and the…

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How to get into publishing: ‘Read lots, read widely and keep an open mind’

Emerging publisher Rebecca Zhong shares insights from her experience in the Open Book internship program.

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What is Grattan Street Press—and where is it headed?

This podcast explores the origins, purpose and plans of Grattan Street Press with two of the publishers—Sybil Nolan and Matt…

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