Craig Munro

Craig Munro is the author of Under Cover: adventures in the art of editing (2015) and Literary Lion Tamers: book editors who made publishing history (2021). His other books include the award-winning biography Wild Man of Letters: the story of PR Stephensen; UQP: The Writer's Press, 1948-98; and Paper Empires: a history of the book in Australia, 1946-2005, co-edited with Robyn Sheahan-Bright. He was UQP fiction editor from 1972 to 1980 and publishing manager until 2000, winning the 1985 Barbara Ramsden Award for Editing.

Works By Craig Munro

Streets of the Long Voyage
Fryer Library at the University of Queensland is one of my favourite places. Compared with the cathedral-like reading rooms of the British Library or Sydney’s Mitchell Library, the scale of Fryer is much more welcoming, with portraits of writers f...
13 Mar. 2022
Protesting 1938 & 1988 – from Capricornia to Oscar & Lucinda
'The production and reception of Capricornia remains one of the most controversial episodes in the annals of Australian literature.'
13 Sept. 2018
How To Sell A Book
19 Feb. 2016

Works Featuring Craig Munro

Blue Pencils and Red Pens
Each of the editors in Literary Lion Tamers was successful in large part because of their ability to persuade authors to be published by them and, then to convince readers to buy their books.
25 Mar. 2021

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Craig Munro

Works By Craig Munro

Streets of the Long Voyage

Protesting 1938 & 1988 – from Capricornia to Oscar & Lucinda

How To Sell A Book

Works Featuring Craig Munro

Blue Pencils and Red Pens