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.
All essays 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 from the collection gracing the walls: Peter Carey in a Hawaiian shirt perhaps – or a pugnacious Xavier Herbert glaring at the artist.
How To Sell A Book
There is at least a forty-year history of reports into the Australian book industry, starting with that of the Australian Book Trade Working Party in 1975. Has everything gone to pot since then? Not quite. New research from Macquarie University shows that local publishers are adapting to a rapidly changing marketplace for books, writes, Craig Munro.
