Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne share their reflections on the remarkable life of Dale Spender who passed away 21 November 2023

Lament for Gaza

Robyn Rowland’s launch speech for Robin Morgan’s new book of poetry, Harvesting Darkness.

As we approach the referendum, it is important that as many of us as possible inform ourselves about our history. Here is a list of books you might want to share with others, especially those who feel uncertain about how to vote in the referendum

Renate Klein and Susan Hawthorne write about Maria Mies who passed away in May 2023.

Spinifex Press has a great selection of books written by African authors. Explore the selection today.

“Suzanne Bellamy was a giant intellect and artist and like so many women before her has been rarely noticed by the mainstream. “

Susan Hawthorne remembers Suzanne Bellamy (1948–2022)

Susan Hawthorne farewells Judy Foster.

Susan Hawthorne farewells poet Jordie Albiston (1961 - 2022)

Susan Hawthorne talk - Ecology of the Book - to the International Alliance of Independent Publishers Conference in Pamplona, Spain.

With the recent publication of Not Dead Yet: Feminism, Passion and Women’s Liberation Susan Hawthorne delved through the Spinifex Press catalogue to re-discover all our anthologies. In the process she discovered we’ve published 37 anthologies in 30 years!

We launch the Not Dead Yet Blog. Please follow and share these reader’s stories with your friends and families. @NotDeadYet

“Why is there a need for feminist poems or literature? Is the proof not in the news we read daily—a violent world of misogyny expressing itself in rapes, the trafficking of children and women and casting a shadow on every sector of human life? Has not every woman or girl-- except a few lucky ones-- felt the breath of patriarchy in the lenses that cloud her vision or the voices that crowd her soul.” Read Usha Akella’s statement at her recent launch for I Will Not Bear You Sons.

If you’ve recently discovered radical feminism and would like to read more about the core issues - prostitution, surrogacy, pornography, misogyny in all its forms - here are some books we’d like to recommend to get your radfem library started.

But the rapidity with which the transgender lobby has risen to a position of political influence and the number and enormity of consequences for women have forced me, albeit kicking and screaming, into taking up this discussion. Heather also perhaps: she tells in her book’s prologue of having “stumbled” into researching and writing on it by accident.

Born Still is a very special kind of memoir. It is, as Janet informs us in the opening pages, a political memoir – in which “the personal” – specifically, Janet’s life -- has been rendered so political, by virtue of its disruptive place in institutional systems of power and governance, as to have implications for the law and social practice -- in particular, in relation to home birth and independent midwifery.

How did we move so far from love that a mother’s grief became the vehicle with which to punish her? Losing a baby during childbirth is one of the most heartbreaking things imaginable. But to then be accused of causing that death is nothing short of soul-destroying. Here is the introduction to Janet Fraser’s new book Born Still: A Memoir of Grief

Spinifex Press co-founder Susan Hawthorne wrote an article for Artshub discussing some of the effects the disruption caused by the COVID-19 outbreak are causing small and independent publishers.

We remember Laurene Kelly.

Laurene Kelly wrote a trilogy of young adult novels which dealt with deadly violence against women and the way violence ricochets throughout the family and the community. Her novels are I Started Crying Monday (1999), The Crowded Beach (2001) and Still Waving (2005). 

Susan Hawthorne introduces In Defence of Separatism and why it was important to release the book now.