About

Pink Shorts Press publishes fantastically readable, socially conscious and slightly offbeat books, and runs workshops to help anyone get better at using words (and turning them into nice publications). We are loudly independent and proudly South Australian, based on Kaurna Yerta.

We are also known as Margot Lloyd and Emily Hart, and together we have over two decades of experience working in stories, books and publishing. We pride ourselves on our editorial care, collaboration and quality. We value sustainability, generosity, transparency and inclusivity. We love building community, hence our events and our newsletter. Our books are distributed by Simon & Schuster Australia, and we also distribute books for friends like Splinter Journal and The Weekly Fifty. We don’t drink coffee and we laugh a lot.

We’re always happy to run a publishing talk or workshop for your library, school or podcast. Get in touch to talk about more.

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Margot has wrangled commas and characters as an editor for over ten years. She’s collaborated with award-winning authors across fiction, non-fiction, poetry and children’s books at Griffith Review, University of Queensland Press, Text Publishing and Wakefield Press. She loves talking about publishing and editing wherever she is in the world, including on Creative Australia delegations to India and New York.

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Emily has published and edited bestsellers by chefs, politicians and illustrators. She was named the book industry’s Rising Star in 2022, and has worked at Hardie Grant Books, Wakefield Press, Dillons Bookshop and XXVI. As well as bookselling, ghostwriting and art teaching, she also has experience (and a degree) in marketing and brand voice.

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‘Brash upstarts of Australia’s publishing world’

SMH/Age
‘A truly exciting new publisher’

ABC
‘There’s a new small publisher in town’

The Australian
'An exciting new Adelaide-based publishing house'

Frankie
'Defiant, weird, grass-roots books'

The Conversation
'Rising publishers are providing some light during a dark period'

Women’s Agenda
'Pink Shorts Press wants businesses to reclaim their "editor's hat"'

B+T

Beautifully bound notebooks, picked up at @clunesbooktown. Also, wonderful @jaclyncrupi chatted to us recently for a publishing industry 'pulse check' via @wheelercentre, read it at wheelercentre.com/news-stories/2026/read-pulse-check

The first poem we heard Olivia De Zilva read was a love letter to Captain Li Shang from Mulan. Olivia's first poetry collection, publishing September 2026, is written from the intersection of chronic illness and capitalism. But Captain Li Shang is th

This time next month, Jen Mills and Ursula Dubosarsky will be at Words on the Waves, talking about longing and belonging in strange times – a perfect theme for A Concise Compendium of Wonder. Tickets available now for anyone lucky to be on the

View from the pink booth at @westcoastdistillingco. Thanks for having us, @writerssainc and @saltfestival.

We have two events in SA History Festival next month. Stavroula Adameitis, aka @fridalasvegas, will be in our shared home of @adelaidearcade talking about local kitsch. And our Barbara Hanrahan event at @goodwoodbooks is getting an encore after selli

When it was first published in the 1980s, Annie Magdalene was described by @canberratimes as 'Hanrahan's tour de force' and @latimes as 'a small treasure'. We think all mums will love it (ours certainly did). So we've made it half price – along

'Diaz detonates the explosive history of the Philippines in a maximalist political thriller peppered with the shrapnel of satire.' Excellent review of Glenn Diaz's award-winning novel Yñiga in the SMH/Age over the weekend. Fun fact: cover arti

Thanks so much to @clunesbooktown for having us at their twentieth-anniversary festival. Scones, stars, chats about short fiction and indie publishing, second-hand treasures and road-trip jaffles - the perfect weekend? Thanks also to everyone who ask

More on the airwaves today – @tracycrisps joining the delightful @melissajfulton on @3rrrfm's Literati Glitterati, and Emily has just been chatting to ABC Ballarat ahead of @clunesbooktown. We forgot to shout out @oliviadezilva on @triplejhack

Mag Merrilees was on @abcradionational's Late Night Live yesterday, with David Marr calling Scared Angry Laughing 'a slim, shrewd, funny history of a battling woman’s life'. Mag's also just been announced on the line-up for @islandmagtas's upco

One red door, one pink shirt, two red shoes, two pink fish earrings, and two Pink Shorts Press authors on a signing tour of some of our favourite local bookshops. (Mag Merrilees will also be at her local @onkaparingalibraries for an event tomorrow, l

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