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Pink Shorts Press publishes from Kaurna Yerta, South Australia.

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  • We are open for submissions. Please take some time to look around and get to know us, then let us know a bit more about you and your book via the submissions form.

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  • We are distributed throughout Australia by the wonderful team at Simon & Schuster and also act as distributors for Splinter Journal and The Weekly Fifty. Our books also find a home in all kinds of spaces; if you’d like to stock some pretty paperbacks on your shelves, say hi.

  • We buy and sell rights, and value opportunities to collaborate and knowledge-share with other publishers. Unfortunately we are not hiring or taking on interns at the moment, but we do work with freelancers and are always happy to chat about the industry. We are a pro-union workplace. Say hi.

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

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