HOW TO WORK FROM HOME: Ali Whitelock's Tips

Welcome to the week, and to a new blog series here at Wakefield Press! Introducing How to Work From Home: Authors talk about how they stay productive. Like many others, we've recently begun the transition from office work to working from home. It's a strange transition to make, and we need some help. We've interviewed a collection of our favourite authors to get their best tips, tricks and truths about working from home. First in the…

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Liz Nicholson on design at home

Today we welcome Wakefield Press designer Liz Nicholson to the blog, to discuss her work, her designs, and being at home.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Michael Deves on how to hunker

Michael Deves, Wakefield Press typesetter and production all-rounder, talks today about his uplifting personal favourite books, just right for the prescribed hunkering down.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Poppy Nwosu on timing and strange times

Today’s entry comes from Poppy Nwosu, marketing and publicity coordinator at Wakefield Press, and author of young adult fiction. Her latest book, Taking Down Evelyn Tait, will be published by Wakefield Press on 01 April 2020.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: Maddy Sexton on self care in strange times

Today's entry comes from Maddy Sexton, Events Manager. Maddy discusses the importance of staying connected, as well as taking time for yourself when things are all a bit not-quite-right.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: YA Publisher Margot Lloyd

Today's entry comes from Margot Lloyd, our wonderful head of Young Adult publishing. Read on for some very exclusive sneak peeks at some of the great YA books Wakefield Press will be releasing in the coming weeks and months.

PUBLISHING IN THE TIME OF CORONAVIRUS: A Wakefield Press diary

Times are strange.

POETRY SPOTLIGHT: 'this is coal don’t be afraid' by Ali Whitelock

In hard times, it is good to look at different ways to express ourselves, our thoughts and our feelings.This always makes me think of poetry. When things are hard to say, it sometimes helps to find someone else who can say it for you. This is exactly what happened recently during the peak of the fire crisis in Australia. Poet Ali Whitelock found a way to express her own jumbled thoughts and feelings about that… Continue reading

CELEBRATE International Women's Day with these trailblazing heroines!

The theme for International Women's Day 2020 is I am Generation Equality: Realising Women's Rights. Here at Wakefield Press we are proud of the cultural, social, economic, and political achievements of the Australian women who have shaped our country and our home state, South Australia. Did you know that South Australia was the first place in the world where women won both the right to vote and the right to stand for parliament, on 18… Continue reading

CELEBRATE 60 Years of the Adelaide Festival with Wakefield Press!

The Adelaide Festival is as much shaped by people and place as it in turn shapes people and place; its identity is a weird and wild shifting thing. It is not owned by one individual, but belongs to everyone. Right now in Adelaide we are experiencing our annual festival season, one of our favourite times of the year here at Wakefield Press! Yet this year festival season is even more special than usual! In 2020,… Continue reading