University of Queensland Press

But you each get a chance to ask questions and you also get an overview of what the publisher might be looking for.

So that was invaluable because obviously I knew of UQP, I love what they publish, but I was mostly writing picture books at that point.

So I wanted to get a sense of what kinds of picture books they might be looking for and where I could maybe think about focusing my efforts.

And in that session, I just got a lot of information that made me rethink what I could potentially pitch to UQP.

I knew that Kathy Valance was looking for junior fiction and particularly standalone junior fiction.

And

I've been talking to Meg Caddy about her ARA, Historical Novel Society of Australasia, award-winning book for 2026 in the young adult category, A Flash in the Dust.

It's published by the University of Queensland Press and you can find it at goodreadingmagazine.com.au. My name's Greg Dobbs and thanks for listening.

Subscribe to Good Reading Print and Online Magazine

And yet it is exactly that same lobby group still working hard to ensure the Australian public is let down badly over and over and over again in order to protect the indefensible actions of a foreign state from international condemnation.

The gutting of University of Queensland Press is another example of the way the I-H-R-A, or IHRA, definition of s- antisemitism can cause great damage.

Because the University of Queensland had signed up to the IHRA definition, its subsidiary, UQP, one of Australia's most storied and celebrated literary publishers, was made to pulp a children's book that had been illustrated by a man who had written an online essay about Israel.

That essay was stupid and offensive.

He has released a collection of short stories as an episodic zine, and is a graduate of Central Film School London and the Faber Academy.

His debut novel, Our New Gods, is a literary thriller that came out with the University of Queensland Press in 2025.

Welcome to the pod, Tom.

Yay.