AWW23: An Australian Publishing Icon - Hilary McPhee

Chair: Anne Summers


Hilary McPhee, together with her business partner Di Gribble,
established Australia’s first woman-owned publishing house in
1975. For over two decades, McPhee discovered new writers who are
now revered as greats of the Australian literary canon, including
Helen Garner, Tim Winton and Drusilla Modjeska. Monkey Grip,
Puberty Blues and Cloudstreet are just some of the
books this Grand Dame of Australian letters nurtured into being.
In this insightful conversation, McPhee talks about those halcyon
days, her friend the late Carmen Callil and the state of modern
publishing.


Event details: Mon 06 Mar, 2:30pm on the East
Stage