We publish books that matter — narrative and literary nonfiction on important topics, and the best of local, international, and translated fiction.

Don‘t miss our Scribe authors at the Byron Writers Festival!

This year, you have the chance to see Becky Manawatu (Auē), Jeff Sparrow (Crimes Against Nature: capitalism and global heating), Laura Jean McKay (The Animals in That Country), and Veronica Gorrie (Black and Blue: a memoir of racism and resilience) at the following events:

26 August

• 8.30am: Jeff Sparrow | ABC North Coast Live Broadcast with Jo Shoebridge
• 11.15am: Laura Jean McKay | Future Tense: Apocalyptic Cli-Fi
• 11.30am: Jeff Sparrow | The Fourth Estate: What‘s Happened to Australian Media?

27 August

• 9am: Becky Manawatu | Writing from the Margins
• 10.15am: Jeff Sparrow | Positively Capital
• 11.30am: Veronica Gorrie | Black Lives Still Matter
• 12.30pm: Laura Jean McKay | Birds, Dingoes, Trees: Decentering the Human in Fiction
• 12.45pm: Jeff Sparrow | On Semantics
• 1.45pm: Becky Manawatu | Reaching Across the Generation Gap
• 4.15: Veronica Gorrie | Life in the Colony Today

28 August

• 11.30am: Jeff Sparrow | Governing in the Anthropocene
• 1.45pm: Becky Manawatu | Outside Influences