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Pitch Projects Communications

Locality: Southbank, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 3 9005 6698

Address: 77-79 City Rd 3006 Southbank, VIC, Australia

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25.01.2022 Annabel Crabb's new Quarterly Essay, Men at Work is a cracker - Come hear these two fabulous, fierce women discussing Australia's parenthood trap

25.01.2022 The brilliant Dr Nikki Stamp keeping it real in today’s Herald Sun Murdoch Books #prettyunhealthy

23.01.2022 We are delighted to announce Jess Hill’s investigative work of nonfiction See What You Made Me Do as the 2020 Stella Prize winner. A call to action that cannot ...be ignored, See What You Made Me Do is a groundbreaking investigation of domestic abuse, written by one of the country’s finest journalists. Chair of the Stella Judging panel Lou Swinn says, Jess Hill is a journalist whose clarity of expression and thought are of the highest order . using forensic investigation, and highlighting personal stories, this book does much more than draw attention to this crisis it offers solutions for reform. On winning the 2020 Stella Prize, Jess Hill says: To be honoured by a prize that operates with the highest integrity is such a thrill. I feel like I’ve been initiated into a circle of writers at the height of their craft, and for that I am just so grateful. My hope is that the Stella Prize will get more international publishers interested, and that people who never thought they’d read a book about domestic abuse will be persuaded to pick it up. To these future readers, I want to say: you won’t regret it. This book has taught me so much about life, love and power it is not a book about other people, it is a book about all of us, and the world we live in. To all the victim-survivors out there, I hope you feel that this is a win for you, too. I couldn’t have written the book without your expertise and courage." Executive Director of Stella, Jaclyn Booton says: I’m awed by the rigour, humanity, and clarity Jess brings to the project and wholeheartedly congratulate her on winning the 2020 Stella Prize with this landmark book. Stella thanks our Award Partner, The Wilson Foundation for their dedication to Australian women’s writing, and is proud to have presented tonight’s online announcement in partnership with The Wheeler Centre and GuardianLive!

23.01.2022 Huge congratulations to #TheStellaPrize co-founder Sophie Cunningham and 2016 Stella Prize winner Charlotte Wood, who were both made Members of the Order of Aus...tralia (AM) today! -- Sophie is being honoured for her "significant service to literature as an author, editor and role model." & Charlotte is being honoured for her "significant service to literature." -- Also, from Guardian Australia, "Monday night’s list has the highest percentage of female recipients yet at 40%, but is still below 50/50 parity, and close to the same 33% to 66% imbalance the awards have historically maintained since they were founded in 1975. The 2019 Australia Day honours list had set a new record of 37.5% female winners, up from the 33% in 2018." -- Progress is slow, but good to see some (albeit small) improvement. Still a lot more work to do! See more

23.01.2022 Why don’t more Dad’s take parental leave? Sneak peak from Annabel Crabb’s illuminating new Quarterly Essay Men at Work here Black Inc. https://mobile.abc.net.au//parental-leave-for-fa/11471762

22.01.2022 Fascinating listening Australian True Crime Podcast. Thank you for sharing the story of The Devil’s Grip Simon & Schuster Australia Neal Drinnan

21.01.2022 Bravo Neal Drinnan for telling this brave and bold story Simon & Schuster Australia https://www.theage.com.au//new-book-explores-gay-shame-and

21.01.2022 An ode to jiggly little bodies, upon the release of Clare Bowditch's incredible new memoir 'Your Own Kind of Girl'

20.01.2022 Bookshops are important places, full of stories and treasures. Everybody has a story, we may come and go, but stories remain. Archie Roach AM, Singer, Songwri...ter and Author wishes you all a Happy Love Your Bookshop Day!" Thanks for supporting bookshops Archie - and congrats on the news of the December #rollingstonemag cover! #50GreatestAustralianArtistsofallTime! #ArchieRoach #music #author #stories #bookshops #LYBD2020 #loveyourbookshopday #story #everybodyhasastory #booksareessential #shoplocal #booksbooksbooks #loveyourbookshop #Simonandshusterau

19.01.2022 The 'Palace letters' case will be heard by the full bench of the High Court next week! This historic case is a rare opportunity to challenge in open court centu...ries of royal secrecy shielding the activities of the Queen and Buckingham Palace from public view. The case began in the Federal court in 2016 against the National Archives seeking the release of the secret 'Palace letters' between the Queen and the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, about Kerr's dismissal of the Whitlam government. The letters are held in our National Archives in Canberra and embargoed by the Queen - she can see them and we can't. How fitting that Australia's highest court, and not the Queen, will now decide whether these historic letters will be available for public access, or remain under the Queen's embargo and lost to our history. Thanks to everyone who has made this possible - the wonderful legal team working pro bono committed to public access and transparency, and to all the great supporters of the crowd-funding campaign, Release the Palace letters - the High Court appeal, all friends and family who pushed it along at every stage - thank you all! See more

19.01.2022 READ: Lunch with Rone, via The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age & Creative Victoria. 'Earlier this month, [Rone] appeared at the Creative State Summit, a government initiative that invites local and international speakers to reflect on best practice and emerging trends across a range of endeavours. During his 20-minute talk about immersive art, Rone bemoaned the bureaucratic hurdles that sometimes stifle creative projects such as Empire.... ‘‘Often, the things that will stop me doing a project will be the boring things, like public access or parking,’’ he says. ‘‘If there are ways to create exemptions for these sorts of projects, that would be amazing and also incentives for building owners to let these sorts of things happen.’’ Happily, parking wasn’t an issue at Burnham Beeches, the slightly dilapidated mansion built by Aspro magnate Alfred Nicholas in the 1930s and later expanded and variously used as a hotel, children’s hospital and research facility. Surrounded by lush, European-style gardens, it seems the perfect setting for evocative tales of elegant country weekends, family fortunes built and lost, and the spirits of those who never left.' https://www.smh.com.au//the-ghosts-of-burnham-beeches-hove

19.01.2022 Two years ago author Lee Kofman invited 17 writers she admired to write essays about severing ties with anyone deeply meaningful to them. These stories are collected in 'Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings', out now from Ventura Press (via Simon & Schuster Australia). Lee told 9Honey the writers’ stories differ greatly in how ‘resolved’ their endings are. 'Many writers do speak of the relief, even happiness, they found in their splits, but this better-n...ess is often described as tentative, strewn with ambivalence, and not a few discuss the price we can pay even for a much-needed ending.' https://honey.nine.com.au//9035cf29-8935-46a5-9a27-0ca31a0

18.01.2022 'At the Labor function, they cut the sound. The corners of Morrison’s mouth twist as he forms silent words. He is thanking the quiet people who have won him this victory. Just after midnight, Bill Shorten’s bus pulls out from the back of the hotel and disappears into the darkness.' Read an extract from Quarterly Essay #74, The Prosperity Gospel, by Erik Jensen.

17.01.2022 Can't wait for Love Your Bookshop Day tomorrow! Books and those wonderful booksellers have gotten us through this year

17.01.2022 'When you change the money, you change who the politicians listen to' - the fabulous Rebecca Huntley talks about her new Quarterly Essay Australia Fair out today https://www.theage.com.au//donations-more-influential-than

17.01.2022 Congratulations, Jess, and all the wonderful shortlisted and longlisted authors!

17.01.2022 On International Women’s Day we acknowledge all the incredible organisations and individuals we work with that are striving to empower women, including The Stella Prize, who’s 2019 shortlist will be announced this afternoon. Happy IWD!

16.01.2022 It was a delight and an honour to meet award-winning actor, writer and executive director of the UK's Creative Diversity Network, Deborah Williams last week in Melb. Here's a little from her keynote address from the Fair Play symposium held The Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas and presented by Diversity Arts Australia https://dailyreview.com.au/deborah-williams-creative-div//

16.01.2022 From cross-generational sagas to a memoir of living with MS and a journalist's deep dive into domestic abuse: this is your reading guide for the 2020 Stella Prize shortlist. | ABC Arts

16.01.2022 Neal Drinnan’s extraordinary new book The Devil’s Grip in Geelong Advertiser Daily Telegraph Simon & Schuster Australia

16.01.2022 Meet the incredible line up of shortlisted authors for #2019StellaPrize and delve into each of their books with ABC Arts RN's The Book Show

16.01.2022 ‘you watch Shorten’s Labor team playing out a grand design, as if imagining themselves already in history rather than trying to make it, as Morrison was.’ Dennis Atkins reviews the latest Quarterly Essay - The Prosperity Gospel by Erik Jensen https://www.theaustralian.com.au//9ec526a8503d58f68bb9c6ee

15.01.2022 Brava Clare Bowditch! Keeping it real on The Project last night

14.01.2022 A powerful call to Australia to recognise its place and responsibilities in the Pacific by Katerina Teaiwa in the new issue of Australian Foreign Affairs https://www.smh.com.au//pacific-leadership-on-climate-chan

14.01.2022 Congratulations to these six extraordinary Australian Women!

14.01.2022 A shocking and lesser known WWII story told through evocative artworks. One of many important stories to tell as we mark the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. #victoriaremembers #TYFYS #VPDay2020

13.01.2022 It's Love Your Bookshop Day - Get out there and share the love! #LYBD19 Here's a little something to get you warmed up Sally Rippin, Robbie Egan and Jonathan Green on ABC RN's The Drawing Room https://www.abc.net.au//draw/loving-your-bookshop/11393258

13.01.2022 Bowditch’s memoir Your Own Kind of Girl is an act of standing up and showing herself to the world. And if there’s one simple takeaway, it’s that Bowditch is everyone’s kind of girl. In today’s The Sydney Morning Herald Clare Bowditch Allen & Unwin Books #yourownkindofgirl #ontour ... https://bit.ly/34pGtyq

13.01.2022 What a week Clare Bowditch 5 days in and Your Own Kind of Girl is topping the charts #yourownkindofgirl Allen & Unwin Books #ontour #mediablitz

13.01.2022 'I was about seven years old when I realised that I took up too much space. I’d begun to notice that I didn’t look like any of the Disney princesses I loved so much. The boys didn’t show me the same attention that they did my ‘dainty and cute’ female classmates. People would constantly mention my height, often saying, ‘Gosh, you’re tall!’ before even saying hello.' Jess Sanders is a Melbourne-based author and social worker whose new book 'Love Your Body' encourages young girls to admire and celebrate their bodies for all the amazing things they can do. Listen to Jess' tips for raising body-confident kids on Kidspot now. https://www.kidspot.com.au//781ad9e7773cf21d18c0f2724aa3b6

12.01.2022 'a good government is one that makes it hard for people to buy a gun and easy for people to get health care.' Rebecca Huntley on One Nation, donations and what we really want #Australiafair Black Inc. https://www.abc.net.au//one-nation-political-dona/10944102

12.01.2022 'I like happy endings, but I also like the humility, and realness, of narratives about defeats. Or partial defeats. Stories where protagonists might be unable to find the benefit in their adversities yet still feel that life is worth living. Or stories where the acquired wisdom is battered, shaky. And what about stories of certain adversities in the face of which it seems immoral to think of ourselves as becoming wiser, because such thinking can diminish their magnitude?' Lee Kofman on popular culture's saturation with so-called inspirational narratives, for Guardian Australia. https://www.theguardian.com//im-a-sucker-for-happy-endings

12.01.2022 'Today, we're more likely to die from a lifestyle disease than any other cause, and many of these would be preventable if we took better care of our health. Enter a vast wellness industry that has emerged in recent years, making big money promoting 'healthy' lifestyles. Except the aim isn't to make your body work better: it's to make your body look better.' 'Pretty Unhealthy: Why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick' by Dr Nikki Stamp is out in September from Murdoch Books.

11.01.2022 Look at this wonderful hommage to a bookshop by Sydney based children's author and illustrator Aura Parker! . Our 'hommage to a bookshop competition' closes s...oon. We've extended the deadline to Monday 5 August. . Winners receive a voucher to spend in their favourite (ABA) bookshop, as well as a special 2019 Love Your Bookshop Day pin and tote bag. We have 3 prizes to giveaway - one for a photo, one for a short video and one for an illustrative homage! Tell all of your creative book-loving friends! . #bookstagram #booksbooksbooks #loveyourbooskshopday #LYBD19 #booklovers #celebratingbookshops #booksellers #illustration See more

11.01.2022 The fabulous new quarterly essay by Annabel Crabb perfectly captures Australia’s parenthood trap - preview extract in today’s Good Weekend Magazine Black Inc. https://www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2019/09/men-at-work

10.01.2022 The end of an era. What an epic final show today. Congratulations Jon Faine. We wish you well! ABC Melbourne

10.01.2022 Some of our favourite writers and authors sharing the love for #loveyourbookshopday 2020 #booksareessential Love Your Bookshop Penguin Books Australia Affirm Press Hardie Grant Books Simon & Schuster Australia HarperCollins

10.01.2022 Happy publication day Clare Bowditch ! We can’t wait to celebrate with you tonight at Athenaeum Theatre Melbourne Readings Allen & Unwin Books

10.01.2022 Allan Fels opens up on ABC RN Life Matters about his family’s challenges with mental health, his work to fix the sector and a lifetime of advocacy #ToughCustomer Published by Melbourne University Publishing

09.01.2022 This week Peter Hartcher, the international editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, is releasing a Quarterly Essay called Red Flag about China's attempts to garner influence in Australia, and how our government should respond to it.

08.01.2022 'And the more I read, the more I understand that there is no shame in reading things considered unimportant or unsophisticated. The shame is in lacking the ability to see that mind-expanding, heart-wrenching, world-changing thoughts and images can be found in all kinds of books, by all kinds of people in all kinds of forms, and found in all kinds of places. Even shitty libraries. Even discount department stores.' Did you miss Emily Maguire's speech at the The Stella Prize longlist party? Read it now, via Guardian Australia. https://www.theguardian.com//theres-no-shame-in-reading-wh

08.01.2022 On 15 August Victory in the Pacific (VP) Day seventy-five years ago, there was dancing in the streets and mass celebrations in Melbourne to mark the end of ...WWII. While the 75th Anniversary of the end of the war will look very different, our ‘at home’ commemorative and cultural program provides other ways to connect with and thank our veterans. A presentation will be hosted on the RSL Victoria and The Shrine of Remembrance Facebook pages from 11.20am on VP Day, while that weekend, Victorians can also take part in an interactive digital exhibition WWII at Home: Response, Reflection & Rejuvenation curated by the National Trust of Australia in conjunction with Open House Melbourne and the Centre for Architecture Victoria. Some of Melbourne’s iconic buildings and institutions, including The Shrine of Remembrance, Old Treasury Building and Museums Victoria as well as local and regional community organisations and museums will also take part in the anniversary by holding online exhibitions over the coming weeks. To mark VP Day, Victorians are encouraged to write a letter to a veteran, share their message for veterans on social media or download a bunting to place in their window, or on their fence or door. Explore the full program at www.vic.gov.au/world-war-2-75th-anniversary #victoriaremembers #VPDay75

08.01.2022 The Stella Count is in! Congratulations The Stella Prize for all the great work you do and holding us all to account

08.01.2022 https://7news.com.au//dr-nikki-stamp-explains-why-our-obse

07.01.2022 "@Melina Marchetta is the award-winning author of Looking for Alibrandi - and many other novels. She presented this piece at The Stella Prize longlist announce...ment, which awards $50,000 annually to the best Australian women’s writing." #2019StellaPrize #speech #melinamarchetta #kidspot https://bit.ly/2NdTnbH

07.01.2022 Our pursuit of looking healthy is actually making us sick and we need to be more cynical of online influencers and wellness bloggers Dr Nikki Stamp on News Breakfast Murdoch Books #prettyunhealthy

07.01.2022 Congratulations Liz! Wonderful to see you honoured

07.01.2022 Clare's memoir is out soon and WE CAN'T WAIT. Allen & Unwin Books

06.01.2022 The countdown begins! One week to go til the Stella Prize 2019 winner is announced - get ready with this great reading guide to the shortlist. Thanks to the fabulous team at @ABCarts RN's The Book Show. https://www.abc.net.au//stella-prize-shortlist-20/10903404

06.01.2022 Happy birthday, Readings!

06.01.2022 LISTEN: The matriarch of Melbourne's beloved La Mama Theatre, Liz Jones, chats with Richard Fidler on ABC Conversations about the arts, her fascinating life, and the devastating fire at La Mama. 'Artistic Director for more than forty years, Liz has shaped the spirit of the famously intimate venue by curating and supporting fledgling and fringe artists, writers and performers; rallying teams of volunteers, and finding funding to keep the enterprise afloat.'

05.01.2022 Listen to Erik Jensen discuss his latest Quarterly Essay, THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL on ABC RN #QuarterlyEssay

05.01.2022 The unexpected joys of the 'burbs by award-winning author and programmer extraordinaire Sarah Schmidt Bring on Booklovers 2019! Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service, Australia Lisa Dempster https://www.smh.com.au//in-the-shocking-suburban-silence-a

05.01.2022 Hooray! Just 5% to go

05.01.2022 #notbusinessasusual We'll close our doors at midday today to support #climatestrike #schoolsstrike4climate#notbusinessasusual We'll close our doors at midday today to support #climatestrike #schoolsstrike4climate

05.01.2022 'I grew up in south-west Sydney, so I was always conscious of class differences. I was a student at Sydney University, doing a combined law degree. In my year at law school, I would've been one of perhaps one or two people who lived in the western suburbs; everyone else lived on the north shore or eastern suburbs. The value of equality for me has always been foundational. If the playing field is not level, we can talk all we like about equality existing, but we know we're nev...er going to be extending true equality to everyone.' Tim Soutphommasane ponders bodies, death, politics and his new book 'On Hate' (Melbourne University Publishing) for The Sydney Morning Herald/The Age. https://www.smh.com.au//dicey-topics-tim-soutphommasane-on

05.01.2022 Congratulations, Melissa!

04.01.2022 Along with so many other brilliant festivals and events, Melbourne Jewish Book Week has had to cancel its festival for May 2020. The timing coincided with what would have been the launch of its program. Congratulations on this bold and stellar line up. We look forward to hearing more about MJBW events and supporting all our writers through these strange and uncertain times https://melbournejewishbookweek.com.au/

03.01.2022 Wishing a Happy 100th Birthday to the fabulous veteran Jean Smith. Sunrise recorded this special piece earlier in the week. Current restrictions mean that Jean ...can't see her family on the big day. But we're sure you'll join us in sending her the warmest of birthday wishes. #VictoriaRemembers #VPDay75 #TYFYS #WWII #Veterans

03.01.2022 LISTEN: How Readings Survived 50 Years in a ‘Dying’ Industry with Managing Director Mark Rubbo OAM, on Triple R - 3RRR 102.7FM Mark Rubbo OAM (and partners) purchased Readings in 1976, the same year Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple Computers. Since then the publishing and bookselling industries have been somewhat ‘under threat’. But every time the fate of books looks uncertain, reading communities make it their cause to keep them around. https://www.rrr.org.au//s/readings-mark-rubbo-on-backstory

03.01.2022 'The mulberry harboured us when we were at sea in ourselves. We could disappear up here to lick wounds and find solace and listen to the sounds of the wind rippling and rustling above. As the days shortened and the mornings became frostier we’d lose our cloister as the foliage thinned carpeting the ground in yellow.' Kate Legge, author of 'Kindred: A Cradle Mountain Love Story' (Melbourne University Publishing), for Dumbo Feather. https://www.dumbofeather.com/articles/mulberry-tree/

01.01.2022 The remarkable Hilary McPhee speaks to ABC Conversations about writing, marriage and learning to live alone again

01.01.2022 Former ACCC powerhouse Allan Fels now champions a cause much closer to home. https://www.theguardian.com//allan-fels-australias-consume

01.01.2022 The dark underbelly with our quest for appearing healthy is that, sometimes, this pursuit is actually making us sicker, poorer and pretty unhealthy. It is imperative that we detach this perception that healthy is a look or a trend to pursue and instead focus on what true health actually is. Dr Nikki Stamp on Daily Life today Murdoch Books #prettyunhealthy https://www.theage.com.au//the-best-way-to-get-healthy-is-