Grattan Street Press

Grattan Street Press is the teaching press at the University of Melbourne. We're staffed by senior publishing students, and have been publishing books since 2017. At Grattan Street Press we enjoy seeing a diversity of submissions and have the freedom to consider what falls outside the strictly commercial. We publish a range of work, including contemporary literature and trade non-fiction.

We also publish manuscripts for Grattan Street Shorts. This list is designed to showcase work that’s bold and experimental or does not fit neatly into conventional formats. Grattan Street Shorts includes novellas, linked stories, collected micro-fiction, long essays and creative nonfiction.

In 2017, we released our first books, kicking off with the Colonial Australian Popular Fiction series. In 2018, we launched the Grattan Street Shorts series with Emma Jones’s Something to Be Tiptoed Around, which developed something of a cult following; with the journal Inside Story, we also published an essay collection, Inside Story: The First Ten Years. In 2019, we published our best-selling title to date, Robert Hassan’s Uncontained: Digital Disconnection and the Meaning of Time. We also published Seth Robinson’s debut novel, Welcome to Bellevue. Our upcoming publication Mer by Samantha Amy Mansell will be part of our Shorts series.

In 2021, we published Intermission, a short-story collection of diverse voices, and Love & Other Rituals, vivid stories of yearning, loneliness and resilience. 2022 saw the publication of Jacinta Dietrich’s This is Us Now, the story of two young people navigating a relationship in the most extraordinary circumstances. Our most recent publication is Small Data is Beautiful, a collection of essays that investigates the conceptual, artistic, and computational qualities of small data.