Readings will celebrate its 40th birthday in 2009. As you may be aware, the company has grown through many changes in the bookselling industry, flourishing into the landmark Australian bookshop and an institution on the Australian literary scene.

To celebrate the milestone and to honour the company’s contribution, an anthology is to be published in early 2009. It will be a significant publication of new work by established and emerging Australian writers, and other writers who have had involvement with Readings over the last forty years, either through events, as customers or as employees.

We would love for you to be involved. It’s a great opportunity to be published in an anthology of quality Australian writing and to recognize Readings’ significance to the Australian literary scene.

We are looking for previously unpublished short fiction of up to 5000 words in length, though shorter work is preferred. The theme is open and the submission deadline is 31 May 2008. We are unable to pay for contributions, but your work will be published alongside prominent Australian writers in an anthology that will recognise your current or forthcoming publications and will have wide media exposure. All profits will go to the Brotherhood of Saint Laurence’s HIPPY child literacy fund. Click here for further information about HIPPY.

Please submit your best work on double-spaced, single-sided, numbered A4 to:

Readings Anthology
309 Lygon Street
Carlton VIC 3053

If your work is selected you will be asked to forward an electronic copy. The launch is set for early 2009 (plenty of time to get things right) so we hope to see you at the party to celebrate our 40th birthday and all things Readings.

If you have any further questions about the publication please email anthology@readings.com.au

NB: Please note that all book production positions have been filled.