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Founded in 2000, Black Inc. is part of the Schwartz Media group. Our imprints include the Quarterly Essay, Australian Foreign Affairs, and La Trobe University Press, and each year we publish a number of books in our Growing Up, Shortest Histories and Writers on Writers series. We are passionate about important new works of history, politics, biography, criticism and current affairs, as well as novels and poems that open up new worlds.
In 2008, Black Inc. published the first in the Growing Up series, Growing Up Asian in Australia, a collection of fifty-five short memoirs and nine interviews, edited by Alice Pung.
Featuring some of the most well-known and emerging voices in Australian writing, each book in our Growing Up series captures the diversity of our nation in moving and revelatory ways. Since that inaugural edition, we have proudly published Growing Up in Country Australia, Growing Up Aboriginal, Growing Up African, Growing Up Queer and Growing Up Disabled in Australia.
Introducing La Trobe University Press
La Trobe University Press (LTUP) is a joint imprint of Black Inc. and La Trobe University. It publishes leading scholars and experts, producing books of high intellectual quality, substance and originality.
Submission guidelines for La Trobe University Press can be found here.
Quarterly Essay is an agenda-setting journal of politics and culture. Each issue contains a single essay of about 25,000 words, followed by correspondence on previous essays. QE presents the widest range of political, intellectual and cultural opinion and aims to foster debate. It offers a forum for original long-form investigations, profiles and arguments.
Print and digital subscriptions are available for Quarterly Essay, for more information please visit quarterlyessay.com
Beginning in 2012, with The Shortest History of Europe, our Shortest Histories offer clear and concise accounts of broad-ranging topics from the world’s leading subject matter experts. Every book in our Shortest History series can be read in an afternoon and will transform your perspective for a lifetime.
Often humorous and always illuminating, the series has sold over half a million copies across the globe, with rights sold in more than thirty countries.
The series includes The Shortest History of China, The Shortest History of Greece, The Shortest History of India, The Shortest History of the Soviet Union, The Shortest History of the World, The Shortest History of Italy, The Shortest History of Japan, and many more.
In the Writers on Writers series, leading authors reflect on an Australian writer who has inspired and influenced them. Provocative and crisp, these books start a fresh conversation between past and present, shed new light on the craft of writing, and introduce some intriguing and talented authors and their work.
Published by Black Inc. in association with the University of Melbourne and State Library Victoria.
