Dan Hogan
Secret Third Thing
Cordite Books, 2023
Secret Third Thing is a hyper-real comment on this hyper real moment: it is suffused with internet culture and reflections on the lives we live, now, largely online. What characterises Dan Hogan's poetry is the way that, each time we come close to fully apprehending the impending collapse of capitalism, we are waylaid by something more urgent and mundane. To be non-binary, as these poems show is not to just be a secret third thing, it is to bring class consciousness to bear upon gender – Eda Gunaydin
About the Author
Dan Hogan (they/them) is the author of Secret Third Thing, which won the Mary Gilmore Award and the Five Islands Prize. Secret Third Thing was also named one of the ‘best 25 Australian books of 2023’ by The Guardian. Hogan’s poetry has won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, XYZ Prize, and Val Vallis Award, among others. Their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published widely, including in Overland, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, The Guardian, and Jacobin. Hogan runs DIY publisher Subbed In and edits the working-class literary journal Industrial Estate. In 2024, Hogan received funding from Creative Australia to complete their first novel, tentatively titled The Phrog.
More of Hogan’s work can be found at: https://www.2dan2hogan.com/
Dominic Hoey
1985
Penguin Books Australia, 2025
Best-selling author Dominic Hoey's much anticipated third novel.
It’s 1985 and Obi’s on the cusp of teenagehood, after a childhood marked by poverty, dysfunctional family dynamics, (dis)organised crime and violence. His dad’s delusional, his mum’s real sick, the Rainbow Warrior just exploded, and it’s time for Obi to grow up and get out of the spacies parlour.
When he and his best mate Al discover a map leading to unknown riches, Obi wonders if this windfall could be the thing that turns his family’s fortunes around. Instead, he’s thrown into an adventure where the stakes are a lot higher than the games he loves.
An electric novel about life in a multi-cultural, counter-cultural part of Auckland pre-gentrification. 1985 is an adventure story with a local flavour, a coming-of-age story for the underdogs, the disenfranchised and the dreamers.
“This is writing of raw and shining brilliance”
About the Author
Dominic Hoey is a poet, author and youth worker from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. He’s released two best-selling novels and written a million love poems. Through his Learn To Write Good programme, Dominic has taught thousands of writing students how to think dyslexic. He also works with rangatahi, helping to support them with their mental health and self-esteem. He dreams of one day starting a rescue farm for wayward animals.
Giada Scodellaro
Some of Them Will Carry Me
Dorothy, 2022
Giada Scodellaro’s stories range in length, style, and tone—a collage of social commentary, surrealism, recipes, folklore, and art. What brings them together is a focus on experiences of Black women in moments of dislocation and a cinematic prose style saturated with detail: a child’s legs bent upon the small bosom of their mother, three-piece suits floating in a river, a man holding a rotting banana during sex, wet cardboard, a woman walking naked through a traffic tunnel. In language that is lyrical, minimal, and often absurd, the diverse stories in Some of Them Will Carry Me deconstruct contemporary life while building a surprising new reality of language, intimacy, and loss.
“This is a book of wonders, full of intricate beauty, and Giada Scodellaro is an extraordinary talent.”
About the Author
Giada Scodellaro is a writer and photographer born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, NY. She holds an MFA from the New School. Some of Them Will Carry Me is her first book.