Tony Tulatimutte
Rejection
“Unrelentingly brutal and gut-bustingly funny and spares no one”
Harper Collins, 2025
An audacious and original novel-in-stories following a cast of intricately linked characters as rejection throws their lives and relationships into chaos.
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the thorniest problems of modern life: sex, relationships, identity and the internet.
We see a tryhard male feminist's passionate allyship turn to a furious and debilitating nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that his feminism isn’t getting him laid; a young woman’s unrequited crush spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of both her sense of self and her group chat; and witness a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship lead to a life-upending mistake. As these characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways that our delusions can warp our desire for connection.
Written with the accomplished authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a losers’ manifesto, Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte radically redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society and oneself.
About the Author
Tony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. His work has appeared in The Paris Review, n +1, The Nation, The New Republic, and The New York Times. The recipient of an O. Henry Award and a Whiting Award, he runs the writing class CRIT in Brooklyn.
Judith Nangala Crispin
The Dingo’s Noctuary
Puncher & Wattmann, 2025
Set against a backdrop of Australia’s central deserts, The Dingo's Noctuary explores themes of identity, belonging, and the fragile threads that connect all living beings. At the heart of the tale is a soul’s dark night, the flight of a lady motorcyclist, in the prime of her invisibility, and her mongrel dingo Moon, into the Tanami desert. She’s searching for a caravan of miraculous dog-headed beings, glimpsed in dreams and the dementia tales of an old desert lady.
The Dingo’s Noctuary is an illustrated verse novel, complete at 70,500 words. It includes accurate hand drawn maps of the Australian central deserts, pressings of rare plants, and forty-seven lumachrome glass prints, afterlife portraits of animals and birds. The story unfolds through combinations of poetry and prose, alongside visual images- maps of land and stars, plant pressings, and forty-seven afterlife portraits of animals and birds. It is a single-authored book in which the images and texts are equally weighted. The book was written over thirty-seven desert crossings, sometimes on the motorcycle with the dog on the back. The entire second half of the book was written on a typewriter after a motorcycle crash (the unsuccessful 37th crossing) left me unable to use a computer. I made a motorcycle blog about one of the journeys in this book here.
Work from The Dingo’s Noctuary has received a number of awards and prizes including the 2023 Sunshine Coast Art Prize and the 2020 Blake Prize for Poetry. It was highly commended in the 2023 Mullins Conceptual Photography Prize and shortlisted for the 2023 Milburn Art Prize, the 2023 and 2025 Ravenswood Prizes for Australian Women’s Art, and the 2019 Olive Cotton Prize. Images and texts from this book were included in the Lunar Codex time-capsule which was deposited on the moon as part of the Blue Ghost mission in 2024. A mock-up of the complete book was shortlisted for the 2023 Arles Luma Recontres Dummy Book Prize.
About the Author
Judith Nangala Crispin is an acclaimed poet, visual artist, motorcyclist and volunteer firefighter, who lives on unceded Ngunnawal/Ngambri Country near Braidwood on the NSW Southern Tablelands. Her poetry has won the Blake Prize, been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and been shortlisted for many awards including the Peter Porter Prize. Her visual art has won her residencies, awards, and wide acclaim, here and overseas. She has published two collections of poetry, The Myrrh-Bearers and The Lumen Seed. Judith is a descendant of Bpangerang people from the Murray River and acknowledges heritage from Scotland, Ireland, France, Mali, Senegal and the Ivory Coast. She spends part of each year living and working with the Warlpiri, her adopted people, in the Northern Tanami Desert.
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.