About Corella Press™

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Corella Press™ is a teaching initiative of The University of Queensland’s Writing, Editing and Publishing (WEP) program within the School of Communication and Arts.

Unearthing and bringing new life to nineteenth-century Australian crime and mystery stories, student interns at Corella Press™ source serialised fiction from early Australian periodicals to produce beautiful, thrilling, collectable books for contemporary readers.

Corella Press™ provides a unique hands-on learning opportunity for UQ students. Students gain experience and are responsible for every aspect of publication, from Acquisitions and Editorial through to Production and Marketing.

As its avian namesake suggests, Corella Press™ is playful, disruptive, and dynamic.

Acknowledgement of Country

Corella Press™acknowledges we work across unceded Yuggera and Turrbal country. Although we are careful to curate a list that does not contain racist language and stereotype, these recovered nineteenth-century stories take place on a vividly colonial landscape and generally replicate colonial story cycles¹: Australia at that time was, and still is today, a project of settler colonialism premised on stolen land and genocidal violence. There are also other references that require acknowledgement, for example, nineteenth-century sugar planting in Queensland almost invariably meant using the slave labour of people who were stolen from islands in the South Pacific.

Corella Press™ actively seeks out and publishes recovered nineteenth-century stories that reflect lesser-heard voices from the time: (White) women of a range of classes, Jewish settlers, and other diverse voices that we can find. We also offer a standing $200.00 book prize for any UQ student who uncovers a serialised work by a First Nations Australian author, Asian Australian author, or any other culturally/linguistically diverse voice in The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database². If you find one, please let us know at corellapress@uq.edu .au

Kwaymullina, Ambelin. "Edges, Centres and Futures." 2014 https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/edges-centres-and-futures-reflections-on-being-an-indigenous-speculative-fiction-writer/
The Australian Newspaper Fiction Database https://cdhrdatasys.anu.edu.au/tobecontinued/

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