After seven years at the helm of small press Puncher & Wattmann as its co-owner and Publishing Director, Ed Wright has decided to pursue other avenues. He speaks to ArtsHub about the rewards and challenges of working in publishing.
David Musgrave started the press in 2005, predominantly as a poetry press. The name is a reference from the character Lucky in [Samuel] Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. I joined the press as fiction editor in 2015 and began to build a list. In 2018, I became a co-owner and Publishing Director.Â
Thuy On is the Reviews and Literary Editor of ArtsHub and an arts journalist, critic and poet who’s written for a range of publications including The Guardian, The Saturday Paper, Sydney Review of Books, The Australian, The Age/SMH and Australian Book Review. She was the Books Editor of The Big Issue for 8 years and a former Melbourne theatre critic correspondent for The Australian.
She has three collections of poetry published by the University of Western Australian Press (UWAP): Turbulence (2020), Decadence (2022) and Essence (2025).
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