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Ginninderra Press is an Australian independent publisher.

Founded in 1996 in Canberra by Stephen Matthews Шаблон:Post-nominals, it takes its name from an Aboriginal word meaning "throwing out little rays of light"[1] and from its original location in the Australian Capital Territory. In 2007 it moved to Port Adelaide in South Australia.[1]

Ginninderra Press has been described by The Canberra Times as "versatile and visionary".[1] In 2003 it published How Did the Fire Know We Lived Here?: Canberra's Bush Fires January 2003 to raise funds for the Canberra Bushfire Recovery Appeal.[2] It sponsored two ACT Literary Awards, the Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition (2000–2005) and the Ginninderra Press Short Story Competition for Children (2000–2006).[3]

In the 2021 Australia Day Honours its founder, Stephen Matthews, was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for "service to publishing".[4]

To celebrate its 20 years of operation Joan Fenney edited Rays of light: Ginninderra Press – the first 20 years.[5]

Notable authors, including Warwick Anderson, Natalie D-Napoleon, John Foulcher, Sonya Hartnett, Tim Metcalf and Kel Robertson, have had works published by Ginninderra.

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