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Bonfire Books

@BooksBonfire

Australia's premier independent publisher. Submissions open January 2027.

 Melbourne, Victoria
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Joined May 2020
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ANNOUNCEMENT! COMING October 2026! A yet to be titled novel by Jack Cuthbertson aka @bookclubhell666 "Book Club From Heaven". Rock band Atlas & The Shruggers rule the world with monumental aesthetics. Benighted Tasmania is the lone holdout. Schizoid fiction at its INSANEST!
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Emmett Stinson@EmmettStinsonOct 23
I'd prefer publishers focused on literary qualty, not politics, because they are mostly bad at the latter, better at the former. A huge % of excellent writers historically are not on or of the left, and I don't know why we'd want or expect them to be.
Krapp's Last Vape (@SatireRedacted) profile pictureKrapp's Last Vape@SatireRedactedOct 22
I don’t think a literary publisher has any business being right-wing. I will make you a deal. You can publish, but you cannot call it literary.
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Thanks Matt!
Em_Ess (@teo_ess) profile pictureEm_Ess@teo_essOct 30
Replying to @silexsc
man, if you knew how bad it is in Australian publishing... @BooksBonfire is a gift neither country deserves!
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Henry Vaughan@silexscOct 30
Bonfire Books is doing great work, by the way. Last year they published Sleep Capricorn by Jack Norman which I highly recommend.
Henry Vaughan (@silexsc) profile pictureHenry Vaughan@silexsc24 Oct 2025
REVIEW: Sleep Capricorn by Jack Norman (@Thingol2006) Australian stories by a skilled craftsman of fiction Published by Bonfire Books (@BooksBonfire) Link in reply
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Henry Vaughan@silexscOct 28
REVIEW: The Quarrymen by Caleb Caudell (@LitMiddle) Published by @BooksBonfire You're going to want to read this book Link in reply
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Coming soon to the Getting Lit Podcast, some of the best books of 2026! @verdur_in @BooksBonfire @bookclubhell666 @supersquat1
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Pleased to announce that Continuing City and Other Poems by @jessekbutler is now available to pre-order from the Bonfire website. Ships May 2027. More to come. bonfirebooks.org/product/con…
Continuing City & Other Poems - Bonfire Books

Continuing City & Other Poems - Bonfire Books

Continuing City is a book about the longing for a world that’s “realer than the one I’ve wandered here.” It is often apocalyptic in tone, with strong influences ranging from science fiction to (as...

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Get your 100% Australian Made Bonfire Books Stubby Holder from the Bonfire website!
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Just in time for SUMMER! Get you limited edition 100% Australian Made Bonfire Books Stubby Holder! Once this classic design is gone, it's gone! Link in reply.
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Bonfire Books 100% Australian Made Stubby Holder - Bonfire Books

Keep your grog cool this summer. Limited edition design. Black.

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Nice review in @WordOnFire of Spare Us Yet by Bonfire E-i-C Lucas Smith. "A challenging collection, Spare Us Yet rewards close reading, with each story rich enough to warrant a review of its own."
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@WordOnFireOct 19
“Smith is not especially concerned with settling ideological arguments or telling us which side is right. He is more interested in how imperfect people reach for God.” on.wof.org/UmyrH60
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Alexander Dugin@AGDuginOct 18
Books are for supermen, Übermenschen. All the rest is for Untermenschen. Love books. Read them. Try to understand what is within. That is the only way to stay human. The man is the middle of string between Superman and subhuman. The books make you what you are in the core.
Michael Millerman (@millerman) profile pictureMichael Millerman
@millermanOct 18
You don't need books. You can get through life on vibes. Watch movies, listen to music, do stuff. Reading isn't for everyone even though book lovers say otherwise. If you want to be well educated, though, books are the way.
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Audience Capture is out soon! Message for review copies, otherwise preorder on the @BooksBonfire website!
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Wonderful opportunities and prize money for writers here! Enter by October 30th.
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@ESUVicBranchOct 13
GREAT PRIZES: Submissions are now open for our Creative Writing Awards 2026. There are contests for formal verse and for prose essays. Winners receive cash prizes and an invitation for publication in @boroughpoetry. We also offer a month-long Writer's Residency. The closing date for each award is Friday 30 October. Learn more here: esuvic.org.au/content/awards
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Attention Fornalists! Our friends at the ESU Victoria Branch have opened their Formal Verse Contest for another year. $9,000 prize pool, free entry, seventy lines or less. Theme: An Australian Voice. Deadline October 30th.
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@ESUVicBranchSep 27
Our Creative Writing Awards 2026 are now open for submissions. There are contests for formal verse and for prose essays. We also offer a month-long Writer's Residency. The closing date for each award is Friday 30 October. Learn more here: esuvic.org.au/content/awards
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Someone has discovered the plotline of Billionaire Boys Club
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@zamdotethOct 7
There is literally a group of gen Z kids online that has mastered the art of VC investment fraud They have a playbook where they hire guys from stanford and MIT to be faces of a startup, vibe code some good looking software and straight up run away with investor money after raising small 100-500k preseed rounds I learnt about this today, considering how legal crime has become i can’t even say i’m surprised
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Bonfire poet Clarence Caddell will be reading at this!
Em_Ess (@teo_ess) profile pictureEm_Ess@teo_essOct 4
New Oz is unstoppable. Much fun, much literature, much discourse, and now even academic conference papers studying it! Melbourne, come see what all the fuss is about, Oct 24th.
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levi 🎃🇵🇸@gnostic_bfOct 3
The images coming out of melbourne this morning are devastating 😢💔
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#Earthquake possibly felt 55 sec ago in #Australia. Felt it? Tell us via: 📱m.emsc.eu/#app 🌐m.emsc.eu 🖥emsc-csem.org ⚠ Automatic crowdsourced detection, not seismically verified yet. More info soon!
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Caleb Caudell@LitMiddleSep 18
Thanks, John, for this goodreads review of The Quarrymen
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