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proposed an Australia-wide university press at the 1932 Universities Conference, but the Melbourne press did not support this idea. University students' ongoing difficulties with obtaining textbooks were common at the time, and the Australian universities had different ways of addressing the issue.
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were published during the 1960s for UWA's departments, which were time-consuming for press staff and despite the subsidies, rarely met their costs. Production of the journals ended in 1973. During the 1970s, textbooks were replaced with "recommended readings", and students no longer needed to
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create course readers to save students time and money. Course readers contain photocopies of journal articles, book chapters and monographs, specific to a particular course or topic. Several university presses in Australia closed during the 1980s, and the UWA Press's
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students to have their manuscripts published. Fiction series editor Terri-ann White explained, "We're looking for literary fiction, so that's the distinction. We're not looking for mass market." The press approached Australian university coordinators in
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The press combined with the Western Australian History Foundation in 2000 to offer the WA History Foundation Award, which encourages and publishes works on Western Australian history. The first work published was
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In May 2018 it was announced that the Dorothy Hewett Award would become a national award allowing submissions from writers across Australia rather than only Western Australia.
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Scholarly publishing at the UWA Press continually struggled to be commercially viable. The market was small and the press was isolated from other cities and markets. Subsidised
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However, this decision was forgone in favor of UWA Publishing operating under a hybrid publishing model with internal management re-aligned to the University Library.
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and Fred Alexander. It was known as the Text Books Board until 1948, when it took on the name University of Western Australia Press.
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Since 2020 UWA Publishing has continued to publish literary works and will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2025.
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In November 2019 the University of Western Australia announced its plans to close UWA Publishing.
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In 2021, two authors were announced as co-winners of the award. Josh Kemp won for his manuscript
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In 2017, UWA Publishing chose to align the award with the year of announcement. In February 2018
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In 2001, the press selected the Eurospan Group to promote and distribute their books in the
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The organisation celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2005, and gave an opportunity to
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Blood Sweat and Welfare: A History of White Bosses and Aboriginal Pastoral Workers
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processes reduced the cost of printing books, but the rising popularity of
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which was published in 2022 and went on to be shortlisted for the 2023
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A Press in Isolation: University of Western Australia Press, 1935-2004
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courses for recommendations of the work of post-graduate students in
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Macnamara, Lisa (2 November 2005). "Big Break for Student Writers".
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The publishing house changed its name to UWA Publishing in 2009.
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by Mary Anne Jebb. In 2000, it started publishing a quarterly
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1935-2005: celebrating seventy years of university publishing
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for an Emerging Writer. Kgshak Akec won for her manuscript
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