Stephen Matthews (writer)
Stephen Matthews (1946 – 25 September 2024)[1] was an Australian author and publisher.
Matthews was born in Chichester, England[2] and was educated at Cambridge University. He moved from England to Australia in 1979 and after stints in the Northern Territory and Adelaide he settled in Canberra.[3] In 1996 he established Ginninderra Press.[4] He moved to Adelaide in 2008[5] and died in Port Adelaide on 25 September 2024, bequeathing Ginninderra Press to Debbie Lee. He had published around 3000 titles and printed over 300,000 books.[6][4]
He received a medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to publishing in 2021.[7] In 2007 he won the ACT Writing and Publishing Awards for best children's book, Secrets which he edited.[8]
Matthews was a co-founder of Canberra's Voice magazine[9]
Works
Editor
- Telling Australia's Truth, Ginninderra Press, 2024, anthology poetry
- Milestones, Ginninderra Press, 2021, anthology poetry
- I Protest! Poems of Dissent, Ginninderra Press, 2020, anthology poetry
- Secrets: Stories, Ginninderra Press, 2006, anthology children's fiction
- Lost: Stories, Ginninderra Press, 2005, anthology short story for children
- Refuge: Stories, Ginninderra Press, 2004, anthology children's fiction[10][11]
- Danger: Stories, Ginninderra Press, 2003, anthology children's fiction[12]
- How Did the Fire Know We Lived Here? Canberra's Bushfires, Ginninderra Press, 2003, anthology short stories and prose[13]
- Not Theirs the Shame Who Fight: edited selections from the World War I diaries, poems and letters of 6080 Private R. C. (Cleve) Potter, A Company 21st Battalion A.I.F. by Reynold Cleve Potter[14][15]
- The Eye of the Soul: Interviews with Seventeen of the Younger Generation of Australians Writing for Children and Young Adults, Magpies Magazine, 1998, anthology criticism, biography and interview[16][17][18][19]
Author
References
- ^ "Stephen Matthews". www.austlit.edu.au. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
- ^ "Profile archives". www.actwriters.org.au. Archived from the original on 31 August 2007. Retrieved 20 October 2025.
- ^ "Ginninderra Press Fills A Publishing Niche", The Canberra Times, 25 January 1998
- ^ a b Musa, Helen (8 October 2024), "Publisher Stephen Matthews dies at 78", City News
- ^ Harper, Charlotte (15 June 2008), "The right time to write", The Canberra Times, p. 4
- ^ "Tweets and tales held dear", The Australian, p. 15, 14 December 2024
- ^ "Book industry figures among 2021 Australia Day honours recipients", Books+Publishing, 27 January 2021
- ^ ACT Writing and Publishing Awards Winners Retrieved on 12 July 2016
- ^ "The vision behind Canberra's voice", The Canberra Times, p. 20, 4 December 2008
- ^ Robson Kett, Margaret (March 2005), "Untitled", Magpies : Talking About Books for Children, vol. 28, no. 1, p. 36
- ^ Elliot, Ralph (29 January 2005), "A Refuge By Any Other Name", The Canberra Times, p. 18
- ^ Gregg, Alison (March 2004), "A Leap of the Imagination", Magpies : Talking About Books for Children, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 20–21
- ^ Robertson, Judith (March 2006), "Untitled", Reviews in Australian Studies, vol. 1, no. 1
- ^ Farquharson, John (5 June 1999), "War Genre Gem", The Canberra Times, p. 22
- ^ Hart, Melissa (October 1999), "Shorts", Australian Book Review, no. 215, p. 45
- ^ Pausacker, Jenny (July 1998), "Voices in Interview", Australian Book Review, no. 202, pp. 37–38
- ^ Bantick, Christopher (6 June 1998), "Ensuring A Future For Books", The Canberra Times, p. 21
- ^ Tully, Bill (Summer 1998–1999), "Recent Books of Distinction", Blast, no. 38, pp. 24–25
- ^ Cameron, Elspeth (August 1998), "Untitled", Magpies : Talking About Books for Children, vol. 42, no. 3, p. 43
- ^ May, Fiona (June 2003), "Untitled", Voice : A Journal of Comment and Review, vol. 19, no. 1, p. 1
- ^ Douglas, Elizabeth (February 2003), "Untitled", Reading Time : The Journal of the Children's Book Council of Australia, vol. 47, no. 1, p. 13