# Hilary Mcphee

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Is Melbourne the Intellectual Capital?

Hilary McPhee AO (founding director of McPhee Gribble Publishers), Chris Feik (editor of the Quarterly Essay and publisher of Black Inc. Books), Elizabeth Finkel (editor of Cosmos Magazine and Vice-Chancellor’s Fellow at La Trobe University) and Jeff Sparrow (editor of Overland and co-author of Ra…

AWW23: An Australian Publishing Icon - Hilary McPhee

Chair: Anne Summers Hilary McPhee, together with her business partner Di Gribble, established Australia’s first woman-owned publishing house in 1975. For over two decades, McPhee discovered new writers who are now revered as greats of the Australian literary canon, including Helen Garner, Tim Wint…

The feminist publishing house that launched Australia's best writers

In the early seventies two Melbourne feminists hatched an idea to set up their own publishing house. Diana Gribble was a socialite working in advertising and Hilary McPhee a novice editor. McPhee Gribble Publishing was born. And soon authors like Tim Winton, Dorothy Hewett and Helen Garner were kno…

Literati Gliterati November Salon: 'Family Lexicon' by Natalia Ginzburg

The monthly Literati Glitterati Salon returns for its final instalment for 2024 to discuss autobiographical novel Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg about life, language, and family in Italy from the 1920s to the 50s. Mel Fulton speaks to writer and editor Hilary McPhee, collection manager and mu…

The writer and the Prince

While fleeing the aftermath of a failed marriage, Hilary McPhee accepted a job in Jordan to write the autobiography of a Hashemite Prince. Living alone for the first time, she was plunged into extreme loneliness

LNL Summer: A legendary Australian publisher, and saving the beach shack

Australian literature was never the same after McPhee Gribble Publishing, the revolutionary women-owned publishing house. The venture was started in 1975 by Diana Gribble, a socialite working in advertising, and Hilary McPhee, a novice editor. Soon authors like Tim Winton, Dorothy Hewett and Helen …

LNL Summer: The feminist publishing house that launched Australia's best writers

In the early seventies two Melbourne feminists hatched an idea to set up their own publishing house. Diana Gribble was a socialite working in advertising and Hilary McPhee a novice editor. McPhee Gribble Publishing was born. Soon authors like Tim Winton, Dorothy Hewett and Helen Garner were knockin…

The Writers: Hilary McPhee

In 1974, two Melbourne feminists saw an opportunity to shake up the British-owned male-heavy publishing scene in Australia.Hilary McPhee, a novice editor at the time, along with her friend Dianne Gribble formed a small inner city publishing firm McPhee Gribble. Together, they launched and champione…

Meta's cute new gadget is just as sus

Feeling furious lately? Myf is too. She joins the dots between Meta's new AI charm, which is really just its creepy glasses with a cute face, a study showing films written by women make more money but still don't get the funding, and a world that keeps happening without our consent. Then some light…

Remembering publishing legend Hilary McPhee

Hilary McPhee, a titan of Australian publishing and editing, died last Thursday, aged 85. Alongside Dianne Gribble, McPhee founded the feminist independent publisher McPhee Gribble in 1975, nurturing a new generation of Australian writers. From Cloudstreet to Puberty Blues, Helen Garner to Kaz Co…