{"id":17958,"date":"2012-07-13T04:32:35","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:32:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/black-swan-press-book-shortlisted-for-the-wa-premiers-book-awards\/"},"modified":"2012-07-13T04:32:35","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T20:32:35","slug":"black-swan-press-book-shortlisted-for-the-wa-premiers-book-awards","status":"publish","type":"media-release","link":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/media-release\/black-swan-press-book-shortlisted-for-the-wa-premiers-book-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Swan Press book shortlisted for the WA Premier\u2019s Book Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book released by Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/research.humanities.curtin.edu.au\/blackswan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Black Swan Press <\/a>has been shortlisted for the 2011 Western Australian Premier\u2019s Book Awards.<\/p>\n<p><em>Powering Perth: The History of the East Perth Power Station<\/em> was shortlisted in the Western Australian History category of the Awards.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEdited by Perth historian Lenore Layman, <em>Powering Perth<\/em> tracks the East Perth Power Station\u2019s history from its construction in 1916 through to its closure and subsequent plans for redevelopment.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis year a record 596 were entries were submitted for consideration for the Awards, compared with 571 in 2010.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nProfessor Graham Seal, Black Swan Press Publisher, said it was an honour for everyone involved in putting this book together to be recognised with this nomination.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cBlack Swan Press has a history of producing texts that document important chapters of Western Australia\u2019s cultural and economic history,\u201d Professor Seal said.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cBeing a smaller publisher, we are in a position to tell the local story of WA and produce books that sometimes have a more niche audience.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThis year, Black Swan Press is celebrating its 20th anniversary.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nEstablished in 1992, Black Swan Press has published innovative, pioneering and best-selling titles including Jon Stratton&#8217;s <em>The Young Ones<\/em>, June Lacy&#8217;s <em>Off-Shears: A History of Western Australian Shearing Sheds<\/em> and David Black&#8217;s <em>In His Own Words: John Curtin&#8217;s Speeches and Writings<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book released by Â鶹ֱ²¥\u2019s Black Swan Press has been shortlisted for the 2011 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_research-areas":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"research-areas":[],"class_list":["post-17958","media-release","type-media-release","status-publish","hentry","category-campus-and-global-community"],"acf":{"post_options":{"":null,"additional_content":{"title":"","content":"","image":false},"related_courses":false,"credits":{"author":null,"photographer":null,"media":false},"display_author":true,"banner":{"image":false}}},"featured_image":false,"author_meta":{"first_name":"Curtin","last_name":"University","display_name":"Â鶹ֱ²¥"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/media-release"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-release\/17958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"research-areas","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtin.edu.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/research-areas?post=17958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}