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Anna
Solding is the managing director of
MidnightSun Publishing, an Adelaide based publishing company which specialises
in literary fiction for adults and children’s books for all ages. She holds a
Masters and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Adelaide. Books
that Anna has published have been successful, both critically and commercially,
receiving reviews in major newspapers and some have been translated and sold
into other territories.
Picture book One Step at a Time has
been translated into simplified Chinese and Spanish and was a CBCA Honour Book
in 2016. Adult novel An Ordinary Epidemic
has been sold both to the USA and the UK. Anna has been the recipient of
several grants from Arts South Australia and was chosen as one of the
publishers to attend the Australia-China Publishing Forum in 2015. For the last
three years, Anna has attended both the London and Bologna Book Fairs to make
new contacts and secure agents for overseas rights. In 2017, Anna was chosen to
travel to South Korea and China with three other Australian publishers to forge
ties with publishers in Asia. Middle grade novel A Cardboard Palace by Allayne Webster, which MidnightSun published
this year, will hit Swedish bookshops in 2018.
MidnightSun
is constantly expanding, looking for high quality work, and is always open for
submissions for all ages. Send the first 20 pages of your work only, with a
cover letter containing all your details, to submissions@midnightsunpublishing.com or hard copy to
MidnightSun Publishing, P.O. Box 3647, Rundle Mall SA 5000.
