Shaken staff and an author exodus: how a picture book plunged an acclaimed Australian publisher into a crisis over antisemitism (opens in new tab)

The cancellation of Jazz Money’s children’s book Bila, A River Cycle over comments by the book’s illustrator, Matt Chun, has led to the publisher’s potential collapseOn 28 February, University of Queensland Press received an email from one of its authors warning of the publisher’s impending collapse.UQP is one of the most celebrated literary houses in the country – the Australian Book Industry Awards’ small publisher of the year for four of the past five years – and its enviable stable of aut...