AustLit

Quintus Publishing is a 'partnership between the School of English, Journalism and European Languages at the University of Tasmania and Arts Tasmania to establish a book publishing company designed to build a distinctive presence for Tasmania in the national and international literary sector.' It therefore publish Tasmanian books or books with a Tasmanian identity. In its first years it will concentrate on 'commissioned nonfiction' (Campus Bookseller and Publisher October 2006, 9)

The publisher has taken its name from the title of the first novel known to have been written and published in Australia, Quintus Servinton.

Source: Quintus Publishing website, http://www.quintus.utas.edu.au/
Sighted: 02/11/2006