Go behind publishing doors with Alaina Gougoulis, Senior Editor at Text Publishing. We chat all about submissions, comp titles and trends. Plus, did you submit to the Text Prize? Find out what happens now.
Alaina Gougoulis is a senior editor and has worked with Text Publishing since 2009. She has edited books by Jennifer Down, Gail Jones, Ellena Savage and Davina Bell, among others, and her international acquisitions include works by Janet Malcolm, Eula Biss, Lucy Ellmann, Ling Ma and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
Books on her list have won the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the CBCA Book of the Year and state literary awards; been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Stella Prize; and been international bestsellers.