Wild & Woolley is an Australian book publisher founded in 1974 by Michael Wilding

Michael Wilding (writer)

Michael Wilding is an Australian writer and academic in Sydney.- Life :Michael Wilding, novelist and critic, was born in Worcester UK and read English at Oxford...

 and Pat Woolley. The first books published by the firm were Zimmer's Essay (Adamson & Hanford) and Wrappings by Vicki Viidikas

Vicki Viidikas

Vicki Viidikas was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.Vicki Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. Dropping out of school, she encountered the Balmain New South Wales poetry scene in the late 1960s. There she encountered, among others, Ken Bolton, John Forbes, Martin...

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Authors published by the firm include Robert Adamson

Robert Adamson

Robert Adamson was a Scottish philosopher and Professor of Logic at Glasgow.-Early life:He was born in Kingsbarns in Fife. His father was a solicitor, and his mother was the daughter of Matthew Buist, factor to Lord Haddington. In 1855 Mrs. Adamson was left a widow with small means, and devoted...

,Denis Altman, Glenn A. Baker

Glenn A. Baker

Glenn A. Baker is an Australian journalist, commentator, and broadcaster well known in Australia for his vast knowledge of Rock music. He has written books and magazine articles on rock music and travel, interviewed celebrities, managed bands such as Ol' 55 and promoted tours of international stars...

, Faith Bandler

Faith Bandler

Faith Bandler, AC also known as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing is an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage. She is a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler is best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on...

, Lee Cataldi, Ron Cobb

Ron Cobb

Ron Cobb is an American cartoonist, artist, writer, film designer, and film director.By the age of 18, with no formal training in graphic illustration, Cobb was working as an animation "inbetweener" artist for Disney Studios in Burbank, California. He progressed to becoming a breakdown artist on...

,Richard Crabtree, Fred Cress

Fred Cress

Frederick Harold Cress AM was a British painter who migrated to Australia and won the Archibald Prize in 1988 with a portrait of John Beard....

, Laurie Duggan, David Foster, Billy Jones, Kris Hemensley, Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala

Antigone Kefala is a contemporary Australian poet and prose-writer of Greek-Romanian heritage. She has also been a teacher, and a member of the Literature Board of the Australia Council....

, Stephen Knight, Rudi Krausmann

Rudi Krausmann

Rudi Krausmann is an Austrian born Australian playwright and poet.- Life :Rudi Krausmann studied Economics in Vienna and worked as a journalist for the Austrian newspaper, Salzburger Nachrichten...

,Jack Lindsay, Bruce Petty

Bruce Petty

Bruce Petty is one of Australia’s best known political satirists and cartoonists. He is a regular contributor to Melbourne's The Age newspaper...

,Nigel Roberts, Katherine Susannah Prichard, Jon Silkin, Colin Talbot, Albie Thoms,Christine Townend, Pi O

Pi O

П. O. is an Australian, working class, anarchist, poet of Greek origin.Born in Katerini, Greece, П. O. came to Australia with his family around 1954. After time in Bonegilla Migrant Reception and Training Centre, the family moved to the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy.П. O...

, Vicki Viidikas

Vicki Viidikas

Vicki Viidikas was a twentieth century Australian poet and prose writer.Vicki Viidikas was born and grew up in Sydney, Australia. Dropping out of school, she encountered the Balmain New South Wales poetry scene in the late 1960s. There she encountered, among others, Ken Bolton, John Forbes, Martin...

 and Michael Wilding. The firm also acted as Australian distributors for various foreign publishers including Black Sparrow Press, City Lights Books,Fiction Collective, New Directions

New Directions Publishers

New Directions Publishing Corp. is an independent book publishing company that was founded in 1936 by James Laughlin. The company was incorporated in 1964 as the New Directions Publishing Corporation and operates from New York City, and its books today are distributed by WW Norton & Company. Its...

, John Calder and Pluto Press

Pluto Press

Pluto Press is a radical, progressive, independent publisher based in London. Pluto Press specialises in "progressive, critical perspectives in politics and the social sciences", and describes itself as "one of the world’s leading radical publishers". It has published authors such as Noam Chomsky,...

For a history of the press, see Wild & Woolley: A Publishing Memoir by Michael Wilding (Giramondo, Sydney, 2011, 134pp, ISBN 978-1-920882-74-7)

Important dates

• 1974 first books: Zimmer's Essay (Adamson & Hanford) and Wrappings (Vicki Viidikas).
• 1979 Michael resigned his directorship to free up more time for his own writing.
• 1980 fire destroyed equipment and stocks.
• 1981 moved to old factory in Glebe, New South Wales
  Glebe, New South Wales
  Glebe is an inner-city suburb of Sydney. Glebe is located 3 km south-west of the Sydney central business district and is part of the local government area of the City of Sydney, in the Inner West region....
  
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• 1983 published first four titles from Women's Redress Press including Welou, My Brother by Faith Bandler
  Faith Bandler
  Faith Bandler, AC also known as Ida Lessing Faith Mussing is an Australian civil rights activist of South Sea Islander heritage. She is a campaigner for the rights of Indigenous Australians and South Sea Islanders. Bandler is best known for her leadership in the campaign for the 1967 referendum on...
  
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• 1991 the first publisher in the world to print books on a photocopier
  Photocopier
  A photocopier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Most current photocopiers use a technology called xerography, a dry process using heat...
  
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• 2003 3 million books later, sold photocopier, binder, and factory. Moved to Watsons Bay.

External links

• Wild and Woolley website
• Extract from Laurie Duggan
  Laurie Duggan
  Laurence "Laurie" James Duggan is an Australian poet, editor, and translator.-Life:Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne and attended Monash University, where his friends included the poets Alan Wearne and John A. Scott. Both he and Scott won the Monash Poetry Prize...
  
  's diary describing launch of The New Australian Poetry