Luca Demetriadi
Luca Demetriadi is a writer and researcher living on unceded Wurundjeri land.Contact:
Email: luca [dot] demetriadi [at] gmail [dot] com
Twitter/Bluesky: Lucambd
Writing
[Forthcoming]
Sunflower
Hayden's Ferry Review[Forthcoming]
Cling wrap
Mnemotope Magazine
Issue 9, 2026[Forthcoming]
Basho's little dinosaur
Mnemotope Magazine
Issue 9, 2026No Dogs!
Debris Magazine
December 2025
Edited by Cher Tan | (Excerpt read on All the Best Radio, January 2026)Method Reading Murnane
TEXT Journal
October 2025Patch and Sally
Death Kit
September 2025
Edited by Joe CowardRingstead
Fish Barrel Review
October 2025Spanakorizo
Hyades Magazine
July 2025Plastic Buttons
BRUISER
May 2025Bunnings in a Landscape
Babyteeth Journal
May 2025Dark greenish ink
Babyteeth Journal
May 2025Flight Attendant
The Stinging Fly
Summer 2023
Edited by Lisa McInerney | (Nominated for 2024 PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers)call me
The Poetry Society
2018
(Highly commended, Namedropping Challenge, Young Poets Network)***
Academic
Luca Demetriadi is a PhD candidate in Publishing and Communications at The University of Melbourne. Luca's research considers contemporary small publishers through a sociology of literature lens, with particular interest in independent cultural production, cool studies, and Australian literature.Luca has a BA in English Literature from the University of Oxford and an MA in Modern Literature & Culture from King’s College London. View Luca’s academic profile here.PhD thesis title:
Contemporary Australian independent publishers and the construction of coolness***Publications
Demetriadi, L. (2026) ‘McPhee Gribble’s ‘determinedly unglamorous’ parties: a small publisher’s accrual and conversion of social capital’, Media International Australia: https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X261435707 [open access]
This article uses material from two archives pertaining to Australian independent publisher McPhee Gribble to argue that social capital is as important to a small press as economic or cultural capital. I position the parties thrown in McPhee Gribble's warehouse, documented in the archives through photographs, guest lists, and planning memos, as the publisher’s mechanism and site for the accrual of social capital, and its simultaneous conversion into capital’s different forms. This archival material thus establishes a framework to understand a pervasive feature of the publishing industry that has gone understudied, with such parties often appearing to exist outside the primary business activities of a press.
