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24 September
Small presses are frequently being heralded as a fine source for new talent, and each year this is proven with Black Inc's annual collection The Best Australian Stories selecting work from small press publications. This year Meanjin and Sleepers have had some authors selected. Congratulations to Georgia Blain and Brenda Walker, whose stories ‘Intelligence Quotient’ (Vol 68/3) and ‘That Vain Word No’ (Vol 66/4-67/1) respectively have been selected from Meanjin, and to Steven Amsterdam, who's story 'Dry Land' was selected from this year's Age Book of the Year winner Things We Didn't See Coming (from Sleepers).
Previous contributors to the anthology include David Malouf, Kate Grenville, Nam Le, Frank Moorhouse, Peter Goldsworthy, Cate Kennedy and many others.
Read more about Meanjin and Sleepers Publishing
18 September
With guest writers and commentators logging in with their thoughts and ideas on the small press sector in Australia and beyond, SPLOG promises to be a lively blog full of super interesting discussion on the industry, and more.
Splog
16 September
Short and Twisted is the annual anthology from Celapene Press, and for the next couple of months, they're looking for your submissions.
For details and guidelines head to
11 September
Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine issue 40 (ASIM 40, for short) has just been released. ASIM is the brainchild of the Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-op, and seeks to present the best in short speculative fiction (SF, Fantasy, and Horror) by both local and international authors. In the latest issue’s 96 pages, you’ll find ten stories ranging in scope through the care and domestication of gigantic sea monsters, the insidious after-effects of a routine alien abduction, the coming of age of a young girl in a magically-alternate pioneer-era Australia, and more besides, including poetry and commentary.
Although ASIM publishes both local and international authors (the latest issue’s authors include Americans and a New Zealander, as well as six Aussies), it’s a proudly local production: all of the members of the publishing co-op are Australian, scattered far and wide across the states and territories. The co-op members take turns with editorial duties, as with everything else required to produce a magazine on an approximately bimonthly schedule: seven years have yielded 40 issues, so the maths stacks up reasonably well. But how does the fiction rate?
ASIM takes pride in juxtaposing stories by new and aspiring authors alongside award-winners and prominent names in the spec-fic community. ASIM 40 includes the first fictional outings of K T McRae, Ruskin Drake, and Melissa White, as well as fiction by Ditmar winner Felicity Dowker, Writers Of The Future winner Ian McHugh, and Nebula nominee Jason Stoddard. The stories published in ASIM repeatedly feature in “Year’s Best” tables of contents and Recommended Reading lists, and are regular winners at the Ditmar, Sir Julius Vogel, and Aurealis Awards.
Whether you’re looking for the year’s most memorable brain-in-a-jar story, wondering at the potentially global threat posed by the innocent act of art criticism, or simply curious about the best method for combatting zombie attacks within a technologically-advanced environment, ASIM 40 has something for you. Plus, it’s fun. Serious fun. The stories are intended to entertain, as well as to resonate. You can find ASIM 40 at selected bookstores, or you can purchase the latest issue, in both satisfyingly tangible print and gravity-defying pdf form, through ASIM’s website http://www.andromedaspaceways.com/, and subscriptions are also available. (Or if you’re interested in stocking ASIM in your store, or in obtaining a review copy, please contact us at asimeditor@gmail.com).
Read more about Andromeda Spaceways Publishing Co-op
27 August
harvest Spring 2009****
In harvest’s Spring edition, find more fresh writing from some of Australia’s most engaging voices. From thwarted desires in a crumbing apartment to travels through cocaine-soaked Colombia, this issue celebrates the diversity of Australian experience. Read about travel muses, adventure and Indiana Jones with debut novelist Patrick O’Neil. Discover why P.G. Wodehouse wasn’t all that he seemed. Play the classically cheesy Harvest-o to find out which literary figure dunnit.
The Spring 2009 issue features handpicked art from five countries, and comes with stunning book plates showing detail from Marc Martin’s storybook A Forest. Printed on creamy recycled paper using vegetable inks, harvest is handsome enough for the coffee table and engaging enough to read under spring blossoms.
Contributors
Issue #3 features new work from Australian writers including Josephine Rowe, Jessica Au, Emma Schwarcz, Greg Foyster, Belle Taylor, Ella Holcombe and Patrick O’Neil. Artwork from the internationally acclaimed Greedy Hen team and Young Australian Designer of the Year Allison Colpoys.
About harvest
harvest is literary magazine that believes that good writing can be both attractive and intelligent. We publish established and emerging writers and artists from all around Australia. The editorial team is comprised of founding editors Davina Bell, Rachael Howlett and Julia Carlomagno, and poetry editor Geoff Lemon. For more information, visit harvestmagazine.wordpress.com.
Praise for harvest
‘A visceral experience, a pleasure to sit down and read’. The Australian
‘This breaks fresh new ground. The writing is smart, lyrical, lean… If harvest is our guide, then this wide brown land is fertile.’ David Astle
‘[Harvest] stands out as a high quality journal… the motivation and dedication that the founders and editors of harvest have shown thus far, and the results that they have already achieved, suggests that they will have long careers in writing, editing and publishing.’ Mark Davis
Contact
To arrange a review copy or interview the editors, contact Julia Carlomagno at writetoharvest@gmail.com. Further information is in the attached release.
Read more about Harvest Magazine
26 August
Things We Didn't See Coming (Steven Amsterdam) is a startlingly original novel of linked stories that spans 40 years, starting from new year's eve 1999. It has received growing attention this year, and in 2010 will be released in the US and the UK by Random House and Harvill Secker respectively. To top off its Australian success, the novel has just taken out the Age Book of the Year! This is a massive coup for such a small press.
Read more about Sleepers Publishing
19 August
Torpedo Volume 6: The Bullet has finally been fired from the cannons. The first (almost) entirely graphic issue features fake ads, comics and other delights from the likes of Jeffrey Brown, Stanley Donwood, Ghost Patrol, Mandy Ord, Paul O'Connell, Adam Golaski, Eric Dando, Oslo Davis, Laurie Clancy and many more. Plus you get a miniature full colour supplement. It sounds fancy, doesn't it?
Read more about Falcon vs. Monkey, Falcon Wins
07 August
The latest book to come from Hybrid Publishers is Raft - by Howard Goldenberg. Have a listen to the podcast, and then head to the launch (if you're in Melbourne) or pick yourself up a copy.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/latenightlive/stories/2009/2648173.htm
Read more about Hybrid Publishers
31 July
The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) welcomes yesterday’s resolution of the ALP National Conference “that the Government should give priority to encouraging Australians to keep on buying Australian books and to maximising the economic, cultural and creative viability of Australian literature and Australian book industries”.
The ASA rejects completely the illogical and unfounded research promoted by the Productivity Commission in its recent report on the parallel importation of books, and looks forward to the determinations of the Working Group that the National Conference has set up to consider the report and recommend actions to relevant Ministers.
Read more about the Australian Society of Authors
18 July
Short and Twisted, an anthology of short stories and poetry with a twist at the end, is seeking submissions of stories, super short stories and poetry for the 2010 issue. Submissions accepted between 1 September and 30 November 2009. For submission guidelines see website: www.celapenepress.com.au, email shortandtwisted@celapenepress.com.au or send SSAE to 2 Bonview Court, Knoxfield, VIC, 3180.
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