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Alicia Gilmore’s debut novel has been on store shelves for over a month now. Today, she discusses the process of working with Southerly’s own David Brooks . . . * * * * * *   Path to the Night Sea started as a short story in a fiction class with the author, Sue Woolfe. Sue had given the class a selection of photographs and objects to spark our creativity and give us a physical stimulus to write a short fragment. I remember a small glass perfume bottle and a photograph caught my attention. The photo featured a woman in…

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Kevin Hart releases Barefoot today! For a taste of Hart’s unique poetic style readers can check out Southerly 77.2, where Hart has contributed the poems “Rain” and “New Uz”.

Thanks to Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini for wrapping up 2017 with some insightful posts, and welcome to James Jiang, our first blogger for 2018. James Jiang completed his PhD in English at the University of Cambridge in 2016 and since returning to Australia has been teaching in the English and Theatre Studies program at the University of Melbourne. He has written for The Cambridge Quarterly, The Wallace Stevens Journal, and William James Studies and has forthcoming essays in The Sydney Review of Books and Modernism/modernity. He is currently working on a monograph exploring the birth of the aesthetic conscience in the late…

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Travelling scholarships from The Marten Bequest offer talented young artists the chance to explore, study and develop their artistic gifts through travelling either overseas or interstate. Applications to the Marten Bequest Scholarship are now open and will close on the 31st of January. Applications are invited from writers of poetry and prose who are born in Australia and are under the age of 35 on the closing date, for a project that involves travelling overseas or interstate. Scholarships are each worth $50,000, payable in quarterly instalments over two years. Full details can be found here: http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/about/the-marten-bequest/

Our thanks to Chloe Wilson for a great series of posts. Southerly’s blogger for December is Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini. Nasrin Mahoutchi-Hosaini writes in Persian and English. Her short stories have been published in anthologies such as HEAT, Southerly, and Meanjin. Some of her works have been broadcast on ABC Radio, Radio Eye. Her short story “Standing in the cold” was selected for Australian best stories 2016. She has received funding from the Australia Council for the Arts and has competed her DCA at the University of Western Sydney.

Many thanks to Mark Steven for his posts throughout October. Our new blogger for November is Chloe Wilson. Chloe Wilson is the author of two poetry collections, The Mermaid Problem and Not Fox Nor Axe, which was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry and the Judith Wright Calanthe Award. She received equal first prize in the 2016 Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize, and has been awarded the John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers, the (Melbourne) Lord Mayor´s Creative Writing Award for Poetry, the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize, the Fish Publishing Flash Fiction Prize and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award. She was…

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Image: Elizabeth Harrower photographed returning to Australia in 1959 on board the Southern Cross. Courtesy of Elizabeth Harrower Elizabeth Harrower’s writing has engaged and challenged her readers since she began publishing in the late 1950s. Her work is concerned with the moral and existential challenges that arise from experiences of romance, family life, and personal aspiration. Her narratives blend together the private and public, bringing together the shared public spaces of the contemporary postwar world with the intense interior lives of her characters. Join Sydney University Press for a celebration of Elizabeth Harrower’s work. The evening will feature readings of…

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Indigenous writers will be able to apply for new fellowships under an exciting new program developed by the National Writers’ House Varuna, Magabala Books, Sydney University and the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund. “Australian Indigenous writing continues to represent some of the most vibrant and significant work taking place in Australia today, and Varuna is committed to supporting this work” said Veechi Stuart, Executive Director, Varuna. “A $30,000 grant over three years has enabled us to announce the inaugural Copyright Agency Fellowships for First Nations Writers.” The program invites both unpublished and published Indigenous writers to apply for a one-week residency…

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A big thank-you to our last monthly blogger, Jessica White, for her insightful posts. Our blogger for October is Mark Steven. Mark Steven is a Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of New South Wales. His research is focused on the narrative forms of class warfare. He has two books due out in 2017: Red Modernism: American Poetry and the Spirit of Communism (Johns Hopkins UP) and Splatter Capital (Repeater).