Announcing Southerly 80.1: First, The Future
We’re delighted to announce Southerly 80.1, ‘First, The Future‘, co-edited by guest co-editor K.A.Ren Wyld and new Southerly editor Roanna Gonsalves. This issue strongly affirms the crucial importance of imaginative labour and imaginative literary production i.e. the narrative and non-narrative literary forms of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry, as well as of literary scholarship, in the passing down of knowledge between generations, as our world continues to deal with the fallout of colonialism, of genocide and war, of climate change and of AI.
‘First, The Future’ emphasises the value of the work we do as writers and scholars of literature, work that helps us to survive, to comprehend the past, to question power, to understand difference anew, to encounter our world again, through the words of another. We seek to valorise this unquantifiable yet priceless work of the imagination through literary production by providing a platform for Australia’s most insightful writers and thinkers to share their words with the world. It is through knowledge created by the spoken word and the written word that we have come through our shared pasts into our contemporary moment, and so we hope together in solidarity to consider freshly, first, the future.
‘First, The Future’ includes features by Barry Corr and K.A. Ren Wyld; Natalie Harkin, Kirli Saunders, Elfie Shiosaki and Ellen van Neerven in conversation; Courtney Jaye reviewing Debra Dank’s Terraglossia; and new work by Ali Cobby Eckerman, Angelo Loukakis, Anne Brewster, Bebe Oliver, Bhuva Narayan, Cheryl Leavy, Chrysanthi Diasinos, Craig Billingham, Eileen Chong, Felicity Plunkett, Hannah Donnelly, Hira Meyer, Hossein Asghari, Janet Chan, Jasmin McGaughey, Jayda Wilson, Jazz Money, Jeanine Leane, John Kinsella, Jumaana Abdu, Jumana Bayeh, Kathryn Gledhill-Tucker, Louise Adler, Micaela Sahhar, Mridula Nath Chakraborty, Omar Sakr, Paula Abood, Rashida Murphy, Samah Sabawi, Sara M. Saleh, Sean Pryor, Shastra Deo, Sin A.D. and Yasmin Smith.
Southerly 80.1: First, The Future
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