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Long Paddock for Southerly 80.1: First, The Future

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After pestilence, after pain, after wholeness, after emptiness, after life, after death, after a long hiatus, Southerly is back. ‘First, The Future’ is co-edited by guest co-editor K.A.Ren Wyld and new Southerly editor Roanna Gonsalves. We strongly affirm 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. This issue emphasises the…

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Announcing Southerly 80.1: First, The Future

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  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…

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