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Six joint subscription deals. Six promo deals. For the next six months, Southerly is offering extra discounts on joint subscriptions with our partner journals. Each month, one journal will be featured – Meanjin, Overland, Island, Westerly, The Lifted Brow, Griffith Review. All you need to do is subscribe to the featured journal in that month to receive the discounts and specials from both journals. From our end, you get a year’s subscription to Southerly for a third off the regular price – only $50. From the other journal – wait and see! Deals, back issues, competitions – it’s all up
Nic Low’s a NZ-born, Melbourne-based writer of European and Ngāi Tahu Māori descent. His first book Arms Race, a collection of satirical stories about technology, power and apocalypse, was shortlisted for the Readings Prize and the Queensland Literary Awards, and a Listener and Australian Book Review book of the year. He’s just spent 18 months in the mountains of New Zealand, researching his second book, a history of Māori in the Southern Alps told through walking journeys, and out with Text Publishing in 2017.
Thanks to Bruce Pascoe for an excellent month of blogs. This month our blogger is Kate Fagan. Kate Fagan is a poet, songwriter and academic, and the Convenor of the English Program at Western Sydney University. Her book First Light (Giramondo, 2012) was short-listed for both the Age Book of the Year Award and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. She is a former editor-in- chief of How2, the established U.S.-based journal of innovative poetics, and she supported Joan Baez on her 2013 tour of Australia/NZ. In August 2016 Kate received a Community Recognition Statement from the NSW Parliament for her
Six joint subscription deals. Six promo deals. For the next six months, Southerly is offering extra discounts on joint subscriptions with our partner journals. Each month, one journal will be featured – Meanjin, Overland, Island, Westerly, The Lifted Brow, Griffith Review. All you need to do is subscribe to the featured journal in that month to receive the discounts and specials from both journals. From our end, you get a year’s subscription to Southerly for a third off the regular price – only $50. From the other journal – wait and see! Deals, back issues, competitions – it’s all up
Many thanks to Tara June Winch for her excellent posts. This month our blogger is Bruce Pascoe. Bruce, a Bunurong man, is a member of the Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative of southern Victoria, and an awarding winning Australian writer, editor, and anthologist. Bruce published and edited Australian Short Stories magazine 1982-1999, was the winner of the Prime Minister’s Literature Award for Young Adult fiction (Fog, a dox) 2013, recipient of the Australian Literature Award 1999, the Radio National Short Story 1998, and the FAW Short Story 2010. Bruce’s publications include: Night Animals, Shark, Ocean, Bloke, Cape Otway, Convincing Ground, Little Red Yellow and
Congratulations to our administrator Tessa Lunney, on her first prize win of the 2016 Griffith University Josephine Ulrick Literature Prize for her story, ‘Chess and Dragonflies’
An enormous thanks to Ali Jane Smith for her excellent posts. This month our blogger is Tara June Winch. Her bio is below. Tara June Winch is a Wiradjuri writer based in France. Her first novel Swallow the Air won numerous literary awards and has been on the education and HSC curriculum since 2009. She was previously named Sydney Morning Herald Best Young Australian Novelist. Her second book After the Carnage was recently published. Her forthcoming novel is The Yield.
A enormous thanks to Eileen Chong for her excellent posts. Our blogger this month is Ali Jane Smith. Her bio is below. Ali Jane Smith is a poet and critic. Her poetry has appeared in Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite, and Mascara Literary Review. Reviews and essays have appeared in The Australian, Southerly, Australian Poetry Journal, Cordite and Mascara Literary Review. She is the author of a chapbook, Gala, published by the Five Islands Press New Poets Program in 2006. She lives in Wollongong.
Call for submissions: Words & Music (Fiction and Poetry only) This issue presents writing by musicians and writers who cross mediums to collaborate and experiment in the spaces between words and music, including Hilary Bell and Phillip Johnston. It includes curator John Murphy’s reflections on archiving Peter Sculthorpe’s house and Joseph Tolz writes of the experience of researching musical recollections from the Holocaust, and presents some of these memories from survivors. Michael Hooper compares Elliott Gyger’s operatic adaptation of David Malouf’s Fly Away Peter and Hannah Fink interviews Marie Bashir on her love of music. There is also the usual cornucopia of stories, poems and reviews. Southerly is
An enormous thanks to Luke Beesley for his excellent and entertaining posts. Our blogger this month is Eileen Chong. Her bio is below. Eileen Chong is a Sydney poet who was born in Singapore. Her books are Burning Rice (2012), Peony (2014) and Painting Red Orchids (2016), all with Pitt Street Poetry. Burning Rice was shortlisted for the Anne Elder Award, the Australian Arts in Asia Award, and the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry. Individual poems have also been shortlisted and longlisted for the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra Vice-Chancellor’s Prize, and the Ron Pretty Prize. In