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Many thanks to Roanna Gonsalves for a fantastic series of blogs to start 2017. This month our blogger is Alison Whittaker. Alison Whittaker is a Gomeroi poet and researcher from the floodplain fringe of north west New South Wales. She lives and writes on Gadigal and Wangal lands. Alison has recent words in Overland, BuzzFeed, Sydney Review of Books and Westerly. Her debut collection, Lemons in the Chicken Wire (Magabala, 2016) was shortlisted for the Scanlon Poetry Prize and was awarded the 2015 State Library of Queensland’s black&write! writer’s fellowship.
Many thanks to all of Southerly’s bloggers for 2016. We’re beginning 2017 with blogs by Roanna Gonsalves. Roanna Gonsalves is an Indian Australian writer and academic. Her series of radio documentaries entitled On the tip of a billion tongues, was commissioned and first broadcast by Earshot, ABC RN in November and December 2015. It is an acerbic socio-political portrayal of contemporary India through its multilingual writers. She received the Prime Minister’s Endeavour Award 2013, and is co-founder co-editor of Southern Crossings. She is the author of The Permanent Resident a collection of short fiction published by UWAP in November 2016. See roannagonsalves.com.au
Many thanks to Nic Low for a fantastic month of blogging. To see out 2016, this month we’re featuring some of our most visited blogs posts of the year. We’ll be back in January 2017 with more great blogs and bloggers, beginning with Roanna Gonsalves author of The Permanent Resident. 2016 in review: Luke Beesley, ‘Poets in Cars, An Interview with Nicholas Powell’ Eileen Chong, ‘Eileen Chong Interviews Eileen Chong’ Kate Fagan, ‘Into the Interior’ Liam Ferney, ’10 outrageous things that happened in poetry in 2015. You won’t believe what number 6 is!’ Nic Low, ‘The secret history of Australia’s
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 for grabs. Thanks to our November partner
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’