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The most excellent Toby Fitch has been Southerly’s Poetry Reviews Editor for the past five years. He’s commissioned, edited, and organised all the poetry reviews you read in the journal and online. But now, Toby is off on new adventures. He will begin as Poetry Editor at Overland Journal, taking over from Peter Minter, in 2016. He will also help judge Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets. We’ve loved him, we’ll miss him, and we wish him all the best. Thank you, Toby!
One of our excellent editors, Dr Elizabeth McMahon, is organising a two-day symposium on Christina Stead and Elizabeth Harrower. It runs at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, at the beginning of next month. It includes two evenings of writers’ panels – Gail Jones, David Malouf, and Delia Falconer talking on Christina Stead, and Fiona McFarlane, Ivor Indyk, and Michelle de Kretser talking on Elizabeth Harrower. If those combinations weren’t exciting enough, the panels are entirely free. All the information is here and here, as well as below. We’d love to see you there. When: 3 Dec 2015, 9am
An enormous thanks to Samuel Wagan Watson for his wonderful posts. Our blogger for this month is Felicity Castagna. Her bio is below. Felicity Castagna’s work has been produced for ABC Radio National and ABC television as well as being published in journals and newspapers such as Heat, The Age, The Sun Herald, Island, Wet Ink and Award Winning Australian Writing. Her latest book, The Incredible Here and Now (Giramondo, 2013) received the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Young Adult Fiction and was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literature Awards, the WA Premier’s Book Awards and The Children’s Book Council of Australia Book of the Year
Submissions for issue 75.3 War & Peace are due on October 31st. We’re looking for the best poetry, fiction, essays and memoir. The original call out is here, but all the information is below: What does war mean to us now? With our knowledge of the long aftermath, what does it mean to be at peace? What is the difference between post-war and peace? How do peace and remembrance combine? How do we remember in the midst of war? 2015 is the centenary of the landing at Gallipoli, a key date for Australia amidst the global remembrance of the Great
An enormous thanks to Fiona McFarlane for her inspiring posts. This month, our blogger is Samuel Wagan Watson. His bio is below. Samuel Wagan Watson is a full-time writer for hire. Born in Brisbane in 1972, Samuel is of honourable ancestry of Munanjali, Birri Gubba, German, and Gaelic descent. He was the winner of the 1999 David Unaipon award for emerging Indigenous writers with his first collection of poetry, Of Muse, Meandering and Midnight. Since then he has written three more collections; Itinerant Blues (2001, University of Queensland Press), Hotel Bone (2001, Vagabond Press) and Smoke Encrypted Whispers (2004, University
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A huge thanks to Justin Clemens for his excellent posts. This month our blogger is Fiona McFarlane. Her bio is below. Fiona McFarlane was born in Sydney. Her first novel, The Night Guest, was published in 2013 and translated into fifteen languages. It was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award, the Stella Prize, an LA Times Book Award, the Guardian First Book Award and a Prime Minister’s Literary Award, and it won a NSW Premier’s Prize, the Voss Prize and the Barbara Jefferis Award. Her work has been published in the New Yorker, Southerly, Best Australian Stories and Zoetrope: All-Story. Her next book,
Many thanks to Van Badham for her great posts, and to Ian Buchanan for his. This month, our blogger is Justin Clemens. His bio is below. Justin Clemens writes poetry and prose. Recent publications include The Mundiad (Hunter 2013) and, with A.J. Bartlett and Jon Roffe, Lacan Deleuze Badiou (Edinburgh UP 2014). He is currently working on a tract about contemporary Australian poetry with Ali Alizadeh. He teaches at Melbourne University. Photo created through Autoscopia
Elemental is concerned with our experience of the elements in an era of climate change. The four elements of classical thought (earth, fire, water, air) align with what we now call four states of matter and hence to what is termed the “material turn” in contemporary debates in the humanities. This material turn seeks new ways of understanding the physical world and is motivated by the urgency of shared vulnerability on the planet. In Australia this experience of extreme weather, including floods and fires, embroils the entire ecosystem including literary ecologies. This issue considers a range of Australian writers who
Many thanks must go to Marie Munkara for her excellent posts. This month our blogger is Van Badham. Her bio is below: Van Badham is a Melbourne-based feminist writer, theatremaker, critic, trade unionist, activist, occasional broadcaster and one of Australia’s most controversial public intellectuals. She is currently employed as a political columnist and culture critic for The Guardian Australia and is Vice-President of MEAA Victoria. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wollongong and the University of Sheffield in the UK, and has a Masters from Melbourne Uni.