Tag Archives: literary journals
Column: Books and Writing
Mind Your Language
When I was a child, Friday night was ‘fish-and-chip night’. Usually, this happy event was accompanied by homemade tartare sauce and some of the worst British television ever to grace Australian screens. Chief among these TV travesties was a scandalously racist show called Mind Your Language. Sandwiched … Read more
Column: Books and Writing
Ever-decreasing circles: Overland and the modern submissions model
Australian literary journal Overland recently changed their submissions process. The submissions guidelines now read: Overland relies on its subscribers for survival. For that reason, the editors prioritise submissions by subscribers. While all work will be read, we cannot guarantee response times to submissions by non-subscribers. When queried … Read more
Recommended Reading
‘We read to know we are not alone’: Annie Condon
Annie Condon’s ‘Nothing Broken’ was published in Issue Three. A fiction writer and reviewer, Annie lives in Melbourne, and her stories have been published in Kill Your Darlings (Issue 3), Meanjin, Going Down Swinging and various anthologies. Killings asked her to share her recommended reading. Many years … Read more
Guest Posts
The Evanescence of Print
In November of 2009 I interviewed Sophie Cunningham for my blog (part one here, part two here), as I was interested both in her on-hold career as a novelist and the changes she had made since taking over the editorship at Meanjin. With her recent announcement that … Read more
Guest Posts
Why Australia Doesn’t Need The Reader
One of my favourite pieces in Volume 2 of The Reader is ‘Why Australia Doesn’t Need Another Literary Journal’ by Torpedo editor Chris Flynn. From the title, you can guess the subject matter: if you’re thinking of starting a journal, magazine, anthology or collection, don’t. It’s compelling … Read more
Podcast
‘If it’s all laughs, you’re not really telling the story’: Benjamin Law
Podcast roadmap: A bit of time travel to Brisbane, 1989; having a family with a wrong sense of humour; five editors inside (or outside) your head; mothers being mortifying but quotable; Cantonese lessons on where to wash; ‘There’s nothing wrong with being gay – it just means … Read more
From the Editors
“Here we go again”: The fiction magazine sausage-fest
‘I’m just being a bitch again’, wrote Amy King, in response to a post by Blake Butler at the HTMLGIANT blog announcing the contributors for issue #2 of We Are Champion magazine. None of the ten writers is female. King originally posted a comment at the original … Read more
Podcast
Inflamed: Chris Flynn on Kindling Torpedo
For the inaugural Killings podcast, I spoke with Torpedo‘s editor, Chris Flynn. Torpedo 7 was released just this week – and it’s only available in non-paper form. Chris caused a stir in local publishing channels by making Torpedo the first literary journal in Australia – and the … Read more
