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Westerly 57:2
Since 1956, Westerly has been publishing lively fiction and poetry as well as intelligent articles.
The magazine has always sought to provide a Western Australian-based voice, although its contributors and subject matter have never been geographically exclusive. It covers literature and culture throughout the world, but maintains a special emphasis on Australia, particularly Western Australia, and the Asian region.
Westerly has a strong international reputation, being listed in all the world’s major cultural biographies and indexes, and has been instrumental in the careers of many of the regions most prominent and internationally renowned writers. These include major Western Australian writers such as Randolph Stow, Dorothy Hewett, T.A.G. Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley; highly-awarded contemporary writers, including Tim Winton, Kim Scott, and Sally Morgan; and important local poets like John Kinsella, Tracy Ryan, John Mateer, and Lucy Dougan.
It is published at the Westerly Centre (formerly the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature) in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, with assistance from the Western Australian State Government by an investment in the project through the Department of Culture and the Arts, and the Australian Federal Government through the Australia Council for the Arts.
The magazine is published twice a year in July and November, while the website publishes throughout the year.
The magazine has always sought to provide a Western Australian-based voice, although its contributors and subject matter have never been geographically exclusive. It covers literature and culture throughout the world, but maintains a special emphasis on Australia, particularly Western Australia, and the Asian region.
Westerly has a strong international reputation, being listed in all the world’s major cultural biographies and indexes, and has been instrumental in the careers of many of the regions most prominent and internationally renowned writers. These include major Western Australian writers such as Randolph Stow, Dorothy Hewett, T.A.G. Hungerford and Elizabeth Jolley; highly-awarded contemporary writers, including Tim Winton, Kim Scott, and Sally Morgan; and important local poets like John Kinsella, Tracy Ryan, John Mateer, and Lucy Dougan.
It is published at the Westerly Centre (formerly the Centre for Studies in Australian Literature) in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia, with assistance from the Western Australian State Government by an investment in the project through the Department of Culture and the Arts, and the Australian Federal Government through the Australia Council for the Arts.
The magazine is published twice a year in July and November, while the website publishes throughout the year.
194 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2012
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May 3, 2014
I'm a contributor to this! Read ages ago but have been slack about writing up.
I liked:
Alice Pung's Writing about my Father in Her Father's Daughter - nonfiction about writing process
Frank Moorhouse's The First Negotiation, Amorality and Temerity - nonfiction about writing process
Robyn Rowland's Shaping the Dark (poem) - "three readings of Tony Lloyd's oil on linen painting: On a dark night you can see forever"
Mags Webster's The Before & in the After (poem) - nature and grief
Lucy Neave's Love Animals (fiction) - melancholy story about a burnt-out country vet - the depressing limits of caring
Laurence Steed's The Knife (fiction) - a very sensitive story about an angry kid in a country town dealing with loss
Breton Dukes' A fear of eels - another very sensitive story, about an adult son trying to come to terms with his incompatibility with his father, and his disappointments in general
I liked:
Alice Pung's Writing about my Father in Her Father's Daughter - nonfiction about writing process
Frank Moorhouse's The First Negotiation, Amorality and Temerity - nonfiction about writing process
Robyn Rowland's Shaping the Dark (poem) - "three readings of Tony Lloyd's oil on linen painting: On a dark night you can see forever"
Mags Webster's The Before & in the After (poem) - nature and grief
Lucy Neave's Love Animals (fiction) - melancholy story about a burnt-out country vet - the depressing limits of caring
Laurence Steed's The Knife (fiction) - a very sensitive story about an angry kid in a country town dealing with loss
Breton Dukes' A fear of eels - another very sensitive story, about an adult son trying to come to terms with his incompatibility with his father, and his disappointments in general
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