Recommended Links
We're always happy to consider sites for inclusion here. Email us at postpressed@gmail.com or jwk@powerup.com.au and let us know the URL for assessment.
3:AM Magazine
http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/
Fascinating article&interview-based e-Zine with a focus on the independent and note-worthy:
"From 'cutting edge short fiction' to political satire and music reviews. 3 AM is a dream for the young, literary, and clued-up, and it counter balances nicely the London/New York publishing behemoth."
AA Independent Press Guide
http://www.rimbaud.org.uk/aaipg.html
A free online guide to 2000+ literary magazines and publishers.
Australian Humanities Review
http://www.australianhumanitiesreview.org/
Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary electronic journal founded by Cassandra Pybus. It is published quarterly with regular updates every two weeks. Edited by Elizabeth McMahon with assistance from an Editorial Board. AHR also receives funding from the Australia Council and the Cultural Activities Committee of the University of Tasmania.
Australian Poetry
http://www.australianpoetry.org/
Australian Poetry Ltd (AP) is a new organisation launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre and Poets Union.
It is the peak industry body for poetry in this country, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne, with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Big City Lit
http://www.nycbigcitylit.com/
Wide-spectrum art-focused e-Zine, beautifully illustrated, and based in New York but with a world focus.
Cordite
http://www.cordite.org.au/
Excellent poetry review webzine. Based in Australia, with a focus on local talent.
e-Content Management
http://www.e-contentmanagement.com/
eContent Management Pty Ltd is a scholarly & professional publishing and consulting business owned and managed by James and Suzanne Davidson. It is PostPressed's sole distributor for academic books, and all orders for academic titles are processed by them.
Eucalypt A Tanka Journal
http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/Eucalypt/E.html
Eucalypt is the first Australian journal devoted to this ancient Japanese poetry genre, a print magazine which will showcase contemporary tanka poetry, written in the English language and intends to publish only those poems its editors consider of the highest standard. Its objectives are to offer wider publication opportunities to tanka poets and to make more people aware of the delights of reading and writing tanka.
Famous Reporter and Walleah Press
http://walleahpress.com.au/
Walleah Press is the Tasmanian publisher of the biannual literary journal Famous Reporter - a great biannual Australian literary magazine featuring poems, reviews, and essays, produced from Tasmania. One of our favourite journals. Find past issues at this site.
Haiku NewZ
http://www.poetrysociety.org.nz/haikunews
A monthly newsletter for readers and writers of haiku. Based in New Zealand, they maintain listings for international competitions and publications, and run monthly articles.
IP eNews
http://www.ipoz.biz/News/eNews.htm
The newsletter of Interactive Publications, Queensland’s innovative publisher and distributor of print and digital texts. This site gives you the latest news about what they do, what they publish, and in-depth features on their authors and their work.
Janice Bostok
http://members.dodo.com.au/janbos/
Author of the PostPressed titles Silver Path of Moon and Amongst the Graffiti.
Jean-Michel Bartnicki
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jean-michel.bartnicki/
Want to see a fine example of featuring one's own work for an international readership? An impressive site -- perhaps a little too ornate, but includes english translations from the french. (Useful for brushing up one's long gone french, too.) Some interesting verse, sometimes perhaps a little too much sentiment, but at its best, touching.
Jeff Guess
http://www.cobweb.com.au/~jeffpoet/
The personal web page of a local, prolific and prestigious poet.
New Hope International and Gerald England
http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/
Haiku Talk, reviews, poetry, travel photos and more.
Paper Tiger
http://www.papertigermedia.com
Australia's first international CDRom Poetry Project now has its own Website. Visit them today.
Paper Wasp
http://members.optusnet.com.au/paperwasp/
This web site is associated with the Paper Wasp print magazine, devoted to the Japanese verse forms: haiku, senryu, renga and tanka.
Retort Magazine
http://www.retortmagazine.com
monthly journal of contemporary art + literature • also a forum for creative artists globally • based in brisbane queensland australia • also provide a monthly arts calendar for local cultural events
Simply Haiku
http://www.simplyhaiku.com/
The world's most widely read contemporary literary magazine dealing with Japanese verse forms in the English language.
Stylus Poetry Journal
http://www.styluspoetryjournal.com/
An online poetry journal based in Brisbane Australia, accepting submissions from around the world.
Synaptic Graffiti Collective
http://www.scart69.net/synapticgraffiti
Synaptic Graffiti is poetry, art, music, spoken word, performance, image animation and text motion presented in a multimedia and live performance format . . . . . . with an Edge.
The Engine
http://www.theengine.net/
Poetry web--magazine operated by Paul Murphy. Now accepting submissions of poems and pictures.
Please note that the site is banned in public places and that anyone surfing into it - either by pattern, design or just chance - will be reported to an alligatorian minion in a black silk cape and punched over Venetian mask (sinister or what!!!!) under the rule '011'. (also sinisterly inverting the codified 'room 101' of Orwellian legendre and God only knows what punishments await that person for looking at the visage of the Medusa?)
The Thylazine Foundation
http://www.thylazine.org/
The Thylazine Foundation publishes a free biannual online literary and arts magazine which includes a special supplement Australian Poetry Book Review.
The Thylazine Foundation also runs an information and resource website that includes a Poets Directory listing over 350 Australian poets.
The Upfront Club
http://www.upfrontclub.org/
Catch regular poetry at the Upfront Club. This Maleny Co-op Licensed Cafe has live music three nights weekly. Visit their home page for a gig guide, opening hours and links to musicians.
Timoshenko Aslanides
http://timoshenko.actewagl.net.au/
The website of an Australian poet of Greek descent whose originality and determination to celebrate Australia and Australians characterises his work, which has won national and international acclaim.
World Haiku Review
http://sites.google.com/site/worldhaikureview2/
The essential first stop on the web for lovers of Haiku.