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Interior Despots: Running the Border is a collection of essays, short stories, poetry, performance texts and ficto-criticism by twenty-four Australian writers:

mtc cronin sarah day rebecca edwards victoria hammond susan hawthorne coral hull julie hunt kathy kituai doris leadbetter emma lew chris mansell lizz murphy dorothy porter lyn reeves angela rockel shane rowlands anne shimmins lian tanner philomena van rijswijk terry whitebeach fiona winning gloria b yates

"Interior Despots is an important publication that asserts the continuing vitality and crucial role of small presses in promoting women's writing. It is a multi-layered and diverse collection of border crossings where theory and writing practice meet in exciting and innovative ways." - Barbara Brook

Interior Despots represents repression through the idea of a border. Skirmishes occur when a writer confronts the desire not to know with the need to say. Through a series of interviews with cross-border selves each contributor situates herself in language and speaks the un-nameable.

The material and insights included in the collection disrupt accepted patterns of thinking or ready-to-wear language. The pieces are savage, humorous, insightful and real. In breaching the domain of the repressed and addressing the previously unthought each contributor invites the reader to think in other ways.

Interior Despots is both a showcase and a celebration of the diversity of contemporary Australian writing.

Proudly published by Pardalote Press

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