Issue Details: First known date: 2019... 2019 Dark, Sad, Depressing and Perhaps Pointless—yet Another Grant-earning Award-winner for Australia!
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'When reading a critically acclaimed collection of short stories penned by an author "with the support of the Australia Council Grant [that] includes [an] award-winning novella," one has to ask who decides that this particular writer or that this particular set of short stories is worthy of such magnanimous support. Who, in other words, decided that the short novella "Quarry" should win an award, and which award? (It is never mentioned anywhere in or on the book which award "Quarry" won or when). Though the cover blurbs—and there are three of them: two on the back cover, one on the front—use such complimentary phrases as "intense," "visceral" (which is used twice), as well as "surprising," "brilliant," "earthly," and "eloquently," these stories are—according to a blurb on the back cover—simultaneously "unsettling" and "macabre," so much so that a second reading of this collection will not likely be forthcoming.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Antipodes vol. 33 no. 1 June 2019 20294120 2019 periodical issue

    'This current issue of Antipodes fittingly represents the work of the three editors who have guided the journal's production in the past year or so. Volume 32 (2018), a double issue, marked the official end of Nicholas Birns's eighteen-year tenure as editor of Antipodes, and as that volume came to production, Belinda Wheeler lent a diligent hand and a keen eye to the publication of the double issue. An essay or two approved by Nicholas has made its way into the current issue (33.1), with Belinda acquiring many of the essays in this issue. Belinda also provided the editorial guidance for the special section on the work of Alexis Wright. It is from the capable hands of Nicholas and Belinda that I take the reins of the journal Antipodes, with a well-mapped path behind and an open road ahead.' (Brenda Machosky, Editorial introduction)

    2019
    pg. 171-173
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