Cirrus@Austlit

Graham Nowland has lived in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia. In the 1960s he participated in London's alternative cultural networks, radical pacifism, and underground urban communes. He also wrote beat and unstructured poetry but intermittently returned to established forms. In the 1970s and 1980s he became a bookseller, in London's West End.
In the early 1990s he moved to Australia and became a professional writer/journalist. Since then his articles and short stories have appeared in many newspapers and journals in Australia and Japan. In 2003 he won the Lyndall Hadow/Donald Stuart national short story competition. He has completed the second working of Gateway To The Imagination, a critical study of novels depicting the capital port of Western Australia, Fremantle.