Cirrus@Austlit

Melbourne writer Barry Scott has been employed as a librarian, community worker, and literary project coordinator, one responsible for the Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the Ross Trust Script Development Awards through the State Library of Victoria. In 2003, Scott travelled to India to work with Katha, a literary organisation that provides educational services, publishing in translation, and community programs. Among Scott's achievements during his India residency were the delivery of an arts-based event for children, the provision of marketing advice, and the management of events with international authors for Katha's major literary festival, Katha Utsav.

Also in 2003, Scott and photographer/artist Tess Rice founded the publishing venture Transit Lounge. The first title to be released was Scott's collection of verse inspired by travels through Asia: Love and Wigs: Poems of Bangkok, Bollywood and Beyond. Two years later, Transit Lounge published its first prose work, Cate Kennedy's (q.v.) Mexican tale Sing and Don't Cry. Since then, the press has released more than twenty-three titles, with eight published in 2010 alone.

After being awarded a Copyright Agency Limited Creative Industries' Career Fund grant in 2009, Scott travelled to the USA to meet with small independent American publishers and discuss the state of the industry. An overview of his findings was published in the Winter 2010 edition of Overland (see further references below).

In addition to his writing and publishing activities, Scott is a board member of SPUNC (Small Press Underground Networking Community).