AustLit
Issues
- y Mascara Literary Review no. 29 2023 26983084 2023 periodical issue
- y Mascara Literary Review no. 28 2022 25608739 2022 periodical issue
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Mascara Literary Review
Transitions : Ecopoetics from the Global South
no.
27
December
2021
23649437
2021
periodical issue
'Issue 27 Transitions: Ecopoetics from the Global South arrives at a time of uncertainty—which is perhaps a cliché to say now— but also at the titular time of transitions. Extremely rapidly, the earth and our climates are changing and we are adapting the way we live in order to sustain life. As writers and creators, we are attempting to make sense of these transitions, to deconstruct our human damages, to imagine futures, and discern meaning and hold a lens to the current and the past. This collection of ecopoetry, fiction and nonfiction offers fresh insights on climate and environmental discourse from across Australia and the global south. ' (Publication introduction)
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Mascara Literary Review
no.
26
2020-2021
22543670
2020
periodical issue
'We are thrilled to launch our first issue as Mascara’s new team, after almost one year since our last issue ‘Covid Contingencies’. It has been difficult to keep track of time amidst all the challenges we are facing in our communities on a local, national and international level. These challenges that have permeated our lives, our screens, our minds and our writing.' (Anthea Yang & Monique Nair : Editorial introduction)
- y Mascara Literary Review no. 25 August 2020 20028206 2020 periodical issue
- y Mascara Literary Review Class Fetish no. 24 December 2019 18507412 2019 periodical issue 'Issue 24 Class Fetish, guest edited by Alice Pung with poetry selected by Dimitra Harvey, and creative non-fiction edited by Winnie Dunn and Jo Langdon.'
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Mascara Literary Review
no.
23
March
2019
15995849
2019
periodical issue
There has been quite a hiatus since our last issue of Mascara. While changes in our editorial staff may have contributed, primarily this reflects the trauma that comes from being targeted for our literary activism. In regressive times, the naming of ‘whiteness’ or ‘class’ is acutely threatening to the perceived entitlements and fatigued legacies of privilege. But it has also been a time of change, of dissent and solidarity for the values we cherish: equality, endurance, cultural respect. (Michelle D’Souza, Editorial introduction)
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Mascara Literary Review
no.
22
June
2018
14113852
2018
periodical issue
'Our special China Transnational issue of Mascara found inspiration after last year’s conference of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature in Melbourne, ‘Looking In, Looking Out: China and Australia’, a colloquy that was enriched by the presence of the esteemed translator, Li Yao, as well as Chinese post-graduate students. It was apparent, however, that Australian Studies in China is often framed from the perspective of industry, institutions and dual nationalisms. This opened up a space that felt necessary for creative contributions from the Chinese diaspora, from the voices of experimentalism, political struggle, human rights activism; and from the border homelands as China maps out new geostrategic objectives.' (Michelle Cahill and Nicholas Jose : Editorial introduction)
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Mascara Literary Review
no.
21
December
2017
12922163
2017
periodical issue
'Over the years Mascara has published writers of distinction who cross genre and culture boundaries often with unique affinities. We have also been tasked to advocate for the cultural interests and cultural access of non-white writers in Australia. In 2012, we approached The Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne requesting that they establish a special prize or a fellowship for migrant or refugee literature since the lack of such encouragement, particularly for non-European migrants, is glaringly apparent. Conversations ensued with sporadic enthusiasm but were not followed up. Ultimately, our correspondence was dismissed by the bureaucracy of that powerful institution.' (Michelle Cahill , Editorial introduction)
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Mascara Literary Review
#UNFUNDED
no.
20
April
2017
11131909
2017
periodical issue
'I’m very pleased that #UNFUNDED Issue 20 has arrived to celebrate a decade of Mascara.
'My thanks to all our contributors to the journal and to our editors, especially Jo Langdon and our intern, Zachary Ward.
'We remain grateful to the Australia Council and to the writing community for their strong support, past and present in social media and for our activism.
We are seeing new literary journals such as The Suburban Review, Pencilled-In and platforms such as Feminartsy emerge to support writers in the margins, suggesting the continuity of discourses necessary to sustain and foster diversity.
'A serious editorial is to follow here soon; meantime, we hope you enjoy some of the excellent work in these pages ….
Michelle Cahill
Editor
April 2017
(Editorial)
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