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The Australian Literature Resource
Project Managers: Kerry Kilner, Carol Wical
Contact: popularfictions@austlit.edu.au
Commenced: 2008
Project Status: Active
The Australian Pulp Fiction Industry project was initiated by the research of Dr Toni Johnson-Woods for Pulp: A Collector's Book of Australian Pulp Fiction Covers.
At the beginning of that work Johnson-Woods situates pulp in the Australian literary archival landscape:
'Only recently has pulp fiction attracted scholarly attention - almost too late as much of the material was printed to be discarded and has not survived. Some pulp fiction exists only as documented titles, the books themselves being lost forever and only a few boxes of publishers' records surviving. Little is known, therefore, about authors, artists and othe industry personnel and what is known is anecdotal. While most of the pulp fiction in Australian still resides with private collectors (the gatekeepers of pulp's history), the National Library of Australia's G. C. Bleeck Collection is the most important public archive of pulp fiction material in Australia.'
This project records the sometimes fleeting existence of the work of Bleeck and his contemporaries in as much bibliographic detail as can be found.
Kevin Patrick's 30 Cover Artists
This research focuses on rendering more visible Australia's tradition of radio serials, comics, romance, crime, western, science, horror, and sports fiction especially the work of some of the most successful and prolific authors by mapping Australia's popular publishing industry between 1939 and 1959.
- Biographical details on more than 100 authors and cover artists
- Bibliographic detail and cover art from 2,000 titles and their translations
Dr Toni Johnson-Woods, Joanne Sawyers, Dr Michelle Dicinoski.