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Issue Details: First known date: 1992... 1992 Gay Writing in Australia
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'There was a conference on literature at Monash Uni earlier this year and not one of the 70 papers presented was by an author. When this was pointed out to a prominent scholar the reply was that the Wool Board doesn't need to consult with the sheep. As a fiction writer, I found the analogy pretty apt. Being more pragmatic than academic, I'm dodging heavy duty theorising. This article is simply a practical overview of gay writing in Australia, an examination of recent history, choices and consequences. To push the analogy, it's a look at combs, both wide and narrow, which publisher uses which and what kind of fleece is currently considered to be most marketable.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Author vol. 23 no. 4 Summer 1992 Z636018 1992 periodical issue 1992 pg. 22-25
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    y separately published work icon Australian Author vol. 50 no. 2 2018 15356073 2018 periodical issue

    'In October 1962, the inaugural meeting of the proposed Society of Authors was held, to end the present feudal state of the Australian writer' and address the issues of 'poor and variable anthology fees, the need for standard contracts and the position regarding copyright' (Dal Stivens. foundation president). Broadside, the first journal of the Australian Society of Authors, began in September 1963 as a 'medium of information and opinion', and fulfilled that role until the last edition was published in July 1968 to make way for the launch of The Australian Author in 1969. This magazine was never intended as a literary puma\ and, as a result, did not meet the funding criteria of the time. Rather, its purpose was to 'concentrate attention on the defence of literary property—the writer's business (Stephany Steggall, Status and Sugar, 2013), which is exactly what it did for the next 50 years. ' (Publication summary)
     

         2018     pg. 59-64
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