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Issue One Launch and Issue Two Submissions
Hey Burley friends! Patrick and I are currently high-fiving about two big events: the Issue One launch and opening submissions for Issue Two. We hope you will come and celebrate the first ever issue of Burley with us on 31 May, 6pm at Smith’s Alternative Bookshop. There will be wine, there will be cheese, and ...
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Proof – that we’re almost finished and that there won’t be many spelling mistakes
As you’re hopefully aware, we’re going to be launching the first issue of Burley at 6pm on May 31st at Smith’s Alternative Bookshop in Civic. Hooray! (While you’re here, by the way, take that as an invitation and mosey on down – we’d love to meet you, and you can get your hands on a ...
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Adventures in Fictional Japan
I recently left Burley in Patrick’s capable hands and set off to Japan in the utterly firm belief that I would find a world of science fiction wonderland and magic cats, based upon little else but my love for the works of Haruki Murakami. I was not disappointed. A few years ago I blogged on ...
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An Interview with Gregory Gould: Poet and co-founder of Blemish Books
Poet and co-founder of independent publisher Blemish Books, Gregory A. Gould is one of the poets featured in the upcoming issue of Burley. He was kind enough to send us his thoughts on writing, poetry, publishing, and the Canberra lit scene. Let’s start with you as a writer. Why do you think that you write? Do ...
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Cooking the books: the first issue…
Just under a fortnight ago now, Cara and I sat down with croissants and tea and went through the submissions we’d received for Burley. Almost all of the submissions we received were of an incredibly high standard, with a wide-ranging spectrum of themes, ideas, thoughts and tales told. It was quite an arduous process, then, ...
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You Are Here is totally almost here
You Are Here is doing a tops job of showing the creative side of Canberra, with a mind-bogglingly diverse program lined up for 8 – 18 March, which includes exhibitions, music, poetry, trivia, and stuff I don’t even know how to describe in one word. Burley is particularly looking forward to the ‘I Don’t Really ...
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Larkin and a bedeviling question
Give me a thrill, says the reader Give me a kick; I don’t care how you succeed, or What subject you pick. - Philip Larkin, Fiction and the Reading Public It’s January: the eucalypts are shedding their bark, the nation’s capital continues to doze in a humid summer, and, in less than a month, submissions ...