Useful Resources

Overload Poetry Festival, in Melbourne
National Young Writers’ Festival, in Newcastle every October
SA Writers Centre

Media

Rip It Up Magazine Adelaide Street Press
dB Magazine Adelaide Street Press
three d radio Adelaide Community Radio
Radio Adelaide Adelaide University Radio
Triple R Radio Melbourne Community Radio
PBS-FM Melbourne Community Radio

Stores

Mary Martin Bookshop Adelaide
Polyester Books Melbourne
Oz Music Books + EC Productions Online

Venues

Enigma Bar

Publishers

Express Media – home of VoiceWorks magazine
Wakefield Press
Going Down Swinging – Australia’s “premier annual literary journal publishing short stories, comics, poetry and spoken word recordings.”

Artists & Associates

Jazz From Hell Productions – a blog by Paroxysm author Kami, a sort of online version of his FunHouse zines.

Betty Paginated is a magazine about, basically, porn and wrestling. They occasionally cover other topics (movies, music), but essentially, porn and wrestling is it.

Allan Boyd, the Antipoet from Perth has his own antipoet blog and also plays in indie-pop, cello-infused MiteyKo (not to mention writing for and co-founding Perth IndyMedia).

I’ve been trying to think of something witty to write here, but really, what can be said about Tomás Ford’s Cabaret of Death that isn’t implied by the name? Oh. He’s from Perth, too. I strongly recommend checking out the available MP3s.

Andrew Glancey – designed this site, and we hear, sacrificed his sole remaining business card so we could have this torn-paper effect. That’s commitment to design, folks.

The Red Room Company – read works by Michael Hier, Kelly-Lee and Heather Taylor Johnson, as well as 27 other great Australian poets and artists. A great read.