Useful Resources

Overload Poetry Festival, in Melbourne every August
National Young Writers’ Festival, in Newcastle every October
SA Writers Centre
Adelaide University’s Research Park (Thebarton Campus) – home of the Business Initiatives for Graduates Scheme, where Paroxysm began

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 (Paroxysm author Shane Jesse Christmass hosts a graveyard program called Cult Jam)
PBS-FM Melbourne Community Radio (Paroxysm author Hop Dac edits their magazine, Easey)

Stores

Bookends Bookshop Adelaide
Mary Martin Bookshop Adelaide
Polyester Books Melbourne
Red Eye Records Sydney
Better Read Than Dead Newtown
Oz Music Books + EC Productions Online

Venues

Enigma Bar

Publishers

Vernacular Productions (site down)
Express Media – home of VoiceWorks magazine
Retort Magazine – a Brisbane based poetry magazine
Azimuté – a site for critical and theoretical texts
eWRe – Electronic Writing Research Ensemble
Wakefield Press
The Vulgar Press – “dedicated to the publication of working-class and other radical forms of writing”
gangan – contemporary Austrian and Australian literature published in the German language (also publishes Australian literature translated to German).
horse less press – Chapbooks and small print runs from Rhode Island
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.

Bloody Fist Records – Some of the best electronica you’re going to hear – heavy as hell, out of Newcastle. Thanks to Mark N (and the Hunter on Hunter) for giving us a spot before their gig at the 2002 This Is Not Art festival.

Also, while we were in Newcastle, we had the good fortune to be staying in a room shared with Geoff Parkes. This lovely man creates Logged Off, “(formerly) with reviews of the latest in quality literature and the newest in alternative and independent music from Australia and around the world, as well as interviews with artists and authors.”

For those of you who remember the original Paroxysm Press website, the webmaster and Paroxysm author Robert Lort is involved in a few other projects including:
the SpeedPoets Poetry Collective
Azimuté – a site for critical and theoretical texts

And, if you haven’t been inundated with exciting things just yet – pay a visit to Velvet Pelvis – the website of Mike Delight, who designed our very own Jap Porn girl.