Aberrant
Genotype Press Featuring the following Independent Presses:
Aberrant Genotype Press/Catchfire
Press/Imprint/Magabala/Vulgar
Submissions: AGP welcomes submissions from "trenchant opponents
of crypto-fascist neo-liberalism! Let's get rid of the:
Greatly Spurious Tax and all regressive policies redolent of the mid-nineteenth century"!
Purchasing: Available from AGP's web site.
Prices are 50% lower for those who download an electronic copy in Acrobat
format. (No credit card facilities but bank cheques are accepted.)
Catchfire
Press
History: Catchfire Press is a non-profit organisation. It is small
and, while not commercially oriented, fully professional in the best sense.
The committee that runs it is made up of volunteers with skills and energy
to spare. All profit made by the press is ploughed back into new production.
Anyone who shares our vision can, on application and payment of a fee
presently of $12, become a member of the press whose aim it is to promote
literary endeavour in the Hunter Region and place the best of such endeavour
before the world.
Purchasing: Available via mail.
Imprint
History: Tom Thompson publishes the Imprint range of Australian
classics including poetry, essays, literature and biography. The list
includes many of the country's finest writers such as:
- Gwen Harwood,
- Judith Wright,
- Mary Gilmore,
- Charmian Clift,
- Kenneth Slessor,
- Lennie Lower
- and Christina Stead.
Purchasing: Imprint Press publications are
distributed by:
UNIREPS,
UNSW Sydney
NSW 2052
Tel:[02] 9664 0999
Fax: [02] 9664 5420
email: info.press@unsw.edu.au
http://www.unswpress.netaus.net.au/agen.html
History: Magabala Books is an Indigenous Australian publishing house committed to preserving, restoring and promoting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and tradition through literature.
Purchasing: Available through Magabala's
web site. Credit card facilities available or cheques are also accepted.
Vulgar
The two most recent conference procedings for
the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) were produced
by Vulgar. See their web site for more info.
In 1999 the Vulgar
Press was established, and has already published three books with
several more in the production phase.
Submissions: Established in 1999, The Vulgar
Press is dedicated to the publication of working-class and other radical
forms of writing.
Purchasing: Available from Vulgar's
web site. No credit card facilities but cheques are accepted.
Issue
1: October - November 2000 Issue
2: December 2000 - February 2001 Issue
3: March - May 2001 Issue
4: June - August 2001 Issue
5: September - December 2001 Issue 6: January
- May 2002
Conferences
- Online humanities-related links - e-journals
- Other links
Contact
Email:info@magabala.com
P.O. Box 668, Broome, Western Australia.
Ph: 0891921991 Fax: 0891935254
International Ph: 61891921991 Fax:61891935254
History: Vulgar enterprises was established in Melbourne in 1996
as a vehicle for radical, alternative and working class publishing, design
and editing. Vulgar presently designs and typesets a number of books and
magazines for alternative and non-profit companies and organizations.
other hard currency on AHR