The AA
Independent Press Guide started life as a supplement to Acid Angel Magazine,
back in 1998. Since then, it has grown
and grown, and now over 2,000 print and internet magazines and publishers are
listed from all over the world. The one
thing that hasn’t expanded is the editorial team. That is, it is still a one man operation, and it is physically
impossible for this one man to keep tabs on everything in this guide. Whilst I endeavour to keep The AA
Independent Press Guide as accurate and up-to-date as possible I just don’t
have the time, energy or finance necessary to constantly check and re-check
each listing. Magazines and publishers
come and go, just like that. So,
inevitably, some of the magazines and publishers listed will no longer be
operational. There will also be
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AUREALIS:
Dirk Strasser & Stephen Higgins, Chimaera Publications, PO Box 2164,
Mt Waverley, Victoria 3149, Australia.
E-mail straz@fhills.starway.net.au No e-mail submissions.
URL (new temporary): www.sf.org.au/aurealis
We are looking for full colour cover art. Send colour samples with
sufficient postage if you want them returned.
All covers must have some Australian element. Please study previous
covers for the sorts of images and styles which have been used. Aurealis buys the rights to use the cover on
an issue of the magazine as well as for subsequent promotional purposes. We
acknowledge the artist in the issue in which the work appears. Internal artwork is commissioned, but we
will consider samples of your black and white work if accompanied by a stamped
self-addressed envelope. Please supply an envelope with sufficient postage if
you wish the samples to be returned.
Our payment is $75 for cover art, $25 for black and white story illustrations,
and $10-15 for graphics. Payment is made soon after the publication of the
issue with your work.
BORDERLANDS
Email: jodes@flooble.net
Website: http://www.borderlands.com.au
BRAVADO:
Owen Bullock (Poetry) Christine Cloughley (Prose), & Sue
Emms (Fiction). PO Box 13-533, Tauranga, New Zealand.
Tel: 0064-7-576-3040.
Fax 0064-7-570-2446.
Email: info.bravado@xtra.co.nz
Circulation: 500.
Frequency: 2 per year. Format:
A4, 62pp. Payment: $NZ10 for poems
& $NZ30 for stories & articles, plus complimentary copy. Editorial: Bold, intelligent and
contemporary, Bravado is published twice a
year and acts as a showcase for the wealth of writing talent that exists in the
Bay and beyond. Jenny Argante, co-ordinating editor,
says: "Performers need to participate in theatre productions, artists
in exhibitions. For writers it is publication that counts. Getting into print
in a small press magazine with a good reputation is the first step toward
becoming a practising, paid professional. We do have writers’
guidelines, but mainly, show us your stuff." Bravado runs a poetry
competition annually, to be judged this year by Alistair Paterson, editor of
Poetry New Zealand.
CORE:
Cameron Lowe, Paul
Howie, and Ben Lornie, PO Box 419, Geelong, Vic., 3213, Australia.
Core publishes
text and image. The editors will print any and all kinds of art which can be
reproduced on paper: in core all forms and all means of text and image are
vented. The work can be radical or traditional or academic or streetwise or...
whatever.
DARK ANIMUS
Email: skullmnky@hotmail.com
or editor@darkanimus.com
only accepts email submissions
Website: http://www.darkanimus.com/
EIDOLON
Jeremy G Byrne, PO Box 225, North Perth, Western Australia 6906,
Australia.
E-mail: eidolon@eidolon.net No e-mail submissions.
URL: http://www.eidolon.net/magazine/contributors.html
Frequency: quarterly. Format:
print. Payment: $20 & copy. SF /F
/H. Accepts subs from Australian citizens & residents only. ".
EVASION:
PO Box 1663,
Shortland Street, Auckland, New Zealand.
Tel:
09-629-2824.
Email: evasion@lost.co.nz
Website: www.evasion.co.nz
FAMOUS REPORTER:
Ralph Wessman, Walleah Press, PO Box 368, North Hobart,
Tasmania 7002 Australia.
Email: admin@walleahpress.com.au
Web-site: http://walleahpress.com.au
FREEXPRESSION:
Peter Pike, PO Box
4, West Hoxton, NSW 2171, Australia.
Phone:
02-9607-5559.
Fax: 02-9826-6612.
freexpression@bigpond.com.au email submissions accepted, but no
attachments
Established:
1993. Circulation: 500. Frequency: monthly. Format: 28pp magazine. Payment: 1 copy.
FRESH:
Kevin J. McIvor, 6 Smith Cres, Onehunga, Auckland 1006, New
Zealand.
E-mail kmc39@hotmail.com email defunct
Website: http://www.glottis.co.nz/
HEAT:
Ivor Indyk, Department of English, University of Newcastle, Callaghan,
NSW 2308, Australia.
E-mail: heat@newcastle.edu.au No e-mail submissions.
URL: http://www.mypostbox.com/heat
Editorial: HEAT is a literary magazine in book form renowned for publishing
innovative and engaging writing by Australian and overseas authors. poetry and
fiction, essays and reviews, art and photography
ISLAND:
David Owen, PO Box
210, Sandy Bay, Tasmania 7006, Australia.
Tel:
03-6226-2325.
Fax:
03-6226-2172.
E-mail: island@tassie.net.au
URL: www.islandmag.com
Pays: $60 per poem., $100 per short story.
JAAM:
26 Grant Road, Thorndon, Wellington, New Zealand.
URL: http://headworx.eyesis.co.nz
Editorial: JAAM is a national literary journal run by an independent
publishing collective in Wellington. It was initiated by Mark Pirie at Victoria
University in 1995 as an outlet for the Victoria Writer's Club and was assisted
by Wai-te-ata Press. In 1997, due to its growing popularity, JAAM's editors
decided to take the magazine national.
JAAM has since grown into a popular national literary journal and has
recently received public funding from Creative NZ/Toi Aotearoa. Published twice
yearly, it has a strong emphasis on promoting the work of younger/emerging
Aotearoa/New Zealand writers alongside the work of international writers and
other established authors.
KOKAKO
Pat Prime 42 Flanshaw Rd, Te Atatu South, Auckland, New Zealand. Email: pprime@ihug.co.nz
Bernard Gadd, 43 Landscape Rd, Papatoetoe, Auckland 1701, New
Zealand. Email: bernard.gadd@xtra.co.nz
Established: 1995. Frequency:
annual. Format: 64+pp, A5, perfect
bound. Payment: copy. Editorial: Kokako is an annual poetry magazine of haiku etc plus other kinds
of poetry. We look for well crafted, interesting work.
KUNAPIPI:
Anne Collett,
English Program, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia.
LANDFALL:
University of Otago
Press, PO Box 56, Dunedin, New Zealand.
E-mail: university.press@stonebow.otago.ac.nz or landfall@otago.ac.nz
Landfall publishes
literary fiction and essays, poetry, extracts from work in progress, criticism
and commentary on New Zealand arts and culture, work by photographers and
artists and reviews of New Zealand books. (Landfall does not accept unsolicited
reviews.) As a general rule we are open to work by New Zealand and Pacific
writers, or by other writers who have visited New Zealand or whose work has
some other connection (e.g. subject matter, location) with New Zealand or the
Pacific region. Occasionally we take work from Australian writers, in the
interests of promoting cross-over between the two literary communities, or
produce a feature on writers from elsewhere. While many established names
appear in our pages, we are always eager to find exciting work from new
writers.
MAGAZINE
Raewyn Alexander
Email: bright_com@xtra.co.nz
Website http://groups.msn.com/Magazine-loadedwitharts
Established: 2003. Circulation:
100+. Frequency - annual. Format: 100pp, A5, stapled and glued spine
binding. Payment to contributors, including
contributor's copies - poem $10, reviews (150-200 words only) $10, stories $20,
black and white artwork $20- all in NZ dollars, plus one copy per
contributor. Some overseas people take copies entirely since we do not
send money orders in overseas currency and the bank charges them to convert our
cheques.
MEANJIN:
131 Barry Street Carlton, 3053, Australia.
Tel: 03-8344 9995.
Fax: 03-9347-2550.
E-mail meanjin@unimelb.edu.au
Web-site: http://www.meanjin.unimelb.edu.au
Frequency:
quarterly
NEW ENGLAND
REVIEW:
PO Box
U 241, University of New England, NSW 2351, Australia.
Email: sukirex@tpg.com.au
NEW ZEALAND BOOK COUNCIL:
URL http://www.vuw.ac.nz/nzbookcouncil/
Web-site resource
with all sorts of information about New Zealand writing events, publishers etc
OTHERLAND:
PO Box
200, Kingsbury 3083, Victoria, Australia.
Email: ouyangyu@hotmail.com
OTIS RUSH
MAGAZINE: folded
OVERLAND:
P.O. Box 14146,
MCMC Melbourne Vic 8001 Australia.
PAPER WASP:
Email: ksamuelowicz@optusnet.com.au
Website: http://users.bigpond.net.au/ReportWright/PaperWasp/PaperWasp.html
POETRY NEW ZEALAND:
34b Methuen Rd,
Avondale, Auckland, New Zealand.
E-mail: poetrynz@yahoo.co.nz No e-mail
submissions.
URL: http://www.geocities.com/poetrynz/
Payment: $30 &
copy. Email
address, as displayed on website is defunct, although website is relatively up
to date otherwise (Mar 05)
SALT: Scott Hamilton, PO Box 5626, Wellesley St, Auckland, New
Zealand.
E-mail: s_h_hamilton@yahoo.com email defunct
SALT-LICK NEW POETRY:
PO Box 174,
Moreland, VIC 3058, Australia.
Email
(info): info@saltlickpoetry.com and email
(subs) submissions@saltlickpoetry.com
Website: http://www.saltlickpoetry.com/
SCANT
JOURNAL:
Scant Publishing
C/- 22 Owen Street Kallista VIC 3791, Australia.
Email: scantpublishing@ozemail.com.au email defunct
SPIN:
Owen
Bullock, PO Box 13-533, Grey Street, Tauranga, New Zealand.
Email: bullocktrail@xtra.co.nz
Established: 1986. Frequency: 3
per year. Has a policy of favouring
submissions from subscribers.
SPORT:
PO Box 11 806,
Wellington, New Zealand.
Phone: 04 463
6526.
Fax: 04 463
6581.
Email: fergus.barrowman@vuw.ac.nz No e-mail submissions.
Established: 1988.
Circulation: 500-600. Frequency: 2 per
year. Format: paperback,160pp.
STUDIO:
Email: pgrover@bigpond.com
SUB DEE INDUSTRIES:
Simon Sellars, PO
Box 91, Fitzroy, Vic 3065, Australia.
E-mail: subdee@mindless.com or try either amorphik@yahoo.co.uk or simon_sellars@yahoo.co.uk
TAHAKE:
Takahe Collective
Trust, PO Box 13 335, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Takahe is a
literary magazine in bound A4 format devoted to promoting the work of emerging
New Zealand authors, poets, graphic artists, and poetry and short fiction
editors.
VERANDAH:
Email: verandah@deakin.edu.au
Website: www.deakin.edu.au/~ctgeorge/verandah
VOICEWORKS:
Email: vworks@vicnet.net.au
Website: www.expressmedia.org.au
WESTERLY:
Email: westerly@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Website: http://westerly.uwa.edu.au
YELLOW MOON:
PO Box
37, Pearl Beach, NSW 2256, Australia
Website: http://users.mullum.com.au/jbird/YM.html
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