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Ex-Soccer AM Star, Rocket Long signs to Snack Media as Creative Producer
Ex-Soccer AM Star, Rocket Long signs to Snack Media as Creative Producer Posted by Harriet Lewis on 24th February 2021 in Blogs Ex-Soccer AM Star, Rocket Long, has joined Snack Media as Creative Producer for the GiveMeSport team.
A pause, a slowdown, a time to think — The Lifted Brow
After some deliberation, we at not-for-profit literary publishing organisation TLB have decided that in reaction to the COVID-19 global pandemic, we believe it’s neither good nor smart for us to continue on with our activities as if it’s business as usual; it is neither culturally sensitive nor financially sensible.
Longlist revealed for the Liminal Fiction Prize
As we revealed earlier this year, we’re thrilled to be partnering with the wonderful people at Liminal on this brand new prize.
'A Gloomy Shade of Death: This Year’s Australian/Vogel’s Literary Award' by Alexandra Dane — The Lifted Brow
The news arrived on Monday. Writing is dead. The novel is dead. Australian unpublished authors aged under 35 are no good, and there is no point publishing or reading anything anymore. The good old days, where we could revel in the coming-of-age story of scrappy Western Australian surfer kids, are over. Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone. There is nothing to see here but high standards. RIP Australian fiction.
Brow Books signs Jamie Marina Lau's next two novels
We at Brow Books are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have signed up two more novels by Jamie Marina Lau, author of Pink Mountain on Locust Island. Brow Books has secured world rights to both books, with the first, Gunk Baby, to be published in 2020, and the second, Fuji, to be published after that. This news is particularly exciting as it happens just ahead of next week’s announcement of the 2019 Stella Prize winner – Jamie’s Pink Mountain on Locust Island is shortlisted.
Special offer on 2 x Stella Prize shortlisted books!
The winner of the 2019 Stella Prize is announced on April 9th! And we at Brow Books are fortunate enough to have two of our books on the shortlist. We have every finger and toe and limb and etc crossed that one of these takes out the gong. To celebrate these two incredible books by two wonderful authors in Maria Tumarkin and Jamie Marina Lau, we’re offering 20% off from now until the announcement, when you buy both or either books from here at our online shop.
Brow Books signs Stephen Pham's debut 'VIETNAMATTA'
We at Brow Books are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have signed Stephen Pham’s debut book Vietnamatta – an extraordinarily shrewd, erudite, wide-ranging, and audacious collection of writing. Brow Books has secured world rights, with the book to be published in 2020. We've been working with Stephen on this book project for a while now; last week pen was officially put to paper, and we are delighted.
Brow Books signs Nicky Minus's 'CAPITALISM MAKES ME SICK!'
We at Brow Books are absolutely thrilled to announce that we have signed Mandy Ord’s book Capitalism Makes Me Sick! – an extraordinarily personal, forceful, cutting, and affecting graphic non-fiction work in comic form. It will be published in 2020. We've been working with Nicky on this book project for a while; this morning pen was officially put to paper. Nicky is an incredibly hardworking and talented comics artist, painter, writer, and activist.
Two Brow Books titles SHORTlisted FOR the 2019 Stella Prize
We are so delighted to share the news that two Brow Books authors, Jamie Marina Lau (Pink Mountain on Locust Island) and Maria Tumarkin (Axiomatic), have been shortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize for their books. As a small press that only published its first book in 2016, this double-shortlisting is incredibly exciting for us. We’re now holding our breaths until April 9th (a very long time to hold breath!) when the winner is announced.
Charlie Fox's THIS YOUNG MONSTER out today
PRAISE FOR THIS YOUNG MONSTER “Good God, where did this wise-beyond-his-years 25-year-old critic’s voice come from? His breath of proudly putrefied air is something to behold. Finally, a new Parker Tyler is on the scene. Yep. Mr. Fox is the real thing.” John Waters, New York Times “Charlie Fox writes about scary and fabulous monsters, but he really writes about culture, which is the monster’s best and only escape. He is a dazzling writer, unbelievably erudite, and this book is a pleasure to read.
Back again in 2019! The Lifted Brow & non/fictionLab prize for Experimental Non-fiction
Now in it's fifth year, The Lifted Brow & RMIT non/fictionLab Prize for Experimental Non-fiction is here again, and now open for entries. This year's judges are Timmah Ball, Chris Kraus and Quinn Eades. This prize encourages non-fiction writers to challenge themselves by testing the limits of their craft and creativity. We aim to unearth new, audacious, authentic and/or inauthentic voices from both Australia and the world. We seek work that is unlike any other.
Issue 41 officially out tomorrow!
Subscriber copies will be landing in mailboxes any day now, and bookstores and newsagents will have this beautiful bright yellow+blue issue on their shelves from tomorrow. If you want to, you can subscribe now starting with this issue, or even buy a single copy. Alternatively, if you want to read this issue in digital form instead, you can. We hope that those of you in Melbourne can join us at the launch tomorrow evening: at The Alderman from 6pm.
Thank you Zoe Dzunko!
Today is a sad day and also a day for celebration, for it’s the moment to announce that after many glorious years in (volunteer) roles with us, it has come time for Zoe Dzunko — one of the current editors of our quarterly print magazine — to step aside.
Cover and contents of Issue #41 revealed
Issue 41 of The Lifted Brow is almost here! Our first issue of the year. It’s at the printers now, and officially out at the start of March, when you’ll be able to find it on bookstore and newsagent shelves everywhere. But: if you want to be first to receive and read it, even before our stockists, then subscribe now.
Two Brow Books titles longlisted in the 2019 Stella Prize!
We’re stoked that from more than 170 books entered, not one but two Brow Books titles have made it on to the longlist of this year’s Stella Prize. Jamie Marina Lau’s jazzy debut Pink Mountain On Locust Island and Maria Tumarkin’s boundary-breaking Axiomatic are up against some extraordinary books by Australian women. Pink Mountain on Locus Island is a novel that never lets you relax.
Mandy Ord's new book is officially out today!
Today is the official publication date of Mandy Ord’s When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over, and to say we are literally standing on the moon — nay, jumping up and down on the moon — with excitement, is an understatement. When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over is a quietly enthralling and keenly intimate work about the search for meaning in the everyday, and what it might mean to belong.
Maria Tumarkin's AXIOMATIC sold to US and Spanish publishers
Some very terrific news: we at Brow Books have sold Maria Tumarkin’s Axiomatic (winner of the Melbourne Prize Best Writing Award, and shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award in the non-fiction category) into a couple of key territories/languages. North American rights have been snapped up by Transit Books, and the Spanish language rights have gone to Editorial Minúscula, both of whom are just such wonderful fits for the book.
The Liminal Fiction Prize - a new literary prize for Australian Writers of Colour
We’re thrilled to be partnering with the wonderful people at Liminal on this brand new prize. The winning piece of short fiction will appear in Issue 43 of The Lifted Brow, and then over at Brow Books we’ll be publishing an anthology of the best pieces submitted to the prize. The Liminal Fiction Prize is a new literary prize for Australian Writers of Colour.
Brow Books to publish Charlie Fox's THIS YOUNG MONSTER
About the book This Young Monster is a hallucinatory celebration of artists who raise hell, transform their bodies, anger their elders and show their audience dark, disturbing things. What does it mean to be a freak? Why might we be wise to think of the present as a time of monstrosity? And how does the concept of the monster irradiate our thinking about queerness, disability, children and adolescents?
2018 subscriber drive! One person wins a whole lot of reading
Hello! Welcome to this: a delightfully impromptu subscriber drive. One winner takes all, simple as that. We need money! We need money to see us through to the end of the year, to complete all the things we want to complete in 2018, like produce one more issue of the magazine and pay our print contributors and also our online contributors, and to pay for pesky things like postage.
Announcing 'Blak Brow' - a First Nations-run issue of The Lifted Brow MAGAZINE (and a new way forward FOR OUR ORGANISATION)
We have something incredibly exciting to share with you! But first, some context. Over the years it has become increasingly apparent to us that our magazine The Lifted Brow (and same goes for all the other activities and projects we do in our organisation), including all of our staff, is uncomfortably non-representative of the place in which we work and live.
Brow Books signs Mandy Ord's 'WHEN ONE PERSON DIES THE WHOLE WORLD IS OVER'
We at Brow Books are absolutely thrilled to announce that earlier this year we signed Mandy Ord’s book When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over – an extraordinarily personal, forceful, beautiful, and affecting graphic non-fiction work in the form of a diary comic. It will be published in February 2019. When One Person Dies The Whole World Is Over is a quietly enthralling and keenly intimate work about the search for meaning in the everyday, and what it might mean to belong.
Out November 15th: ‘GOING POSTAL: MORE THAN 'YES' OR 'NO' ’
2017’s Australian marriage equality postal survey shook this country to its core. Eventually common sense won out, despite the powers-that-be doing their best to delay and deter. But a vote of ‘Yes’ by 61.6% of the voting population does not suddenly undo all the distress and suffering that Australia’s queer communities experienced, and it does not mean that the individual lives of people directly affected are automatically better afterwards.
Brow Books signs a two-book deal with writer and artist Eloise Grills
Eloise will be expanding her piece ‘big beautiful female theory’, which won this year’s Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction, into a book-length work – to also be titled big beautiful female theory and to be published in 2020. This will be welcome news to the many of you out there who have responded so enthusiastically to Eloise’s incredible essay, which appears in the current issue of The Lifted Brow.
So much love so far for 'Balancing Acts: Women in Sport'!
We've been incredibly overwhelmed by all the love that you all have shown for Balancing Acts: Women in Sport. We've had events so far at Sydney Writers Festival, Gleebooks, and Readings – and we have a big event coming up next week at The Wheeler Centre. And so many of you are talking about the book on social media – we've loved eavesdropping on all your conversations.
Express Media is unique and young people need it
Incredulousness is these days a fairly common state of being – it seems that everyone, many times a day, is lol whut, omfg, and truly, madly, deeply outraged. I’m a part of this body politic – multiple and continual drip feeds of news mean I only need to absentmindedly change tabs in order to be confronted with several things about which I can be dumbfounded, upset, furious, or a wicked combo of these and more.
Junkee Headliner | Why we travel
Geoff Dyer once wrote that travel, when ideal, is about feeling at home anywhere, everywhere. So what better way to feel at home in the vast anywhere and everywhere of the United States than to find a bus, strip it, kit it out, paint it, and create your very own moveable home? Earlier this year, a tightknit crew of young Australians from Toowoomba did just that, spending three months and thousands of dollars refitting a classic yellow school bus.
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