Bound
A yearly Anthology of
Essays on Publishing
Detailing the publishing industry in Australia since 2019.
Bound is a snapshot of current literary and publishing practices in Australia. With a combination of analysis from emerging publishing professionals and industry experts, the publication provides insight into the future of our trade.
‘To get to the heart of a city — its rhythms, its language, its people, its cultures — you’ve first got to know its food’
‘It seems that art is all around us, so what does it mean to find ourselves in art? What does it mean to really notice this art, and where does the line demarcating art and non-art fall? How do artworks speak, and how does writing contribute to this eloquence?’
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In 2021 RMIT will launch the Speculate Prize in partnership with Giramondo Publishing. Speculate is a new national award for an unpublished speculative fiction manuscript, sponsored by Whispir and supported by the Speculate Literary Festival.
Can you even be a travel writer anymore? A successful one? A good one?!
Certainly, in this current climate of unpredictability—the ‘will they, won’t they’ of lockdowns and border closures—you’re more likely to garner followers, likes and clout for writing about sourdough rather than seeking, soaking or sunning
I’ve always been fascinated by the spell a good yarn can cast over you but it wasn’t until I studied screenwriting that I actually understood where that magic came from: structure.
Once, in the middle of the night, I watched a Youtuber try to live one week of their life according to Haruki Murakami’s writing schedule.
For such a young medium, podcasting has already developed such distinct cultural markers; the close-mic breathy voice to mimic intimacy, the affectedly natural banter to start the episode, the fourth-wall-breaking nods towards the production and editing that goes into it (‘we’ll fix it in post’).
On 15 May I met my classmates for the first time. It was a Saturday and, after months of online lectures, ‘break-out room’ activities, and virtual roundtable sessions with writing, editing and publishing professionals, we gathered together at the Bowen Street Press for an intensive masterclass…
I was lucky enough to get to work closely with Anna for the months leading up to the issue, after the magazine accepted a work of mine for their first 2021 issue.
When I signed up to be on the working group for Hardie Grant’s ‘Spark Prize’, I did so with the belief that I was going to be getting valuable experience in the publishing industry.
Since Melbourne’s recent emergence out of restrictions, I thought it was about time I knuckled down and found myself a "real" adult job. I desperately wanted to end my hospitality career, to stop picking up empty glasses and serving rowdy drunken people at AFL matches, and secure a role within the editorial industry.
In the 1996 movie Fargo the movie opens with the following text:
> ‘This is a true story. The events depicted in this film took place in Minnesota in 1987. At the request of the survivors, the names have been changed. Out of respect for the dead, the rest has been told exactly as it occurred.’