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 here will no longer be operational. There will also be omissions in this guide:
magazines and publishers that aren’t listed.
You can help out, by making me aware of any inaccuracies and omissions
in this guide. Just email me at dee@thunderburst.co.uk and let
me know what you know. Then I can let
everyone else know too!
The listings that are highlighted in yellow refer to magazines that will
accept electronic submissions, but be aware that there are usually stipulations
attached.
Please note that these listings are no longer provided for FREE. It is requested that you make a donation
towards the upkeep of the website and for the time and energy that I have to
put into maintaining, updating and developing all the resources on this
website. If sufficient donations are
not forthcoming I will have no other choice but to pull the plug and go get a
"real" job. So, for your own
sake, and for the sake of other writers, make a donation
and help to keep these resources
available for everyone. If you aren't
willing to help out then the chances are, next time you come here all you will
get is an "Error 403" message.
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:
Tim Upperton (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.
Doc Drumheller, P O Box 3083, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Email: catalyst_queries@yahoo.com
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. ".
Beverley George, PO Box 37, Pearl Beach 2256, Australia.
Email: editor@eucalypt.info
Tanka poetry magazine
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: folded
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
Patricia Prime, 42 Flanshaw Road, Te Atatu South, Auckland 8, New
Zealand. Email: pprime@ihug.co.nz
and Owen Bullock, P O Box 12, Waihi Beach, Western Bay of Plenty, New
Zealand. Email: bullocktrail@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: folded
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: folded
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:
Paul Grover, 727
Peel St, Albury, 2640 NSW, Australia.
Tel/ fax: +61-2-6021-1135
Email: studio00@bigpond.net.au
Studio is a quarterly journal of 36 pages publishing
poetry and
prose of literary merit, offering a venue for previously published,
new and aspiring writers, and seeking to create a sense of community
among Christians writing. Studio also published reviews and
occasional literary articles, and includes news of events. Studio has
just published The Studio Book, a 150 page special selection of 25
years of best Studio poetry.
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.
Tony Chad, 165A
Katherine Mansfield Drive, Whiteman’s
Valley, Upper Hutt 5371, New Zealand.
Tel 04-528-8968
Email tony.chad@clear.net.nz email subs accepted
VERANDAH:
c/o Faculty of Arts, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy,
Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia.
Email: verandah@deakin.edu.au
Website: www.deakin.edu.au/verandah
Editorial: Verandah is Deakin University's annual
literary journal. The first edition of the Verandah Literary Journal was
launched in 1985. Established as a student-run publication, from its
inception Verandah has attracted high quality works from both established
and up and coming writers. We are a proud Australian publication but we
also accept submissions form around the world. Verandah offers a range of
prizes, in different categories, each year.
Deakin University students are entered for free, but if you are not
a Deakin student then entry fees do apply. Full guidelines can be
found at our website.
VOICEWORKS:
Email: vworks@vicnet.net.au
Website: www.expressmedia.org.au
WESTERLY:
Email: westerly@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
Website: http://westerly.uwa.edu.au
PO Box 3162 Rundle Mall, SA 5000, Australia.
Email: contact@wetink.com.au
YELLOW MOON: folded