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    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal August 2018
    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal August 2018
    The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal August 2018
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    The August edition of The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal. This edition contains the best works by early career writers from Australia. Contributions include interview, essay, fiction and poetry.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBlack Cockie Press
    Release dateAug 14, 2018
    ISBN9780648136637
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      The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal August Edition.

      The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal August edition

      Published by Black Cockie Press

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      Table of Contents

      From the Editor

      Interview with Grant J Everett

      Adventures in Australian literature

      Waiting Room

      I Tend to Joke

      The Fishing Trip

      Armadale

      The Girls at Number 25

      To Write

      Night Poems

      Who I Am

      From The Editor

      Welcome to the April edition of The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal. When I was a little girl, I found it very difficult to find my place in the Australia presented to me by popular culture. The images presented to me were very male, extraordinarily extroverted and dominated by a tiny array of similar voices. My salvation came in the form of books and nature, the Bush and stories of Banksia men, Bunyips, Possums who eat Vegemite sandwiches, cheeky koalas and most importantly of all a very naughty Puddin’.

      The trouble was that as I grew, as much as I remember these stories with enormous fondness, they did not grow with me. Again I was left with the conundrum of where exactly I fit. I may have lived off of vegemite sandwiches (long story don’t ask), but once again I felt alienated from the culture I was expected to embrace. I read globally. English, American, French, German, Russian, South American writing all passed through my hands. I tried to write outside place, to write without reference to the place I knew best. The writing I produced was a miserable stereotype of the cultures I was attempting to emulate. I was unsure of how I was to proceed.

      But I must stop there, the answer to this and other questions you will find within these digital pages in my essay Adventures in Australian Literature. Also within these pages, there is a marvellous interview with Grant J Everett. A name that you do not yet know, but who will be well worth watching with the imminent release of his debut novel Scum of the Universe published by Black Cockie Press.

      There are as always poems and short stories from around Australia, and I feel confident in saying that at least one will kindle the spark of recognition in every reader.

      I’d like to finish by saying that I hope that you enjoy this April edition of The Wild Goose Literary e-Journal. And that you will return here in August for our next issue.

      Natalie Muller – Founding Editor.

      Interview with Grant J Everett, author of Scum of the Universe.

      What's the story behind your latest book?

      My science-fiction comedy novel Scum of the Universe is about a loser called Bob Tuesday who mooches his way across mankind's galaxy-stretching empire, The Unison, in the 24th Century. Tuesday might be rude, stupid, gormless, ugly and have no real skills beyond amateur flower arranging, but he has a habit of tripping bum-over-skull into incredible situations in the most bizarre places.

      When did you first start writing?

      While I did a few short stories in my teenage years, and on more than one occasion I wrote the first few chapters of what I hoped would result in a completed manuscript (it didn't), it took until my early 20s to finish writing a book. I've spent the following 13 years refining my craft and really digging out my particular literary niche. Even though you don't often see science fiction comedy novels on bestseller's lists, this is what I enjoy writing. While there are certain genres that seem to be much more lucrative, I'd rather stab myself in the cheek with a salad fork than write inaccurate BDSM manuals or detail the stalkerish tendencies of sparkly vampires.

      Do you remember the

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