This year Bent Street : Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas is moving to a new biannual publishing model, with a curated mid-year edition (July), as well as our regular end-of-year edition (December).

In 2020 the mid-year edition (Bent Street 4.1) will be guest-edited by Jennifer Power and Henry von Doussa, on the theme ‘Love from a distance: intimacy and technology’, with support from LaTrobe University. This edition will explore how LGBTIQA+ communities shape relationship through emerging technologies. Full details HERE

Bent Street 4.1 is open for submissions NOW

Submission deadline is 21 June 2020.

Contact us with any queries, or send us proposals for future curated editions at cloudsofmagellanpress@gmail.com

Clouds of Magellan will be launching in coming months two titles: a new collection of stories by Ashley Sievwright; and a re-issue in single-volume form of Garry Kinnane’s ‘Shadowed Days trilogy’. The COVID-19 lockdown is providing some challenges for the launching of new books, and we are investigating podcasts and other methods of publicising our titles.

Sunlight: The Shadowed Days Trilogy by Garry Kinnane – releasing midyear.  Pre-war Melbourne, through to the Bohemian 60s, a sojourn in Greece, study at Oxford. Garry Kinnane’s memoirs movingly capture the challenges and hardships of growing through family tragedy to finding love and friendship.

“A beautifully written evocation of a childhood during the post-war years in Victoria… Shadowed Days excels at pinning down a certain time and place.”—The Age

“… [a] quietly moving tale of a working class boy’s search for love and life beyond the
confines of the world he grew up in.”—Sydney Morning Herald

Bait and Switch : and other stories by Ashley Sievwright. Eight stories of love, friendship and indifference from the author of The Shallow End and Walter. Releasing May 2020.

Clouds of Magellan is pleased to announce the release of A Word Before I Go, a memoir by Barbara Whitley, edited by Garry Kinnane. MORE

Great launch events  this  weekend gone by at Hares & Hyenas (Melbourne’s queer and intersectional bookshop, cafe and performance venue) – Signs of a Struggle Melbourne launch with Guy James Whitworth on 6 December, and Bent Street 3 Melbourne launch on 8 December.

(above) Guy James Whitworth

Jean Taylor, Mel Simpson, Steph Amir and Trent Mann presented aspects of their work in Bent Street 3. Henry von Doussa MC’d.

Jean Taylor at Hares & Hyenas.

Thanks to Crusader, Rowland and the lovely crew at Hares & Hyenas,.

Bent Street 3 seen here at The Bookshop , Darlinghurst

Thanks Graeme Aitken for the picture.

Bent Street 3 Melbourne launch this Sunday 8th December, 4pm Hares & Hyenas. Free Event. All Welcome.

Bent Street 3 is out now – available at Hares & Hyenas, THe Bookshop Darlinghurst, and online through the various platforms (Amazon, Book Depository …). Visit Bent Street for more details

Bent Street 3 – Australian LGBTIQA+ Arts, Writing & Ideas is out now.

ISBN: (paperback) 978-0-6484604-8-0 | RRP AUD$35.00

MELBOURNE LAUNCH

Sunday 8 December, 4pm at Hares & Hyenas bookshop, 63 Johnston St, Fitzroy. FREE event.