More from Quiet City

Carol Lefevre will be launching Quiet City at the West Terrace Cemetery this Sunday May 15. To celebrate, here is another extract with an illustration by Anthony Nocera. This extract comes from the chapter "In Deep Water". The names of people who drowned in the River Torrens would fill a book. Many of them were children, and although few could swim they found their way towards the water. On a Sunday afternoon in November, Henry Charles Etheridge, aged nine, and his brother…

An Extract from Quiet City

The following extract is taken from "Unhappy Women" in Quiet City by Carol Lefevre. Quiet City explores the extraordinary and unusual lives of the people now resting beneath the tombstones of West Terrace Cemetery. The illustration accompanying this extract is by Anthony Nocera. The launch will be taking place at West Terrace Cemetery on May 15 at 2pm. Carol will be leading a tour of the cemetery and taking us to some of her favourite grave sites. Unhappy Women Of all the unhappy women in…

Invisible Mending launch

On April 17 we were excited to host the launch of Mike Ladd's new collection Invisible Mending right here at Wakefield Press. Rachael Mead had the honour of launching Mike's book. We recently hosted an exhibition of Rachael's photography alongside the launch of Cassie Flanagan Willanski's Here Where We Live, and it was a pleasure to have her back. If you weren't able to make it to the launch, don't worry we've got you covered. You can read…

The Inconsequential Tourist by Stephen Orr

A guest blog from our adventuring novelist Stephen Orr, who's currently conquering Europe. You can check out Stephen's award-winning novels here. -- Sitting on a train from Berlin to Munich, it seems a good time to ruminate (lack of cows in fields, although plenty of wind turbines) on the nature of lit-tourism. Just past Dessau, villages, birch and the fiery glare from the white-blue eyes of an old man (what? what am I doing wrong?) across…

Giles Bettison on the state of the arts

This year, Giles Bettison was the SA Living Artists Festival's featured artist and the subject of our beautiful monograph. Giles made a speech that brought the house down on opening night, and he's kindly allowed us to share a bit of it with you here … Good evening everyone. Tonight I would like to acknowledge the Kaurna people, whose land our ancestors occupied and on whose land we are standing now. It is an amazing honour to be…

Adrian Mitchell on writing our early stories

Adrian Mitchell has released two books this year, The Profilist on S.T. Gill (or someone very like him) and From Corner to Corner on Henry Colless. Adrian's written a wonderful meditation on these two characters, and he's given us kind permission to share this insightful essay with you all -- Our past is full of old stories, the kind that go wandering about and are very often just out of sight, or memory. There’s a delight in retrieving these, whenever…

Thursday links

Happy Thursday, kiddos! I've been hoarding up a few links to share with you guys ... Do you spend as much time thinking about text-message punctuation as I do? Jessica Bennet at the New York Times does too! This is a fascinating article about the way that punctuation is used differently in messages. Going back to our discussion of quotas from last week, here's an old but good article about self-imposed quotas from Overland (with…

The Stella Count 2014

The Stella Count for 2014 is in! This wonderful little study, conducted by the same people behind the Stella Prize, looks at gender (im)balance in book reviews across Australia. You can see the full results here. What's the take-home message? Most of the regionals seem to be getting things right. There are fairly equal numbers of male and female reviewers, ditto for the gender of authors reviewed. The nationals – the Australian, the Financial Review…

Stephen Orr on Transitions

Hello all! Hope you're keeping warm. We have a lot going on over here at Wakefield Press, not least of all the release of Stephen Orr's latest book, The Hands, later this month. To keep you going until then, we've got Stephen's wonderful keynote speech on transitions for the Gawler Festival of Words, reprinted with permission here: So let’s look at some famous transitions. Australian culture. In the 1950s, absent, or derivative, aping American and British models?…

Geoff Goodfellow Hamming It Up

There's nothing quite like hearing a writer read their own words, especially those who are really damn good at it – and Geoff Goodfellow is really damn good at it. Need proof? Check out this video of him reading a short piece called 'Hamming It Up' --

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