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20th
November 2008
Change
of font! Thank you to all who were involved or attended the
Edition Zero launches.
Announcing! We are now taking submissions and submission
ideas for our second issue, Winter 2009, themed ‘Janus
Faces’ - deadline 31st January, 2009. Submission guidelines
below.
Double Portrait - Heidi Yardley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus
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AMPERSAND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
General
Guidelines for Writers:
Ampersand
publishes one or two pieces of fiction and poetry in every
issue. The bulk of the content is creative non-fiction
(reportage, commentary, criticism, essays and interviews).
Ampersand is an art and culture journal that covers an
eclectic array of topics in an effort to expand, combust or
impregnate familiar notions of those two terms. We are
interested in the discussion of any subject matter,
particularly that which is unfashionable, unorthodox,
illuminating or rare. Aesthetically and textually, we
concentrate on juxtaposing academia and popular culture,
seriousness and humour, expertise and opinion. We have a
penchant for history – eccentricities, stories, artefacts
and practices of the past and their relationship to
contemporary culture. We welcome satire, political polemics
and true stories.
We do not publish unfounded rants, reviews or fashion
related matter unless they are striking, contextualised
interestingly or humourous.
Ampersand is entirely open to a variety of authorial
voices, from academic to idiomatic, from journalistic to
idiosyncratic.
Although there is a theme, we do not expect every article
and artwork to relate to it. Please use the theme as a
guide if you are yet to write an article, but by no means
bend an idea or pre-written piece to fit it.
We pride ourselves on excellent editorship, and have pride
in our writers for their superior research.
We pay contributors a small amount and we hope to pay them
more in the future.
We accept pieces of up to 4000 words.
Style: Ampersand uses only Australian spelling.
General Guidelines for Artists:
Ampersand
publishes visual art in two primary ways:
We exhibit the work of three artists/groups over six pages
in full colour. We welcome all kinds of printable art
including painting, photography, collage, illustration,
conceptual projects and text-based work.
We commission one artist to do a series of black and white
works inspired by the issue’s theme as the introductory
page for each article. We pay (a little bit) for these
works.
Please send through a brief statement about the work/idea
with a few images.
Email to Alice - alice@ampersandmagazine.com.au
(+61) 0415923164
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Media Release - October 2008
Media
Release - Ampersand Magazine
Ampersand is a curiosity journal: ideas unfettered on pages
without the distractions of fashion and pretension: a step
towards better understanding the world through time travel,
landscape architecture, erotic fiction, thunderstorms,
literary conventions, fraud, audacity, flunkyism, biology,
fiddle music, clubs and societies, out of print books,
historical events, mental health, night, etymology and
printing and spelling mistakes,.
Without saying this site is under construction, we do
believe one day it will be better, and we can only make
three pages using this copy of this certain web software.
loose lips sink ships
Ampersand lives at 191a Smith St, Fitzroy, Australia 3065,
and in the hearts and minds of those who doubt it is the
meek who shall inherit the earth.