The Independent Type exhibition curator Steve Grimwade - also the former editor of Going Down Swinging - talks about Victoria's literary magazine culture with The Monthly publisher Morry Schwartz, Australian Book Review editor Peter Rose and Torpedo editor Chris Flynn.
The panel of four look at how literary magazines like Melbourne Punch, Overland, Meanjin and The Lifted Brow have given readers innovative fiction, drama, poetry and artistic miscellany, and nourished Australia's intellectual and artistic life.
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Steve Grimwade is the curator of The Independent Type exhibition, Associate Director of the Melbourne Writers Festival and co-host of Triple R radio's books and writing show Aural Text. He has been editor of Going Down Swinging and Director of the Emerging Writers Festival. Steve is also the general editor of the forthcoming book Literary Melbourne.
Chris Flynn is the editor and publisher of Torpedo, an acclaimed Melbourne journal featuring short fiction and artwork. Chris reviews for The Book Show on ABC Radio National and Australian Book Review. He is currently working on a short story collection, a novel and a translation of Jules Verne's The Ice Sphinx.
Morry Schwartz is the publisher of The Monthly, a magazine covering Australian politics, society and culture, and the Chairman of Schwartz Publishing and Director of Black Inc. In 2001 he launched the influential Quarterly Essay, a journal that has featured writers including David Malouf, Germaine Greer, Tim Flannery, John Button, Mungo McCallum, Don Watson and Robert Manne. Morry is also the Chairman of Pan Urban, the company responsible for Melbourne's GPO building refurbishment.
Peter Rose is a poet, memoirist and novelist as well as being the editor of the Australian Book Review and the former publisher of Oxford University Press, Melbourne. Peter's memoir Rose Boys won the National Biography Award in 2002. In 2005 he published Rattus Rattus: New and Selected Poems and his first novel, A Case of Knives.
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