News

Snorkel

11 April 2005

Source:	News From the IIML

Snorkel is a new onlineliterary magazine with a special interest in bringing together thecreative writings of Australians and New Zealanders.

Snorkel is a new online literary magazine with a special interest in bringing together the creative writings of Australians and New Zealanders, while also welcoming submissions from the wider international community.

The first issue is due to be launched on the weekend of 16/17 April, and New Zealand contributors include Andrew Johnston, Sonja Yelich, Bill Manhire and Cherie Barford. Amongst the Australians you will find Michael Brennan, David Musgrave, Melissa Bellanta and David Prater.

Snorkel is edited by Cath Vidler and Nick Riemer. Cath now lives in Sydney, having spent the last three years in Wellington, New Zealand, where she was a legal researcher at Victoria University and student at the International Institute of Modern Letters. Her poems have appeared in Sport and Turbine in New Zealand, and Cordite in Australia. Associate editor, Nick Riemer, is an Australian poet, and the author of Falling Objects (Vagabond Press, 1999), and of James stinks and so does Chuck (Puncher & Wattman, forthcoming 2005)

The closing date for submissions to Snorkel #2 is 15 August 2005. Full submission details will appear on the website when Snorkel #1 is launched. Snorkel will be published twice yearly.