Pratik's Special Australian Issue to be launched at Ubud Writers & Readers Festival, Bali in Oct

Pratik: Fire and Rain Special Australian Issue 

Artwork credit: Aaron Chapman

Edited by Yuyutsu Sharma 

Guest Editors: Sally Breen & Jennifer Mackenzie

 

POETRY by 

Alison J Barton Dan Dinsey Dan Dinsey Emilie Collyer Jill Jones Jude Aquilina Peter Boyle Rozanna Lilley Anne-Marie Te Whiu Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Samuel Watson Bebe Backhouse Stephanie Green Jennifer Mackenzie

FICTION AND NON-FICTION BY

 Mags Webster Chris Raja Dean Kerrison Gay Lynch   Indy Horobin  Patrick Allington Sally Breen  Stephanie Green  Shelley Kenigsberg

"A Stranger in a strange land." 

Yuyutsu Sharma Interviews Australian Novelist Felicity Volk

JENNIFER MACKENZIE: Top 5 Poetry Books from Australia

SALLY BREEN: Top 5 Novels from Australia

Pratik: A Magazine of Contemporary Writing by White Lotus Book Shop, Kathmandu, in conjunction with Asia Pacific Writers and Translators (APWT) present Fire and Rain – a special edition of the magazine focused on Australian literature featuring the work of 24 Australian writers, poets and artists. The edition includes a collaboration with Red Room Poetry's Fair Trade initiative to highlight the work of First Nations authors.

Fire and Rain features literature that evokes a sense of Australia – either geographically, spiritually, politically, linguistically, culturally, or otherwise.  Fire and Rain takes the pulse of current Australian literature offering unique contemporary perspectives from established and emerging contributors.

Fire and Rain is supported by Creative Australia

Fire and Rain will be officially launched at the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival in October 2023. The edition is available now on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CK8MSDBN?ref=myi_title_dp

EDITORS FOR THE SPECIAL ISSUE

Dr Sally Breen is an Australian writer, editor, and academic. Author of the iconic grunge memoir The Casuals (2011) winner of the Varuna Harper Collins Manuscript Prize and Atomic City a neo-noir novel (2013) shortlisted for the QLD Premier’s People’s Choice Book of the Year 2014. Sally’s short form creative and non-fiction work has been published widely both nationally and internationally with major features in The Guardian London, Asia Literary Review, Griffith Review, The Age, Overland, Meanjin, The Australian, TEXT, Best Australian Stories, Sydney Review of Books, Hemingway Shorts and The Age. She is a regular contributor to The Conversation. Sally has worked as Associate Editor of Australia’s most awarded literary journal Griffith Review and was fiction editor of Wet Ink Magazine for New Writing. She has co-edited an edition of MC Journal, three special editions of TEXT, and the book length international anthology Meridian – The APWT Drunken Boat Anthology of New Writing. Sally is Executive Director of Asia Pacific Writers and Translators www.apwriters.org and Senior Lecturer in Writing and Publishing at Griffith University, Australia

Jennifer Mackenzie is a poet and reviewer, focusing on writing from and about the Asian region. From a young age, she knew she wanted to be some kind of artist. Having the great fortune to have the mercurial artist, Les Kossatz, as a teacher, she thought that having an inner city studio, and meeting up with artist friends in a bar at night seemed to be the perfect way to live. However, discovering that words were more her metier than paint, she took to writing.  While a student at the University of Melbourne, she had access to the best of both worlds, owing a great deal to teachers Vincent Buckley and Chris Wallace-Crabbe, with the lively world of small magazines and inner suburban poetry gatherings near at hand. Travel to Indonesia, to Java in particular, has been formative to her own sense of poetics, something that is continuing. Since the publication of Borobudur (Transit Lounge 2009), also republished by The Lontar Foundation in 2012, she has presented her work at a number of conferences and festivals, including the Ubud, Irrawaddy and Makassar festivals, and most recently at the Mathrubhumi Festival of Literary Arts in Trivandrum. Her criticism has appeared in such journals as Sydney Review of Books, Mascara Literary Review, Cha, and Cordite Poetry Review. She has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the Marten Bequest Poetry Scholarship, and the Felix Meyer travelling scholarship from the University of Melbourne, and in 2016 she enjoyed a writing residency at Seoul Artspace, Yeonhui. She also works as an occasional editor for The Lontar Foundation in Jakarta. Her most recent book is Navigable Ink (Transit Lounge 2020), a homage to the Indonesian writer, Pramoedya Ananta Toer. She lives in Naarm (Melbourne) Australia, on the unceded land of the Woi Wurrung Wurundjeri people.

Yuyutsu Sharma is one of the few poets in the world who make their living with poetry. Named as “The world-renowned Himalayan poet,” (The Guardian) “One-Man Academy” (The Kathmandu Post) and “Himalayan Neruda” (Mike Graves), Yuyutsu is a vibrant force on the world poetry stage. He is also recipient of fellowships and grants from The Rockefeller Foundation, Ireland Literature Exchange, Trubar Foundation, Slovenia, The Institute for the Translation of Hebrew Literature and The Foundation for the Production and Translation of Dutch Literature. Author of eleven poetry collections, most recently, Lost Horoscope & Other Newer Poems, Yuyutsu has read his works at several prestigious places and held workshops in creative writing and translation at Queen’s University, Belfast, University of Ottawa and South Asian Institute, Heidelberg University, Germany, University of California, Davis, Sacramento State University, California, Beijing Open University, New York University, New York and Columbia University, New York. 

Half the year, he travels and reads all over the world and conducts Creative Writing workshops at various universities in North America and Europe but goes trekking in the Himalayas when back home.