Pink Ink
An Anthology of Australian Lesbian and Gay Writers
Kerry Bashford
…1991 also saw the publication of a second significant collection of contemporary Australian LGBT literatures: Pink Ink: An Anthology of Australian Lesbian and Gay Writers by Wicked Women Publications based in Redfern, NSW. Of the fifty-three authors included, only nine are names familiar from Edge City eight years earlier. The lengthy introduction by Michael Hurley, “Writing, the body positive” offers both a discussion of the history of lesbian and gay writing within Australia and contextualizes the body of work in Pink Ink to LGBT literary forms, Australian literary culture and publishing, AIDS, and the issues attendant on writing the politics of sexual difference. A third collection edited by Gary Dunne, Travelling On Love In A Time of Uncertainty, was published in 1991 by Blackwattle Press in Sydney and offers eighteen stories in the gay male voice on then-contemporary life in the LGBT community. Some of the pieces in this anthology previously appeared in the periodicals OutRage, the Sydney Star Observer, Cargo, and Campaign Australia. Dunne’s introduction offers some valuable commentary on Australian LGBT writers and the problems facing them at the end of the twentieth century. “When I co-edited the anthology Edge City on two different plans back in in 1983, I expected it to be the first of a new wave of Australian books from gay and lesbian perspectives. This country had both the writers and the readers, all that was missing was a publisher or two to fill the gaps on the shelves
.A new wave did not, however, reach the beach until 1990. More gay and lesbian books were published in that one year than in the previous seven put together
.Most of these books are coming from smaller presses
Unlike overseas, our major publishers continue to be very wary of anything that isn’t mainstream
During the eighties, more of our gay and lesbian writers had their novels published overseas than in Australia
.As consumers of American and European gay fiction, we know a lot about where they live. We still see too little of our own territory and much of it remains as unknown to gay readers in the northern hemisphere as it is to too many Australian readers” (Dunne 1991: 7-8). OutRage also lent its name to another literary collection issued in Victoria by Designer Publications containing the winners of its short story competition, Outrage: 1993 Australian Gay and Lesbian Short Story Anthology, in 1992. A second OutRage anthology would be issued two years later in 1995….’ ~ Rob Ridinger, Rainbow Round Table Book and Media Reviews
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| ISBN | 9780646028590 |
| Genre | Anthology – Fiction |
| Publication Date | 1991 |
| Publisher | Wicked Women Publications |
| Editor | Kerry Bashford |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| No. of Pages | 302 |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Editor | Kerry Bashford |
| Subject | Australian Literature; Gays' Lesbians' Writings, Australian |
| BookID | 9896 |
