CUTWATER PRESS is looking for essays on Australian culture 2000-2010 for a new book to be published in 2011. Looking for essays on...

- Literature
- Poetry
- Film
- Blogging
- Zines
- Art
- Music
- Journalism
- Websites
- any other art form etc
- Individual films, directors, writers, poets, journalists, bloggers (for eg. would love a long essay on Chopper or a long essay on the 2000s novels by Peter Carey, a long essay on The Avalances etc etc etc)
Please send pitches to cutwaterjournal@gmail.com No deadline, no wordcount... pitches only...

CUTWATER NOW AVAILABLE FROM PLACES

CUTWATER (a literary journal thing) is currently available from the following bookstores...

SYDNEY
Abbey's
Ariel
Better Read Than Dead
Gleebooks
Modern Times

NEWCASTLE
Maclean's Bookshop

MELBOURNE and PERTH to follow real soon, promise.

CUTWATER LAUNCH

All photos by Georgia Blackie 2009.

If Cutwater were the lead singer in a band, reading from a lectern...



You're a tower without the bells/You're a negative wishing well.

If Cutwater were a music video...



Cutwater - a book - will be released in 2009.

EDITORS

Editors



Dan Collins spent several years working in bookstores, playing bass in a rock 'n' roll band, and completing a BA in Communication at UTS. He has written music criticism for The Brag and had a palindromic poem published in the 2007 UTS Anthology. He currently works in the photographic library of a large media corporation.

Some Books That Dan Collins Has Read In His Lifetime

1. A Walk on the Wild Side, Nelson Algren
2. Hell, Henri Barbusse
3.Sombrero Fallout, Richard Brautigan
4. My Last Breath, Luis Bunuel
5. Blow-Up and Other Stories, Julio Cortazar
6. The Practice of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau
7. Ask the Dust, John Fante
8. Les Chants de Maldoror, Comte de Lautreamont
9. Pedro Paramo, Juan Rulfo
10. The Street of Crocodiles, Bruno Schulz



Sam Twyford-Moore has been publishing music criticism regularly in The Big Issue since 2005. His writing has appeared in Meanjin. He is at work on a novel about failure

Some Books Sam Has Stolen From Bookstores

1. The Public Burning, Robert Coover
2. Herzog, Saul Bellow
3. HEAT Magazine, ed. Ivor Indyk
4. Homesickness, Murray Bail
5. Running in the Family, Michael Ondaatje
6. Dastgah: Diary of a Headtrip, Mark Mordue
7. Inside Out, Robert Adamson
8. The Collected Stories of Richard Yates, Richard Yates
9. The Americans, Baby, Frank Moorhouse
10. The Savage Detectives, Roberto Bolano

A little literary inspiration:

CUTWATER : noun 1) the most forward part of a ship; 2) a projecting sharp portion of a bridge or pier abutment designed to reduce the force of flowing water

... her flattened mammae, in sympathy with this tormented eructation of countenance, had put forth cutwaters and were rowelling her corsage.

- Beckett, "A Wet Night," More Pricks than Kicks, p. 61.