Transportation launch
Thursday, January 15, 2015
5.30, Fullers Bookshop, Hobart
Featuring The Dead Maggies, Pagan Cider, and readings from the book.
A year after the notion of an international literary exchange was mooted, and high calibre short stories from two disparate yet similar places, an active online presence and a book were discussed,
Transportation, islands and cities, is launching at Fullers Bookshop, 5.30 this Thursday night.
The book features some of the best new writing from London and Tasmania, short stories, many voices, covering wide range of styles. There are challenging, beautiful, funny and slightly rude stories alongside the laconic and the sad.
Well known Tasmanian raconteur, and editor of Tasmanian Times, Lindsay Tuffin is launching the book and he will be accompanied by convict punk band, The Dead Maggies and readings from three of the featured writers, Oliver Mestitz, Emma L Waters, Claire Jansen and Erin Hortle
The book, which began through discussions amongst writers, readers and literary folk in London and Tasmania, raised over $12,000 through crowdfunding to bring the book to print and to pay the writers. Transportation has also published new work, regularly on the website, Transportationbook.com
This book is already generating a good deal of attention, interest and readership in Tasmania, London and even the mainland.
Launch parties at Rough Trade in conjunction with the Nottingham Writers’ Studio and Brick Lane Books in London are to follow, as well as Launceston in February at new bookshop Volume 2 (the old Fullers).
Nottingham is recognised by UNESCO as an international city of literature and the Writers’ Studio is a fantastic partner for Transportation to have on board, as is the legendary Rough Trade.
On that note, what is happening with the Tasmanian Literature Prizes?
Peter Conrad, respected expat Tasmanian (Glenorchy boy), writer and Professor of English at Oxford has written an erudite introduction and illustrator Tony Thorne offered ink drawings he had done of people on the London tube. These drawings provide strange book ends for the various stories.
F: https://www.facebook.com/groups/383049441832156/?fref=ts
T: @transportlontas
W: http://transportationbook.com/
