The June edition of Meanjin includes Sian Prior on shyness; Rachel Buchanan on the impact of seeing the work of artist, Len Lye, when she was still a child and Marcus Westbury on the ways in which funding bodies shape our cultural lives. Mark Dapin, still in recovery from interviewing Gordon Ramsay a year ago, writes on the perils of the celebrity feature; Kath Wilson tells the story behind her recent hoaxing of Keith Windshuttle; Nonie Sharp gives a moving account of the relationship between Judith Wright and Nugget Coombs; Michael Williams interviews Christos Tsolkas while Mark Mordue gives us an overview of the work of Nick Cave; Colette Vella describes the evolution of the relationship between book editors, agents and authors; Noni Sharp investigates the long and passionate friendship between Judith Wright and Nugget Coombs; Lynne Spender asks whether intellectual property can be owned; Joseph Pearson explores online identity; Craig McGregor remembers what it was like to live in Harlem in the sixties; Ross Gibson gives us a fresh take on Patyegarang and William Dawes, and. Includes fiction by Bruce Pascoe, Mark O’Flynn, Paul Mitchell, Kristen Thornell and Caroline Lee.
Sophie Cunningham has been an editor and publisher for over sixteen years. Working for well-known publishing companies such as McPhee Gribble/Penguin and Allen & Unwin, she has worked with prominent Australian writers including Tim Winton, Dorothy Hewett, Richard Flanagan and Luke Davies. Her first novel, Geography, was published in 2004. Her second, Bird, was published in June 2008.
