Avondale students to help produce published anthology
Brenton Stacey
Public relations officer
Cooranbong, New South Wales, Australia
Creative writers at Avondale College will have their work published with leading Australian authors in an anthology the English and communication majors will launch this semester.
Design studio students in a briefing with David Musgrave, the publisher of Wording the World. The class has been commissioned to design the cover of the anthology. Credit: Ann Stafford.
Senior lecturer in communication Carolyn Rickett initiated the production of Wording the World and will edit the anthology with award-winning poet Judith Beveridge, a lecturer in the Department of English at The University of Sydney and poetry editor of literary journal Meanjin. The two also edited an anthology as part of the New Leaves research project, which examines the relationship between writing and healing.
“Wording the World continues the passion we have in the communication course and the commitment I have as a lecturer to give students an authentic learning experience,” says Carolyn. “This helps the students establish links with industry and develop their portfolios.”
Independent Australian publisher Puncher & Wattmann will publish the anthology in what founder Dr David Musgrave modestly describes as a “lending of the press.” “We’re an encouraging press,” he adds, noting his rationale for establishing the business: a response to the downturn in the publishing of Australian poetry. “We want to present poetry in a professional way.”
Wording the World will launch on October 21.