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LiNQ Vol 34, Nov-Dec 2007

LiNQ (Literature in North Queensland)

LiNQ publishes fiction and poetry, as well as criticism and reviews of regional, national and international interest in the areas of literature, media/cinema, and culture. The journal has been established for over 30 years and has an international readership and list of contributors. LiNQ is a fully refereed journal.

We would like to thank everyone who has supported the journal over its very long life.

LiNQ is published with the support of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies (FALS) and of the School of Arts and Social Sciences, James Cook University.

LiNQ is indexed in:

  • Australian Literary Studies

  • AustLit, The Australian Literature Resource

  • The Journal of Commonwealth Literature


LiNQ Vol. 34, 2007 been mailed to contributors and subscribers.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS FOR LINQ VOL 35, 2008

In rural Australia, what is now called “the Outback” or once, “the bush,” the noun “country” has long been the normal term for what outsiders or ABC programs like to call The Land. Well before I read Ernestine Hill’s comment in The Territory about old bushmen who liked to spend their time “riding about looking at country,” I had heard my father and uncles and grandfather say, “Beautiful piece of country in there.” Or, “Down at Emerald, the country’s looking really bad.” The “country” was not, however, merely a synonym for The Land. It referred to specific areas, particular places, in almost the sense it is still used for Murri tribal areas: “Bindal country,” or “Wulgurukaba country.” Here it conveys a sense of ownership different to the white man’s understanding. Of living in and belonging to and sharing subjective borders congruent with “your” particular “country.” To vary Sally Morgan’s title, “Your Place.”

LiNQ now proposes an issue where “country matters” functions in these Australian senses: not as an adjective and noun forming a somewhat archaic English euphemism for smut, but as a noun preceding a verb. “Country matters”: that is, place matters. Specific areas, particular landscapes, even a shade of light, such as differentiates Australia’s white sunlight from the softer, yellower lights of the Mediterranean. But “country” here also inflects toward the Murri sense: place as cultural and historical matrix, as the shaping of a future and the carefully unpacked weighting of a specific past.


LiNQ calls for academic submissions that address this matter of “country” in such senses, discussing literature and/or culture, present or past, with preference given to the Antipodean North: North Queensland, Northern Australia, the Pacific this side the Equator. Similarly, LiNQ is seeking poetic and fictional treatments of how “Country Matters,” from the evocation of a numinous landscape to the enduring effect of landscape, history, culture. The import, and the importance, of Place.

SUBMISSIONS CLOSE 31ST JULY 2008


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CONTRIBUTIONS

Please send submissions as e-mail attachments directly to the respective editors.

Alternatively, if you are submitting a hard copy of your work, please include a SAS envelope for return of materials. Should you not wish to have the work returned, please let us have an email address so that we can inform you of our decisions. Authors outside Australia should enclose three International reply-paid coupons, and indicate whether accepted material could be provided by email.

Indeed, if possible please include an e-mail address with all hard-copy submissions to facilitate contact.

Word limit for submissions, creative and academic, is 6000 words.

Please submit your work, if possible, in a Word file, double-spaced, 12 point font. If submitted as hard copy, contributions should be typed on one side of the paper only, and must bear the title, page number and writer's name and address on each sheet. No responsibility is assumed for the loss of or damage to unsolicited manuscripts or for the views expressed in material published. Contributors should also supply a 50-word biographical note.

LiNQ is a fully refereed journal and all academic submissions undergo peer review. Australian contributors to LiNQ receive a complimentary copy of the edition with their payment. Overseas contributors receive a complimentary copy and one year's subscription to LiNQ.

Contributors may also wish to consult a recent issue for matters of style.

LiNQ Journal

Please address manuscripts or typescripts to:

LiNQ Editorial Committee
Department of Humanities
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD. 4870.
Australia.


A Reminder: Contributions may preferably be send via email directly to the relevant editors. Please consult Linda.Wight1@jcu.edu.au before submitting reviews.

SUBSCRIPTION RATES

  • Individuals: $30.00 per two issues (Australia), $40.00 per two issues (Overseas)

  • Institutions: $40.00 per two issues (Australia), $50.00 per two issues (Overseas)

  • Single copies: $12.00 or posted $15.00 (Australia), $20.00 (Overseas)


Requests with payment should be sent to:

LiNQ
Department of Humanities
School of Arts and Social Sciences
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD. 4870.
Australia.

LiNQ

ISSN 0817-458X
Published by the
Department of Humanities,
School of Arts and Social Sciences
James Cook University
Queensland, Australia