Editorial Board
Editorial Board
SWAMP has a diverse and talented group of editors. With the exception of our Editorial Advisor, Dr Keri Glastonbury, the editorial board is comprised completely of postgraduate Creative Writing students. This journal is by postgraduates, for postgraduates. Feel free to read about editors below to find out more about each of them.
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Editor-In-Chief: Scott Brewer (Issues 7- )
Scott was the Editor (Prose) from Issues 4-6. He is taking over from Peter Bower as Editor-In-Chief.
Scott is misplaced. He is a PhD student in literature at the University of Newcastle. He is not a creative writer, but he quite likes them – if only in the abstract. He is now an editor of SWAMP by virtue of nodding sympathetically one too many times at Peter and Patrick. Apparently, he will provide an analytical edge previously lacking. He is published in JASAL.
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Editor (Poetry): Cassandra O’Loughlin (Issues 5- )
After working with Ivy Ireland as Co-Editor (Poetry) for Issue 4, Cassandra has taken on the role of lead Editor (poetry) from Issue 5 onward.
Cassandra is working on her honours exegesis at the University of Newcastle. Her Creative Writing project (in the genre of poetry) explores Mark Tredinnick’s idea of listening to how the land speaks, and making peace with it, using a language of belonging. Her poems have appeared in the Newcastle University Creative Writing anthologies, Southerly, Overland, Mascara Literary Review, Poetrix, Eureka Street and Catchfire Press publications. She won the Catchfire Press regional poetry prize in 2004.
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Editor (Prose): Samantha Dagg (Issues 6- )
Sam is currently involved in a Masters of Creative writing focusing on short fiction. She uses this as an excuse to be disorganised, underemployed and to explain all past and future personal indiscretions. She has been published, mostly in things you’ve never heard of, but sometimes in things you may have.
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Editorial Advisor: Dr Keri Glastonbury (Issues 1- )
Keri Glastonbury is a poet and lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle. Her DCA thesis ‘Shut up, Nobody Wants to Hear Your Poems’ staged a friendly title bout between two grunge auteurs of her generation, painter Adam Cullen and poet Ted Nielson. She is currently poetry editor of Overland and has a small publishing company Local Consumption Publications www.localconsumption.com
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Past Editorial Board Members
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Founding Editor: Patrick Bryson (Issues 1-3)
Patrick recently completed his PhD (in creative writing) at the University of Newcastle, where he has also taught CW for the past three years. His thesis, Chasing the Unwritable Book, explores how identity is shaped by mental illness and the fictional possibilities it presents to the author – with a particular focus on autobiographical fiction. He is a published poet and short story writer (in journals like Studio, Skive and Australian Reader), and his first book of verse, Intended Shadows, was published in 2003. More recently, his prize-winning essay ‘The Casino Bipolar’ was included in Mastering Bipolar Disorder (Allen & Unwin, 2008) and his chapter on Peter Kocan ‘The Urge to Write and the Urge to Kill’ will feature in an upcoming anthology on madness to be released by Inter-Disciplinary Press, Oxford. His debut novel is called The Triumphant Approach.
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Editor-In-Chief: Peter Bower (Issues 4-6)
Peter is the co-founder of SWAMP with previous editor, Patrick Bryson, and was Co-Editor of Issues 1-3.
He is a published poet, writer and photographer. His postgraduate studies take a look at the shifting cultures in pubs and clubs in the Newcastle and Hunter Valley region; his novel examines social interactions and dysfunctionality within these cultural hubs, and society’s dependence on them during times of crisis. Some of his work can be found on his website.
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Editor (poetry): Ivy Ireland (Issues 1-5)
Ivy is a PhD student at the University of Newcastle and was one of the Poets Union Australian Young Poets Fellows in 2007, culminating in the launch of her first book incidental complications. Ivy has a penchant for mysticism, cosmology and cabaret performance and has performed at various events including “This Is Not Art”, “The Big Day Out”, “Melbourne Fringe Festival” and “The Peats Ridge Festival”. Currently, Ivy is a co-coordinator of the performance troupe, “The Lovelorn Living Party”.
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Co-Editor (Poetry): Jenna Gill (Issues 1-2)
