the text is a collection of new writings sent into the world whenever we have enough good work to fill an issue, usually twice a year, more if we can. If we had to define it, we’d say it’s primarily dedicated to fiction, but we can’t yet define fiction. Perhaps the text is a research project then, or maybe it’s a forum for researchers, called the text precisely to avoid definitions of the writing in it.
Then there are subtexts, countertexts, contexts, pretexts, all of which can find their way in, alongside scripts, speeches and other polemics. We also feature text and graphic images.
Which is all just a way of saying we focus on the text itself, not any particular style or form.
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text has published:
Peter Plate, Kevin Ramshaw, Mandy Sutter
Chenjerai Hove, Dianne Darby, Mary Wings
Kath McKay Jane Draycott & Elizabeth James
Agneta Falk, Scott Murfin, Fi Frances
Steve Littlejohn, Ray Brown, Julia Darling
Muhammad Khalil/Eugene Lange
Jack Mapanje, Zdravka Eftimova, Courttia Newland
MAMA East African Women’s Group
Jack Hirschman, Catherine Davidson, Ken Smith
Thomas Kumlehn, Stevan Allred, Karl Spracklen
Sarah Murphy, Brenda K. Marshall
Daphne Marlatt, Aritha van Herk
Erin Mouré, Susan Taylor, Di Brandt
Ian Dowson, George Campbell, David Meltzer
Robert Majzels, Stuart Rushworth
Sheila E. Murphy, Ran Elfassy, Pam Leeson
Paula Summerly, S.A. Afolabi, Anna Manussis,
Sean Burn, Chris Penn, Walid Abed Elhadi
Liz Tolan, Giovane Malito, Martin Archer, Matt Black
Andrew Jordan, Catherine Daly, Sean Pemberton
Will Morris, David Gaffney, Celena Bretton
Anne Caldwell, Glynis Charlton, Reg Czudek
Kath Jones, Mary Males, Eleanor Rees
Polly Williams, Kenji Siratori, Mark Goodwin
Alison Jones, Luis Benitez, Estill Pollock
Heather Child, Andrew Nightingale, Caroline England
