Transportation Press

Sometime in 2013, when the sun attempted to shine in London and the dark sought to overcome Tasmania a spark of an idea began to glow. A lone Tasmanian writer in the ancient city of London and a group of Tasmanians who reside on the island began a correspondence about writing and  a little while later Transportation Press was born. Our first book, Islands and Cities, which we successfully crowdfunded was launched in January 2015. And now we are working on book two, The Third Script, a collection of new short stories from Iran, Tasmania and the UK, edited by Shirindokht Nourmanesh, Sean Preston and Rachel Edwards - and we need your help to make it happen!

This book draws on another unique international cultural exchange for both writers and readers and generates opportunities for writers from all sides of the world. We believe that individual voices and the power of story can make the world a more connected, wilder, truer place. 


Submissions for The Third Script are now closed, the selections, editing, typesetting, design, printing, marketing and distribution are ahead of us.  We pay our writers, we pay for printing and there have been hundreds of volunteer hours of poured into this project. We need your help to bring the final stages of this project to fruition. Your help is so valuable for not only our individual writers, but for literature in Tasmania and for story from around the wild world.

Transportation has come a long way on volunteer labour - and the editors, both web and hardcopy, the event organisers, the marketing and planning people, all working at a professional level, will continue to volunteer their time. We believe strongly that we must pay our authors - and we also need to pay for printing, postage and some marketing to get the book out and onto your shelves.

To bring this book to fruition, we will need to raise around $12 800, some of which we seek to raise here.

$5500 to pay our authors and illustrators
$3000 to bring the book to print
$2000 design
$1300 postage and packaging
$1000 collateral

We have adopted a print on demand model for the print copies of the book and will also be publishing digitally. Print on demand, which now offers amazing quality printing, allows us to do literally that, print on demand. You can not miss out. Design is important to us also, The Third Script will be a beautiful book with amazing stories inside. 

Our biggest challenge right now is raising to money to pay the writers and to go to print,
If this crowdfunding does not work  (though we are confident it will) we will review the time-frame and be back again!
We are also working with private donors and other income sources such as Arts Tasmania's excellent Crowbar scheme to ensure we can bring the project to fruition.