'Rewards' and book orders have moved to the PostMistress Press website

Please make all donations directly to the PostMistress Press website, where there is a place now to "donate" to receive the 'rewards' and to make pre-orders of the books. Here is the link:

http://postmistresspress.com/

The inaugural PostMistress Press Anthology will be published in 2016.  Pre-orders of signed copies are now being taken for the Anthology.  Details are on our website. For further information please send an email to [email protected]. (now 2017 as the project was not funded it has taken longer, but is being published soon).

Thanks very much to all who supported the crowdfunder, we will contact you soon about how you can still get the rewards, and the editing package, and bookclub membership, by making the same payment a different way, if you wish. If you do this your name will still be in the Acknowledgements. Otherwise, the books can be pre-ordered now.  Kudos to our supporters!

Crowdfunder Description:

A new arts and culture initiative. Thirty-four escapees. One editor. Ruth Skilbeck, PhD, novelist and art writer.  Support the launch of a new inter-arts anthology with contributions from writers, artists, poets, singer-songwriters, filmmakers, playwrights, fiction-writers, photographers and intellectuals from Australia and around the world.

Contributors include exiled artist Guo Jian, who was jailed and exiled from China for making art about his experiences as student on hunger strike in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in this photo being visited by fellow students and his teacher at art school, taken by a fellow student. Guo Jian's photographic works and writing are in the Anthology, and three of his art works are included in the rewards for pledges to support the anthology.

The Anthology and its Contributors

The anthology is ready to publish. Over the past two years we have been gathering works, and there are some significant contributions, by leading international and Australian artists, writers and intellectuals, with several chapters of original arts and cultural research from PhD books by Fan Dongwang, and Mary-Lou Pavlovic; as well as younger new researchers, writers and artists.

Contributing writers include Ghassan Hage, professor of anthropology and author of Alter-Politics; Elizabeth Farrelly, professor of architecture, author, columnist and activist; Rhyll McMaster,  award-winning prominent novelist, poet and human rights activist; Dongwang Fan, prominent artist with works in many collections; an essay by Kenneth Wolman, poet; research essay and artworks by Mary-Lou Pavlovic; poetry and sound track by Jeremy Gluck poet and songwriter based in the UK; poetry by Richard James Allen, by Ramon Loyola, and poetry and photoart from Michael Gormly; and a photograph by Suellen Symons; photoart and poems by artist and writer Paloma Concierta; and new bold voices from the upcoming generation, writings by Leisa Woodman, singer-songwriter, Maxim S. Porter, filmmaker, Lale Teoman, speculative realism fiction writer Ella Skilbeck-Porter; plus interviews with Anne Tsoulis, writer and director of These Heathen Dreams (2014), writings by and an interview with Christopher Barnett the artist-subject of These Heathen Dreams, an interview with Dushko Petrovich, New York-based artist, activist and publisher; posts by Christen Clifford New York based feminist artist; paintings by Luciano Prisco, digital prints by Elizabeth Gertsakis, pinhole camera work and digital prints by Robert Sherwood Duffield, and a print by Natasha Williams, amongst others.

"I like the spirit with which you are organizing this...I like what you are trying to do"

Ghassan Hage, author of Alter-Politics

                        'A Seducer and his Victim', Copyright Elizabeth Gertsakis, in the anthology

Themes

• Contributors were invited to address themes of UF0s, aliens, telepathy, spacecraft and fugue as metaphors for new satellite-based communications media, in the mainstream media, and communication on social media.
• Social justice, human rights, and the environment are also themes, as is communication via the technologies of new media.
• The book is ready to publish, but we need to raise the money to cover the costs of publication, in paperback and interactive pdf ebook, to play the songs.

Join the PostMistress Book Club

By joining the PostMistress Book Club founding members gain access to a book club run by an author-publisher, which will give members opportunities to find out about new author-publishing from an author and publisher who is abreast of the latest methods and technologies which are constantly changing and being updated. Book Club founding members will join a closed facebook group and have 24-hour access to this and to a book club page, where members can ask questions, and gain advice. Members will have access to discounts for new writing and publishing courses. Better yet members become part of a new creative book club that is reading and writing and publishing their books using latest technologies and platforms.

Founding Membership of Book Club gives you:

·      Regular Book Club newsletter sent to your email address

·      Member-only courses and discounts

·      Previews of new books and chance to join Review Circles

·      Member-rates for editing and book design

·      Member rates for Training help with social media for authors- including blogs and websites

·      Invites to book launches and events

·      Member-only offers of commemorative products and wares

·      Chances to submit your works to PostMistress Press Anthologies in the future.

·      Become part of a new creative community

The teacher of the Writing course,  is an author and publisher who has been using new digital author platforms for almost three years. She is a qualified university teacher and lecturer who has designed and taught Literature, Writing, Journalism and Communication courses.

Alternatively, If you just want to support the project you can make a donation of any amount and it will be accepted.

Illustration: "MalcolmPie" by Ying Huang, 2016, in the anthology. 

• Two and a half years ago we launched the publishing house.

Watch the TV clip (below) of the talk that editor, Ruth Skilbeck, gave on her writing and what drives her art at the launch of Australian Fugue: The Antipode Room, at the exhibition of Mother Artists a movement she helped to found, and an exhibition of works by mother artists she curated at the Australian National University in May 2015, which was televised. Vee Malnar, and Paloma Concierta whose art works and books were in the Intertwined exhibition have art and writing in the anthology.

'Escape Artists' PostMistress Press Anthology will be published as an interactive pdf eBook and as a paperback book on August 26, 2016. 

Please make donations for the 'rewards' and order the books directly on the PostMistress Press website:

http://postmistresspress.com/ We welcome questions and book orders. If you would like more information please email us at [email protected].

Please make donations for the rewards and order books directly on the PostMistress Press publisher website:

http://postmistresspress.com/

Illustration: Richard James Allen, from The Kamikaze Mind, to the Escape Artists anthology.