The Lifted Brow Issue 26 Launch

Sydney followers of Melbourne's beloved lit mag, this one's for you.
Jasmine Crittenden
Published on June 15, 2015

Overview

Melbourne-based literary and art mag The Lifted Brow is coming to Sydney to launch its 26th issue at Freda's in Chippendale. Entry is free and there'll be live music from singer-songwriter Alyx Dennison, who used to be one half of indie-pop kyu and has just released her debut, self-titled solo album.

Issue 26 is the second incarnation of The Lifted Brow's new format. It includes work from international contributors Wayne Koestenbaum and Hoa Nguyen, as well as a stack of home-grown talents, such as Briohny Doyle, Upulie Divisekera, Helen Addison-Smith, Samuel Wagan Watson, Michael Farrell, Jessica Yu, Sam George-Allen, Rebecca Harkins-Cross, Dion Kagan, Jana Perkovic, Nicky Minus, TextaQueen, Mary Leunig, HTMLflowers and Michael Hawkins.

Since being founded in 2007, The Lifted Brow, a "quarterly attack journal", has become one of Australia's most respected literary publications. Numerous big names have featured, Christos Tsiolkas, Helen Garner, David Foster Wallace and Neil Gaiman among them.

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