Out now. Industrial Estate - Issue 1: Writing from the working class
Today is release day for the first issue of Industrial Estate.
Featuring over 100 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry from working-class writers, the inaugural issue of Industrial Estate is available from the Subbed In website or from your local independent bookshop. If they don't stock it, order it in!
The first issue of Industrial Estate has it all: fiction by Emma Rayward that shakes down the structural nature of manufactured housing scarcity; a long essay by Jonno Revanche exploring the utility/futility of fantasy/phantasy in collectivising around a revolutionary goal; eviscerating poetry by Lucy Norton, Natalia Figueroa Barroso, j. taylor bell, Justine Keating, Spencer Barberis, and David Stavanger; bottle-o retail gothic in hilarious fiction by Liam Diviney; rumination on ‘drafts of drafts’ in nonfiction by Jennifer Nguyen. And we promise that after reading Hollen Singleton's essay you will never perceive moss the same way again.
‘This is solidarity: a speck reaching towards the clump, which may also be composed of specks.’ - From They are moss by Hollen Singleton, Industrial Estate - Issue 1
ABOUT INDUSTRIAL ESTATE AND SUBBED IN
Published by Subbed In, Industrial Estate is a literary magazine showcasing writing from the working class. Upper-class writers are overrepresented in ‘Australian’ publishing, both on the page and behind the scenes. Industrial Estate is an intervention. As it stands, there are very few arts organisations in so-called ‘Australia’ with a mandate to specifically account for the inclusion of working-class writers. Industrial Estate is edited by Dan Hogan and Victoria Manifold.
Subbed In kicked off in 2015 as a backyard reading series organised by a small group of working-class, queer and First Nations people. Since 2015, Subbed In has organised workshops, performance events, and published award-winning books. Subbed In seeks to embolden grassroots solidarity for marginalised voices and writers whose work is too often alienated by the literary establishment. Built on a DIY ethos, Subbed In is focused on publishing new work and finding new audiences.
