By Wayne Macauley. In 2017 he took part in the Australia Council’s ‘Future Leaders’ professional development program, and last year he was a part of the Australia … Cooney was recruited from West Adelaide in the SANFL to the Western Bulldogs with the number-one pick in the 2003 National Draft as a priority pick. And Hinterland, like all Australian novels of its ilk, is drawing easy, albeit wrong, ... Sam Cooney is a writer and publisher at The Lifted Brow. (You can see examples of my various publishing and related work here, and examples of my own published writing here. Australian Book Review (ABR) is Australia's leading arts and literary review. I was an Australian Book Industry Awards finalist in the ‘Rising Star’ category. Australia Council. New novels by Wayne Macauley; Steven Lang, Stephen Orr. If you want to hire me, head over here.). Toggle navigation. The Australian brings you the latest Australian news as well as latest politics, sports, entertainment, technology, lifestyle and breaking world news. Mandy Ord's new book is officially out today! Oct 2014. Find Sam Cooney's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. I’m most interested in acts of literature that are artistically daring and culturally critical. One person wins a whole lot of reading, Announcing 'Blak Brow' - a First Nations-run issue of The Lifted Brow MAGAZINE (and a new way forward FOR OUR ORGANISATION), Brow Books signs Mandy Ord's 'WHEN ONE PERSON DIES THE WHOLE WORLD IS OVER', Out November 15th: ‘GOING POSTAL: MORE THAN 'YES' OR 'NO' ’, Brow Books signs a two-book deal with writer and artist Eloise Grills. Create a free Muck Rack account to customize your profile and upload a portfolio of your best work. Sam Cooney is a Melbourne based publisher, writer and editor. We had a wonderful month of thought-provoking posts from Phillip Ellis - thank you, Phillip. 2019 Stella Prize - Sam Cooney. Two Brow Books titles longlisted in the 2019 Stella Prize! I’m a member of the UNESCO Melbourne City of Literature’s Strategic Planning Group, a recipient of the AMP Foundation ‘Tomorrow Maker’ fund, and a member of the Freelance Editors’ Network. I’ve been a judge of the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Prize, the Victorian Premier’s Non-Fiction Prize, the Walkley's Young Journalist of the Year Awards, and the Lord Mayor’s Narrative Non-Fiction Prize. The Australian… For more than a decade I’ve been a freelance writer and a literary critic, with work published in The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Island, Going Down Swinging, Seizure, Australian Book Review, The Rumpus, a Sleepers Almanac, and as a founding member of the McSweeney’s Silent History geofiction project. Sam Cooney’s profile on The Conversation. I was Publisher-in-Residence at RMIT University for a few years, assisting various faculty members and students throughout the university with an assortment of publishing activities, and I also taught as a sessional lecturer and tutor at RMIT in the creative writing and publishing programs. Availability. I’ve experienced the joy of helping kids make literary magazines at 100 Story Building in Footscray, and have hosted events and chaired panels at the Melbourne, Sydney, Perth, Brisbane, Emerging, National Young, and Ubud writers’ festivals, as well as at The Wheeler Centre and at various writers' centres around the country. Sam Cooney, publisher of the Melbourne-based literary journal The Lifted Brow, has watched with a keen eye how things have changed for young Australian writers. ', Two Brow Books titles SHORTlisted FOR the 2019 Stella Prize, Charlie Fox's THIS YOUNG MONSTER out today, Back again in 2019! 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