August 13th, 2008
The ‘Ten Years of Things that Didn’t Kill Us’ anniversary anthology launches are here!
It begins with the Melbourne launch in August (the 23rd) – ten years to the month since our first book, Paroxysm, was revealed to the world at a massive gig at the Madlove Bar. Then we have NSW – first Sydney and then the National Young Writers’ Festival in Newcastle – the festival where we first launched the label outside of our home town. It all wraps up with a huge party-gig in Adelaide on the 10th day of the 10th month, 10 years after it all began.
This anthology is without doubt the best thing Paroxysm has produced to date. The quality of the poetry and stories is off the charts. Simply put – we are all proud as hell of this one. It has a ton of established Paroxysm authors and a whole slew of new faces. It also marks a huge move into the United States – with three brilliantly strong U.S. authors and some amazing cover art from U.S. based artist Chad Divel. See the full line-up of authors at the bottom.
Melbourne: Saturday 23rd August, Collected Works Bookshop, Lv1 1 / 37, Swanston St, City - From 2pm: Paroxysm spoken word and story readings. (with after drinks at Hells Kitchen)
Sydney: Thursday 2nd October – details TBA.
Newcastle: As part of the NYWF ten year anniversary event - Saturday 4th October, 6:00pm-7:30pm, Festival Club, National Young Writers’ Festival.
Adelaide: Friday 10th October, Lizard Lounge. From 8pm - Paroxysm spoken word plus acoustic from Palky and Spindickle.
It’s been a hell of a road Paroxysm people – thanks from the bottom of our black and twisted hearts for your support over all these years. We hope to see you there.
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Paroxysm Press: ‘too stubborn to die’
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Line-up for Ten Years of Things that Didn’t Kill Us:
Kami
Kerryn Tredrea
Shane Jesse Christmass
Hop Dac
Stephen Studach
Michael Hier
David Rat (U.S.)
Martin Downey
Kelly-lee Hickey
Jason Sweeney
Misti Rainwater-Lites (U.S.)
Kristy Love
Sam J. Drane
Matthew Smith
Kaplowitz (U.S.)
Mei Yen Chua
Heather Taylor Johnson
Cheryl Lehmann
Daniel P. Jones
David Nolte
Lisa Dempster
Michael Winkler
Indigo
Yasemin Sumner
Rob Parry
Rijn Collins
Courtney Black
Josephine Rowe
Jenny Toune
Kate Vinen
Amy Jackson
Grant Gronewold
Nicola Hardy
Gemma Parker
Amiel Courtin-Wilson
Tim Sinclair
Tihana Majcen (Hong Kong - via half the world)
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May 28th, 2008
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Really Good In Theory (Adelaide)
Paroxysm Press will again be selling launch-price wares at this great bastion of DIY – alongside music and printed words from others such as EC Productions, A Perfect Gentleman, Rhizome, Smashed, Fucken Stoner, Ink Black Books, Analogue Apocalypse, Feminista, Ex-A-Sketch, Jazz From Hell and Ministry of Zines.
Saturday 31st May, Irish Club, 13-15 Carrington St, Adelaide from midday, free entry.
Then stay on for the live music, from 7pm, $8 entry.
Avant Gardeners, Cities Roamed By Cannibals, The Family Hour, No Through Road, The Monies, Jon Dale, Cameron Wood & Kynan Lawlor.
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AND remember submissions for “Ten Years Of Things That Didn’t Kill Us” close at the end of May. People who have sent in work will start to here back from us soon PLUS news on the various dates lined up for (in order of appearance) - Melbourne, Adelaide, Sydney and Newcastle.
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May 1st, 2008
Paroxysm Press publisher Daniel Watson will appear at the May Wordfire, reading the story “My Brother’s Keeper” - his contribution to the ‘Blood’ anthology (Sunday Drivers Press) - the eighth highest selling book at the 2007 Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
Paroxysm will also be using the occasion to record the appearance of the up and comer poet / spoken word performer Rob Parry.
The next Wordfire salon will be held on Monday 5th May 2008.
As usual the venue will be the Red Room, Crown & Sceptre, 308 King William Street, Adelaide. 7.00pm for 7.30pm.
Headlining the gig will be Nicholas Jose (Paper Nautilus).
Also appearing:
Rachel Hennessy (The Quakers)
A.M. Sladdin (S.A. runner up, National Poetry Slam 07)
And Cathoel Jorss
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April 15th, 2008
A big fortnight of Hard Boiled coming up in Adelaide. The second event on the 24th will be sound recorded. Paroxysm is aiming to get a couple of people in particular down on ‘tape’ as part the on-going Paroxysm Radio-Demo releases and Hard Boiled have given us the use of their event to do so. But we figured we’d just keep the machine running. Anyone joining in the open mic can leave us their contact details and we can email them a copy of their recording. And who knows - there are always more Radio-Demos coming up - come along and prove you deserve to be on one!
From the mailing list of Hard Boiled:
Thurs April 17
7:30 for an 8 start @ La Boheme (36 Grote St)
A multiple zine launch!! 4 Zines launched from high art to loud offensive music & films.
$4 gets you 2 of the 4 zines launched, value if there ever was such a thing!
2 DJs playing tracks, both creators of 2 of the zines launched.
What zines launched:
Feminista
Sprak!
Analog Apocalypse
Corrupt Me!
Thurs April 24th
7:30 for a 8 start @ La Boheme (36 Grote St)
Free entry, open mic, raffle & raffle prizes, the best reader gets the raffle money!!!
The nite will be recorded so you might get on a live cd to prove to all that you do read & write good poetry!
So come along to read your best works, or heckle to add to the live feel.
So all of you, come to at least one to support the local scene
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March 22nd, 2008
- submissions open -
It’s been a hell of a road. But we’re still here, still standing and still fighting. Our first anthology ‘Paroxysm’ was launched in late 1998. This year will see us mark the TEN YEAR anniversary of that first release. There’s been good years and bad. There’s been near poverty and huge successes. We’ve lost people along the way and gained many more. There’s been illness, death and heartbreak. But every year we grow; every year we’re kicking arse more and more. And frankly we’re just too bull-stubborn to die.
So come join us in this year of celebration - authors old and new. SUBMISSIONS ARE OPEN for our ten year anthology “Ten Years of Things That Didn’t Kill Us”. Use the title as a theme if you like; whether you see it as strength against adversity, or life lived in tragedy. But remember there is no theme as such on this one apart from the fact we want it to be as Paroxysm as hell. Most of you already know what that means – if not grab a copy of one of the books so you know the kind of material we like. There are no length requirements, no limit on number of submissions and its open to all writing – stories, poetry, non-fiction – anything. But a warning people – bring your A-game – the competition will be tougher than ever on this one.
Submissions are open now and close at the end of May.
We’re already sure of Adelaide and Melbourne launches, and we’ll be working on other cities as we put this baby together. I’d also like to welcome the newly gelled Paroxysm ‘crew’, forming the largest editing team to date. Joining myself in the editors chair will be Kami, Kerryn Tredrea, Hop Dac and Shane Jesse Christmass.
Go hard people – show us what you’ve got!
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February 23rd, 2008
After a brilliant Adelaide launch at Hard Boiled sore heads have been rested and its time for the boys hometown launch of their anthology of short stories:
Croak & Grist – Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac.
Saturday 1st March, 2pm
Collected Works Bookshop
1 / 37 Swanston St, Melbourne
(03) 9654 8873
Collected Works has been a big supporter of Paroxysm for years and it’ll be a great venue for a Saturday afternoon. This top-shelf book of short stories is already selling well in Melbourne even before it’s launched so this should be a good one.
I’ll be flying into Melbourne that day to introduce the readings from Hop and Shane but then leaving for Adelaide the same day as Sunday the 2nd marks the start of Adelaide Writers Week. Keep an eye out for Paroxysm products at the book selling tent at this six day event.
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February 12th, 2008
A quick reminder people Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac wing their way into Adelaide for the long awaited launch of Croak & Grist. Copies of the book will be available for $15 on the night (usually $20) plus pick up a copy of the two Paroxysm anthologies these boys have appeared in: Shotgun - $15 (usually $18) and Waste - $15 (usually $16).
Thursday Feburary 14th .
Hard Boiled @ La Boheme, 36 Grote St,
Free entry
7:30 for an 8pm start
(DON’T BE LATE as the launch is up first before the open mic)
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And for those of you in Melbourne waiting for your Croak & Grist launch - in the meantime why not get down to the launch of :
Exit Wounds from Heather Taylor-Johnson - a book filled with poems on birth & death.
Feb 15th, Wesley Anne on High St in Northcote, 8:30.
You’ll probably already know Heather from the ever popular Fingers & Tongues.
Adelaide crew – sorry but Heathers launch here has already been and gone.
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February 4th, 2008
Finally its here – the Adelaide launch of the long awaited collection of short stories, Croak & Grist. With the books authors Shane Jesse Christmass and Hop Dac coming all the way from Melbourne for this reading it really is a must see. So Adelaide crew get down to the next Hard Boiled sessions to see and hear live these two top shelf Paroxysm writers. Both guys should be familiar to you, having previously appeared in both Waste and Shotgun.
Thursday Feburary 14th .
Hard Boiled @ La Boheme, 36 Grote St,
Free entry
7:30 for an 8pm start
(so be on time to catch the readings as the launch is up first)
Then stay on for the open mic where the best poet on the night gets the cash.
CROAK & GRIST:
Read with caution. Croak & Grist is a psychotic collection of work from two thoroughbreds of the Paroxysm Press stable. The stories are host to paranoia, schizophrenia, illusion, delusion, mysticism, love and redemption, themes that are excruciatingly extracted, and transmitted in such an unflinching manner that they may cause a contamination in the mind.
Stay tuned for details of the Melbourne launch.
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October 25th, 2007
DEMO REMINDER:
See you all at the launch of the Paroxysm Radio-Demo #2 this Friday the 26^th from 8pm, SA Writers Centre, 187 Rundle St.
And also across this weekend:
HARD BOILED TONIGHT:
Hard Boiled; poetry/spoken word sessions
At La Boheme, 36 Grote St Thurs Oct 25th, 730 for a 8 start
Raffle; booze/books/boobyprize
Best poet on the nite gets the raffle money!! Bring yer friends to vote.
Open mic only, free entry
In conjunction, the launch of SA’s premier lit zine; Beer Swill Romanticism,
copies of the zine sell for $2.
UNLEY SLAM:
Calling all poets and voice artists! Unley Libraries, as part of the Parks Alive celebration, are holding a poetry slam/competition, with cash prizes. The slam will be held on Sunday 28 October at 3pm on the Unley Village Green (next to Council Offices and behind the Museum, Rugby St Unley). To register, or for further information please contact the Unly Civic Library on 8372 5100.
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October 15th, 2007
1. Paroxysm Radio Demo #2
For the best, slickest and most depraved spoken word in town get to the launch of the Paroxysm Press Radio Demo #2, recorded live at the Melbourne vs Adelaide poetry slam. Eight great Paroxysm classics including Kami’s “Technically I’m a Criminal”, Kerryn Tredrea’s “He Says He’ll Call and Unfortunately He Does” and Daniel Watson’s “Substance Abuse”. Be at the SA Writers Centre, 187 Rundle Street on Friday the 26th Oct from 8pm. Entry is free.
2. And don’t forget people the SA slam final is upon us:
Tuesday the 16th of Oct.
SA State Final, Australian Poetry Slam - State Library of SA (Treasures Wall), North Terrace, 7.30pm
Daniel Watson (MC) with a special appearance from Peter Goldsworthy (poet and chairman of the Libraries Board of SA).
At last the South Australian final of the first Australian Poetry Slam is here. After ten heats we have our twenty finalists ready to battle it out for a place in the nationals in Sydney. Spoken word, poetry, hip-hop - it’s all allowed as long as they can blast it out within the two minutes they have to impress the judges. This may just be the strongest line-up in a spoken word event in the states history - be sure not to miss it.
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