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Ilura Press is an independent boutique publishing house founded in 2006. We specialise in quality fiction and produce the creative journal Etchings. We hope you enjoy browsing through our website.

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Prepare yourself for the dark and sinister world of Etchings: Dusk till Dawn. This issue delves into the obscure, goes undercover, seduces, spirals into obsession, journeys into other galaxies, and is haunted by the otherworldly and the mysterious.

Etchings 8 is all about 'unmasking' -with the editor inviting you to write your own editorial for this issue. Read more

 

Etchings Indigenous: Black and Sexy presents some of the best contemporary writing and art by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from around Australia.

With contributions by Ali Cobby Eckermann, Tony Birch, NAIDOC artist of the year 2009 Wayne Quilliam, Bindi Cole, and many others. Read more

 
Poetry: The Crooked Floor
 


The Crooked FloorSensual. Wince-worthy. Haunting. Teasing.
The Crooked Floor journeys through the fragile terrain of human emotions and relationships, toying with the often inseparable complexities of devotion and obsession. Is time the ultimate enemy? This is but an inkling of what's in store for the reader in T M Collins' new poetry collection.

Collins' appeal transcends age, gender and geographic divide. Judith Rodriguez says that, 'to read these poems is to wince, to luxuriate - to be held by the steady voice, to expand into Tim Collins' inexorably sensual world.'

At the time of publication, individual poems in The Crooked Floor had received more than twenty awards, including the Apollo Poetry Award (winner) and the W B Yeats Poetry Prize (highly commended). To get a taste of the poems in this collection, do read The Night At The Powerhouse.

Order a copy through our online bookshop. 

 

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Praise for ETCHINGS

There is proof here [Etchings 7] that strong pieces can come from established and emerging writers...While there is a sense of play in many of the contributions, Etchings remains a publication for those who take their literary journals seriously. THE AGE 

...all the stories here [Etchings 5] are of a high quality. They are original and well-written; each of them is what Helen Garner has called "a little machine that works". THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Not only does Etchings 4 explore the various strands of vital and exuberant exchange of thoughts, it also canvasses pregnant pauses, cross-wires and other failures of communication. THE AGE

Give a warm welcome to a new literary journal, especially one as committed to short fiction as Etchings .... SYDNEY MORNING HERALD

Independent publisher to watch is the Melbourne-based Ilura Press.... THE AGE

A substantial poetry section, lots of fiction, two essays, and three ventures into art. CANBERRA TIMES

Etchings, a lush publication. AUSTRALIAN BOOK REVIEW