Latin for “I sweat,” Sūdō at once captures an inescapable reality of Australian life, gives voice to the exertion required to create, and reminds us of the capacity of art, culture and politics to make temperatures soar. That the title is a homophone for “pseudo-journal” is certainly intentional; what else could you expect from the fringes of civilised society?
Assuming a position of militant anti-militancy and brutal open-mindedness, Sūdō Journal (ISSN 2652-1776) is the product of a small team of dedicated postgraduates working in the fields of English Literature, Creative Writing, Art and Social Science. It is not a gathering place for writers of parochial fiction to share romantic tales of artists at the arse-end of the world, but a hot, hard stone flung in the eye of the cultural cringe. We are looking for stories, essays and images that challenge prevailing wisdoms about art, politics and culture. Voices from the edge speaking uncomfortable truths. At the risk of being uncouth, misanthropic or esoteric, above all, what we want is the interesting.
Co-editors
Tenille McDermott is a PhD student in Creative Writing at James Cook University researching the relationship between machine-generated text and narrative time. As an experienced bookseller she has interviewed writers including Anna Funder, Trent Dalton, Pip Williams, and Clementine Ford. Tenille has been on the editorial team of Sūdō Journal since its inception, serving as poetry editor for volumes 1-4. In addition to her writing, Tenille occasionally moonlights in community theatre and attempts to take up knitting.
Bethany Keats is a Townsville-based writer who likes rummaging in the family closet in search of skeletons. Her work often explores gothic themes and questions of place. She is currently working on a novel about her grandmother as part of a PhD at James Cook University and is a director of the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies. She has degrees in languages, public relations, and sustainability.
Contributing Editor and Patron
Wayne Bradshaw is a library-based scholar researching the relationship between radical philosophy and trends in modernist literature. His book, The Ego Made Manifest: Max Stirner, Egoism, and the Modern Manifesto, is available from Bloomsbury.
Copyright Information
As an an open access journal, Sūdō Journal‘s editorial team believe in both free and open access to scholarly work, and the importance of recognising the effort that has gone into such production. To support these aims, all submissions to Sūdō Journal are published under the following creative commons license: Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International. This means readers are free to copy, distribute and transmit only unaltered copies of works contained in the journal, and all reproductions must attribute the work to the author.
