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'''TLB''' is an Australian not-for-profit literary organisation that publishes the quarterly print literary magazine/journal ''The Lifted Brow'' as well as books for both an Australian and global readership. It also posts original work on its website, stages events, runs writing prizes, and more. It publishes its books through its Brow Books imprint. The headquarters of the magazine is in Melbourne.
'''TLB Society, Inc.''' is an Australian not-for-profit literary organisation that publishes the quarterly print literary magazine/journal ''The Lifted Brow'' as well as books for both an Australian and global readership. It also posts original work on its website, stages events, runs writing prizes, and more. It publishes its books through its Brow Books imprint. The headquarters of the magazine is in Melbourne.


== History and profile ==
== History==
TLB was established in 2007 by Ronnie Scott, and run since early 2012 by Sam Cooney. It is a not-for-profit literary organisation, which also runs the book publishing imprint [[Brow Books]]. It has been funded in part by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.<ref name=books/>
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TLB was established in 2007 by Ronnie Scott,<ref name=scott>{{cite web|url=http://www.ronalddavidscott.com/|title=Ronnie Scott's Eye on Melbourne|publisher=Ronald David Scott|accessdate=1 March 2016}}</ref> and run since early 2012 by Sam Cooney<ref>http://thejumbuckisalmostextinct.com/about/</ref>


==''The Lifted Brow''==
==''The Lifted Brow''==
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'''''The Lifted Brow''''' is an Australian quarterly print literary magazine/journal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theliftedbrow.com/where|title=Where to find The Lifted Brow|work=The Lifted Brow|access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref> It is published by not-for-profit literary organisation TLB, which also runs the book publishing imprint [[Brow Books]].


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''The Lifted Brow'' is an Australian quarterly print literary magazine/journal.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.theliftedbrow.com/where|title=Where to find The Lifted Brow|work=The Lifted Brow|access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref>
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==History and profile==

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''The Lifted Brow'' was established in 2007 by Ronnie Scott and edited by him until 2012.<ref name=scott/> In 2012 Sam Cooney took as editor until 2014 when he handed over editorial duties to Ellena Savage, Stephanie Van Schilt and Gillian Terzis who edited the publication for a couple of years, before Annabel Brady-Brown and Zoe Dzunko took over in 2016. The magazine is currently edited by Justin Wolfers, Zoe Dzunko and Jini Maxwell.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theliftedbrow.com/masthead|title=Masthead|work=The Lifted Brow|accessdate=1 March 2016}}</ref>
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===History and profile===
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''The Lifted Brow'' was established in 2007 by Ronnie Scott and edited by him until 2012. In 2012 Sam Cooney took as editor until 2014 when he handed over editorial duties to Ellena Savage, Stephanie Van Schilt and Gillian Terzis who edited the publication for a couple of years, before Annabel Brady-Brown and Zoe Dzunko took over in 2016. The magazine is currently edited by Justin Wolfers, Zoe Dzunko and Jini Maxwell.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theliftedbrow.com/masthead|title=Masthead|work=The Lifted Brow|accessdate=1 March 2016}}</ref>


Loosely falling under the [[literary journal]] category, the magazine features longform non-fiction and fiction, flash fiction, commentary, criticism, poetry, as well as artwork, drawings, comics, and music. Early versions of the publication were a perfect-bound journal format, and then in its middle years it embraced the tabloid newsprint format, before in 2015 evolving to the high-quality matte magazine format that is currently published four times annually. For a few years editions of ''The Lifted Brow'' included an arts and cultural lift-out called 'Middlebrow', which featured film, book, and television reviews, and articles profiling new video games, theatre, and music. Some editions have been themed; themes have included "Food", "Sex", "Music", "Medicine", "Art", "Ego", "Perth", "David Foster Wallace", and "Capital". ''The Lifted Brow'' can be read digitally.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theliftedbrow.com/digital/|title=The Lifted Brow web version|last=|first=|date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 April 2016|work=The Lifted Brow}}</ref>
Loosely falling under the [[literary journal]] category, the magazine features longform non-fiction and fiction, flash fiction, commentary, criticism, poetry, as well as artwork, drawings, comics, and music. Early versions of the publication were a perfect-bound journal format, and then in its middle years it embraced the tabloid newsprint format, before in 2015 evolving to the high-quality matte magazine format that is currently published four times annually. For a few years editions of ''The Lifted Brow'' included an arts and cultural lift-out called 'Middlebrow', which featured film, book, and television reviews, and articles profiling new video games, theatre, and music. Some editions have been themed; themes have included "Food", "Sex", "Music", "Medicine", "Art", "Ego", "Perth", "David Foster Wallace", and "Capital". ''The Lifted Brow'' can be read digitally.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theliftedbrow.com/digital/|title=The Lifted Brow web version|last=|first=|date=|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=18 April 2016|work=The Lifted Brow}}</ref>
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In late 2014 ''The Lifted Brow'' begun running of its now-annual Prize for Experimental Non-fiction,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theliftedbrow.com/tlbprize|title=Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction|website=theliftedbrow.com|access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref> with judges [[John D'Agata]], [[Mallory Ortberg]] and Rebecca Giggs declaring Oscar Schwartz the winner for his piece 'Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be Humans'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theliftedbrow.com/post/140169310691/humans-pretending-to-be-computers-pretending-to|title=‘Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to... {{!}} The Lifted Brow|access-date=18 April 2016|work=The Lifted Brow}}</ref> The 2016 prize judges are [[Helen Macdonald (writer)|Helen Macdonald]], [[Kate Zambreno]], [[Dodie Bellamy]] and [[Maria Tumarkin]] and declared W.J.P. Newnham's piece 'Trashman Loves Maree' the winner. In 2017 the judges are [[Eileen Myles]], [[Wayne Koestenbaum]], [[Leslie Jamison]], [[Fiona Wright]] and [[Claudia La Rocco]].
In late 2014 ''The Lifted Brow'' begun running of its now-annual Prize for Experimental Non-fiction,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theliftedbrow.com/tlbprize|title=Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction|website=theliftedbrow.com|access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref> with judges [[John D'Agata]], [[Mallory Ortberg]] and Rebecca Giggs declaring Oscar Schwartz the winner for his piece 'Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be Humans'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theliftedbrow.com/post/140169310691/humans-pretending-to-be-computers-pretending-to|title=‘Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to... {{!}} The Lifted Brow|access-date=18 April 2016|work=The Lifted Brow}}</ref> The 2016 prize judges are [[Helen Macdonald (writer)|Helen Macdonald]], [[Kate Zambreno]], [[Dodie Bellamy]] and [[Maria Tumarkin]] and declared W.J.P. Newnham's piece 'Trashman Loves Maree' the winner. In 2017 the judges are [[Eileen Myles]], [[Wayne Koestenbaum]], [[Leslie Jamison]], [[Fiona Wright]] and [[Claudia La Rocco]].

Also in 2014 ''The Lifted Brow'' announced plans to partner with with US publisher [[McSweeney’s]] on several different collaborative projects.<ref name=books>[https://www.booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2014/09/19/31335/the-lifted-brow-to-partner-with-mcsweeneys/ "‘The Lifted Brow’ to partner with ‘McSweeney’s’", Books and Publishing, September 19, 2014]</ref>


In 2015 ''The Lifted Brow'' won the inaugural 'Best Original Non-fiction' prize,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stackmagazines.com/update/the-stack-awards-awards-ceremony/|title=The Stack Awards 2015: The winners! - STACK magazines|website=STACK magazines|language=en-GB|access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref> judged by Shazna Nessa and [[Lynn Barber]], at the Stack Magazines awards,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stackmagazines.com/awards/|title=The Stack Awards|language=en-GB|access-date=18 April 2016|work=STACK}}</ref> beating out over 170 other titles.
In 2015 ''The Lifted Brow'' won the inaugural 'Best Original Non-fiction' prize,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stackmagazines.com/update/the-stack-awards-awards-ceremony/|title=The Stack Awards 2015: The winners! - STACK magazines|website=STACK magazines|language=en-GB|access-date=18 April 2016}}</ref> judged by Shazna Nessa and [[Lynn Barber]], at the Stack Magazines awards,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.stackmagazines.com/awards/|title=The Stack Awards|language=en-GB|access-date=18 April 2016|work=STACK}}</ref> beating out over 170 other titles.


In 2015 ''The Lifted Brow'' announced that it was expanding into book publishing;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theliftedbrow.com/post/134748113027/the-lifted-brow-expands-into-book-publishing|title=The Lifted Brow Expands into Book Publishing|access-date=18 April 2016|work=The Lifted Brow}}</ref> and in 2016 it published ''The Island Will Sink,'' the debut novel of longtime ''Lifted'' ''Brow'' contributor Briohny Doyle.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theliftedbrow.com/the-island-will-sink/|title='THE ISLAND WILL SINK'|website=The Lifted Brow|language=en-AU|access-date=2017-07-25}}</ref> In 2017 it published Shaun Prescott's debut novel ''The Town'', and will also publish ''Law School: Sex and Relationship Advice'' by [[Benjamin Law (writer)|Benjamin Law]] and his mum Jenny Phang, and ''The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two''.
In 2017 it published Shaun Prescott's debut novel ''The Town'', and will also publish ''Law School: Sex and Relationship Advice'' by [[Benjamin Law (writer)|Benjamin Law]] and his mum Jenny Phang, and ''The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two''.


Contributors who have appeared in the magazine include [[Margaret Atwood]], [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Wayne Koestenbaum]], [[Helen Garner]], [[Anne Boyer]], [[Douglas Coupland]], [[Roxane Gay]], [[Heidi Julavits]], [[Tom Bissell]], [[Eileen Myles]], [[Margo Lanagan]], [[Tracy K. Smith]], [[Diane Williams (author)|Diane Williams]], [[Sam Lipsyte]], [[Sheila Heti]], and others. As of July 2018 there have been 38 issues of ''The Lifted Brow'' published.
Contributors who have appeared in the magazine include [[Margaret Atwood]], [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Wayne Koestenbaum]], [[Helen Garner]], [[Anne Boyer]], [[Douglas Coupland]], [[Roxane Gay]], [[Heidi Julavits]], [[Tom Bissell]], [[Eileen Myles]], [[Margo Lanagan]], [[Tracy K. Smith]], [[Diane Williams (author)|Diane Williams]], [[Sam Lipsyte]], [[Sheila Heti]], and others. As of July 2018 there have been 38 issues of ''The Lifted Brow'' published.

==Brow Books==
In 2015 ''The Lifted Brow'' announced that it was expanding into book publishing;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://theliftedbrow.com/post/134748113027/the-lifted-brow-expands-into-book-publishing|title=The Lifted Brow Expands into Book Publishing|access-date=18 April 2016|work=The Lifted Brow}}</ref> Brow Books was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability.<ref>[http://mpavilion.org/collaborator/brow-books/ "Brow Books", MPavilion]</ref> In 2016 it published ''The Island Will Sink,'' the debut novel of longtime ''Lifted Brow'' contributor Briohny Doyle.<ref>[https://www.killyourdarlings.com.au/2016/12/first-book-club-an-interview-with-the-lifted-brows-sam-cooney/ Vaarwerk, Alan. "First Book Club: An interview with The Lifted Brow’s Sam Cooney",, ''Kill Your Darlings Magazine'', December 2, 2016]</ref>


==See also==
==See also==
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* [http://www.threethousand.com.au/read/the-lifted-brow-issue-6-atlas/ ThreeThousand interview]
* [http://www.threethousand.com.au/read/the-lifted-brow-issue-6-atlas/ ThreeThousand interview]
* [http://blogs.crikey.com.au/literaryminded/2010/09/20/guest-review-sam-cooney-of-the-lifted-brow-no-7/ Review of Issue 7] on [[Crikey]]
* [http://blogs.crikey.com.au/literaryminded/2010/09/20/guest-review-sam-cooney-of-the-lifted-brow-no-7/ Review of Issue 7] on [[Crikey]]
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.ronalddavidscott.com/|title=Ronnie Scott's Eye on Melbourne|publisher=Ronald David Scott|accessdate=1 March 2016}}

* [http://thejumbuckisalmostextinct.com/about/ S. Cooney profile]




Revision as of 04:53, 23 February 2019

TLB Society, Inc. is an Australian not-for-profit literary organisation that publishes the quarterly print literary magazine/journal The Lifted Brow as well as books for both an Australian and global readership. It also posts original work on its website, stages events, runs writing prizes, and more. It publishes its books through its Brow Books imprint. The headquarters of the magazine is in Melbourne.

History

TLB was established in 2007 by Ronnie Scott, and run since early 2012 by Sam Cooney. It is a not-for-profit literary organisation, which also runs the book publishing imprint Brow Books. It has been funded in part by Arts Victoria and the Australia Council.[1]

The Lifted Brow

TLB
EditorsAnnabel Brady-Brown, Zoe Dzunko
CategoriesLiterary magazines
FrequencyQuarterly
PublisherSam Cooney
Founded2007
CountryAustralia
Based inMelbourne
LanguageEnglish
Websitetheliftedbrow.com
ISSN1835-5668

The Lifted Brow is an Australian quarterly print literary magazine/journal.[2]

History and profile

The Lifted Brow was established in 2007 by Ronnie Scott and edited by him until 2012. In 2012 Sam Cooney took as editor until 2014 when he handed over editorial duties to Ellena Savage, Stephanie Van Schilt and Gillian Terzis who edited the publication for a couple of years, before Annabel Brady-Brown and Zoe Dzunko took over in 2016. The magazine is currently edited by Justin Wolfers, Zoe Dzunko and Jini Maxwell.[3]

Loosely falling under the literary journal category, the magazine features longform non-fiction and fiction, flash fiction, commentary, criticism, poetry, as well as artwork, drawings, comics, and music. Early versions of the publication were a perfect-bound journal format, and then in its middle years it embraced the tabloid newsprint format, before in 2015 evolving to the high-quality matte magazine format that is currently published four times annually. For a few years editions of The Lifted Brow included an arts and cultural lift-out called 'Middlebrow', which featured film, book, and television reviews, and articles profiling new video games, theatre, and music. Some editions have been themed; themes have included "Food", "Sex", "Music", "Medicine", "Art", "Ego", "Perth", "David Foster Wallace", and "Capital". The Lifted Brow can be read digitally.[4]

In 2013 TLB published its first anthology: The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume One.[5] Edited by Ronnie Scott and celebrating the first five years of the magazine (2007-2011) it featured Frank Moorhouse, Jim Shepard, Karen Russell, Daniel Handler, Lisa Brown, Heidi Julavits, Adam Levin, Karen Coin, Rick Moody, Robert Shearman, n a bourke, Glen David Gold, Blake Butler, Michaela McGuire, Liam Pieper, Romy Ash, Luke Ryan, Tao Lin, Benjamin Law, Benjamin Kunkel, Christos Tsiolkas, Tom Cho, Alice Pung, and Elspeth Muir. The second volume of The Best of The Lifted Brow was slated for a November 2017 release.

In late 2014 The Lifted Brow begun running of its now-annual Prize for Experimental Non-fiction,[6] with judges John D'Agata, Mallory Ortberg and Rebecca Giggs declaring Oscar Schwartz the winner for his piece 'Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to be Humans'.[7] The 2016 prize judges are Helen Macdonald, Kate Zambreno, Dodie Bellamy and Maria Tumarkin and declared W.J.P. Newnham's piece 'Trashman Loves Maree' the winner. In 2017 the judges are Eileen Myles, Wayne Koestenbaum, Leslie Jamison, Fiona Wright and Claudia La Rocco.

Also in 2014 The Lifted Brow announced plans to partner with with US publisher McSweeney’s on several different collaborative projects.[1]

In 2015 The Lifted Brow won the inaugural 'Best Original Non-fiction' prize,[8] judged by Shazna Nessa and Lynn Barber, at the Stack Magazines awards,[9] beating out over 170 other titles.

In 2017 it published Shaun Prescott's debut novel The Town, and will also publish Law School: Sex and Relationship Advice by Benjamin Law and his mum Jenny Phang, and The Best of The Lifted Brow: Volume Two.

Contributors who have appeared in the magazine include Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman, Wayne Koestenbaum, Helen Garner, Anne Boyer, Douglas Coupland, Roxane Gay, Heidi Julavits, Tom Bissell, Eileen Myles, Margo Lanagan, Tracy K. Smith, Diane Williams, Sam Lipsyte, Sheila Heti, and others. As of July 2018 there have been 38 issues of The Lifted Brow published.

Brow Books

In 2015 The Lifted Brow announced that it was expanding into book publishing;[10] Brow Books was created in 2016 to publish the authors and books that established publishing houses were largely ignoring due to perceived lack of commercial viability.[11] In 2016 it published The Island Will Sink, the debut novel of longtime Lifted Brow contributor Briohny Doyle.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "‘The Lifted Brow’ to partner with ‘McSweeney’s’", Books and Publishing, September 19, 2014
  2. ^ "Where to find The Lifted Brow". The Lifted Brow. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Masthead". The Lifted Brow. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  4. ^ "The Lifted Brow web version". The Lifted Brow. Retrieved 18 April 2016. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  5. ^ "The Best of the Lifted Brow: Volume One | Penguin Books Australia". Penguin. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 1 March 2016.
  6. ^ "Prize for Experimental Non-Fiction". theliftedbrow.com. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  7. ^ "'Humans Pretending to be Computers Pretending to... | The Lifted Brow". The Lifted Brow. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  8. ^ "The Stack Awards 2015: The winners! - STACK magazines". STACK magazines. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  9. ^ "The Stack Awards". STACK. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  10. ^ "The Lifted Brow Expands into Book Publishing". The Lifted Brow. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  11. ^ "Brow Books", MPavilion
  12. ^ Vaarwerk, Alan. "First Book Club: An interview with The Lifted Brow’s Sam Cooney",, Kill Your Darlings Magazine, December 2, 2016
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