PSR 2: Primary Source Report on Westerly, Vol.38 No.4, 1993 by Sebastian Mauger-Hollmann

 Circulation

“Since 1956, Westerly has been publishing lively fiction and poetry as well as intelligent articles.” (About | Westerly Magazine, 2020)

Westerly is a Western Australian based magazine which was first published in 1956.

Listed in this edition of Westerly, the magazine provided minimum rates for contributors: poems $30.00; reviews $50.00; stories/articles $80.00.

Westerly also ran on a subscription format with choices of: $24.00 per annum (posted); $42.00 for 2 years (posted). Special student subscription rate: $18.00 per annum (posted). Single copies $5.00 (plus $1.00 postage).

Editor

The Westerly Magazine had several editors, as well as guest editors, specialised editors, advisors, consultants, and administrators. Below is a list of each editor/admin from the 1993 Vol.38 No.4 Summer Edition of Westerly (p.1).

GUEST EDITORS: Harry Aveling, Beverley Hooper

EDITORS: Delys Bird, Peter Cowan, Dennis Haskell

EASTERN STATES EDITOR: Bruce Bennett

EDITORIAL ADVISORS: Margot Luke (prose), Brenda Walker (reviews)

EDITORIAL CONSULTANTS: Diana Brydon (University of Guelph) , Yasmine Gooneratne (Macquarie University), Brian Matthews (Flinders University), Vincent O'Sullivan (Victoria University, Wellington), Peter Porter (London), Robert Ross (University of Texas at Austin), Anna Rutherford (University of Aarhus), Andrew Taylor (Edith Cowan University), Edwin Thumboo (National University of Singapore)

ADMINISTRATOR: Caroline Horobin

Current editors, as listed on Westerly’s website about page, include:

General Editor: Catherine Noske

Associate Editor: Josephine Taylor

Commissioning Editor: Lucy Dougan

Commissioning Editor: Cassandra Atherton

Web Editor: Chris Arnold

Prose Editor: Susan Midalia

Poetry Editor: Paul Munden

Editor for Indigenous Writing: Elfie Shiosaki

(About | Westerly Magazine, 2020)

Implied Reader

Westerly magazine seeks to provide a Western Australian-based voice, although its contributors and subject matter have never been geographically exclusive. Westerly covers literature and culture throughout the world, but maintains a special emphasis on Western Australia, and the Asian region (About | Westerly Magazine, 2020).

Contents

This edition of Westerly contains various poems, stories, articles, ficto-criticism, and reviews; all of which have about the same coverage (give or take a page of two).

This edition of Westerly contains a total of two advertisements, one at the beginning and one at the end. Both adverts are for books (Discover Western Australia by Jocelyn Burt & Peter Cowan New Critical Essays) that appeal to the tourist and the academic/student. Other than those two, there are no other adverts located anywhere within this edition.

Westerly’s primary focus was that of Western Australian voices (such as authors). The magazine does however include information from all over the rest of Australia, and parts of Asia.

Format

This edition of Westerly contains 132 pages of just text on a white background. Both adverts are also in black and white, and there are no pictures anywhere other than the cover, which is rather simple using few colours.

Figure 1: Screenshot of Westerly Vol.38 No.4 1993 Cover

References

"About | Westerly Magazine". Westerly Magazine, 2020, https://westerlymag.com.au/about/. Accessed 29 Sept 2020.

Westerly, 1993, https://westerlymag.com.au//wp-content/uploads/2016/02/WesterlyVol.38no.4.pdf. Accessed 29 Sept 2020.