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ve also started a monthly newsletter with some excerpts influences and behind the scenes stories from the writing of calendar which you can read and subscribe to here the cover features some of the illustrations from the book and also acts as a preview for some of the objects i include in it i focus on everyday retro and memory objects a year s worth of interesting things and i look forward to sharing it with you next year 2 comments from books objects i am a camera 24 october 26 2024 tags i am a camera zine at the start of every year i know that at some point in the year ahead i will write an issue of i am a camera although i made the first issue in 2000 the numbers didn t always line up neatly at the start i was more irregular and would put out several issues in one year then in some years none but it has worked out that now the issue number and the year align every year it s a surprise to me what that year s issue of i am a camera ends up being i have to live it before i write it i ve been making the zine for so long that i know intuitively when it s the right time to start it an image or a sentence will stick in my mind and i m not able to ignore it as much as i might try to this issue of i am a camera is about packing up my father s flat after he passed away reckoning with objects and memories and the understandings that you come to about a person s life after they are gone this time rather than an image or a sentence it was a particular object that stuck in my mind and pulled at my intuition at first i resisted writing thinking it too personal an experience to write about straight away but in the end i was compelled to it is set in maroochydore where my father lived and like a lot of my writing it is about places objects and memories and how these things combine always differently and unexpectedly in the experiences that make up life maroochydore neighbour to read i am a camera order a copy from etsy or write to me to arrange it or find a copy at sticky from early nov good earth bookshop paperback bookshop or wolfbound books leave a comment from zines 10 years of other worlds zine fair june 15 2024 tags other worlds zine fair zines this year marks 10 years of the other worlds zine fair it s 10 years since the first fair was held in protest at the mca s connections to transfield and their involvement with the detention centres on manus island and nauru before this the annual mca zine fair had been the largest and most established zine fair in sydney the start of other worlds marked an important return to the diy and activist roots of zine culture organised by the zine community huge gratitude to all of the other worlds collective for all their work in organising the fair from year to year and long live zines every year a different artist designs the poster previous designs have been by artists such as emma d bailey sharp anastasia liolio and haein kim and this year other worlds asked me and so i channelled my 90s zine energies i ll see you there on the 23rd i ll have copies of recent i am a cameras and disposable cameras and maybe a sign explaining the name when i started these zines all the way back in 2000 photo zines weren t a thing but now there s always a few people disappointed that i am not so literally a camera in addition to the fair there s an other worlds 10th birthday party the night before saturday the 22nd at jura books on parramatta rd with legendary zinester bands made austria and hazeen as well as zine readings 1 comment from uncategorized disposable camera 15 april 15 2024 tags disposable camera festival of the photocopier zine fairs zines my first zine of the year is a new issue of disposable camera and the first i think that i ve actually included the issue number on i thought it was time to count them up and figure out where i was up to disposable camera is the typewritten little sister zine to i am a camera put together over a day in the moment this issue starts with a scene at a photo booth and then moves back and forth in time i ll have copies with me at upcoming zine fairs and also it s available here i made this zine for sticky s festival of the photocopier in naarm melbourne which was held as is now traditional on the second weekend of february sticky has just moved locations so make sure to check out the new space if you re in town festival of the photocopier 2024 in other zine news the blue mountains zine fair was a huge success this year back in march and we also have a new zine shop to visit in sydney with the opening of wolfbound books other worlds zine fair is coming up in june too and i ll have more details about that soon leave a comment from zine news zines i am a camera 23 october 20 2023 after a good long while a new i am a camera 23 that is the issue for 2023 with stories of objects and memory flea markets coincidences and looking closely at everything at every moment 2 comments from uncategorized gentle and fierce audiobook and events july 18 2022 tags audiobook gentle and fierce state library of nsw at the start of the year i began the recording of the audiobook version of gentle and fierce at the appropriately named echidna audio studio fitting for a book about human relationships with animals it is now live on various audiobook platforms including audible and kobo it should be in all audiobook streaming services please do let me know if you ve listened to some or all of the audiobook it s the first time i ve recorded an audio version of one of my books and i m curious to hear how it works in that format coinciding with the audiobook release i have an event coming up soon based around gentle and fierce animals in the city telling stories a discussion about storytelling and urban animals with me bastian fox phelan clare britton and jakelin troy it is coming up at the state library of nsw on august 4th and is free to attend we ll be discussing the ways that writing visual art and language carry the stories of place and encounters with plants and animals and attune us to our environment and caring for it since my last update some further gentle and fierce reviews have appeared and with gratitude for their careful attention and insights snail trails by jessica white in sydney review of books a review by andy jackson in the saturday paper and a review by fernanda dahlstrom in mascara literary review leave a comment from announcements books events gentle and fierce gentle and fierce book launch november 15 2021 tags book launch gentle and fierce now we ve emerged from lockdown and can gather we can launch gentle and fierce in person to celebrate the publication of gentle and fierce there will be a tea party launch at frontyard in marrickville on sunday 21st november it will be an all day affair that you re welcome to drop in on at any time from 10am 4pm there will be tea books a giant papier mache bear and a signature gentle and fierce tea blended by blackwood apothecary specially for the launch all are welcome though do note covid safety requirements you must be fully vaccinated check in and have a mask with you to wear if necessary books and zines will be on sale or drop by for a signature if you have a copy already i look forward to seeing some of you there 2 comments from announcements books events online launch for gentle and fierce august 13 2021 my new book gentle and fierce came out last month and we ll soon be officially celebrating its publication with an online launch on wednesday 18th august it s free and open to all and i ll be chatting to keri glastonbury about some of the ideas behind the book and doing some short readings from it to register click on the image above and it will take you to the booking page or this link in other gentle and fierce news you can read some of the behind the scenes stories from the book at gentlefierce com and an excerpt the essay perec s cat at the sydney review of books thanks to everyone who has sent me messages over the last few months i know the book s been a good companion to some of you in lockdown which makes me happy for all the frustrations of having a new book come out in lockdown it s good to think of it out there finding its readers gentle and fierce among the new release window display at berkelouw books leave a comment from uncategorized gentle and fierce april 12 2021 tags gentle and fierce writing process at the beginning of 2019 i began work on a new book i started it knowing i wanted to write a set of stories that were based around my relationships to animals and how animals had figured in my life as a writer i m most interested in how memory exists within and outside of us how other people and beings and objects and places act as memory triggers i wondered what might arise if i turned this way of thinking towards the animals of my life gentle and fierce is the result a collection of 20 illustrated essays that examine the presence of animals in my life and memory it will be in bookstores this july and you can read more about it for now at the publisher s website as the publication date comes closer i will share a little more about the stories in the book and the process of writing them but for now here is a glimpse of some of the desks at which i worked on gentle and fierce starting work at bundanon drawing at home at night revisions more revisions at tess s desk the drink is cola not wine 2 comments from books writing in 2020 january 3 2021 my new year s eve ritual is to read through my journals from the year in 2020 these were the yellow herakles and a foolscap journal labelled meeting i d kept these books by my side written in them most nights and by so doing wrote the story of my year usually i write daily observations in my journals the details of things i ve noticed out in the world as i go about my activities and thus i expected to have written less in 2020 than in previous years i d mostly been at home after all and the days conformed to a similar pattern but against my expectations there was plenty to notice in myself the immediate environment and the world as its news filtered through to me as i read i re lived the year shaped as it was by fires protests and the pandemic the sky on 4 january 2020 the hottest day of the year 48 9 in penrith with the cloud of smoke from the south coast fires sweeping across as i read through i began to take note of metaphors in my writing for others i m careful and sparing with metaphors i sometimes say to my students that every metaphor they put in their writing they have to imagine is something really physically present for the reader there beside them so too many and it gets confusing or crowded but in my journals which no one but me reads i use them frequently to describe particular states of mind there were a lot of metaphors of broken things i felt like a deflated balloon my attention felt like a frayed cord my head felt like a broken plate as if i was progressively embodying a pile of hard rubbish then things turned towards the surreal after weeks at home my room starts to feel like a portal all its objects the controls of a spaceship this was my favourite metaphor of the year and indeed i did pay extended scrutiny to the objects surrounding me in april i wrote some of the stories of these objects on instagram private account but please feel welcome to request to follow some are pictured here a vhs recording of a cure special on rage from 1993 the trodat typo stamp set nescafe jars peacock pocket warmers the vanessa diary from 1985 that tells the story of an eh holden metaphors and difficulties aside i kept working and writing at the start of the year anwen crawford and i organised the we the animals benefit reading at frontyard with readings by michelle cahill julie koh mireille juchau and julie vulcan as well and anwen and me to assist wildlife rescue south coast in their rescue and care of animals after the fires in that region reading at frontyard for we the animals in january 2020 early in the year i worked on the 20th issue of my autobiographical zine i am a camera the first issue of which i put out in 2000 making the zine 20 years old i launched it at other worlds zine fair in may the fair occurred online and you can still visit it here you don t need to register just click on the tabs on the left to go to the various aisles i m in aisle c and you can watch a video of me reading from the zine here the mirror sydney podcast came out in may after i d been working on it with producer lia tsamoglou in the earlier part of the year and i continued the mirror sydney blog writing about places such as grand flaneur beach in chipping norton the videomania building in rosebery and the banana joe s supermarket in marricvkille which closed down in 2020 the banana remains but the supermarket is a woolworths now one of 3 woolworths in marrickville why throughout the year i was a visiting writer at the state library of nsw a position established by the sydney review of books and the library for a writer to research the library s archives for a while it didn t seem as if i d be able to do much visiting but as restrictions eased mid year i made research trips to the library to examine materials relating to department stores you can read the essay i wrote based on this research in the catalogue on the sydney review of books researching at the state library of nsw in july 2020 in august i was an artist in residency at gunyah on worimi country north arm cove where i spent a week writing and walking and working on the manuscript of my new book you can read my blog post describing my time at gunyah here writing at gunyah artist residency august 2020 in 2020 i contributed short stories to hilobrow one on the 1959 film of the fly and one the cure song so what i also wrote a story for the zine cat party 6 edited by katie haegele for the quarantine themed issue i wrote about my sometimes editor soxy it wasn t the year i or anyone expected it to be but i have plenty to be grateful for thank you to you my readers supporters and friends for being there with me this year in 2021 i m looking forward to the publication of my new book of essays gentle and fierce mid year with giramondo and to filling many more journal pages with the details of my days leave a comment from uncategorized older entries welcome welcome to vanessa berry world the occasional news and archives of writer vanessa berry search latest zine i am a camera 24 i am a camera 24 the 24th issue of my long running autobiographical zine which started its life in 2000 books gentle and fierce mirror sydney ninety9 see also mirror sydney blog etsy store essays on sydney review of books instagram blog at wordpress com vanessa berry world blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed vanessa berry world join 182 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy vanessa berry world subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions 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