“The Suburban Review” to cease publishing

Online literary journal the Suburban Review (TSR) has announced it will cease publishing following two final publications this year.

In a statement on the publication’s socials pages, the TSR board said that a lack of funding had prompted the decision.

“While TSR has received several small project grants, no operational funding has been secured, and project commitments have stretched our already lean, yet passionate, team to its limits,” said the statement.

TSR editor-in-chief Alison Barton said: “TSR has had a proud 14-year history and occupied an important niche in the publishing landscape that no other journal fills. We committed to helping hundreds of under-represented and minority writers and artists get their work out there and have celebrated doing so.

“There is an immense amount of under-recognised creative talent within Australia’s First Nations, regional, CALD, migrant, LGBTQIA+, and disability communities, and TSR is thrilled to have given [their] works a home.”

Thanking readers for their support, the TSR board said it was “doing everything [it] can to ensure that TSR gets the last hoorah that it deserves”.

The journal’s final issue, #42 NOISE, will highlight First Nations talent, and its publication Hills Hoist Volume 5 will feature participants from TSR’s Jumpstart a Journal program.

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