Turn down the lights and throw your cat out the window—the long awaited pressed 8 is here! We know, we're excited too. If you'd like your very own hard copy, those details can be found at the bottom of this page. But until then, enjoy your read.

 

WELCOME 

Thank you for stumbling upon (or have found yourself lured back into) pressed, A Literary Journal. Feel free to delve into and frolic about this site and let your mind knead through its musings as it finally nestles into the more tantalizing possibilities of its creative nature. Please take your time: you can’t merely gloss over what you’ve been more than likely drawn to enjoy in the first place.

HISTORY

pressed has been thrumming through the noggins of the literarily inclined for four years now. What had at first begun as a smart and humble A4 formatted Word Perfect-ed pastiche of creative cut-and-paste has since reckoned itself into a force whose boundaries have found no limit but for the grace of Zeus, divined out of word-of-mouth and good ol' fashioned give-a-damn.

From our humble beginnings in a straw hut nestled amongst the dew-dolloped trees of Taiwan, offering up sweaty dog-eared photocopies to those steely enough to seek us out, we have since made our mark on that country's creative mindset with an eventual national print run of 5000 critically acclaimed juggernauts of fictional, poetic and visual mastercraft! Well, that's not so much the truth as is is an aspiration (the juggernaut and mastercraft bit, so please bear with us). Yet, it is with this self-promoting fanfare that we invite you to now join us in cultivating our firmly established place in the Australian publishing arena.

Yes! pressed has since propelled itself south to Queensland, Australia to mingle amongst the minds of those fine people who daily teeter on the creative blade splicing  the Outback from the South Pacific.
 
Well, enough exposition. We'll now leave you to the grimy brilliance of pressed 8. If you like what you see, you can get your hands on a limited edition copy. Just drop us a line at

pressed_literature@yahoo.com 

and we'll send you all the details. And as for how to submit, read on. . . .