Last Call for Flinders’ Creatives “You know the full moon’s when all the crazies come out.” - Victoria Delise, Clean - Last Call A student-made anthology of short stories, Last Call follows a university Astronomy Club over a one-night pub crawl. Focusing on the main concepts of multiperspectivity and unreliable narration, each new story follows the perspective of a new character over the course of the night. We are a group of fourteen Bachelor of Creative Arts: Creative Writing undergraduate and honours students collaborating together to get our collective ‘foot’ into the doors of our profession by stepping forward with the aspiration to see our names officially published. With the generous support, and subsequent publication by Glimmer Press, a local Adelaide-Based publisher we aim to achieve just that. Last Call is an opportunity for our cohort of creative writing students to demonstrate the skills we’ve learnt in our degree and gain valuable experience within the industry. In our cohort’s final semester as undergraduates, we came to our tutor excited, but lost. The course we’d spent three years together completing was nearly over. As Creative Writing students, we weren’t sure career-wise, where we could go after university and so, after some deliberation, we were
given the choice ourselves; presenting to the class a collaborative goal that we could work towards, together, as the semester went on. Each of us presented a theme and a format to the group. A professionally published anthology was voted as the format, the theme, ‘multi-perspectivity;’ the idea that our stories take place in a shared world and all our stories came from the perspective of each character we created. Currently with the copy edits completed, we are undergoing a complex editing process and are finalising the books blurb, and acknowledgements whilst seeking endorsements from those that have read the books first draft. These experiences have given us a strong understanding of the job opportunities that await post-graduation and necessary experience in highly sort after publishing skills. Through all of the groundwork to build this project to where it is, the impact it has had on our cohort has been outstandingly positive. For our cohort this presents the first chance to interact with many aspects of the publishing industry and gives us a valuable opportunity to do so under the guiding light of our very talented instructors. When beginning this project, our goal was admittedly rather selfish: we, as aspiring authors, wanted nothing more than to have our names on a published book. Something tangible, something visible, something undeniably real. Something to make three
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