Nocturnal Submissions was an Australian literary periodical, based in Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, which appeared sporadically and ran from 1991 to 1999. It was founded by David Lumsden and later edited by the novelist Maria Hyland. Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer. He lives in Dublin. Heaney has received the Nobel Prize in Literature , the Golden Wreath of Poetry , T. S. Eliot Prize and two Whitbread prizes...

 — in the blurb

Blurb

A blurb is a short summary or some words of praise accompanying a creative work, usually used on books without giving away any details, that is usually referring to the words on the back of the book jacket but also commonly seen on DVD and video cases, web portals, and news websites.- History :The...

 on the back of issue 6 — said "Nocturnal Submissions is a handsome magazine, solid and worthwhile."

Authors whose work appeared in the periodical included Billy Collins

Billy Collins

Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...

, Peter Carey, Steve Kilbey

Steve Kilbey

Steven John Kilbey is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter....

, August Kleinzahler

August Kleinzahler

-Life and career:Until he was 11, he went to school in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he grew up. He then commuted to the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, graduating in 1967. He wrote poetry from this time, inspired by Keats and Kenneth Rexroth translations, among other works...

, Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

Chris Wallace-Crabbe AO is an Australian poet and Emeritus Professor in The Australian Centre, University of Melbourne.-Biography:...

, John F. Deane

John F. Deane

John F. Deane is an Irish poet and novelist. He founded Poetry Ireland and The Poetry Ireland Review in 1979.-Career:...

 and Alan Wearne

Alan Wearne

Alan Wearne is an Australian poet.Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott...

. It was one of the first magazines to publish work by Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval,- Biography :Born in Melbourne, to...

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Issue #1

The material for the first issue was gathered in late 1989 but the issue was not published until 'Autumn' 1991 (which in Australia means the months March to May). The aim stated in the 'Editorial Note' was to present writing that would 'work both in performance and on the page'.

Contributors to the first issue were: James Griffin

James Griffin (songwriter)

James Griffin is an Australian songwriter, performer and broadcaster. His songs have been covered with hit songs by Australian recording artists such as The Black Sorrows and Lee Kernaghan.-External links:*...

 · Georgia Butters · Kerry Loughrey · Sam Sejavka

Sam Sejavka

Samuel Marcus Sejavka Samuel Marcus Sejavka Samuel Marcus Sejavka (born 2 April 1960 in Melbourne, Australia, is a writer, actor and musician.Sejavka grew up in Mt Waverley and attended Holy Family Primary School, a Catholic school in Mt Waverley....

 · Maria Hyland · David Lumsden · Ian McBryde

Ian McBryde

Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in Toronto, Canada but has been a long time Australian resident. In addition to writing poetry, he has also painted and sketched, and spent time as a drummer in progressive jazz-rock bands.-Books:...

 · David Branson

David Branson

David Branson was an Australian theatre director, actor, and writer.David Branson's father John was an Antarctic scientist, and his mother Margaret a school librarian. Branson attended Hackett Primary School, Watson High, and Dickson College in Canberra...

 ·Warwick Newnham · Lauren Williams · Steve Kilbey

Steve Kilbey

Steven John Kilbey is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter....

 · John Dyall · Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval,- Biography :Born in Melbourne, to...

 · Stephen J. Williams · Liz Hassall.

Issue #2

Issue #2 is dated Spring 1991.

Contributors were: Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval,- Biography :Born in Melbourne, to...

 · James Griffin

James Griffin (songwriter)

James Griffin is an Australian songwriter, performer and broadcaster. His songs have been covered with hit songs by Australian recording artists such as The Black Sorrows and Lee Kernaghan.-External links:*...

 · Ruth Hessey · Steve Kilbey

Steve Kilbey

Steven John Kilbey is the lead singer-songwriter and bass guitarist for The Church, an Australian rock band. He is also a music producer, poet, and painter....

 · Ian McBryde

Ian McBryde

Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in Toronto, Canada but has been a long time Australian resident. In addition to writing poetry, he has also painted and sketched, and spent time as a drummer in progressive jazz-rock bands.-Books:...

 · Karen McKnight · Jiří Tibor Novak

Jirí Tibor Novak

Jiří Tibor Novak is a Czech-born Australian artist, illustrator, and writer.-As author:* Fish and bird, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, 1981.* Vienna, Nosukumo, Melbourne, 1992.-As illustrator:...

 · Ron Offen

Ron Offen

Ronald C. “Ron” Offen was an American poet, playwright, critic, editor, and theater producer. He received an A.A. from Wright College in Chicago and an M.A...

 · Julia Palfreyman · Kristopher Saknussemm · Philippa Sawyer · Alex Skovron · Susan Storm · Torquil Todd · Alan Wearne

Alan Wearne

Alan Wearne is an Australian poet.Alan Wearne was born and grew up in Melbourne. He studied history at Monash University where he met the poets Laurie Duggan and John A. Scott...

 · Lauren Williams.

Issue #3

Issue #3 is dated Spring 1994.

Contributors were: Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski

Peter Bakowski is an Australian poet. His poems often use deceptively simple words and images, reminiscent at times of words in a child's picture book, but with some stylistic similarities to the work of writers such as Charles Simic or Vítězslav Nezval,- Biography :Born in Melbourne, to...

, Adam Browne

Adam Browne

Adam Browne is an Australian speculative fiction writer. He lives in Melbourne, Australia.-Publications:*"Orlando’s Third Trance" -HQ Magazine , 1999*"Account Dracula" -Orb Magazine , 1999...

, Billy Collins

Billy Collins

Billy Collins is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida...

, Robert Hershon

Robert Hershon

Robert Hershon, born and raised in Brooklyn, is a poet and the author of twelve books. His most recent book is Calls from the Outside World.-Life:...

, Jill Jones

Jill Jones (poet)

Jill Jones is a poet and writer living in Sydney, Australia.In 1993 she won the Mary Gilmore Prize for her first book of poetry, The Mask and the Jagged Star . Her third book, The Book of Possibilities , was published in 1997. It was shortlisted for the National Book Council 'Banjo' Awards and the...

, August Kleinzahler

August Kleinzahler

-Life and career:Until he was 11, he went to school in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where he grew up. He then commuted to the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, graduating in 1967. He wrote poetry from this time, inspired by Keats and Kenneth Rexroth translations, among other works...

, Jeff Klooger, Ray Liversidge, Ian McBryde

Ian McBryde

Ian McBryde is an Australian poet. He was born in 1953 in Toronto, Canada but has been a long time Australian resident. In addition to writing poetry, he has also painted and sketched, and spent time as a drummer in progressive jazz-rock bands.-Books:...

, Karen McKnight, Kristopher Saknussemm, Sam Sejavka

Sam Sejavka

Samuel Marcus Sejavka Samuel Marcus Sejavka Samuel Marcus Sejavka (born 2 April 1960 in Melbourne, Australia, is a writer, actor and musician.Sejavka grew up in Mt Waverley and attended Holy Family Primary School, a Catholic school in Mt Waverley....

, Fred Voss, and Barbara Wels.

Issue #6

Issue #6 was a perfect-bound A5 issue called 'Nocturnal Submissions 1999'. Carolyn Tetaz was the poetry editor of this issue.

Contributors were: John Elder

John Elder (writer)

-Life:Elder was a native of Caithness. He passed twelve years of his life at the universities of St. Andrews, Aberdeen, and Glasgow, and appears to have entered the ministry. He went to England soon after the death of James V of Scotland in 1542. At Mary's accession Elder turned Roman catholic, as...

, Marcel Maslin, Andrew Kelly

Andrew Kelly

Andrew Kelly is an English football player who currently plays for Landskrona in Sweden.He made his debut for Landskrona in the local derby against Helsingborgs IF in 2005...

, Peter Sirr

Peter Sirr

Peter Sirr is an Irish poet, born in Waterford, Ireland. He lives in Dublin where he works as a freelance writer and translator.-Life:...

, Dave Cameron, Kate Broadley, Alex Landragin, E. A. Gleeson, Nick Enright

Nick Enright

-Life:He was drama captain of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in 1964, where, like Gerard Windsor and Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow. At that school, he won the 1sts Debating Premiership in both 1966 and 1967....

, Jack Hibberd

Jack Hibberd

Dr Jack Hibberd is an Australian playwright.-Biography:Hibberd studied medicine at the University of Melbourne, where he resided at Newman College and practised as a clinical immunologist in Melbourne from 1964 until 1973...

, Peter Carey, Nicki Greenberg

Nicki Greenberg

Nicki Greenberg is a Melbourne-based Australian comic artist and illustrator.Her graphic novel adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby was published in 2007 by Allen & Unwin in Australia and by Penguin in Canada...

, Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman

Elliot Perlman is an Australian author and barrister. He has written two novels and one short story collection.-Life:Perlman is the son of second-generation Jewish Australians of East European descent...

, Lachlan Stephens, Dan Disney, Simon Enticknap, O. S. Claridge, Sam Chesser, Zoltan Kovacs

Zoltán Kovács

Zoltán Kovács is a retired Hungarian footballer who used to play as a striker.Kovács was the captain, and fan's favourite for Újpest...

, Rebecca Maidment, Ben Wilensky, Paul McKnight

Paul McKnight

Paul McKnight is a Northern Irish professional footballer currently playing for Ards.McKnight signed for Rangers in August 1993. He made his debut for the club in a league match against Partick Thistle on 13 May 1995....

, Jefferson Kinsman, Kate Middleton, Greg Barwick

Greg Barwick

Greg Barwick is a former Australian rugby league player.Greg Barwick has previously played for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs, Penrith Panthers, North Sydney Bears & Sydney Tigers in the NSWRL Winfield Cup and the London Broncos in the European Super League. Barwick was fullback for Penrith in...

, Jan Dean, Annette Trevitt, Mark Mahemoff, Sydney Smith, and Rebecca Law.