The magazine publishes poetry, short fiction, life stories, articles, art work, photographs, reviews and interviews which feature rural experience. The magazine's intention is to promote Queensland and Australian rural culture. Too often rural Australia is misrepresented as a simple and often outdated stereotype. Coppertales showcases the sophistication and diversity of life in this country's modern regional cultures.

Coppertail: A member of the democratic classes (G. A. Wilkes, Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms)

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The latest issue, Coppertales 8 (2002), has been supported by the Queensland Government through the Minister for the Arts, and the Faculty of Arts at the University of Southern Queensland.

 

The latest issue of Coppertales features:

*The poetry of Jeff Guess, Christopher Parry, Paul Hardacre, Coral Hull, J.A.Paine, Kenneth Steven, Jan Dean, John Kinsella, Kevin Gillam, Mark Farrell, Steve Taylor, Francis Richardson, Ray Tyndale, Brendan Ryan, Bill Cotter, Virgil Suarez, Joy Reid, Neil Mudge, Antonia Hildebrand, Jessica White,  Mark O'Flynn, Clayton Hansen, Leah Hayden;

*Short fiction by Janet Mumyard, Jeffrey Quinlan, and C Janis Spehr; 

*The Darcy Condon memorial prize winning story 'The Belly-Dancer's Husband' by Michael Nolan;

*Simon Ryan on North Queensland Tourist writing and Andrew McDonald and Sarah Rayner on their Involvo Evolvo exhibition;

*A  wonderful photo essay covering 20 years of swap meets on the Darling Downs.

The best way to develop a sense of the editorial style and preference of Coppertales is to purchase a copy. Small magazines live and die on their sales. You can purchase the latest copy of Coppertales by sending a cheque for $12.00 to Humanities and International Studies, Arts, USQ, Toowoomba 4350 or filling out the subscription form. A limited number of back issues are available for $15 a copy; $5 a copy for issue No.1.
 
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Previous Issues

Vol 1(1994)

* Poetry by Bruce Dawe, Megan Redfern, Coral Hull, T.M.Collins and Brett Dionysius

*Short fiction by Ness Shannon, H Hayes and Ray Carmichael

*Pat Buckridge writes on Travels in Hungary and Simon Ryan revisits the lost explorer Ludwig Leichardt

*Chris Lee and Brian Musgrove interview Tom Keneally

*Graphics by Mac Vines, Coral Hull and Alice Kidding.

* Extracts from Dorothy Cottrell's lost South-West Queensland Novel

*Ian Syson on the Literature of Mt Isa

* Stories by Mark O'Flynn, Michelle Mee and Pat Skinner

* Lisa Kells' photoessay on the Mulgowie B&S

* Veronica Kelly interviews Louis Nowra

*Poetry by Robert Verdon, Julie Hunt, John Forbes, T. M. Collins and Lorraine Marwood

* In Review: The Scandalous Penton, The Lives of the Saints, and Writing the Colonial Adventure
 
Vol 3 (1996)

* Poetry by Duncan Richardson, Frances Rouse, Brett Dionysius, James Clarke and Coral Hull

* Alison Bartlett looks at Narrative Politics in Susan Hawthorne's The Falling Woman

*Kevin J. Farmer takes his camera to the Gatton Tip

*Anne Galligan interviews Venero Armanno

* Short fiction by Darcy Condon, Tim Griggs and Ian C Smith

* Reviews of Mortal Instruments, Babe, In Search of Steele Rudd, and Ion Idriess

Vol 4 (1997)

* Meg Tasker looks at Toowoomba's connections with Francis Adams

* Paul Miller investigates our travel writers' encounters with indigenous Australians

* Kym McCauley finds Henry Lawson on the Superhighway

*Fiction by Mark O'Flynn, Kim Middleton and Michael Schooneveldt

* Andrew Merry's lens pays tribute to rural medicine

*Poetry by Graham Rowlands, Gina Mercer, Brett Dionysius, Ouyang Yu, Frances Rouse and Geoff Guess

* In Review: Tales of the Austral Tropics, Helen Garner and Edward Koiki Mabo
 

Vol 5 (1998)

* Stunning cover by South Queensland Artist Libby Woodhams

*the poetry of John Kinsella, Jean Kent, Frances Rouse, Marco Gliori, Coral Hull, Mark O'Flynn and Geoff Guess

* short fiction by Rae Sexton, Gerry Turcotte and Darcy Condon

*Mark Schuster explores the german cultures of the Darling Downs and Phillipa Kelly looks at the contemporary relevance of Shakespeare's plays

*Michael Sankey reimagines some australian art classics through a photographer's wry eye

Vol 6 (2000)

* New cover by South Queensland Artist Libby Woodhams

*the poetry of Brett Dionysius, Coral Hull, Greg Johns, Sara Moss and Estelle Randall

* short fiction by William Cooper, Nigel featherstone and Louise D'Arcy

* A lost nineteenth century tale of racial violence by Ellen Davitt

*Dave Musgrave probes Norman Lindsay's The Magic Pudding 

*Charlevill'e Great Matilda camel Races through the lenses of Bev Lacey and Fiona Flynn

Vol 7 (2001)

*Fiction by Jane Downing, Zenda Vecchio,  Anna Robinson,  Joanne Jackson,  Kate Fawns and Coral Hull;

*Poetry by Lisa Bellear, Darlene Sourille, Jayne Fenton Keane, Greg Johns, Kateryna Konkoly and more;

*Articles on Technolgy, Planning and Family Farming and the Life and work of Margaret Curran;

*An interview with the young Queensland novelist R. D. Lappin;

* Art work by Libby Woodhams and Sharon O'Phee and a photo feature from Lisa Bellear;

*Reviews, fables and more.....
 
 

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