Vulgar Press is a publishing house based in

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. Established in 1999, the publisher's stated aim is "the publication of

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and other

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forms of writing". Vulgar Press publishes a number of books and magazines for alternative and

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companies and organisations. Their authors include

Dorothy Hewett Dorothy Coade Hewett (21 May 1923 – 25 August 2002) was an Australian playwright, poet and author, and a romantic feminist icon. In writing and in her life, Hewett was an experimenter. As her circumstances and beliefs changed, she progressed ...

Jeff Sparrow Jeff Sparrow (born 1969) is an Australian left-wing writer, editor and former socialist activist based in Melbourne, Victoria.Jill Sparrow Jill is an English feminine given name, a short form of the name Jillian ( Gillian), which in turn originates as a Middle English variant of Juliana, the feminine form of the name Julian. People with the given name *Jill Astbury, Australian re ...

Liz Ross Liz Ross is a long-term socialist activist and author based in Melbourne, Australia. She has campaigned for Women's Rights and Gay Liberation since 1972 and was a Trade union, union delegate in the Department of Social Security for ten years duri ...

Carole Ferrier Carole Ferrier is an Australian feminist academic. She is Professor#Most other English-speaking countries, Professor in English Literature, English at the School of English, Media Studies and Art History at the University of Queensland. She has ...

and

A. L. McCann Andrew Lachlan McCann is an Australian academic and writer of horror fiction. Biography McCann lives in Victoria and holds both an MA from the University of Melbourne and a PhD from Cornell University. His academic work has won him awards and ...

.Subtopia / A.L. McCann
''National Library of Australia''. Retrieved 16 November 2010.

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