Edited by Dan Hogan and Victoria Manifold
Industrial Estate: Issue 1
The first issue of Industrial Estate has it all: fiction by Emma Rayward that shakes down the structural nature of manufactured housing scarcity; a long essay by Jonno Revanche exploring the utility/futility of fantasy/phantasy in collectivising around a revolutionary goal; eviscerating poetry by Lucy Norton, Natalia Figueroa Barroso, j. taylor bell, Justine Keating, Spencer Barberis, and David Stavanger; bottle-o retail gothic in hilarious fiction by Liam Diviney; rumination on ‘drafts of drafts’ in nonfiction by Jennifer Nguyen. And we promise that after reading Hollen Singleton's essay you will never perceive moss the same way again.
Industrial Estate is a literary magazine showcasing writing from the working class.
Industrial Estate seeks to enhance working-class participation in the literary arts by providing publication opportunities to working-class writers and writers from a working-class background.
Upper class writers are overrepresented in ‘Australian’ publishing, both on the page and behind the scenes. Industrial Estate is an intervention. As it stands, there are very few arts organisations in so-called ‘Australia’ with a mandate to specifically account for the inclusion of working-class writers.
Edited by Dan Hogan and Victoria Manifold.
About the Editors
Dan Hogan (they/them) is the author of Secret Third Thing, which won the Mary Gilmore Award and the Five Islands Prize. Secret Third Thing was also named one of the ‘best 25 Australian books of 2023’ by The Guardian. Hogan’s poetry has won the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, Judith Wright Poetry Prize, XYZ Prize, and Val Vallis Award, among others. Their fiction, nonfiction, and poetry has been published widely, including in Overland, Meanjin, Going Down Swinging, The Guardian, and Jacobin. Hogan runs DIY publisher Subbed In and edits the working-class literary journal Industrial Estate. In 2024, Hogan received funding from Creative Australia to complete their first novel, tentatively titled The Phrog.
Victoria Manifold works at a trade union and writes short stories. She was shortlisted for The White Review Short Story Prize in 2016 and 2018, was a runner up in the 2019 Berlin Writing Prize, was shortlisted for the 2021 Desperate Literature Prize and was a runner up in the 2022 Mslexia Short Story Prize.