In the middle of a cost-of-living crisis, it’s a brave idea to set up your own business – even braver when it’s an independent literary house. And yet a quartet of idealistic creatives (Augusta Supple, Anthony Uhlmann, Bill Dunbar and Benjamin Muir) have done just that, with their artist-led organisation, Vitagraph. ArtsHub speaks to one of its directors, Augusta (Gus) Supple to find out the whole story.
Supple explains, ‘Vitagraph Publishing has been inspired by an obligation to act. We saw a gap in the pathways for experimental and inventive writing and saw an opportunity to make a difference. In 2023, Catriona Menzies-Pike and Samuel Ryan produced a landmark report on the status of ‘Literary Journals in Australia‘, which revealed of Australia’s 22 literary journals only one is based in Sydney. (The four founders of Vitagraph live and work in Sydney.)
