Borderstream Books was founded in 2017 by author and publisher Ruth Skilbeck. She founded PostMistress Press in 2013; and Arts Features International in 2003 as an arts writing media business. Together they comprise a one-woman publishing outfit. As well as her own books, she has also published pamphlets by authors with literary works in the anthology-journal she founded, Arts Features International. That includes Behrouz Boochani. Dr Ruth Skilbeck is acknowledged by Garry W. Trompf in his review in The Journal of Religious History, to be the first author to have written on Boochani in a serious monograph, namely her March 2017 edition of her book, The Writer’s Fugue: Musicalization, Trauma and Subjectivity in the Literature of Modernity. She wrote on Boochani’s work two years before he won major literary awards in Australia in 2019 (when he was incarcerated in Manus Island detention centre, in 2016, she contacted him via Facebook message):

"I dare anybody to read this book. The author of “fugal novels,” Ruth Skilbeck pulls out all stops and works vigorously on the treadles of literary philosophy to produce a veritable fugue of scholarship, sounding many notes important for religious history… [Skilbeck is]...the first to write anything in a serious monograph about Behrouz Boochani, the Iranian‐Kurdish refugee on Manus who was to win the lucrative Victorian Prize for Literature (2019) after sensationally sending a book, snatch after snatch on WhatsApp, from his incarceration on Manus to his Sydney translator Omid Tofighian…"
Read the full review by Garry W. Trompf, in the Journal of Religious History, in the Wiley Online Library here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9809.12642

Borderstream Books has published the works of 70 authors, artists, filmmakers and musicians over the past three years in the journal Arts Features International. The books and anthology- journal which has a different theme each issue can be found in the Borderstream Books shop, in online bookshops and in some independent real world bookshops, and libraries.

Borderstream Books

is starting to publish literary psychological fiction, fugue fiction, speculative fiction, novels, short stories, mystery stories,  memoir, non-fiction, essays, critical studies, arts research and artists' books, with a focus on women’s history, environmental issues, interior life, psychological and social themes, migration, exile, expatriates, and inner and outer journeys in space-time. The inaugural issue of Arts Features International literary anthology journal was published in 2018, and it was published as a quarterly in 2019. Four substantial issues were published in hardback, paperback and ebook-pdf, they are all for sale on this website.

Submissions

Arts Features International is not currently open to submissions.

Book sales

For queries about book sales please email Ruth at admin@borderstreambooks.com.au

Contact

Borderstream Books Ruth.Skilbeck@borderstreambooks.com.au Author website www.ruthskilbeck.com

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