“The only reason we need to have specific diversity initiatives is that the industry, by default, is already skewed towards one side.”

“Coming across that casual reference to Melbourne as a publishing backwater was sobering, and a reminder that for all that new technologies have lowered the cost of entry, cultural behemoths are still created in a few geographic centres.”

“[In my] Visual Arts Degree...There was no cultural competency whatsoever. I thought the arts was meant to challenge the status quo! I started asking myself—Why do I care so much? Why do I care about the stories that are left unacknowledged?" 

“Though I admire memoirists very much, and in the glory of the internet age, the personal essayist, I can’t write like them. Yet all my poems are rooted inside my life...“

For Liminal Presents, Mike Eleven created fifty original artworks for our audience.