Sport (New Zealand magazine)

Sport is a New Zealand literary magazine, edited and published by Fergus Barrowman.

Sport
The cover of the first issue of Sport magazine
Publisher and editorFergus Barrowman
FrequencyYearly
FounderFergus Barrowman, Elizabeth Knox, Damien Wilkins, Nigel Cox
Year founded1988
Based inWellington, New Zealand
Websitesportmagazine.co.nz

About

Barrowman co-founded the magazine in 1988 with Elizabeth Knox, Damien Wilkins, and Nigel Cox,[1][2][3] with support from Bill Manhire, Alan Preston and Andrew Masonin.[2] Barrowman said in an interview in 2012 that the name Sport is intended to be a joke but that it has caused confusion: "There are lots of cultured types who've never got close enough to the magazine to know what it is, and it's hell to explain overseas. I still get misdirected orders and submissions".[4]

At various times Sport has been co-edited or guest-edited by James Brown, Catherine Chidgey, Gregory O'Brien, Sara Knox, Lara Strongman, Andrew Johnston, and Sally-Ann Spencer.[2]

Sport has published the first works of Emily Perkins and Catherine Chidgey, as well as being an early publisher of Kate Flannery, Annamarie Jagose, Chris Orsman and Peter Wells.[5] In 2008, Eleanor Catton's work first appeared in Sport, before the publication of her first novel The Rehearsal.[6]

Sport was published twice a year until November 2003, and is now published annually.[2]

The magazine has been described by fellow-Victoria University of Wellington publication Salient as "A bedrock of new New Zealand fiction, essays and poetry."[7]

Controversy over Creative New Zealand defunding

In 2013, Creative New Zealand (CNZ) announced that the magazine's yearly application for funding was unsuccessful, ending CNZ's long-term support over the last 40 issues.[8] The announcement produced a quick reaction from a number of prominent New Zealand writers, such as Eleanor Catton and Emily Perkins.[9]

Fergus Barrowman said in an interview on Radio New Zealand that although he had been approached with various offers of additional funding, and people have suggested he crowdfunds the journal's operations, he is wary of adding to the yearly workload of producing the journal if it is forced to rely on non-CNZ funding.[10]

Despite the withdrawal of CNZ funding, the magazine released Sport issue 42 in March 2014. The most recent edition, as of 2020, was published in 6 November 2019.[11]

See also

References
  1. "Fergus Barrowman". Victoria University Press. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  2. "About Sport Magazine". Sport Magazine. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  3. Bialostocki, Matt (19 July 2013). "Fergus Barrowman". Unity Books. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  4. Gracewood, Jolisa (1 March 2012). "The Editor's Luck". Metro NZ. pp. 104–105.
  5. Barrowman, Fergus (2006). "Sport". In Robinson, Roger; Wattie, Nelson (eds.). The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acref/9780195583489.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-1917-3519-6. OCLC 865265749. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  6. "Funding cut for literary journal". The Dominion Post. 15 December 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  7. Powles, Nina (24 March 2014). "A Guide to NZ Literary Journals". Salient magazine. Retrieved 19 August 2014.
  8. Keith, Hamish (9 December 2013). "Hamish Keith: Form Over Substance". Listener.co.nz. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  9. "Funding Cut for Literary Journal". The Dominion Post. 5 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  10. "Sport". Arts on Sunday. Radio New Zealand National. 8 December 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2013.
  11. "SPORT". Sport Magazine. Retrieved 5 December 2020.
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