1982: Pink Cakes

Pink Cakes is the first published collection of writing to come out of the Creative Writing program at UTS – Then known as the NSW Institute of Technology (N.S.W.I.T) and features writing from students from 1979-1980.

For the writers in this volume, there is a dual concern. None are interested simply in character and social setting, but as writers who have not been writing for long, the relationship between form and content is often uneasy. There is a healthy recognition, however, that writing cannot be static and that by writing, we are entering an arena of cultural debate and conflict where meanings are achieved in a process of constant movement. – from the Introduction

Pink cakes an anthology

Contributors

Contributors include several names mentioned above as well as Felicity Surtees, Kerry Brown, Chris Noone, Meredith Quinn, Jennie Kerr, Vicki Simmonds, Penelope White, and some of the earliest published work of renowned author Patti Miller.

Editorial Committee

The volume was published in-house with an introduction written by a volunteer committee of editors including Elizabeth Barclay, Henrietta Bochenek, Annette Kelly, David Hines, Fran Mcllroy, Suzi Malouf, Drusilla Modjeska, Lisa Noonan, Mary Ann O'Sullivan, George Papaellinas, Adrienne Parr, Amanda Stewart, Sari Russel. 

Ruby held her head feeling nauseous, wanting to scream out her disgust. She tried to recall the calm marble face of the Virgin. Tears rolled down her cheeks, dissolving the tension into self-pity. She shuddered as the perspiring face of Sister Gerard, behind a mountain of pink cakes, rose again in her mind. – Patti Miller, ‘Pink Cakes’.

Acknowledgement of Country

UTS acknowledges the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, the Boorooberongal people of the Dharug Nation, the Bidiagal people and the Gamaygal people, upon whose ancestral lands our university stands. We would also like to pay respect to the Elders both past and present, acknowledging them as the traditional custodians of knowledge for these lands.