The second issue of Snorkel, the literary magazine for New Zealanders and Australians, is now online. Contributors include Stephen Oliver, Mary Macpherson, Frances Samuel, Belinda Diepenheim, Kiri Piahana Wong, Iain Britton and Robert Berry.

Snorkel has also added a new feature to the site called The Book Room, where readers can 'snorkel the Amazon' for books by contributors, as well as other new and recommended poetry and short fiction titles.

Editor Cath Vidler will be doing an interview about Snorkel 2 with Lynn Freeman for Radio NZ's arts programme, to be aired on Sunday November 6.

Incidentally, submissions to Snorkel can be sent by email. Only previously unpublished work is considered, but you can send up to five poems and/or two prose pieces to snorkel@snorkel.org.au. Submissions to Snorkel #3 close on 15 February 2006.