EXPRESS MEDIA MEMBERS’ NEWS – DECEMBER 2008
1. WORD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
As 2008 rolls over, Express Media is trying to focus on the flipside – 2009 and then some. We would like to thank you for your support throughout the year and wish you the best during the holiday season and beyond.
This is the final newsletter for 2008 but we promise to keep rolling them out next year. Our thanks goes to electronic publications intern Tess Jaeger for writing and collating them each month. Her tireless scouring of internet sites, newsletters, media releases and random people has been wonderful.
Finally, all of us at Express Media would like to express our deepest sadness at the death of Dorothy Porter. Dorothy had been a past Express Media mentor (of current General Manager Emily Andersen), a Voiceworks guest, and a keen supporter of the organisation. Our deepest sympathies go to her loved ones and readers.
Take care,
Bel Schenk
Artistic Director
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2. COMING UP AT EXPRESS MEDIA
VOICEWORKS #76 – BUDGET
Voiceworks is seeking submissions for issue #76, BUDGET. The deadline is 11 January.
Email editor@expressmedia.org.au with any questions, pitches or brilliant ideas.
And check out the Regular non-fiction opportunities section on the Express Media Website for developments on how to contribute non-fiction to Voiceworks.
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3. FEATURE
Origins: 2008 John Marsden Prizewinners Owen Kirkby and Bryce Wolfgang Joiner reflect on the births of their respective creative entries
The announcement of this year’s John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers winners went down splendidly at Express Media’s long-awaited showcase, held earlier this month in Melbourne’s City Library. As with every year, the 2008 award ceremony offered the opportunity to reflect, not only upon what makes a great piece of writing, but also the personal and artistic origins of an author’s work. Express Media’s essential purpose is to recognise and encourage younger and emerging writers and text-based artists to keep creating and expressing themselves. The John Marsden Prize for Young Australian Writers is a most ambitious, and generous award. Each year voluminous entries are whittled down to short-lists containing just a fraction of its entrants. These lucky few are recognised as Prizewinners and Runners up. These lucky few are recognised as Prizewinners and Runners up.
But the spirit of competition can sometimes, inadvertently, overshadow other important aspects of creative writing as a process. Great writing does not originate with recognition. It is born with a writer’s confidence to romantically pick up a pen, or, realistically, sit down in front of a computer screen. It exists through the willingness of an individual to re-conceptualise what comes from experience, into imagination. Read more here.
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4. NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES – ALL STATES
HILL OF CONTENT BOOKSHOP 2008 HAL PORTER SHORT STORY COMPETITION
The Hill of Content Bookshop 2008 Hal Porter Short Story Competition is open for short stories, any style, up to 2,500 words. Prize is $1000. Entry fee is $5.50. Cheques made out to East Gippsland Art Gallery. No entry form required. Mail entries to Hal Porter Short Story Competition, East Gippsland Art Gallery, 2 Nicholson St, Bairnsdale, VIC, 3875. Email further enquiries to pedrom53@bigpond.net.au Submissions close 19 December.
THE LIFTED BROW
The Lifted Brow is seeking submissions for its fifth issue until 1 January 2009. The Lifted Brow is an independent journal. As well as ‘straight’ fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, art portfolios and comics, they are looking for scrappy, innovative stuff. For this issue they have a special interest in publishing a film script, a critical-type film essay, or a play script. Submissions will be read and responded to by 1 February. Send your submissions to editors@theliftedbrow.com
GOING DOWN SWINGING
Going Down Swinging is a Melbourne-based international literary journal publishing poetry, short fiction and non-fiction, flash, comic art, graphic art and a spoken word CD, twice a year. They are now calling for submissions for their 28th issue, due for release May 2009: new, unpublished poetry, short fiction and non-fiction, comic and graphic art and spoken word recordings. All GDS contributors are paid for inclusion in the magazine. Submissions close 1 January 2009. Click here to visit the Going Down Swinging website for further information.
MEDLEY MAG
Medley Mag is a new online magazine sharing the diverse cultural experiences of Australia's youth. It is a youth-driven celebration of cultural diversity, which bridges cultural, socio-economic and geographic boundaries to community involvement. Contributions for publication are required from young people, aged 12 to 25 years. Submit virtually anything related to the issues of culture, diversity, migration and human rights: artwork, poetry, short stories, reviews, essays, feature articles, etc. This is a unique opportunity for young people to produce a publication that showcases their talents, opinions, concerns, challenges and successes. For further information or contact the editor, Georgina, at info@medleymag.com.au. Click here to visit the Medley Mag website.
POTTER’S FIELD
Potter’s Field 3 is a print anthology of tales from the graveyard. Submissions of stories between 2000 to 8000 words that will scare readers, but not stories that will make them gag. Deadline is 31 December 2008. Click here to visit the website for further information and submission guidelines.
FILM BLOG
‘Culture Unplugged’ is a new online venue with weekly blog catering to film-makers, film-lovers and conscious creatives/citizens. Its organisers are now looking for writers who wish to blog and engage with a global audience. Compensation will be based on expertise, experience and efforts required. Click here to visit the ‘Culture Unplugged’ website for further details. Email your profile, interest and samples to apply@cultureunplugged.com
STOP DROP AND ROLL
Stop drop and roll is a new quarterly magazine based in Melbourne. The magazine is now open to submissions from established and emerging writers from Australia and around the globe. Email the editor sean@stopdropandroll.com.au or click here to visit the website for more information.
ARTS ANGELS SHORT STORIES 2009
Arts Angels in Canada is looking for stories and poems to be included in a book of fictional stories and poetry. The deadline is 31 December 2008. Each published author accepted will receive two free copies of the book on publication, plus successful writers will be able to buy the book at a reduced cost. For more information contact artsangels@shaw.ca, addressing attention to Margaret Hinchliffe in the subject line.
OZWORDS
Subscription to Ozwords, the newsletter of The Australian National Dictionary Centre is free. The write-up includes word competitions and articles on word history. Readers wishing to subscribe should send their snail mail address to Ozwords Subscription Manager, GPO Box 2784, Melbourne, VIC 3001.
INTERNATIONAL POETRY COMPETITION
The International Poetry Competition is open to young people under 30 years of age. There is no entry fee. Send only one unpublished poem, which has never been awarded a prize (maximum 50 lines). The general theme is ‘Roads’. Three winners will be awarded a prize of $500 each and publication. Special prizes for the best poems of people under 16! Submissions close 9 January. Click here for further information and submission guidelines.
LAURA LITERARY AWARDS
The Flinders News Prose Awards are now open for submissions. There are three sections under which applicants may enter: 1. Open: short story, max 1500 words, prize $200, 2. Young adult (13-18): max 1000 words, prize $50 and 3. Junior (under 13): max 500 words, prize $25. The C.J. Dennis Poetry Awards for poems up to 60 lines. Open prize: $200. Young adult (13-18) prize: $50. Junior (under 13) prize: $25. The fee for open sections is $10 per entry. All student entries are free! Submissions close 20 February. Click here for further guidelines and entry forms.
ALAN MARSHALL SHORT STORY AWARD 2009
Nillumbik Shire Council invites writers from across Australia to enter this annual short story competition held in memory of the great writer and former resident of Eltham, Alan Marshall. The competition is to be judged by Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanjin. $2000 Open Section First Prize; $1000 Open Section Second Prize for stories up to 2,500 words; $1000 Local Writers’ Section Prize for stories up to 2,500 words by writers who live, work or study in the Shire of Nillumbik; $400 Young Writers’ Section Prize for stories up to 1,000 words for writers aged between 15 and 19 years. Click here to visit the Nillumbik Shire Council for further details and to download entry forms. Email artsinfo@nillumbik.vic.gov.au, or telephone (03) 9433 3359 for further information. The Alan Marshall Short Story Award is presented by Nillumbik Shire Council in partnership with the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service. Entries close at 4pm Friday 20 February.
COTTONMOUTH
Cottonmouth is a Perth-based performance and publishing venture that held its first event in February 2008. Held monthly, the Cottonmouth performance project showcases spoken-word artists, poets, sound artists, playwrights, new media practitioners and other emerging and established performers in the field of narrative art. The venture also publishes a monthly zine, which is open for submissions from local, interstate and international writers. Click here for submission guidelines, event information and the word on Perth’s cultural beat.
CROSSOVER AUSTRALIA 2009
Calling all writers, theatre directors, filmmakers, digital media artists, web developers, composers, and choreographers! Applications are now open for Crossover Australia 2009. Crossover Australia is a residential laboratory where the primary goal is the development of conceptual prototypes for groundbreaking interactive project. This year Crossover Australia is stressing that ‘our definition of cross platform is not solely in the digital area and we are looking for ways to expand notions into crossovers into live performance, visual arts and writing’. Participation is free but places are limited so get in quick. Click here for more information.
If you want to spread the word on news, events or opportunities for writers in new media, mail Crossover Australia at
storyofthefuture@australiacouncil.gov.au.
WET INK
Wet Ink is currently seeking submissions! Wet Ink is a quarterly magazine that focuses on publishing fiction, poetry and non-fiction by new and emerging writers. It is distributed throughout Australia and in more than 40 countries. As well as poetry, non-fiction and literary-style fiction, Wet Ink is interested in high-quality work in all genres (e.g., crime, sci-fi, romance, horror, thriller, speculative etc) and those with light-hearted themes. There are no word count restrictions – extremely short pieces are welcomed and long work will be considered. All published work receives payment. Click here for further details and to view submission guidelines.
RIGHT NOW
Right Now is a student driven publication that stimulates inclusive discussion about domestic human rights law development and implementation in Australia. Right Now takes a unique and dynamic approach to presenting contemporary legal issues in an informal, non-academic way. Right Now publishes visual art that responds to human rights, and it’s now open for submissions. Please click here to check over past editions before submitting.
Right Now prefer articles to be between 600 and 800 words, but if this is too limiting, they can consider publishing an article of up to 1000 words as a feature. Right Now appeals to a wide audience so articles should be non-academic in tone. Right Now does not publish footnotes. Click here to submit articles via email in Word document format.
If you have any questions about the submission process, or are wondering what kind of topics the Right Now Ed team are interested in, please don’t hesitate to contact them at info@rightnow.org.au.
SKETCH
Sketch is a literary art and design journal currently seeking unsolicited submissions in the form of cartoons, digital art, fiction, graphic design, interviews, journalism, literary reviews, non-fiction, paintings, photography, poetry, sculpture and sketches. Click here for submission guidelines and further information.
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5. NT NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
NT LIBRARY INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION
‘Re-building Afghanistan’
will run from 11 December to 16 January in partnership with the Canadian High Commission, Ausaid, Aust Dept Defence and DFAT. This exhibition of beautifully coloured photographs, depicting scenes from Afghanistan, aims to raise awareness and understanding of the work that the UN-sanctioned international taskforce, including Canadians and Australians, is undertaking in an effort to rebuild Afghanistan - one of the most fragile nations in the world. Click here to view a promotional flyer for the exhibition. Click here to view other upcoming special events at the Northern Territory Library.
CORRUGATED IRON YOUTH ARTS
If you are 18 and over, check out the 18>26 Theatre Ensemble, which includes ‘The Smelter’ - a fortnightly meet-up where participants discuss theatre, make theatre and take over the world! The program involves taking self-devised shows to festivals around Australia and includes guest talks from experts in the field, focusing on different aspects and styles of theatre, and hands-on tuition. Click here to find out more about the 18>26 Theatre Ensemble and ‘The Smelter’… Click here to check out other upcoming CIYA events and opportunities.
NT WRITERS’ CENTRE
The Northern Territory Writers’ Centre offers a range of opportunities for NT-based writers. Keep up to date by visiting their website. Click here to take a look at what’s on offer.
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6. SA NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
SAWC PROMOTED EVENTS
MUTANT STEPCHILDREN
If you write fantasy, horror, magic realism, science fiction, speculative fiction or any of the many forms of fantastic fiction usually lumped together under ‘speculative fiction’, then you might want to join the new speculative fiction writers’ group the Mutant Stepchildren. Contact Jeff Harris by phone 8258 9162 or email jlharris@senet.com.au
NORTH EASTERN WRITERS CHRISTMAS PARTY
North Eastern Writers are having a Christmas Party with special guests Jude Aquilina and Louise Nicholas followed by a poetry slam. It will be held on Thursday 18 December from 7pm at the Tea Tree Gully RSL Hall. The cost of entry is $5. Drinks and nibbles provided. RSVP and enquiries should be sent to margaret@northeasternwriters.com
TUXEDO CAT READINGS
A midsummer’s dream heatwave reading! Open mic. To be held at The Tuxedo Cat, 17-19 Synagogue Place, on Friday 16 January, from 7pm til late. Contact Jules on 0466 672 877 with any further enquiries.
RADIO ADELAIDE POETRY
Radio Adelaide’s ‘For a Peace of the Action’ program is seeking poems with a theme of peace or social justice — humour is welcome. Contact Clayton at clayton.werner@gmail.com to express your interest!
SAWC OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS WITH A DISABILITY
The SA Writers’ Centre was recently awarded funding through the ArtsSA Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust for a writer-in-residence to work with people who have a disability. SAWC pleased to announce that this position has been taken up by Malcolm Walker, author of The Stone Crown (Walker Books, 2008). The writer-in-residence position aims to encourage members with a disability to come in to the Centre to discuss their work on a one-to-one basis with Malcolm, or, if they’re unable to access the city, to telephone or email. For full details of meeting and submission guidelines contact the SAWC via telephone on (08) 8223 7662 or email sawriters@sawc.org.au Click here to visit Malcolm’s website.
ADELAIDE PLAINS POETS INC POETRY COMPETITION
The theme for the next Adelaide Plains Poets Inc Poetry Competition is ‘Tracks and Trails’. With a prize pool of over $500 and categories for adults, secondary school and primary school students, you won’t want to miss it! For information, contact Carolyn Cordon on (08) 85272 412 or 0418 806 490. Email holkschter@bigpond.com or write to 30 Germantown Road, Redbanks, SA, 5502. Submissions close 15 January.
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7. WA NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
NUMBAT 2009
The 2009 edition of poetry journal, Numbat, is gearing up for submissions. Poets are asked to submit works that they feel best showcase their unique poetry. Please submit (3/4) of your chosen poems in MS-Word Format, or Text, or as a file attachment. Additionally, please provide a picture, and an up to date biography with your poetry submission. Email you work to editor, David Barnes at db@aceonline.com.au Phone (08) 9361 6058, or email David at the address listed above for further information. Click here to take a look at the Numbat website.
TOM COLLINS POETRY PRIZE
The FAWWA Tom Collins Poetry Prize is an annual competition. Maximum 60 lines per poem. Prizes include: First: $1000; Second: $400; and four Highly Commended places: $150. Entry Fee is $5 per poem. Contact phone (08) 9384 4771 or email admin@fawwa.org.au Entries close 31 December. Click here to view the FAWWA website for further details.
POETS CORNER AT PAGES CAFE
Poets Union runs a get together at Perth Cultural Centre from 2 to 4:30pm on the 3rd Saturday of each month. Each sitting there is a bevy of invited readers plus spontaneous open mic outbursts. It’s hosted by Frances Macaulay Forde, and entry is free! Contact Frances at admin@poetscornerwa.com for further information.
FAWWA
The Fellowship of Australian Writers, Western Australia, run various regular workshops and special events. Click here to peruse their website and check out what’s on offer this month.
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8. TAS NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
MUDLARK WRITERS’ GROUP
Mudlark Theatre inc. are proud to be offering a new writers’ group. Mudlark encourages new writers wishing to develop skills, emerging writers who want to expand their skills and also the experienced writers to take advantage of this new enterprise. There are great benefits to be gained by being a part of a writers’ group, especially one linked to a theatre company; the most obvious is the opportunity to share ideas, problems and success’s with other writers and theatre practitioners. The opportunity to hear your work read by actors. To be exposed to visiting artists and dramaturges…and ultimately to see your script performed. Mudlark Theatre inc. extends a warm invitation to anyone wishing to write for the stage. For more information contact Stephanie Briarwood on stephanie@mudlarktheatre.com.au or P.O. Box 2120 Launceston, TAS 7250.
STOCK
Launched in December 2007 by Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Stock was created to provide a forum for local artists, designers, writers, curators and others wanting to voice their ideas, opinions and questions about their field. It also aims to encourage quality arts writing and to support critical dialogue amongst the Tasmanian literary community. Stock welcomes new ideas for articles and may be the perfect site to launch a project or to try something experimental. Or you can contribute to one of the online discussion topics. Click here to visit the Stock website for more information.
THE TASMANIAN TIMES SEEKS POETRY
Tasmanian poets or those with a Tasmanian connection may send up to 5 poems not previously in print or electronic media and not under consideration elsewhere to peter.macrow@gmail.com There is no closing date for TTT, so you’ve got plenty of time to let the creative sparks kindle…
And… click here to see the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre website for more local opportunities.
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9. QLD NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
LOVERS OF GOOD WRITING COMPETITION
Organised through the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Queensland, this competition caters for poets and short story writers in alternate years. Check with the organiser for current year’s details. First prize $250, second prize $100, two Highly Commended prizes $50. Winners announced in 'Scope', April edition. All entries must be accompanied by an entry form, stamped and self-addressed envelope, and a $5 entry fee. Postal Address PO BOX 6338, UPPER MOUNT GRAVATT QLD 4122 Contact the FAW (QLD) Convenor at nancycoxmillner@optusnet.com.au for further details. Submissions close 31 January 2009.
THE JOSEPHINE ULRICK LITERATURE AND POETRY PRIZES 2009
Griffith University’s School of Arts on the Gold Coast administers the prizes on behalf of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts. $40,000 in prize money in 2009! $10,000 First Prize, $5,000 Second Prize, 2 x $2,500 Commended for a 1000 - 3000 word short story and $10,000 First Prize, $5,000 Second Prize, 2 x $2,500 Commended for an up to 200 line poem or suite of poems. Entries close 30 January 2009. Click here for further guidelines and entry forms. All enquiries can be directed to Clare Keys (07) 5552 8093 email: c.keys@griffith.edu.au
QUEENSLAND WRITERS’ CENTRE
The Queensland Writers’ Centre advertises various workshop, event, and competition opportunities for Queensland-based writers. Click here to view their website.
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10. ACT NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
ACT WRITERS’ CENTRE
Click here to view the ACT Writers’ Centre website for information on a range of upcoming writers’ groups, workshops and other literary opportunities. Be sure to check out their January school holiday program, offering various workshops for younger and emerging writers.
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11. NSW NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
VIBEWIRE INC ANNOUNCES A GLOBAL YOUTH FUTURES SCHOLARSHIP FOR YOUNG FUTURE CHANGE-MAKERS
Vibewire is looking for young social entrepreneurs who are passionate about a social or environmental issue and want to increase awareness by reaching out to wider audiences and contributing to social change.
Thanks to the generous support of Global Youth Futures, Vibewire is offering two scholarships to an individual, group or organisation with an innovative approach to addressing, highlighting and advocating around issues in their community, drawing people in rather switching them off.
Global Youth Future's vision is to connect and collaborate to co-create new futures – the kind of futures we want to live in. Its mission is to support and provide opportunities for young entrepreneurs to share and develop their skills, to understand the future in its complexity and to explore innovative and sustainable solutions to social and environmental issues.
The scholarship aims to support a young individual or team over the course of at least 3 months by providing them with residency at Vibewire's Hub (sQuareOne) in Sydney/Ultimo. Recipients get mentorship and will have the opportunity to further develop their skills and expertise as well as to build new networks and partnerships through Global Youth Futures and Vibewire.
Scholarship recipients will be required to report back to Global Youth Futures on an ongoing basis or as required, take part in a review process after 3 months and prepare a final evaluation report of their project. They will also be expected to attend a ‘Futures Dreaming’ weekend planning workshops and assist with one of Global Youth Future's events in 2009.
To apply please fill in application form attached addressing the selection criteria and outlining your project plan, motivation, resources etc. Applications are viewed and selected on a rolling basis.
For further info please contact Annie at info@vibewire.net or call (02) 9660 6591. Click here to visit the Vibewire website.
ANNOUNCING THE 2010 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL THEME!
Jeff Khan, Artistic Director, is delighted to announce the theme for the 2010 Next Wave Festival: ‘No Risk Too Great’
The 2010 Next Wave Festival will explore the role of risk in a risk-averse culture. Under pressure to conform, we have all become experts in micro-managing our own behaviour. But is this self-surveillance distracting us from the bigger risks, the more un-manageable ones which are increasingly – and radically – changing our world? Just what does “risk” actually mean in these volatile times? In a wider culture of risk management, how prepared are we to make decisions that are brave, courageous or transgressive? Where is the line between our own personal, moral and ethical worlds, and the codes and principles which circulate in the broader context of contemporary culture? What is our capacity to draw, hold or cross this line? What are the real risks of our time, what are the risks worth taking, and what is our role as individuals, and as artists, in relation to them? How can we act boldly and imaginatively, in art and in life?
That also means that the call for Kickstart applications is now open. Kickstart is Next Wave’s non-Festival year development program, providing amazing opportunities for artists to realise their most ambitious ideas, all in anticipation of the 2010 Next Wave Festival. Next Wave provide cash, a workshop program and comprehensive mentoring and support. If this sounds like it could be for you, click here to download an application pack from the Next Wave website.
QUEEN C
Sauna Productions inc. studios in association with B Sharp present Queen C, written by Laura Ruohonen and translated by David Hackston. A dazzling and poetic work by one of Finland's leading playwrights, Queen C is the story of the enigmatic 17th century Swedish monarch. Queen C is an adult fairytale where everything is both possible and permissible. A sensual, raucous, human portrayal of an uncompromising woman, that poses provocative questions about sexuality and the nature of identity. Ticket cost is $29. Performances will run from 27 November to 21 December, on
Wednesday to Saturday: 8:15pm, Tues 7pm, Sun 5:15pm. Belvoir St Downstairs Theatre, 25 Belvoir St, Surry Hills. For bookings, call (02) 9699 3444 or click here to visit the Belvoir Theatre website.
NIDA SUMMER PROGRAM
NIDA’s Summer Program offers short courses in dramatic writing for adults and young people. Work with industry professionals at NIDA as part of our famous summer program to develop or refresh your professional skills.
Scriptwriting for Film TV (for ages 16 years and older)
will run from 12 to 16 January.
The cost is $525. Focus on telling a story on screen. Practice your skills in scriptwriting to unfold drama on screen through dramatic structure, dialogue and character. Take into consideration industry requirements for formats and styles from feature films to television comedies or series.
Develop a Film Treatment (for ages 16 years and older)
will run from 19 to 23 January. The cost is $525. Under the guidance of an industry expert, turn your idea for a film into a professional standard treatment. Consider industry formats and develop ways of effectively depicting characters, their stories, and other relevant information.
Writing for young people: Dramatic Writing (for ages 12 to 15 years)
will run from 5 to 6 January.
The cost is $195. Dramatic story-telling starts with the writer. From a central event create tension, characters, dialogue and plot. Stretch your imagination by creating short and original scripts.
Further information is available on (02) 9697 7626 or via email open@nida.edu.au A full Bookings can be made online by clicking here.
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12. VIC NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
BOOK ABYSS WRITING COMPETITION
The Book Abyss Writing Competition is open topic. Applicants may submit entries up to 1,000 words. Relevant genres include: Auto/Biography, Children/Young Adult, Crime, General Fiction, Non-Fiction, Romance, Short Stories, Speculative Fiction, History, Education/Reference, Indigenous and Travel. Include a cover letter with your name, address, word count, title and email address, along with your entry. First prize is $200, second prize is $90, and third prize is $50. An entry Fee of $10 applies. Submissions close 1 February. Contact Wayne Proudfoot on (03) 54485059, or email service@thebookabyss.com.au
The Book Abyss postal address is PO BOX 6046, WHITE HILLS VIC 3550. Click here to view the Book Abyss website for further details.
MUSE 4: BETTER SORRY THAN SAFE
The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association is seeking creative contributions in all literary genres from all writers, Australian and international, graduate student or not. They especially want work that teeters on the brink of going too far. Think daring, rather than experimental. When choosing what to submit, keep in mind the golden rule: better sorry than safe. All submissions published will enter the Muse/UMPA Creative Writing Prize. Click here for further details.
That’s all for 2008… Happy holiday season! Stay tuned for the return of Express Media’s members’ newsletter in the New Year, with the publication of our January issue. In the mean time, keep up to date by visiting the Express Media Website
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Eat your words
Interested in arts writing? Then it's time to EAT YOUR WORDS!
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, and managed by Artworkers Alliance - 'Eat Your Words' is a collaborative writing project that is designed to help foster the development of critical arts writing in Australia.
Through the project, 8 emerging writers will have the opportunity to attend an intensive writing workshop in Brisbane, and collaborate with academics, visual artists and leading Australian arts writers.
Selected writings from the collaboration will be published in the July 2009 issue of Artworkers magazine - 'Artworker'.
Emerging writers under the age of 30 are invited to submit a 600 word arts related article or visual arts review with their entry form.
Entries close 5pm Friday 30 January 2009 - so get cracking!
For entry forms, terms and conditions and more information on Eat Your Words visit www.artworkers.org
Eat Your Words has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body.
Supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, and managed by Artworkers Alliance - 'Eat Your Words' is a collaborative writing project that is designed to help foster the development of critical arts writing in Australia.
Through the project, 8 emerging writers will have the opportunity to attend an intensive writing workshop in Brisbane, and collaborate with academics, visual artists and leading Australian arts writers.
Selected writings from the collaboration will be published in the July 2009 issue of Artworkers magazine - 'Artworker'.
Emerging writers under the age of 30 are invited to submit a 600 word arts related article or visual arts review with their entry form.
Entries close 5pm Friday 30 January 2009 - so get cracking!
For entry forms, terms and conditions and more information on Eat Your Words visit www.artworkers.org
Eat Your Words has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its funding and advisory body.
Monday, December 15, 2008
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Broken Pencil news
Broken Pencil Newsletter - December 2008
Hello Everyone! A belated welcome to winter and our newest issue. Broken Pencil's latest issue -- #41, The Humour Issue -- is out now! Featured in this issue: Katie Crown and the new generation of comic wunderkinds get profiled. Erin Kobayashi interviews Blert author Jordan Scott. Plus we have an exclusive excerpt from Lovers Spit Zine, a stealth tell-all about Canada's indie darlings Broken Social Scene. If you're not already one of our loyal and beloved subscribers, order your copy now at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/store/
We're currently hard at work on issue #42, which will be available in January. We plan to ring in 2009 with an in depth look at tabloid newspapers and their zine origins, a profile of Conundrum Press, an examination of whether the creation of good art is directly related to the amount of funding available, and another 60 pages of excerpts, reviews, fiction, comics and much more.
Death Match:
North America's Most Dangerous Short Story Contest
The second annual Indie Writers Deathmatch is underway. Only one writer will be left standing! We are now accepting entries for the contest. Enter a short story and you could win cash prizes, publication in Broken Pencil, and literary bragging rights baby! The deadline for entry is end of December. Enter North America's boldest literary challenge right now at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch/
New Fiction Online
Band Names by Tor Lukasik Foss appears in BP 41, on stands now, and has just been added to the website. This story is freakin' funny. Read it now here.
Heartbreak for Dummies by Ashley Little is part of our new ongoing online only short story series. Check it out here.
December Zine of the Month
Rocket Robin Hood
David Pietila 440 Mary St. N., Hamilton, ON L8L 4W9, $6
History, art and more from the classic Canadian cartoon. Thoughtful, well written and researched, this zine delivers memory-jarring flashbacks of the profoundly strange, even surreal, cartoon that marked both a nadir and a low point for Canadian toons. Read the full review here.
Indie Artist in Residence
Our newest Indie Artist in Residence is Montreal poet and sports enthusiast David McGimpsey, author of (most recently) Sitcom (Coach House Books) Check out what he has to say: http://www.brokenpencil.com/indieartist/
Indie Market Place
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Canzine 2008
The annual festival of zines and independent arts fair took place October 2008 in Toronto and was a great success. It was an incredible day! Roughly 170 vendors showed up to sell their wares, and around 1000 people came to browse. The comedy show and readings were hilarious, and Faisal Qamar won the 1-2 Punch Authors Pitch Contest (authors get 2 minutes to pitch, and judges get a minute each to respond) with his pitch about immigrating to Canada and learning to survive on $10 an hour. Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers and to everyone who came to check out the event. See you next year! (The picture is from Open Book Toronto - click on the link to read their review and to see more pictures.)
Photos and related press:
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/articles/canzine_2008
http://torontoist.com/2008/10/funniest_canzine_ever.php
http://poetency.blogspot.com/2008/10/free-speech-breaks-out-at-canzine.html
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=924253
Call for Submissions
We're looking for new contributors for the magazine. Send your ideas for articles on the subject of independent cultural production to us, or volunteer to review books, zines, comics, and more. Our editor Lindsay Gibb, editor@brokenpencil.com, is standing by. Also, if you have a zine, CD, video, book or ezine you would like reviewed please send them our way. Complete info about submitting your ideas or becoming a bp reviewer here: http://www.brokenpencil.com/about/submit.php
Upcoming Workshops and Events
Hey, there's something new on the BP blog almost everyday! Events, zine gatherings, general weirdness and more: http://www.brokenpencil.com
Contacting Us
Founded in 1995 and based in Toronto, Canada, Broken Pencil is a website and a print magazine published three times a year. It is one of the few magazines in the world devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. We are a great resource and a lively read! A cross between the Utne Reader, an underground Reader's Digest, and the now defunct Factsheet5, Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos, and artworks from the underground and reprints the best articles from the alternative press. Also, ground breaking interviews, original fiction, and commentary on all aspects of the independent arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention.
Hey, want to say something about our magazine, let us know about an upcoming event, send in a zine or website or CD for review or maybe do a piece for the mag? Don't be shy! We want to hear from you. Send us an email at editor@brokenpencil.com, or a letter at PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, On, M5S 2S7 Canada, or call us at 416-204-1700.
Hello Everyone! A belated welcome to winter and our newest issue. Broken Pencil's latest issue -- #41, The Humour Issue -- is out now! Featured in this issue: Katie Crown and the new generation of comic wunderkinds get profiled. Erin Kobayashi interviews Blert author Jordan Scott. Plus we have an exclusive excerpt from Lovers Spit Zine, a stealth tell-all about Canada's indie darlings Broken Social Scene. If you're not already one of our loyal and beloved subscribers, order your copy now at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/store/
We're currently hard at work on issue #42, which will be available in January. We plan to ring in 2009 with an in depth look at tabloid newspapers and their zine origins, a profile of Conundrum Press, an examination of whether the creation of good art is directly related to the amount of funding available, and another 60 pages of excerpts, reviews, fiction, comics and much more.
Death Match:
North America's Most Dangerous Short Story Contest
The second annual Indie Writers Deathmatch is underway. Only one writer will be left standing! We are now accepting entries for the contest. Enter a short story and you could win cash prizes, publication in Broken Pencil, and literary bragging rights baby! The deadline for entry is end of December. Enter North America's boldest literary challenge right now at: http://www.brokenpencil.com/deathmatch/
New Fiction Online
Band Names by Tor Lukasik Foss appears in BP 41, on stands now, and has just been added to the website. This story is freakin' funny. Read it now here.
Heartbreak for Dummies by Ashley Little is part of our new ongoing online only short story series. Check it out here.
December Zine of the Month
Rocket Robin Hood
David Pietila 440 Mary St. N., Hamilton, ON L8L 4W9, $6
History, art and more from the classic Canadian cartoon. Thoughtful, well written and researched, this zine delivers memory-jarring flashbacks of the profoundly strange, even surreal, cartoon that marked both a nadir and a low point for Canadian toons. Read the full review here.
Indie Artist in Residence
Our newest Indie Artist in Residence is Montreal poet and sports enthusiast David McGimpsey, author of (most recently) Sitcom (Coach House Books) Check out what he has to say: http://www.brokenpencil.com/indieartist/
Indie Market Place
Are you a zine maker? A record label? A basement creator of wacky and wonderful things? Then the Broken Pencil Indie Marketplace was made for you. Hawk your wares! Promote your zine, blog, or book! Make yourself known and reach BP readers for super cheap! Latest advertisers include No Media Kings - website hosting for as low as $6.50 a month, and Get Bent Records, an independent music label focusing on the grassroots development of musicians that share a do-it-yourself attitude, ethical philosophy, and penchant for great sound. Check out these and all our great indie marketplace advertisers here: http://www.brokenpencil.com/indiemarketplace/
Contact Tara at ads@brokenpencil.com for rates and availability.
Canzine 2008
The annual festival of zines and independent arts fair took place October 2008 in Toronto and was a great success. It was an incredible day! Roughly 170 vendors showed up to sell their wares, and around 1000 people came to browse. The comedy show and readings were hilarious, and Faisal Qamar won the 1-2 Punch Authors Pitch Contest (authors get 2 minutes to pitch, and judges get a minute each to respond) with his pitch about immigrating to Canada and learning to survive on $10 an hour. Thank you to our sponsors, volunteers and to everyone who came to check out the event. See you next year! (The picture is from Open Book Toronto - click on the link to read their review and to see more pictures.)
Photos and related press:
http://www.openbooktoronto.com/articles/canzine_2008
http://torontoist.com/2008/10/funniest_canzine_ever.php
http://poetency.blogspot.com/2008/10/free-speech-breaks-out-at-canzine.html
http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=924253
Call for Submissions
We're looking for new contributors for the magazine. Send your ideas for articles on the subject of independent cultural production to us, or volunteer to review books, zines, comics, and more. Our editor Lindsay Gibb, editor@brokenpencil.com, is standing by. Also, if you have a zine, CD, video, book or ezine you would like reviewed please send them our way. Complete info about submitting your ideas or becoming a bp reviewer here: http://www.brokenpencil.com/about/submit.php
Upcoming Workshops and Events
Hey, there's something new on the BP blog almost everyday! Events, zine gatherings, general weirdness and more: http://www.brokenpencil.com
Contacting Us
Founded in 1995 and based in Toronto, Canada, Broken Pencil is a website and a print magazine published three times a year. It is one of the few magazines in the world devoted exclusively to underground culture and the independent arts. We are a great resource and a lively read! A cross between the Utne Reader, an underground Reader's Digest, and the now defunct Factsheet5, Broken Pencil reviews the best zines, books, websites, videos, and artworks from the underground and reprints the best articles from the alternative press. Also, ground breaking interviews, original fiction, and commentary on all aspects of the independent arts. From the hilarious to the perverse, Broken Pencil challenges conformity and demands attention.
Hey, want to say something about our magazine, let us know about an upcoming event, send in a zine or website or CD for review or maybe do a piece for the mag? Don't be shy! We want to hear from you. Send us an email at editor@brokenpencil.com, or a letter at PO Box 203, Station P, Toronto, On, M5S 2S7 Canada, or call us at 416-204-1700.
Monday, December 8, 2008
Tango 8 Launch
Dear friend of Cardigan Comics,
I would like to invite you to the launch of 'Tango8: Love and Food', the latest issue in the series of TANGO, the giant Australian romance comics anthology.
This issue boasts 70 brilliant stories by as many artists, including graphic novelists Nicki Greenberg ('The Great Gatsby') Bruce Mutard ('The Sacrifice', 'The Bunker') Mandy Ord ('Rooftops') and JM Schmidt ('Egg Story', 'Eating Steve'). Cartoonists from The Age - Andrew Weldon and Oslo Davis - are featured, as are 64 other talented comic book makers from Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.
'Tango8: Love and Food' will be launched at a bar called
Mr Wilkinson
295 Lygon Street East Brunswick
(opposite the East Brunswick Hotel,
take the No. 1 or 8 tram to stop 123/Albert Street)
7pm start
7.30pm speech by Bernard then the official launch of the book by Dur-e Dara, Melbourne food legend
Then we celebrate the launch of this gorgeous book!
Cardigan Comics gratefully acnowledges the support of Arts Victoria in the publication of 'Tango8: Love and Food'.
If you can't make it on the night, you could always buy a copy from the Cardigan Comics website www.cardigancomics.com
We won't charge you for postage (how generous!), you'll get a package in the mail (always a good thing!) you'll read it and love it and THEN can give it to Uncle Boris for Christmas (he's always so hard to find a gift for!)
I would like to invite you to the launch of 'Tango8: Love and Food', the latest issue in the series of TANGO, the giant Australian romance comics anthology.
This issue boasts 70 brilliant stories by as many artists, including graphic novelists Nicki Greenberg ('The Great Gatsby') Bruce Mutard ('The Sacrifice', 'The Bunker') Mandy Ord ('Rooftops') and JM Schmidt ('Egg Story', 'Eating Steve'). Cartoonists from The Age - Andrew Weldon and Oslo Davis - are featured, as are 64 other talented comic book makers from Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand.
'Tango8: Love and Food' will be launched at a bar called
Mr Wilkinson
295 Lygon Street East Brunswick
(opposite the East Brunswick Hotel,
take the No. 1 or 8 tram to stop 123/Albert Street)
7pm start
7.30pm speech by Bernard then the official launch of the book by Dur-e Dara, Melbourne food legend
Then we celebrate the launch of this gorgeous book!
Cardigan Comics gratefully acnowledges the support of Arts Victoria in the publication of 'Tango8: Love and Food'.
If you can't make it on the night, you could always buy a copy from the Cardigan Comics website www.cardigancomics.com
We won't charge you for postage (how generous!), you'll get a package in the mail (always a good thing!) you'll read it and love it and THEN can give it to Uncle Boris for Christmas (he's always so hard to find a gift for!)
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Young Media Creators
Hi all,
SBS’s Insight program wants to speak to a diverse group of people aged 10-25 who have experienced their parents separating.
They would like to give some of the young people an opportunity to screen a short film piece or video diary, either online or as part of the television show.
They will host an in-depth yet also light-hearted discussion featuring the views of the kids/teenagers/young adults themselves.
If this is you, let me know via reply email or call the number below really really soon.
Cheers,
Bel Schenk
Artistic Director
Find me in the office Monday - Thursday
Express Media
247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
Ph: 9663 4155, Fax: 9663 4544, www.expressmedia.org.au
SBS’s Insight program wants to speak to a diverse group of people aged 10-25 who have experienced their parents separating.
They would like to give some of the young people an opportunity to screen a short film piece or video diary, either online or as part of the television show.
They will host an in-depth yet also light-hearted discussion featuring the views of the kids/teenagers/young adults themselves.
If this is you, let me know via reply email or call the number below really really soon.
Cheers,
Bel Schenk
Artistic Director
Find me in the office Monday - Thursday
Express Media
247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
Ph: 9663 4155, Fax: 9663 4544, www.expressmedia.org.au
'Anyone Can...' be a Warrior Princess!
Issue 2 of 'Anyone can...' is out now and is all about being a Warrior Princess, including being a struggling warrior princess, a Camberwell market warrior princess and a subtitled warrior princess...
By the time you read this the zine should be available from Sticky and 696 in Brunswick, but you can also get a copy from us by emailing : anyonecanmakeazine@gmail.com
'Anyone can...' be a Warrior Princess costs a paltry $2.50 so snap them up!
'Anyone Can...' is produced by City Library Street Press, a regular collective that meets at City Library to explore all aspects of street press. City Library is on holdays now, but will be recommencing on Jan 14th 2009 on fortnightly Wednesdays where we will be commencing on issue three which will be a slicker production and a new run of workshops and seminars starting in March, watch this space!
citylibrarystreetpress.blogspot.com
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Tape Projects newsletter
TAPE PROJECTS NEWSLETTER THUR 27-11-08
CHRISTMAS EDITION- LAST PLUG FOR THE YEAR
1.TAPR 06/07- MELBOURNE EXHIBIT OF NEW TAPE PROJECTS RECORDS AND BOOKS SAT 06-12/08
2.GIRLS BOYS MACHINES MEDIA ARTS GRAD SCREENING FRI 28-11-08, 7.30pm
3.AUSTRALIAN LANDSCAPES OPENING @ KINGS ARI, FRI 28-11-08, 6pm
4.TEAM AUSTRALIA OPENING @ CARLTON HOTEL, THUR 4-12-08, 5pm
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1. TAPR 06/07 Flip Book – Locked Groove Project Launch
http://tapeprojects.org/files/images/TAPR0607.JPG
TAPR 06/07- MELBOURNE EXHIBIT OF NEW TAPE PROJECTS RECORDS AND BOOKS.
ONE NIGHT INSTALLATION/ PERFORMANCE BY MARK N, DYLAN MARTORELL, PAUL RODGERS, TAPRS + MORE. BOX SETS & OTHER PUBLICATIONS ON SALE.
EARLY! 6 – 8.30PM SAT 6TH DEC 2008
UPSTAIRS AT 1/81 BOUVERIE ST. CARLTON
FREE ENTRY
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2. Girls Boys Machines 2008 – THIS FRIDAY 28-11-08, 7.30pm at The Capitol Theatre
http://tapeprojects.org/files/pdf/GBM_2008.pdf
The annual RMIT Media Arts graduate screening
Friday Nov 28th
7.30pm
CAPITOL THEATRE
113 Swanston Street Melbourne
FREE ENTRY
RMIT Media Arts is pleased to present our annual 2008 gradate screening. Situated within the School of Art, Media Arts embodies many different ways of exploring moving image culture through the lens of contemporary art practice and represents works from a range of activities and outcomes including: traditional and non-traditional animation; video art; narrative and live performance. Typically cross disciplinary in nature, students come to Media Arts from a variety of art practices and bring with them a rich combination of ideas and techniques, blurring the distinctions of art, popular culture, and the moving image.
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3. Australian Landscapes – Eugenia Lim, THIS FRIDAY 28-11-08, KINGS ARI, 6pm
http://tapeprojects.org/files/images/Australian_Landscapes.JPG
Australian Landscapes explores the shifting social and geographic terrain of Greater Melbourne. Referencing Peter Weir’s 'Picnic at Hanging Rock', Australian Landscapes documents the shift in our sense of place and belonging from the bush to the suburbs. Self-portraits and video capture Eugenia as a blonde-wigged multicultural Miranda, a ghost of Australia past and present, lost not in the wilderness of Hanging Rock, but in the highways, pokie venues, living spaces and new developments that increasingly shape our landscape.
28 November Until 20 December 2008
Opening: Friday, November 28, 2008 at 6:00pm
Location: KINGS Artist Run Initiative
Street: 1/171 King Street
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4. Team Australia – THURSDAY 4-12-08, CARLTON HOTEL GALLERY, 5pm
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=46166400906
4 – 20 December 2008
Opening: Thursday, December 4, 2008
Time: 5:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Carlton Hotel Gallery
Street: 193-199 Burke Street
Jeremy Drape , Emily Ferretti, Veronica Kent, Annika Koops, Brendan Lee, Natalie Ryan,Kiron Robinson, Utako Shindo, Jackson Slattery, Salote Tawale, Glenn Walls
Curated by Veronica Tello
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See yas in 2009!
Going Down Swinging 27
t's arrived!
Going Down Swinging No.27 - a bumper issue, 148 pages of new short fiction, poetry, flash, comic art, plus a mini graphic novella by Nicholas Kallincos - and of course, a CD featuring some fantastic spoken word and sound art from around the globe, including two new GDS-commissioned works, by Carolyn Connors and David Thrussell. With cover artwork by Tom Civil that will alter your expectations of asparagus forever.
So we're here today to tell you about not one, but two launch events:
1. Sydney Radio Launch: Sunday 30th November, 9pm-10pm on 2FBi radio 94.5FM > Sunday Night at the Movies
It's a live radio launch! On community radio FBi, we're launching the issue with a one-hour special, featuring live to air performances from Adam Gibson & the Aerial Maps, and Miles Merril!
At 9pm AEST this Sunday tune into 94.5FM if you're Sydney-side, or navigate to www.fbi.org.au if you're elsewhere in the world, as Sunday Night at the Movies swings to the sounds of GDSNo.27 - with live performances, interviews, and GDS subscription giveaways! Featuring the marvellous Miles Merril and the amazing Adam Gibson (whose new CD is also launching now, and well worth a listen - we think it's the perfect long-summer-drive-to-the-beach-CD - find out more about that at www.blindingsunlight.com )
2. Melbourne Launch: Wednesday 3rd December, 7.30 pm at the Northcote Social Club - 301 High Street, Northcote
Literary gold diggers, we've struck a rich vein of spoken word and music for our Melbourne launch event next Wednesday night in Northcote.
Starring:
Jim Christy & The Trillion Band (Canada) + Kim Salmon (Melbourne rock royalty) + a new GDS-commissioned monologue by Dan Lee + Chloe Jackson Wilmott & Quinn Stacpoole + Ella Holcombe + Matt Hetherington + the musical atmospheres of Uber Lingua's bP.
Your MC for the evening: Michael "I live for the colour" Nolan.
The issue will be officially launched by Rosemary Cameron, Director of the Melbourne Writers Festival.
$12 will get you in with a copy of the issue in your hand / $7 will get you in, without...
Tickets available at the door, or from the NSC box office at 301 High St, Northcote (Mon-Sat 2pm-6pm), Phone 94861677.
No.27 will be in stores around Australia from 1st December, and available direct from us: www.goingdownswinging.org.au
(psst - whilst we're on the subject of sales, if you want to get a jump on the retail, why not subscribe and join the GDS family? We now offer one year and two year subscriptions, as well as special subscription prices for members of Australian writers centres, and 3RRRFM subscribers. Find out more at our website. We also have GDS Box Sets available - one of each issue from 18 to 26 - if you're stumped for a Christmas present for your brainy friend, we got your gold right here)
So, whether you are tuning in or turning up, we hope you can join us as we celebrate our latest collection.
Wishing you a happy and poetic southern summer / northern winter / wet season / melt, wherever you are,
Love,
GDS
Going Down Swinging No.27 - a bumper issue, 148 pages of new short fiction, poetry, flash, comic art, plus a mini graphic novella by Nicholas Kallincos - and of course, a CD featuring some fantastic spoken word and sound art from around the globe, including two new GDS-commissioned works, by Carolyn Connors and David Thrussell. With cover artwork by Tom Civil that will alter your expectations of asparagus forever.
So we're here today to tell you about not one, but two launch events:
1. Sydney Radio Launch: Sunday 30th November, 9pm-10pm on 2FBi radio 94.5FM > Sunday Night at the Movies
It's a live radio launch! On community radio FBi, we're launching the issue with a one-hour special, featuring live to air performances from Adam Gibson & the Aerial Maps, and Miles Merril!
At 9pm AEST this Sunday tune into 94.5FM if you're Sydney-side, or navigate to www.fbi.org.au if you're elsewhere in the world, as Sunday Night at the Movies swings to the sounds of GDSNo.27 - with live performances, interviews, and GDS subscription giveaways! Featuring the marvellous Miles Merril and the amazing Adam Gibson (whose new CD is also launching now, and well worth a listen - we think it's the perfect long-summer-drive-to-the-beach-CD - find out more about that at www.blindingsunlight.com )
2. Melbourne Launch: Wednesday 3rd December, 7.30 pm at the Northcote Social Club - 301 High Street, Northcote
Literary gold diggers, we've struck a rich vein of spoken word and music for our Melbourne launch event next Wednesday night in Northcote.
Starring:
Jim Christy & The Trillion Band (Canada) + Kim Salmon (Melbourne rock royalty) + a new GDS-commissioned monologue by Dan Lee + Chloe Jackson Wilmott & Quinn Stacpoole + Ella Holcombe + Matt Hetherington + the musical atmospheres of Uber Lingua's bP.
Your MC for the evening: Michael "I live for the colour" Nolan.
The issue will be officially launched by Rosemary Cameron, Director of the Melbourne Writers Festival.
$12 will get you in with a copy of the issue in your hand / $7 will get you in, without...
Tickets available at the door, or from the NSC box office at 301 High St, Northcote (Mon-Sat 2pm-6pm), Phone 94861677.
No.27 will be in stores around Australia from 1st December, and available direct from us: www.goingdownswinging.org.au
(psst - whilst we're on the subject of sales, if you want to get a jump on the retail, why not subscribe and join the GDS family? We now offer one year and two year subscriptions, as well as special subscription prices for members of Australian writers centres, and 3RRRFM subscribers. Find out more at our website. We also have GDS Box Sets available - one of each issue from 18 to 26 - if you're stumped for a Christmas present for your brainy friend, we got your gold right here)
So, whether you are tuning in or turning up, we hope you can join us as we celebrate our latest collection.
Wishing you a happy and poetic southern summer / northern winter / wet season / melt, wherever you are,
Love,
GDS
Express Media
EXPRESS MEDIA MEMBERS’ NEWS – NOVEMBER 2008
CONTENTS
1. WORD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
2. COMING UP AT EXPRESS MEDIA
3. FEATURE
4. NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES – ALL STATES:
5. NT
6. SA
7. WA
8. TAS
9. QLD
10. ACT
11. NSW
12. VIC
1. WORD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
This month, over 20 literary professionals and event programmers from across England and Scotland visited Melbourne as part of a UNESCO Cities of Literature tour. They took a tour of the current Express Media office, went to selected book stores, met publishers and other literary organisations, mingled with writers, attended a slam, drank some Australian wine, educated us about Edinburgh’s rich literary history, and a week later, arrived back at home where they may have just had a chance to breathe. What I was most interested in was how organisations in the Northern Hemisphere work with, and more importantly find young writers. It became apparent that there is no Express Media equivalent in the UK. There’s the very cool ‘Writing Squad’, which is made up of a team of 8 writers chosen each year, but there’s no organisation that gives opportunities and support to lots and lots of young writers and young writers alone. This not only surprised me, but also, it reiterated just how under-represented young people are in the WORLD media, not just in the Australian media. It’s frightening, actually. I’m having anxiety attacks in the office because the voice of young people is so often drowned out the drum and bass of the older generation. Anyway, we’re trying to fix this today. I hope you enjoy the latest newsletter, written and collated by Tess Jaeger – it’s littered with opportunities and information about events that you might like to pop your head into. Go! Submit! Speak! That’s all.
Bel Schenk
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2. COMING UP AT EXPRESS MEDIA
EXPRESS MEDIA WORKSHOPS
After months of preparation and fine-tuned execution, the final Express Media Workshop, ‘Writing Zines with Adam Ford’, will run on Wednesday 26 November.
Adam will talk about the kinds of writing you might like to consider for your zines. He’ll talk about comics, reviews (including tips on how to scam free stuff), creative writing, rants and raves - by the time this workshop is over you’ll have the beginnings of a bunch of stuff that would certainly not look out of place in your new zine. Everyone who attends this workshop will get a free copy of Adam’s zine, ‘Jutchy Ya Ya’.
Adam Ford is a zinemaker, comic maker, novel writer, poet and internet guy. His zines include ‘Jutchy Ya Ya’, ‘Duck Fat’, ‘What Astronauts Wear’ and the zine anthology ‘Chimp Frenzy’. When he’s not making zines Adam writes novels, poetry, comics and short stories, some of which have been published by actual real publishers, and some of which he’s published himself. Ticket cost is $22 for Express members and $25 for non-members. Click here to reserve your place.
VOICEWORKS #76 – BUDGET
Voiceworks is seeking submissions for issue #76, BUDGET. The deadline January 11, 2009, so you’ve got plenty of time to get cracking!
Email Tom Rigby at editor@expressmedia.org.au with any questions, pitches or brilliant ideas.
And check out the Regular non-fiction opportunities section on the Express Media Website for developments on how to contribute non-fiction to Voiceworks.
VOICEWORKS LAUNCH #75 BEAT
7.30pm on Thursday 11 December at Horse Bazaar, Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne. More details soon!
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3. FEATURE
The Buzz: Express Media’s 2008 Buzzcuts Intern, Jodie Kinnersley, sends her regards
Express Media’s eleventh Buzzcuts season has come to a close. An ambitious collaborative arts reviewing project, Buzzcuts is presented annually in conjunction with The Melbourne Fringe Festival, Beat magazine, 3RRR radio, SYN and RMIT. By the end of this year’s Fringe Festival, a total of 54 reviewers had made their stamp on Melbourne’s Fringe performances, with reviews covering a diverse range of genres, including performance, comedy, cabaret, music, movement, visual art, circus and special events. A record 84 reviews were posted on Express Media’s Buzzcuts website, 14 reviews were published in Beat magazine, and 25 radio reviews had been broadcast on 3RRR and SYN.
Since its inception in 1997, Buzzcuts has grown into a well-oiled cross-collaborator machine, and, by the looks of it, the program is set to become an even bigger part the Express Media calendar in years to come. I caught up with the 2008 Buzzcuts Intern, Jodie Kinnersley, to get the skinny on this year’s feats and fiascos, and find out what’s in store for ambitious Buzzcuts Interns to come. Read more here.
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4. NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES – ALL STATES
ABR POETRY PRIZE
In its short life, this competition has become one of the most prestigious poetry competitions in the country. First prize is $4000. Shortlisted poems garner $250 prize money. Poems can be up to 100 lines. Entry fee is $20. Post your entry to ABR Poetry Competition, PO Box 2320, Richmond South, Victoria 3121. Click here to visit the ABR website for further details. Entries close 10 December.
HILL OF CONTENT BOOKSHOP 2008 HAL PORTER SHORT STORY COMPETITION
The Hill of Content Bookshop 2008 Hal Porter Short Story Competition is open for short stories, any style, up to 2,500 words. Prize is $1000. Entry fee is $5.50. Cheques made out to East Gippsland Art Gallery. No entry form required. Mail entries to Hal Porter Short Story Competition, East Gippsland Art Gallery, 2 Nicholson St, Bairnsdale, VIC, 3875. Email further enquiries to pedrom53@bigpond.net.au Submissions close 19 December.
ALAN MARSHALL SHORT STORY AWARD 2009
Nillumbik Shire Council invites writers from across Australia to enter this annual short story competition held in memory of the great writer and former resident of Eltham, Alan Marshall. The competition is to be judged by Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanjin. $2000 Open Section First Prize; $1000 Open Section Second Prize for stories up to 2,500 words; $1000 Local Writers’ Section Prize for stories up to 2,500 words by writers who live, work or study in the Shire of Nillumbik; $400 Young Writers’ Section Prize for stories up to 1,000 words for writers aged between 15 and 19 years. Click here to visit the Nillumbik Shire Council for further details and to download entry forms. Email artsinfo@nillumbik.vic.gov.au, or telephone (03) 9433 3359 for further information. The Alan Marshall Short Story Award is presented by Nillumbik Shire Council in partnership with the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service. Entries close at 4pm Friday 20 February 2009.
SOMERSET NATIONAL NOVELLA WRITING COMPETITION FOR SCHOOL AGE WRITERS
The Somerset National Novella Writing Competition for School Age Writers is open to all current Australian secondary school students and is for a novella of between 10,000 and 20,000 words. The winner will be announced at the Somerset Celebration of Literature Festival held in March. Check website or contact organisers to confirm closing date. Prizes awarded to National and State winners. Sponsors have first right option to publication of any of the finalists. Winning entries will also be published on the Somerset College website. Entry fee is $20. Be sure to include a stamped and self-addressed envelope along with your work and entry form and post to Somerset College, Somerset Drive, MUDGEERABA QLD, 4213. Contact the Events Coordinator, Cecilia Robertson by phone (07) 55303777 or fax (07) 55252676. Email to events@somerset.qld.edu.au or click here to visit the website. Entries close 5 December.
2009 IP PICKS AWARDS FOR UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
Now in its eighth year, this national competition invites submissions for Best Fiction, Best Creative Non-fiction, Best Poetry and Best First Book. The Awards are open to citizens/residents of Australia, and, for the first time, citizens/residents of New Zealand.
The winners in each category and two of the Highly Commended entrants will be published by IP under royalty contracts. One of the winners and one of the highly commended will subsequently be endorsed by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
Click here to visit the website for entry forms and conditions, or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to IP, Treetop Studio, 9 Kuhler Court, Carindale 4152. Entries close 1 December.
NATIONAL ONE ACT PLAYWRITING COMPETITION
From a small beginning in 1978, the National One Act Playwriting Competition at Noosa Arts Theatre has become a national festival attracting over 70 entries a year from around Australia and overseas.
Scripts must cater for a performance time of no les than 30 and no more than 405 minutes and be suitable for production on a theatre stage of approximately 30 sq.m with a proscenium width of 8m, stage height of 2.5m and depth of 5m. The Sunshine Coast Regional Council donates prize money of $2,574 to the three finalists and presentations of these awards are made after the final performance.
Entry fee $20. Submissions close 30 November. Guidelines and entry form are available here or via email at noosaartstheatre@hotmail.com Contact Synda Turnbull on (07) 544 999 72 for more information.
THE NEW WRITER MAGAZINE
Annual international competition for short stories, novellas, single poems, poetry collections, essays and articles; offers cash prizes from a total fund above £2,000 as well as publication for the prize-winning writers in The Collection, special edition of The New Writer Magazine, each July.
Separate entry conditions for single poems, collections of poems, short stories and essays. Click here to view the website, or email admin@thenewwriter.com for guidelines and further entry conditions. Submissions close 30 November.
COTTONMOUTH
Cottonmouth is a Perth-based performance and publishing venture that held its first event in February 2008. Held monthly, the Cottonmouth performance project showcases spoken-word artists, poets, sound artists, playwrights, new media practitioners and other emerging and established performers in the field of narrative art. The venture also publishes a monthly zine, which is open for submissions from local, interstate and international writers. Click here for submission guidelines, event information and the word on Perth’s cultural beat.
FAW 2008 NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS
The Fellowship of Australian Writers is now accepting entries for the FAW 2008 National Literary Awards. The FAW Literary awards are some of the most respected literary awards in Australia. With 20 categories, there's a potential award waiting for you whether you are a novice or an experienced writer, a teenager or an adult. Award sections include: Part one: Book Awards; Part two: Manuscript Awards; Part three: Young Writers' Awards; Part four: Commendation Award. Entries close 30 November 2008. Click here to download full details and the entry form.
CROSSOVER AUSTRALIA 2009
Calling all writers, theatre directors, filmmakers, digital media artists, web developers, composers, and choreographers! Applications are now open for Crossover Australia 2009. Crossover Australia is a residential laboratory where the primary goal is the development of conceptual prototypes for groundbreaking interactive project. This year Crossover Australia is stressing that ‘our definition of cross platform is not solely in the digital area and we are looking for ways to expand notions into crossovers into live performance, visual arts and writing’. Participation is free but places are limited so get in quick. Click here for more information.
If you want to spread the word on news, events or opportunities for writers in new media, mail Crossover Australia at
storyofthefuture@australiacouncil.gov.au.
PARAMOUNT PUBLISHING INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION
The Paramount Publishing International Short Story Competition is now seeking entries. Cash prizes vary and winners will be announced on the website. Entry Form Required. The entry Fee is $10. Click here to visit the website for further guidelines. Submissions close 28 November.
WET INK
Wet Ink is currently seeking submissions! Wet Ink is a quarterly magazine that focuses on publishing fiction, poetry and non-fiction by new and emerging writers. It is distributed throughout Australia and in more than 40 countries. As well as poetry, non-fiction and literary-style fiction, Wet Ink is interested in high-quality work in all genres (e.g., crime, sci-fi, romance, horror, thriller, speculative etc) and those with light-hearted themes. There are no word count restrictions - extremely short pieces are welcomed and long work will be considered. All published work receives payment. Click here for further details and to view submission guidelines.
RIGHT NOW
Right Now is a student driven publication that stimulates inclusive discussion about domestic human rights law development and implementation in Australia. Right Now takes a unique and dynamic approach to presenting contemporary legal issues in an informal, non-academic way. Right Now publishes visual art that responds to human rights, and it’s now open for submissions. Please click here to check over past editions before submitting.
Right Now prefer articles to be between 600 and 800 words, but if this is too limiting, they can consider publishing an article of up to 1000 words as a feature. Right Now appeals to a wide audience so articles should be non-academic in tone. Right Now does not publish footnotes. Click here to submit articles via email in Word document format.
If you have any questions about the submission process, or are wondering what kind of topics the Right Now Ed team are interested in, please don’t hesitate to contact them at info@rightnow.org.au.
CUTWATER
Cutwater is a NSW based literary journal that publishes writing of various forms, as well as comics, and even zines created by their contributors. The Cutwater team is currently seeking submissions for their next journal publication, under the theme of ‘ratbags’. Submissions should not exceed 5000 words in length. Cut-off deadline is 30 November. Get cracking whilst the floodgates are open! Click here to visit the Cutwater blog for further information.
SKETCH
Sketch is a literary art and design journal currently seeking unsolicited submissions in the form of cartoons, digital art, fiction, graphic design, interviews, journalism, literary reviews, non-fiction, paintings, photography, poetry, sculpture and sketches. Click here for submission guidelines and further information.
RED LEAVES / I
Red Leaves / I is a forthcoming annual English-language / Japanese bi-lingual literary journal based out of Melbourne, Australia. The international publication has secured prospective contributions from and generated the interest of many recognised writers. However, Red Leaves / I essentially constitutes a new channel through which contemporary, new and emerging writers are capable of being published alongside recognised and established authors. The editor is now calling for your best fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry to be submitted for their first issue in 2009, which will be available to purchase throughout both Australia and Japan. Contact the editor for further guidelines or submit to kirk.marshall@wilderness.org.au. Closing date is 1 December 2008.
THE SLOW REVIEW
The Slow Review is an online journal of untimely reviews. It savours details and cultural treasures in an age of hyped promotion and urgent deadlines. If you have any old reviews lying around, or articles that are well past their embargo dates, or just want to revive a forgotten cultural beacon, or a classic album or vintage, then submit your article at Slow Review. Literary reviews and essay-articles on a wide range of themes, with the guiding proviso that the topic be at least six months old, are especially favoured. Slow is More! There is currently no payment for reviews, but there will be T-shirts… Click here for further information.
‘THE TEXTUAL’ ELECTRONIC JOURNAL
An electronic journal of ‘the textual' is an online journal looking for first issue submissions that explore how we interact with the social and cultural worlds around us. This is a broad scope that could include academic papers, fiction, poetry, soundscape, images, or other forms of text. Submissions can cross the boundaries that define academic, literary and popular texts or can sit firmly within them. As a general guide, fiction up to 3000 words; poetry of up to five pages in total; creative non fiction of up to 4000 words; reviews of up to 2000 words; and scholarly articles up to 4000 words. Submit or inquire to submissions@otherterrain.net
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5. NT NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
CORRUGATED IRON YOUTH ARTS
If you are 18 and over, check out the 18>26 Theatre Ensemble, which includes ‘The Smelter’ - a fortnightly meet-up where participants discuss theatre, make theatre and take over the world! The program involves taking self-devised shows to festivals around Australia and includes guest talks from experts in the field, focusing on different aspects and styles of theatre, and hands-on tuition. Click here to find out more about the 18>26 Theatre Ensemble and ‘The Smelter’… Click here to check out other upcoming CIYA events and opportunities.
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6. SA NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
2008 FEAST FESTIVAL
The 2008 Feast Festival is running now until 30 November. Feast is South Australia’s annual lesbian and gay cultural festival, usually held over several weeks in November. Click here to visit the Feast website for further details.
SAWC OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS WITH A DISABILITY
The SA Writers’ Centre was recently awarded funding through the ArtsSA Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust for a writer-in-residence to work with people who have a disability. SAWC pleased to announce that this position has been taken up by Malcolm Walker, author of The Stone Crown (Walker Books, 2008). The writer-in-residence position aims to encourage members with a disability to come in to the Centre to discuss their work on a one-to-one basis with Malcolm, or, if they’re unable to access the city, to telephone or email. For full details of meeting and submission guidelines contact the SAWC via telephone on (08) 8223 7662 or email sawriters@sawc.org.au Click here to visit Malcolm’s website.
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7. WA NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
FAWWA
The Fellowship of Australian Writers, Western Australia, run various regular workshops and special events. Click here to peruse their website and check out what’s on offer this month.
TOM COLLINS POETRY PRIZE
The FAWWA Tom Collins Poetry Prize is an annual competition. Maximum 60 lines per poem. Prizes include: First: $1000; Second: $400; and four Highly Commended places: $150. Entry Fee is $5 per poem. Contact phone (08) 9384 4771 or email admin@fawwa.org.au Entries close 31 December. Click here to view the FAWWA website for further details.
POETS CORNER AT PAGES CAFE
Poets Union runs a get together at Perth Cultural Centre from 2 to 4:30pm on the 3rd Saturday of each month. Each sitting there is a bevy of invited readers plus spontaneous open mic outbursts. It’s hosted by Frances Macaulay Forde, and entry is free! Contact Frances at admin@poetscornerwa.com for further information.
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8. TAS NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
POETS ON POETRY
Robert Kennedy, a Sydney based poet wants to produce a book titled Poets on Poetry. It’s to be a selection of 500 word statements from about 150 published poets throughout Australia; covering areas like, what poetry means, how it works, how you came to poetry and what your hopes for poetry are. Connected to each poetry statement you can add one short poem only, and a reference to the poet’s books, but only if relevant. Payment is not envisaged at this point. If you’d like to be involved, write your 500 word poetry statement and attach your poem, then send it along to Robert at rk2000@bigpond.net.au. Submissions close 1 December 2008.
STOCK
Launched in December 2007 by Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Stock was created to provide a forum for local artists, designers, writers, curators and others wanting to voice their ideas, opinions and questions about their field. It also aims to encourage quality arts writing and to support critical dialogue amongst the Tasmanian literary community. Stock welcomes new ideas for articles and may be the perfect site to launch a project or to try something experimental. Or you can contribute to one of the online discussion topics. Click here to visit the Stock website for more information.
THE TASMANIAN TIMES SEEKS POETRY
Tasmanian poets or those with a Tasmanian connection may send up to 5 poems not previously in print or electronic media and not under consideration elsewhere to peter.macrow@gmail.com There is no closing date for TTT, so you’ve got plenty of time to let the creative sparks kindle…
TASMANIAN WRITERS’ CENTRE REPUBLIC READINGS
Celebrate the launch of Carolyn Fisher’s award winning press chapbook, The Unsuspecting Sky; the Poets’ Republic #27 Presentation of the Hobart Poetry Pot Award Plaque to Liz McQuilkin Winter, and engage in Open Reading with Literary Prizes. Book in on the day, free entry! Conditions – 5 minute time limit, any genre, must be own work which has not won any prizes/competitions previously
Poetry and prose readings take place at The Republic Bar and Café, 299 Elizabeth St North Hobart. Please contact co-ordinator Liz Winfield at: ewin4692@bigpond.net.au or leggs456@msn.com or phone (03) 62 729 324 with any queries. All welcome, no entry fee, books will be available for sale. 7 December 3 to 5 pm.
And… click here to see the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre website for more local opportunities.
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9. QLD NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
LOVERS OF GOOD WRITING COMPETITION
Organised through the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Queensland, this competition caters for poets and short story writers in alternate years. Check with the organiser for current year’s details. First prize $250, second prize $100, two Highly Commended prizes $50. Winners announced in 'Scope', April edition. All entries must be accompanied by an entry form, stamped and self addressed envelope, and a $5 entry fee. Postal Address PO BOX 6338, UPPER MOUNT GRAVATT QLD 4122 Contact the FAW (QLD) Convenor at nancycoxmillner@optusnet.com.au for further details. Submissions close 31 January 2009.
THE JOSEPHINE ULRICK LITERATURE AND POETRY PRIZES 2009
Griffith University’s School of Arts on the Gold Coast administers the prizes on behalf of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts. $40,000 in prize money in 2009! $10,000 First Prize, $5,000 Second Prize, 2 x $2,500 Commended for a 1000 - 3000 word short story and $10,000 First Prize, $5,000 Second Prize, 2 x $2,500 Commended for an up to 200 line poem or suite of poems. Entries close 30 January 2009. Click here for further guidelines and entry forms. All enquiries can be directed to Clare Keys (07) 5552 8093 email: c.keys@griffith.edu.au
QUEENSLAND PRIDE
Queensland’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender magazine is seeking new writers to contribute feature stories and other columns. If you’d like to contribute, call 3216 0860, or send a sample of your work to Iain Clacher at
editor@queenslandpride.com.au
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10. ACT NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
ACT WRITERS’ CENTRE
Click here to view the ACT Writers’ Centre website for information on a range of upcoming writers’ groups, workshops and other literary opportunities.
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11. NSW NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
VIBEWIRE INC ANNOUNCES A GLOBAL YOUTH FUTURES SCHOLARSHIP FOR YOUNG FUTURE CHANGE-MAKERS
Vibewire is looking for young social entrepreneurs who are passionate about a social or environmental issue and want to increase awareness by reaching out to wider audiences and contributing to social change.
Thanks to the generous support of Global Youth Futures, Vibewire is offering two scholarships to an individual, group or organisation with an innovative approach to addressing, highlighting and advocating around issues in their community, drawing people in rather switching them off.
Global Youth Future's vision is to connect and collaborate to co-create new futures – the kind of futures we want to live in. Its mission is to support and provide opportunities for young entrepreneurs to share and develop their skills, to understand the future in its complexity and to explore innovative and sustainable solutions to social and environmental issues.
The scholarship aims to support a young individual or team over the course of at least 3 months by providing them with residency at Vibewire's Hub (sQuareOne) in Sydney/Ultimo. Recipients get mentorship and will have the opportunity to further develop their skills and expertise as well as to build new networks and partnerships through Global Youth Futures and Vibewire.
Scholarship recipients will be required to report back to Global Youth Futures on an ongoing basis or as required, take part in a review process after 3 months and prepare a final evaluation report of their project. They will also be expected to attend a ‘Futures Dreaming’ weekend planning workshops and assist with one of Global Youth Future's events in 2009.
To apply please fill in application form attached addressing the selection criteria and outlining your project plan, motivation, resources etc. Applications are viewed and selected on a rolling basis.
For further info please contact Annie at info@vibewire.net or call (02) 9660 6591. Click here to visit the Vibewire website.
INNER CITY LIFE LITERARY COMPETITION
A writing competition for adults on the theme of ‘Inner City Life’ organised by the NSW Writers' Centre, sponsored by Gleebooks and the Village Voice, and open to anyone from anywhere. The topic is ‘Inner City Life Anywhere Anytime’, whatever interpretation YOU give to the phrase.
Short story: maximum 500 words. Poetry: maximum 20 lines. No entry form required. Entry fee is $15. Post entries to PO Box 1056, Rozelle NSW 2039. Submissions close 28 November. Click here to view the NSW Writers’ centre website for more details.
TAMWORTH POETRY READING GROUP BLACKENED BILLY VERSE COMPETITION
The 2008 Blackened Billy Verse Competition for Bush Poetry is now open. Prizes up to $700! For entry forms write to Jan Morris PO Box 3001, West Tamworth or email janmorris@northnet.com.au Submissions close 30 November.
CLUB TAP PERFORMANCE POETRY
A rewarding night of shared artistic expression. On the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month Tap Gallery plays host to Club Tap. Club Tap is an evening of Poetry, Songs, Storytelling, Theatre, Comedy and Performance Art. It's a unique and atmospheric event held in an art gallery setting, with guest poets and performers.
Club Tap invites Poets, Writers, Songwriters, Musicians and many Performers alike to present new material. Cost of entry is $5. Tap Gallery is located at 278 Palmer Street Darlinghurst 2010. Phone 93610440 for further information, or click here to visit the Tap Gallery website.
RHIZOMIC POETRY AT GALLERY ADAGIO
On the final Wednesday of every month, RhiZomic Poetry features a new guest poet from amongst the finest wordsmiths that Sydney has to offer, then follows it up with a varied and supportive open mic. Past guests to grace the RhiZomic microphone have included Brook Emery and Judith Beveridge. It’s a poetry party/guest poet/open-mic/poetry slam/spoken word extravaganza! The address is 91 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, NSW.
For further information email rhizomic.poetry@gmail.com or call Lynette Vellins on 0413 694 018.
THE WHITELEY READING
Queensland Touring Poets Helen Avery, Ross Clark and Nathan Stepherdson are currently running a series of readings open free to the public. Readings will run until November 2008 on the 4th Sunday of each month from 2:00pm to 3:30pm at the Brett Whiteley Studio 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills. The program includes regular featured guests and open mic.
Helen Avery manages her family property near Longreach, Western Queensland, where she has lived for 25 years. Her life has been intimately involved with the Australian outback landscape. Her most recent book of poetry is Seduced by Sky (Nardoo Publishing, 2005).
Ross Clark writes poetry and haiku. The most recent of his seven volumes of poetry is Salt Flung into the Sky (2007). He has published two haiku chapbooks, including At the turn of the Seasons (2003). Ross has performed in city and rural Australia, in Japan, and the USA.
Nathan Shepherdson won the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize in 2004 and 2006. He won the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award in 2006, the year his first book Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror was published by UQP. A chapbook what marian drew never told me about light was published by Small Change Press in 2008. He lives at the Glass House Mountains.
Contact Angela Stretch on 0434 898 578 with any enquiries. Click here to visit the Poets Union website for other poetic opportunities.
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12. VIC NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
SUNBLIND LAUNCH
Geoff Lemon’s debut book Sunblind is being launched on Thursday 27 November, in the function room of the Dan O'Connell hotel, from 7 pm. The launch is set to double as Geoff’s birthday party, because he hasn't had one yet, so if you hate books, come for the party instead!
The night will include performances from Sean M. Whelan, Josephine Rowe, and Felix Nobis. Geoff will also be doing a set, based around pieces from the book. Turn up any time from 7 pm. The readings will start a bit later, and should be done by 8:30 or 9:00. The function room has a full bar available.
The Dan is on the corner of Princes and Canning Streets, Carlton (between Lygon and Nicholson). RSVPs are helpful, but not compulsory: email Geoff at leffrey@hotmail.com, or call 0401 086 545.
ANNOUNCING THE 2010 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL THEME!
Jeff Khan, Artistic Director, is delighted to announce the theme for the 2010 Next Wave Festival: ‘No Risk Too Great’
The 2010 Next Wave Festival will explore the role of risk in a risk-averse culture. Under pressure to conform, we have all become experts in micro-managing our own behaviour. But is this self-surveillance distracting us from the bigger risks, the more un-manageable ones which are increasingly – and radically – changing our world? Just what does “risk” actually mean in these volatile times? In a wider culture of risk management, how prepared are we to make decisions that are brave, courageous or transgressive? Where is the line between our own personal, moral and ethical worlds, and the codes and principles which circulate in the broader context of contemporary culture? What is our capacity to draw, hold or cross this line? What are the real risks of our time, what are the risks worth taking, and what is our role as individuals, and as artists, in relation to them? How can we act boldly and imaginatively, in art and in life?
That also means that the call for Kickstart applications is now open. Kickstart is Next Wave’s non-Festival year development program, providing amazing opportunities for artists to realise their most ambitious ideas, all in anticipation of the 2010 Next Wave Festival. Next Wave provide cash, a workshop program and comprehensive mentoring and support. If this sounds like it could be for you, click here to download an application pack from the Next Wave website.
YOUTHGAS HIP HOP, RAP, SCRATCH AND AEROSOL ART PROJECT
If you know a young person aged 15-25 interested in hip hop, rap, scratch or graffiti this project may be for them: Whitelion Presents Wound Up And Wired - Ready To Go Hip hop, scratch and graffiti project, on 8-12 December Monday to Friday 10:30am – 4:30pm. Want to know more? Contact Julie McDonald on (03) 9389 4457, 0425 707 583 or email to julie.mcdonald@whitelion.asn.au (text her and she’ll call you back). Come try it out and use it all to say what you wanna say. Express yourself and your ideas. Get your message out there Meet other young people and make a performance together. The raps and breaks created by young people will be recorded on CD and filmed for you to keep! Whitelion is located at 900 Park Street Parkville Victoria 3052 Phone (03) 9389 4420 Fax (03) 9389 4284 or email whitelion@whitelion.asn.au for further details. Click here to visit the Whitelion website.
JOHN MORRISON SHORT STORY AWARD
The FAW (VIC) John Morrison Short Story Award is for a short story on any theme, max 300 words. One copy of each story required. For writers aged 15-20 years. First prize is $200, and second prize is $100. Winners announced in FAW magazine, on the website and at a Presentation Ceremony in March. Entry fee is $6. Submissions close 30 November. Email Philip Rainford at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com phone (03) 94315573 or click here to visit the website for further details.
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING AWARD
The FAW (VIC) Melbourne University Publishing Award is for a non-fiction work of sustained quality and distinction with an Australian theme, first published in the preceding year. This category includes biographies and autobiographies. Publishers or authors are welcome to submit entries. Two copies of the book are required. Entries will not be returned. First Prize is $1000 and winners will be announced in FAW magazine following the awards presentations in March. Entry fee is $15. Email Philip Rainford at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com phone (03) 94315573 or click here to visit the website for further details. Entries close 30 November.
COLIN THIELE POETRY AWARD
The FAW (VIC) Colin Thiele Poetry Award is open for poems on any theme, and open to young writers aged between 15 and 20 years. Entries will not be returned. There is no word limit. Sponsored by Michael Dugan. First prize is $200, second prize is $100. Winners will be announced in FAW magazine following an awards presentation in March. An entry fee of $5 and an entry from must accompany all submissions. Postal Address: PO BOX 973, ELTHAM VIC 3095. Contact the awards co-ordinator at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com or phone (03) 94315573 for further information. Click here to visit the website for further details. Submissions close 30 November.
YOUNG POET OF THE YEAR AWARD
The FAW (VIC) Young Poet of the Year Award is open for poetry on any theme, no word limit. First prize is $200, second prize is $50. Winners will be announced in FAW magazine after the awards presentation. An entry form and $5 entry fee must accompany all submissions. Postal Address PO BOX 973, ELTHAM VIC 3095. Contact the awards co-ordinator at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com or phone (03) 94315573 for further information. Click here to visit the website for further details. Submissions close 30 November.
MUSE 4: BETTER SORRY THAN SAFE
The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association is seeking creative contributions in all literary genres from all writers, Australian and international, graduate student or not. They especially want work that teeters on the brink of going too far. Think daring, rather than experimental. When choosing what to submit, keep in mind the golden rule: better sorry than safe. All submissions published will enter the Muse/UMPA Creative Writing Prize. Click here for further details.
VWC SPECIAL EVENTS
TRUTH AND MEMORY
with Patti Miller, Elly Varrenti and Dmetri Kakmi
Meet Patti, Elly and Dmetri as they discuss the endlessly fascinating genres of biography and memoir, and the challenging issues of truth-telling. Patti Miller is author of Writing Your Life; The Last One Who Remembers; Child; Whatever the Gods Do and The Memoir Book. She freelances articles, sometimes reviews, works on manuscript development, and teaches life writing workshops around Australia and overseas. Elly Varrenti is an actress, teacher, broadcaster and author. She writes about families, relationships, parenting and arts-related issues and is well known for her regular ABC Radio National monologue columns. Her latest book, This Is Not My Beautiful Life, a memoir, is published by Penguin and she is a guest at this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival. Elly is coordinator of the Professional Writing and Editing course at Box Hill Institute. Dmetri Kakmi is senior editor at Penguin Books His reviews and essays have appeared in publications around the world. He is the compiler and editor of the celebrated children's anthology When We Were Young, published by Penguin in 2007. His first book, Mother Land, was the co-recipient of the 2007 Peter Blazey Fellowship, awarded by the Centre for Australian Studies, University of Melbourne. The panel will take place on Friday 5 December, 6:30 – 8pm. The cost is $15/$12 for Victorian Writers’ Centre members and $20 for non-members.
All events are held at The Victorian Writers’ Centre, First Floor Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne. Bookings for all VWC programs are essential. Phone (03) 9654 9068 to reserve your place.
That’s all for this month… Stay tuned for our December issue. Keep up to date by visiting the Express Media Website
CONTENTS
1. WORD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
2. COMING UP AT EXPRESS MEDIA
3. FEATURE
4. NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES – ALL STATES:
5. NT
6. SA
7. WA
8. TAS
9. QLD
10. ACT
11. NSW
12. VIC
1. WORD FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
This month, over 20 literary professionals and event programmers from across England and Scotland visited Melbourne as part of a UNESCO Cities of Literature tour. They took a tour of the current Express Media office, went to selected book stores, met publishers and other literary organisations, mingled with writers, attended a slam, drank some Australian wine, educated us about Edinburgh’s rich literary history, and a week later, arrived back at home where they may have just had a chance to breathe. What I was most interested in was how organisations in the Northern Hemisphere work with, and more importantly find young writers. It became apparent that there is no Express Media equivalent in the UK. There’s the very cool ‘Writing Squad’, which is made up of a team of 8 writers chosen each year, but there’s no organisation that gives opportunities and support to lots and lots of young writers and young writers alone. This not only surprised me, but also, it reiterated just how under-represented young people are in the WORLD media, not just in the Australian media. It’s frightening, actually. I’m having anxiety attacks in the office because the voice of young people is so often drowned out the drum and bass of the older generation. Anyway, we’re trying to fix this today. I hope you enjoy the latest newsletter, written and collated by Tess Jaeger – it’s littered with opportunities and information about events that you might like to pop your head into. Go! Submit! Speak! That’s all.
Bel Schenk
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2. COMING UP AT EXPRESS MEDIA
EXPRESS MEDIA WORKSHOPS
After months of preparation and fine-tuned execution, the final Express Media Workshop, ‘Writing Zines with Adam Ford’, will run on Wednesday 26 November.
Adam will talk about the kinds of writing you might like to consider for your zines. He’ll talk about comics, reviews (including tips on how to scam free stuff), creative writing, rants and raves - by the time this workshop is over you’ll have the beginnings of a bunch of stuff that would certainly not look out of place in your new zine. Everyone who attends this workshop will get a free copy of Adam’s zine, ‘Jutchy Ya Ya’.
Adam Ford is a zinemaker, comic maker, novel writer, poet and internet guy. His zines include ‘Jutchy Ya Ya’, ‘Duck Fat’, ‘What Astronauts Wear’ and the zine anthology ‘Chimp Frenzy’. When he’s not making zines Adam writes novels, poetry, comics and short stories, some of which have been published by actual real publishers, and some of which he’s published himself. Ticket cost is $22 for Express members and $25 for non-members. Click here to reserve your place.
VOICEWORKS #76 – BUDGET
Voiceworks is seeking submissions for issue #76, BUDGET. The deadline January 11, 2009, so you’ve got plenty of time to get cracking!
Email Tom Rigby at editor@expressmedia.org.au with any questions, pitches or brilliant ideas.
And check out the Regular non-fiction opportunities section on the Express Media Website for developments on how to contribute non-fiction to Voiceworks.
VOICEWORKS LAUNCH #75 BEAT
7.30pm on Thursday 11 December at Horse Bazaar, Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne. More details soon!
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3. FEATURE
The Buzz: Express Media’s 2008 Buzzcuts Intern, Jodie Kinnersley, sends her regards
Express Media’s eleventh Buzzcuts season has come to a close. An ambitious collaborative arts reviewing project, Buzzcuts is presented annually in conjunction with The Melbourne Fringe Festival, Beat magazine, 3RRR radio, SYN and RMIT. By the end of this year’s Fringe Festival, a total of 54 reviewers had made their stamp on Melbourne’s Fringe performances, with reviews covering a diverse range of genres, including performance, comedy, cabaret, music, movement, visual art, circus and special events. A record 84 reviews were posted on Express Media’s Buzzcuts website, 14 reviews were published in Beat magazine, and 25 radio reviews had been broadcast on 3RRR and SYN.
Since its inception in 1997, Buzzcuts has grown into a well-oiled cross-collaborator machine, and, by the looks of it, the program is set to become an even bigger part the Express Media calendar in years to come. I caught up with the 2008 Buzzcuts Intern, Jodie Kinnersley, to get the skinny on this year’s feats and fiascos, and find out what’s in store for ambitious Buzzcuts Interns to come. Read more here.
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4. NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES – ALL STATES
ABR POETRY PRIZE
In its short life, this competition has become one of the most prestigious poetry competitions in the country. First prize is $4000. Shortlisted poems garner $250 prize money. Poems can be up to 100 lines. Entry fee is $20. Post your entry to ABR Poetry Competition, PO Box 2320, Richmond South, Victoria 3121. Click here to visit the ABR website for further details. Entries close 10 December.
HILL OF CONTENT BOOKSHOP 2008 HAL PORTER SHORT STORY COMPETITION
The Hill of Content Bookshop 2008 Hal Porter Short Story Competition is open for short stories, any style, up to 2,500 words. Prize is $1000. Entry fee is $5.50. Cheques made out to East Gippsland Art Gallery. No entry form required. Mail entries to Hal Porter Short Story Competition, East Gippsland Art Gallery, 2 Nicholson St, Bairnsdale, VIC, 3875. Email further enquiries to pedrom53@bigpond.net.au Submissions close 19 December.
ALAN MARSHALL SHORT STORY AWARD 2009
Nillumbik Shire Council invites writers from across Australia to enter this annual short story competition held in memory of the great writer and former resident of Eltham, Alan Marshall. The competition is to be judged by Sophie Cunningham, editor of Meanjin. $2000 Open Section First Prize; $1000 Open Section Second Prize for stories up to 2,500 words; $1000 Local Writers’ Section Prize for stories up to 2,500 words by writers who live, work or study in the Shire of Nillumbik; $400 Young Writers’ Section Prize for stories up to 1,000 words for writers aged between 15 and 19 years. Click here to visit the Nillumbik Shire Council for further details and to download entry forms. Email artsinfo@nillumbik.vic.gov.au, or telephone (03) 9433 3359 for further information. The Alan Marshall Short Story Award is presented by Nillumbik Shire Council in partnership with the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service. Entries close at 4pm Friday 20 February 2009.
SOMERSET NATIONAL NOVELLA WRITING COMPETITION FOR SCHOOL AGE WRITERS
The Somerset National Novella Writing Competition for School Age Writers is open to all current Australian secondary school students and is for a novella of between 10,000 and 20,000 words. The winner will be announced at the Somerset Celebration of Literature Festival held in March. Check website or contact organisers to confirm closing date. Prizes awarded to National and State winners. Sponsors have first right option to publication of any of the finalists. Winning entries will also be published on the Somerset College website. Entry fee is $20. Be sure to include a stamped and self-addressed envelope along with your work and entry form and post to Somerset College, Somerset Drive, MUDGEERABA QLD, 4213. Contact the Events Coordinator, Cecilia Robertson by phone (07) 55303777 or fax (07) 55252676. Email to events@somerset.qld.edu.au or click here to visit the website. Entries close 5 December.
2009 IP PICKS AWARDS FOR UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS
Now in its eighth year, this national competition invites submissions for Best Fiction, Best Creative Non-fiction, Best Poetry and Best First Book. The Awards are open to citizens/residents of Australia, and, for the first time, citizens/residents of New Zealand.
The winners in each category and two of the Highly Commended entrants will be published by IP under royalty contracts. One of the winners and one of the highly commended will subsequently be endorsed by the Literature Board of the Australia Council.
Click here to visit the website for entry forms and conditions, or send a self-addressed stamped envelope to IP, Treetop Studio, 9 Kuhler Court, Carindale 4152. Entries close 1 December.
NATIONAL ONE ACT PLAYWRITING COMPETITION
From a small beginning in 1978, the National One Act Playwriting Competition at Noosa Arts Theatre has become a national festival attracting over 70 entries a year from around Australia and overseas.
Scripts must cater for a performance time of no les than 30 and no more than 405 minutes and be suitable for production on a theatre stage of approximately 30 sq.m with a proscenium width of 8m, stage height of 2.5m and depth of 5m. The Sunshine Coast Regional Council donates prize money of $2,574 to the three finalists and presentations of these awards are made after the final performance.
Entry fee $20. Submissions close 30 November. Guidelines and entry form are available here or via email at noosaartstheatre@hotmail.com Contact Synda Turnbull on (07) 544 999 72 for more information.
THE NEW WRITER MAGAZINE
Annual international competition for short stories, novellas, single poems, poetry collections, essays and articles; offers cash prizes from a total fund above £2,000 as well as publication for the prize-winning writers in The Collection, special edition of The New Writer Magazine, each July.
Separate entry conditions for single poems, collections of poems, short stories and essays. Click here to view the website, or email admin@thenewwriter.com for guidelines and further entry conditions. Submissions close 30 November.
COTTONMOUTH
Cottonmouth is a Perth-based performance and publishing venture that held its first event in February 2008. Held monthly, the Cottonmouth performance project showcases spoken-word artists, poets, sound artists, playwrights, new media practitioners and other emerging and established performers in the field of narrative art. The venture also publishes a monthly zine, which is open for submissions from local, interstate and international writers. Click here for submission guidelines, event information and the word on Perth’s cultural beat.
FAW 2008 NATIONAL LITERARY AWARDS
The Fellowship of Australian Writers is now accepting entries for the FAW 2008 National Literary Awards. The FAW Literary awards are some of the most respected literary awards in Australia. With 20 categories, there's a potential award waiting for you whether you are a novice or an experienced writer, a teenager or an adult. Award sections include: Part one: Book Awards; Part two: Manuscript Awards; Part three: Young Writers' Awards; Part four: Commendation Award. Entries close 30 November 2008. Click here to download full details and the entry form.
CROSSOVER AUSTRALIA 2009
Calling all writers, theatre directors, filmmakers, digital media artists, web developers, composers, and choreographers! Applications are now open for Crossover Australia 2009. Crossover Australia is a residential laboratory where the primary goal is the development of conceptual prototypes for groundbreaking interactive project. This year Crossover Australia is stressing that ‘our definition of cross platform is not solely in the digital area and we are looking for ways to expand notions into crossovers into live performance, visual arts and writing’. Participation is free but places are limited so get in quick. Click here for more information.
If you want to spread the word on news, events or opportunities for writers in new media, mail Crossover Australia at
storyofthefuture@australiacouncil.gov.au.
PARAMOUNT PUBLISHING INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORY COMPETITION
The Paramount Publishing International Short Story Competition is now seeking entries. Cash prizes vary and winners will be announced on the website. Entry Form Required. The entry Fee is $10. Click here to visit the website for further guidelines. Submissions close 28 November.
WET INK
Wet Ink is currently seeking submissions! Wet Ink is a quarterly magazine that focuses on publishing fiction, poetry and non-fiction by new and emerging writers. It is distributed throughout Australia and in more than 40 countries. As well as poetry, non-fiction and literary-style fiction, Wet Ink is interested in high-quality work in all genres (e.g., crime, sci-fi, romance, horror, thriller, speculative etc) and those with light-hearted themes. There are no word count restrictions - extremely short pieces are welcomed and long work will be considered. All published work receives payment. Click here for further details and to view submission guidelines.
RIGHT NOW
Right Now is a student driven publication that stimulates inclusive discussion about domestic human rights law development and implementation in Australia. Right Now takes a unique and dynamic approach to presenting contemporary legal issues in an informal, non-academic way. Right Now publishes visual art that responds to human rights, and it’s now open for submissions. Please click here to check over past editions before submitting.
Right Now prefer articles to be between 600 and 800 words, but if this is too limiting, they can consider publishing an article of up to 1000 words as a feature. Right Now appeals to a wide audience so articles should be non-academic in tone. Right Now does not publish footnotes. Click here to submit articles via email in Word document format.
If you have any questions about the submission process, or are wondering what kind of topics the Right Now Ed team are interested in, please don’t hesitate to contact them at info@rightnow.org.au.
CUTWATER
Cutwater is a NSW based literary journal that publishes writing of various forms, as well as comics, and even zines created by their contributors. The Cutwater team is currently seeking submissions for their next journal publication, under the theme of ‘ratbags’. Submissions should not exceed 5000 words in length. Cut-off deadline is 30 November. Get cracking whilst the floodgates are open! Click here to visit the Cutwater blog for further information.
SKETCH
Sketch is a literary art and design journal currently seeking unsolicited submissions in the form of cartoons, digital art, fiction, graphic design, interviews, journalism, literary reviews, non-fiction, paintings, photography, poetry, sculpture and sketches. Click here for submission guidelines and further information.
RED LEAVES / I
Red Leaves / I is a forthcoming annual English-language / Japanese bi-lingual literary journal based out of Melbourne, Australia. The international publication has secured prospective contributions from and generated the interest of many recognised writers. However, Red Leaves / I essentially constitutes a new channel through which contemporary, new and emerging writers are capable of being published alongside recognised and established authors. The editor is now calling for your best fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry to be submitted for their first issue in 2009, which will be available to purchase throughout both Australia and Japan. Contact the editor for further guidelines or submit to kirk.marshall@wilderness.org.au. Closing date is 1 December 2008.
THE SLOW REVIEW
The Slow Review is an online journal of untimely reviews. It savours details and cultural treasures in an age of hyped promotion and urgent deadlines. If you have any old reviews lying around, or articles that are well past their embargo dates, or just want to revive a forgotten cultural beacon, or a classic album or vintage, then submit your article at Slow Review. Literary reviews and essay-articles on a wide range of themes, with the guiding proviso that the topic be at least six months old, are especially favoured. Slow is More! There is currently no payment for reviews, but there will be T-shirts… Click here for further information.
‘THE TEXTUAL’ ELECTRONIC JOURNAL
An electronic journal of ‘the textual' is an online journal looking for first issue submissions that explore how we interact with the social and cultural worlds around us. This is a broad scope that could include academic papers, fiction, poetry, soundscape, images, or other forms of text. Submissions can cross the boundaries that define academic, literary and popular texts or can sit firmly within them. As a general guide, fiction up to 3000 words; poetry of up to five pages in total; creative non fiction of up to 4000 words; reviews of up to 2000 words; and scholarly articles up to 4000 words. Submit or inquire to submissions@otherterrain.net
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5. NT NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
CORRUGATED IRON YOUTH ARTS
If you are 18 and over, check out the 18>26 Theatre Ensemble, which includes ‘The Smelter’ - a fortnightly meet-up where participants discuss theatre, make theatre and take over the world! The program involves taking self-devised shows to festivals around Australia and includes guest talks from experts in the field, focusing on different aspects and styles of theatre, and hands-on tuition. Click here to find out more about the 18>26 Theatre Ensemble and ‘The Smelter’… Click here to check out other upcoming CIYA events and opportunities.
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6. SA NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
2008 FEAST FESTIVAL
The 2008 Feast Festival is running now until 30 November. Feast is South Australia’s annual lesbian and gay cultural festival, usually held over several weeks in November. Click here to visit the Feast website for further details.
SAWC OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS WITH A DISABILITY
The SA Writers’ Centre was recently awarded funding through the ArtsSA Richard Llewellyn Arts and Disability Trust for a writer-in-residence to work with people who have a disability. SAWC pleased to announce that this position has been taken up by Malcolm Walker, author of The Stone Crown (Walker Books, 2008). The writer-in-residence position aims to encourage members with a disability to come in to the Centre to discuss their work on a one-to-one basis with Malcolm, or, if they’re unable to access the city, to telephone or email. For full details of meeting and submission guidelines contact the SAWC via telephone on (08) 8223 7662 or email sawriters@sawc.org.au Click here to visit Malcolm’s website.
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7. WA NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
FAWWA
The Fellowship of Australian Writers, Western Australia, run various regular workshops and special events. Click here to peruse their website and check out what’s on offer this month.
TOM COLLINS POETRY PRIZE
The FAWWA Tom Collins Poetry Prize is an annual competition. Maximum 60 lines per poem. Prizes include: First: $1000; Second: $400; and four Highly Commended places: $150. Entry Fee is $5 per poem. Contact phone (08) 9384 4771 or email admin@fawwa.org.au Entries close 31 December. Click here to view the FAWWA website for further details.
POETS CORNER AT PAGES CAFE
Poets Union runs a get together at Perth Cultural Centre from 2 to 4:30pm on the 3rd Saturday of each month. Each sitting there is a bevy of invited readers plus spontaneous open mic outbursts. It’s hosted by Frances Macaulay Forde, and entry is free! Contact Frances at admin@poetscornerwa.com for further information.
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8. TAS NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
POETS ON POETRY
Robert Kennedy, a Sydney based poet wants to produce a book titled Poets on Poetry. It’s to be a selection of 500 word statements from about 150 published poets throughout Australia; covering areas like, what poetry means, how it works, how you came to poetry and what your hopes for poetry are. Connected to each poetry statement you can add one short poem only, and a reference to the poet’s books, but only if relevant. Payment is not envisaged at this point. If you’d like to be involved, write your 500 word poetry statement and attach your poem, then send it along to Robert at rk2000@bigpond.net.au. Submissions close 1 December 2008.
STOCK
Launched in December 2007 by Contemporary Art Services Tasmania, Stock was created to provide a forum for local artists, designers, writers, curators and others wanting to voice their ideas, opinions and questions about their field. It also aims to encourage quality arts writing and to support critical dialogue amongst the Tasmanian literary community. Stock welcomes new ideas for articles and may be the perfect site to launch a project or to try something experimental. Or you can contribute to one of the online discussion topics. Click here to visit the Stock website for more information.
THE TASMANIAN TIMES SEEKS POETRY
Tasmanian poets or those with a Tasmanian connection may send up to 5 poems not previously in print or electronic media and not under consideration elsewhere to peter.macrow@gmail.com There is no closing date for TTT, so you’ve got plenty of time to let the creative sparks kindle…
TASMANIAN WRITERS’ CENTRE REPUBLIC READINGS
Celebrate the launch of Carolyn Fisher’s award winning press chapbook, The Unsuspecting Sky; the Poets’ Republic #27 Presentation of the Hobart Poetry Pot Award Plaque to Liz McQuilkin Winter, and engage in Open Reading with Literary Prizes. Book in on the day, free entry! Conditions – 5 minute time limit, any genre, must be own work which has not won any prizes/competitions previously
Poetry and prose readings take place at The Republic Bar and Café, 299 Elizabeth St North Hobart. Please contact co-ordinator Liz Winfield at: ewin4692@bigpond.net.au or leggs456@msn.com or phone (03) 62 729 324 with any queries. All welcome, no entry fee, books will be available for sale. 7 December 3 to 5 pm.
And… click here to see the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre website for more local opportunities.
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9. QLD NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
LOVERS OF GOOD WRITING COMPETITION
Organised through the Fellowship of Australian Writers (FAW) Queensland, this competition caters for poets and short story writers in alternate years. Check with the organiser for current year’s details. First prize $250, second prize $100, two Highly Commended prizes $50. Winners announced in 'Scope', April edition. All entries must be accompanied by an entry form, stamped and self addressed envelope, and a $5 entry fee. Postal Address PO BOX 6338, UPPER MOUNT GRAVATT QLD 4122 Contact the FAW (QLD) Convenor at nancycoxmillner@optusnet.com.au for further details. Submissions close 31 January 2009.
THE JOSEPHINE ULRICK LITERATURE AND POETRY PRIZES 2009
Griffith University’s School of Arts on the Gold Coast administers the prizes on behalf of the Josephine Ulrick and Win Schubert Foundation for the Arts. $40,000 in prize money in 2009! $10,000 First Prize, $5,000 Second Prize, 2 x $2,500 Commended for a 1000 - 3000 word short story and $10,000 First Prize, $5,000 Second Prize, 2 x $2,500 Commended for an up to 200 line poem or suite of poems. Entries close 30 January 2009. Click here for further guidelines and entry forms. All enquiries can be directed to Clare Keys (07) 5552 8093 email: c.keys@griffith.edu.au
QUEENSLAND PRIDE
Queensland’s leading lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender magazine is seeking new writers to contribute feature stories and other columns. If you’d like to contribute, call 3216 0860, or send a sample of your work to Iain Clacher at
editor@queenslandpride.com.au
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10. ACT NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
ACT WRITERS’ CENTRE
Click here to view the ACT Writers’ Centre website for information on a range of upcoming writers’ groups, workshops and other literary opportunities.
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11. NSW NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
VIBEWIRE INC ANNOUNCES A GLOBAL YOUTH FUTURES SCHOLARSHIP FOR YOUNG FUTURE CHANGE-MAKERS
Vibewire is looking for young social entrepreneurs who are passionate about a social or environmental issue and want to increase awareness by reaching out to wider audiences and contributing to social change.
Thanks to the generous support of Global Youth Futures, Vibewire is offering two scholarships to an individual, group or organisation with an innovative approach to addressing, highlighting and advocating around issues in their community, drawing people in rather switching them off.
Global Youth Future's vision is to connect and collaborate to co-create new futures – the kind of futures we want to live in. Its mission is to support and provide opportunities for young entrepreneurs to share and develop their skills, to understand the future in its complexity and to explore innovative and sustainable solutions to social and environmental issues.
The scholarship aims to support a young individual or team over the course of at least 3 months by providing them with residency at Vibewire's Hub (sQuareOne) in Sydney/Ultimo. Recipients get mentorship and will have the opportunity to further develop their skills and expertise as well as to build new networks and partnerships through Global Youth Futures and Vibewire.
Scholarship recipients will be required to report back to Global Youth Futures on an ongoing basis or as required, take part in a review process after 3 months and prepare a final evaluation report of their project. They will also be expected to attend a ‘Futures Dreaming’ weekend planning workshops and assist with one of Global Youth Future's events in 2009.
To apply please fill in application form attached addressing the selection criteria and outlining your project plan, motivation, resources etc. Applications are viewed and selected on a rolling basis.
For further info please contact Annie at info@vibewire.net or call (02) 9660 6591. Click here to visit the Vibewire website.
INNER CITY LIFE LITERARY COMPETITION
A writing competition for adults on the theme of ‘Inner City Life’ organised by the NSW Writers' Centre, sponsored by Gleebooks and the Village Voice, and open to anyone from anywhere. The topic is ‘Inner City Life Anywhere Anytime’, whatever interpretation YOU give to the phrase.
Short story: maximum 500 words. Poetry: maximum 20 lines. No entry form required. Entry fee is $15. Post entries to PO Box 1056, Rozelle NSW 2039. Submissions close 28 November. Click here to view the NSW Writers’ centre website for more details.
TAMWORTH POETRY READING GROUP BLACKENED BILLY VERSE COMPETITION
The 2008 Blackened Billy Verse Competition for Bush Poetry is now open. Prizes up to $700! For entry forms write to Jan Morris PO Box 3001, West Tamworth or email janmorris@northnet.com.au Submissions close 30 November.
CLUB TAP PERFORMANCE POETRY
A rewarding night of shared artistic expression. On the 2nd & 4th Thursday of each month Tap Gallery plays host to Club Tap. Club Tap is an evening of Poetry, Songs, Storytelling, Theatre, Comedy and Performance Art. It's a unique and atmospheric event held in an art gallery setting, with guest poets and performers.
Club Tap invites Poets, Writers, Songwriters, Musicians and many Performers alike to present new material. Cost of entry is $5. Tap Gallery is located at 278 Palmer Street Darlinghurst 2010. Phone 93610440 for further information, or click here to visit the Tap Gallery website.
RHIZOMIC POETRY AT GALLERY ADAGIO
On the final Wednesday of every month, RhiZomic Poetry features a new guest poet from amongst the finest wordsmiths that Sydney has to offer, then follows it up with a varied and supportive open mic. Past guests to grace the RhiZomic microphone have included Brook Emery and Judith Beveridge. It’s a poetry party/guest poet/open-mic/poetry slam/spoken word extravaganza! The address is 91 Glebe Point Rd, Glebe, NSW.
For further information email rhizomic.poetry@gmail.com or call Lynette Vellins on 0413 694 018.
THE WHITELEY READING
Queensland Touring Poets Helen Avery, Ross Clark and Nathan Stepherdson are currently running a series of readings open free to the public. Readings will run until November 2008 on the 4th Sunday of each month from 2:00pm to 3:30pm at the Brett Whiteley Studio 2 Raper Street, Surry Hills. The program includes regular featured guests and open mic.
Helen Avery manages her family property near Longreach, Western Queensland, where she has lived for 25 years. Her life has been intimately involved with the Australian outback landscape. Her most recent book of poetry is Seduced by Sky (Nardoo Publishing, 2005).
Ross Clark writes poetry and haiku. The most recent of his seven volumes of poetry is Salt Flung into the Sky (2007). He has published two haiku chapbooks, including At the turn of the Seasons (2003). Ross has performed in city and rural Australia, in Japan, and the USA.
Nathan Shepherdson won the Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize in 2004 and 2006. He won the Newcastle Poetry Prize and the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award in 2006, the year his first book Sweeping the Light Back into the Mirror was published by UQP. A chapbook what marian drew never told me about light was published by Small Change Press in 2008. He lives at the Glass House Mountains.
Contact Angela Stretch on 0434 898 578 with any enquiries. Click here to visit the Poets Union website for other poetic opportunities.
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12. VIC NEWS, EVENTS, OPPORTUNITIES
SUNBLIND LAUNCH
Geoff Lemon’s debut book Sunblind is being launched on Thursday 27 November, in the function room of the Dan O'Connell hotel, from 7 pm. The launch is set to double as Geoff’s birthday party, because he hasn't had one yet, so if you hate books, come for the party instead!
The night will include performances from Sean M. Whelan, Josephine Rowe, and Felix Nobis. Geoff will also be doing a set, based around pieces from the book. Turn up any time from 7 pm. The readings will start a bit later, and should be done by 8:30 or 9:00. The function room has a full bar available.
The Dan is on the corner of Princes and Canning Streets, Carlton (between Lygon and Nicholson). RSVPs are helpful, but not compulsory: email Geoff at leffrey@hotmail.com, or call 0401 086 545.
ANNOUNCING THE 2010 NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL THEME!
Jeff Khan, Artistic Director, is delighted to announce the theme for the 2010 Next Wave Festival: ‘No Risk Too Great’
The 2010 Next Wave Festival will explore the role of risk in a risk-averse culture. Under pressure to conform, we have all become experts in micro-managing our own behaviour. But is this self-surveillance distracting us from the bigger risks, the more un-manageable ones which are increasingly – and radically – changing our world? Just what does “risk” actually mean in these volatile times? In a wider culture of risk management, how prepared are we to make decisions that are brave, courageous or transgressive? Where is the line between our own personal, moral and ethical worlds, and the codes and principles which circulate in the broader context of contemporary culture? What is our capacity to draw, hold or cross this line? What are the real risks of our time, what are the risks worth taking, and what is our role as individuals, and as artists, in relation to them? How can we act boldly and imaginatively, in art and in life?
That also means that the call for Kickstart applications is now open. Kickstart is Next Wave’s non-Festival year development program, providing amazing opportunities for artists to realise their most ambitious ideas, all in anticipation of the 2010 Next Wave Festival. Next Wave provide cash, a workshop program and comprehensive mentoring and support. If this sounds like it could be for you, click here to download an application pack from the Next Wave website.
YOUTHGAS HIP HOP, RAP, SCRATCH AND AEROSOL ART PROJECT
If you know a young person aged 15-25 interested in hip hop, rap, scratch or graffiti this project may be for them: Whitelion Presents Wound Up And Wired - Ready To Go Hip hop, scratch and graffiti project, on 8-12 December Monday to Friday 10:30am – 4:30pm. Want to know more? Contact Julie McDonald on (03) 9389 4457, 0425 707 583 or email to julie.mcdonald@whitelion.asn.au (text her and she’ll call you back). Come try it out and use it all to say what you wanna say. Express yourself and your ideas. Get your message out there Meet other young people and make a performance together. The raps and breaks created by young people will be recorded on CD and filmed for you to keep! Whitelion is located at 900 Park Street Parkville Victoria 3052 Phone (03) 9389 4420 Fax (03) 9389 4284 or email whitelion@whitelion.asn.au for further details. Click here to visit the Whitelion website.
JOHN MORRISON SHORT STORY AWARD
The FAW (VIC) John Morrison Short Story Award is for a short story on any theme, max 300 words. One copy of each story required. For writers aged 15-20 years. First prize is $200, and second prize is $100. Winners announced in FAW magazine, on the website and at a Presentation Ceremony in March. Entry fee is $6. Submissions close 30 November. Email Philip Rainford at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com phone (03) 94315573 or click here to visit the website for further details.
MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING AWARD
The FAW (VIC) Melbourne University Publishing Award is for a non-fiction work of sustained quality and distinction with an Australian theme, first published in the preceding year. This category includes biographies and autobiographies. Publishers or authors are welcome to submit entries. Two copies of the book are required. Entries will not be returned. First Prize is $1000 and winners will be announced in FAW magazine following the awards presentations in March. Entry fee is $15. Email Philip Rainford at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com phone (03) 94315573 or click here to visit the website for further details. Entries close 30 November.
COLIN THIELE POETRY AWARD
The FAW (VIC) Colin Thiele Poetry Award is open for poems on any theme, and open to young writers aged between 15 and 20 years. Entries will not be returned. There is no word limit. Sponsored by Michael Dugan. First prize is $200, second prize is $100. Winners will be announced in FAW magazine following an awards presentation in March. An entry fee of $5 and an entry from must accompany all submissions. Postal Address: PO BOX 973, ELTHAM VIC 3095. Contact the awards co-ordinator at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com or phone (03) 94315573 for further information. Click here to visit the website for further details. Submissions close 30 November.
YOUNG POET OF THE YEAR AWARD
The FAW (VIC) Young Poet of the Year Award is open for poetry on any theme, no word limit. First prize is $200, second prize is $50. Winners will be announced in FAW magazine after the awards presentation. An entry form and $5 entry fee must accompany all submissions. Postal Address PO BOX 973, ELTHAM VIC 3095. Contact the awards co-ordinator at philip.lifeplan@bigpond.com or phone (03) 94315573 for further information. Click here to visit the website for further details. Submissions close 30 November.
MUSE 4: BETTER SORRY THAN SAFE
The University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association is seeking creative contributions in all literary genres from all writers, Australian and international, graduate student or not. They especially want work that teeters on the brink of going too far. Think daring, rather than experimental. When choosing what to submit, keep in mind the golden rule: better sorry than safe. All submissions published will enter the Muse/UMPA Creative Writing Prize. Click here for further details.
VWC SPECIAL EVENTS
TRUTH AND MEMORY
with Patti Miller, Elly Varrenti and Dmetri Kakmi
Meet Patti, Elly and Dmetri as they discuss the endlessly fascinating genres of biography and memoir, and the challenging issues of truth-telling. Patti Miller is author of Writing Your Life; The Last One Who Remembers; Child; Whatever the Gods Do and The Memoir Book. She freelances articles, sometimes reviews, works on manuscript development, and teaches life writing workshops around Australia and overseas. Elly Varrenti is an actress, teacher, broadcaster and author. She writes about families, relationships, parenting and arts-related issues and is well known for her regular ABC Radio National monologue columns. Her latest book, This Is Not My Beautiful Life, a memoir, is published by Penguin and she is a guest at this year's Melbourne Writers' Festival. Elly is coordinator of the Professional Writing and Editing course at Box Hill Institute. Dmetri Kakmi is senior editor at Penguin Books His reviews and essays have appeared in publications around the world. He is the compiler and editor of the celebrated children's anthology When We Were Young, published by Penguin in 2007. His first book, Mother Land, was the co-recipient of the 2007 Peter Blazey Fellowship, awarded by the Centre for Australian Studies, University of Melbourne. The panel will take place on Friday 5 December, 6:30 – 8pm. The cost is $15/$12 for Victorian Writers’ Centre members and $20 for non-members.
All events are held at The Victorian Writers’ Centre, First Floor Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street, Melbourne. Bookings for all VWC programs are essential. Phone (03) 9654 9068 to reserve your place.
That’s all for this month… Stay tuned for our December issue. Keep up to date by visiting the Express Media Website
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Homeless not Artless
Hey Guys, one of our number, Mary (she's not on the list), but you'll remember her, an older lady with orange hair...
Anyway, she's taking part in an event on Monday @ ACMI :
1/12/08 @ ACMI, Fed Square
6.45 - 9pm
Homeless not Artless
Readings, Spoken Word, song & Film
Directed by Adriano Cortese, fund raising for Homeless people
$15 / 10
86632583
Anyway, she's taking part in an event on Monday @ ACMI :
1/12/08 @ ACMI, Fed Square
6.45 - 9pm
Homeless not Artless
Readings, Spoken Word, song & Film
Directed by Adriano Cortese, fund raising for Homeless people
$15 / 10
86632583
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Harvest Update
Greetings dear harvesters
We hope this reaches you in happy and healthy spirits in whichever corner of the globe it finds you. Melbourne is base for the harvest team, and its proven a happy (yet hayfevery) home these past months as we've toiled together to publish issue two. Yes, hurrah, we've made it! And what's more, we think issue two is a beautiful follow-up, jam-packed with a bumper crop of fresh Australian stories, poetry and art from Australia and the rest of the world.
So as the year draws to an end, what better way to catch up with old friends and make new literary buddies than by attending the launch of our second issue - the Spring/Summer bumper edition. The launch is on 5 Dec. and we'll have plenty of copies of harvest to show. There's a mix of new, emerging and established artists, poets and authors for you to discover. Visit us online for a rundown of the pieces.
While we gear up for a launch next month, we'll also be continuing to send through feedback to all of you who took the time to submit your work. Slowly but surely you'll hear from us via email or post.
Our events calendar is a bit Melbourne-centric tho' guess it can be forgiven this time in light of the recent announcement of Melbourne being named a UNESCO City of Literature. But don't forget, if you have any information you'd like us to share, please email us.
Here's some literary and design events that'll get you out and about:
Come one, come y'all to harvest's launch of issue two on Friday 5 December
Its time ... help us celebrate the release of our beautiful, bumper Spring/Summer edition. Enjoy sets from Geoff Lemon, Nathan Curnow and Paul Mitchell and challenge people to Guess Whom? There'll also be limited edition postcards and magazine bundles available on the night. harvest is a handsome addition to your bookshelf, easy to pop in your library bag or handed over for a seasonal offering.
WHERE: The Order of Melbourne, First floor, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
TIME: 6-9pm
COST: FREE... but magazine purchases warmly welcomed!
Check out our invite for the a spotlight on the contributing artists.
Celebrate the first release from our favourite poetry editor, Geoff Lemon
Sunblind is a book of poetry and prose from Geoff Lemon being launched on Thursday 27th of November in the function room of the Dan O'Connell Hotel. Starting at 7pm, the night will include performances from Sean M. Whelan, Josephine Rowe, and Felix Nobis. Geoff will also be doing a set based around pieces from his book.
VENUE: The Dan is on the corner of Princes and Canning Streets, Carlton (between Lygon and Nicholson Streets) .
Sunblind is published by Picaro Press.
Please see attached invite.
The Melbourne Design Market returns on Sunday 30th November
One of our lovely stockists, Kids in Berlin, will have a retail stall at the Melbourne Design Market at Melbourne's Federation Square on Sunday 30th November. Not just for shop-a-holics and design buffs, the market supports an outstanding selection of design retailers, emerging and established designers and design students.
Head to Federation Square's undercover car park from 10am - 5pm. Entry is free.
Poles Apart and Lines Between
The work of students from Holmesglen TAFE's Professional Writing and Editing course, Poles Apart and Lines Between will be launched on Thursday 4th of December at 7pm. Head to Softbelly Bar and Lounge, 367 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne for an evening of literary celebrations.
Visit the Facebook group for more information (PolesApart PoetryAnthology) or
email: fireandice2008@live.com.au
Voiceworks
Magazine #75 Beat is the latest issue of the national quarterly magazine supporting young, new and emerging writers.
Grab your literary-minded friends and visit Horse Bazaar, Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne on Thursday 11 December at 7.30pm.
Poetry Idol
The 2009 series of Poetry idol will be commencing on Sunday the 1st of February 2pm at the St Kilda Library. Hosted by Brian Nankervis (Rockwiz), the event will also launch the new Paradise Anthology with enterainment from legendary blues singer Chris Wilson and his talented wife Sarah Carroll from Git. Michael Crane and Trish Anderson will perform musical poems and 2007 Poetry Idol winner Geoff Lemon will launch the winners prize (a book) by 2008 Poetry idol winner Exra Bix.
Poetry Idol heats will be held at libraries throughout Melbourne culminating in the final at the 2009 Age Melbourne Writers Festival.
First prize is $2000 plus two x$500 runner ups.
To register to perform at the heats, contact mailto:mfrane2000@yahoo.com
For photographs of Poetry Idol events go to www.paradiseanthology.com
Enjoy!
--
Cheers,
Rachael and the harvest team
PO Box 1115
Elwood, Victoria 3184
e. writetoharvest@gmail.com
seeded at www.harvestmagazine.wordpress.com
We hope this reaches you in happy and healthy spirits in whichever corner of the globe it finds you. Melbourne is base for the harvest team, and its proven a happy (yet hayfevery) home these past months as we've toiled together to publish issue two. Yes, hurrah, we've made it! And what's more, we think issue two is a beautiful follow-up, jam-packed with a bumper crop of fresh Australian stories, poetry and art from Australia and the rest of the world.
So as the year draws to an end, what better way to catch up with old friends and make new literary buddies than by attending the launch of our second issue - the Spring/Summer bumper edition. The launch is on 5 Dec. and we'll have plenty of copies of harvest to show. There's a mix of new, emerging and established artists, poets and authors for you to discover. Visit us online for a rundown of the pieces.
While we gear up for a launch next month, we'll also be continuing to send through feedback to all of you who took the time to submit your work. Slowly but surely you'll hear from us via email or post.
Our events calendar is a bit Melbourne-centric tho' guess it can be forgiven this time in light of the recent announcement of Melbourne being named a UNESCO City of Literature. But don't forget, if you have any information you'd like us to share, please email us.
Here's some literary and design events that'll get you out and about:
Come one, come y'all to harvest's launch of issue two on Friday 5 December
Its time ... help us celebrate the release of our beautiful, bumper Spring/Summer edition. Enjoy sets from Geoff Lemon, Nathan Curnow and Paul Mitchell and challenge people to Guess Whom? There'll also be limited edition postcards and magazine bundles available on the night. harvest is a handsome addition to your bookshelf, easy to pop in your library bag or handed over for a seasonal offering.
WHERE: The Order of Melbourne, First floor, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne.
TIME: 6-9pm
COST: FREE... but magazine purchases warmly welcomed!
Check out our invite for the a spotlight on the contributing artists.
Celebrate the first release from our favourite poetry editor, Geoff Lemon
Sunblind is a book of poetry and prose from Geoff Lemon being launched on Thursday 27th of November in the function room of the Dan O'Connell Hotel. Starting at 7pm, the night will include performances from Sean M. Whelan, Josephine Rowe, and Felix Nobis. Geoff will also be doing a set based around pieces from his book.
VENUE: The Dan is on the corner of Princes and Canning Streets, Carlton (between Lygon and Nicholson Streets) .
Sunblind is published by Picaro Press.
Please see attached invite.
The Melbourne Design Market returns on Sunday 30th November
One of our lovely stockists, Kids in Berlin, will have a retail stall at the Melbourne Design Market at Melbourne's Federation Square on Sunday 30th November. Not just for shop-a-holics and design buffs, the market supports an outstanding selection of design retailers, emerging and established designers and design students.
Head to Federation Square's undercover car park from 10am - 5pm. Entry is free.
Poles Apart and Lines Between
The work of students from Holmesglen TAFE's Professional Writing and Editing course, Poles Apart and Lines Between will be launched on Thursday 4th of December at 7pm. Head to Softbelly Bar and Lounge, 367 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne for an evening of literary celebrations.
Visit the Facebook group for more information (PolesApart PoetryAnthology) or
email: fireandice2008@live.com.au
Voiceworks
Magazine #75 Beat is the latest issue of the national quarterly magazine supporting young, new and emerging writers.
Grab your literary-minded friends and visit Horse Bazaar, Lt Lonsdale St, Melbourne on Thursday 11 December at 7.30pm.
Poetry Idol
The 2009 series of Poetry idol will be commencing on Sunday the 1st of February 2pm at the St Kilda Library. Hosted by Brian Nankervis (Rockwiz), the event will also launch the new Paradise Anthology with enterainment from legendary blues singer Chris Wilson and his talented wife Sarah Carroll from Git. Michael Crane and Trish Anderson will perform musical poems and 2007 Poetry Idol winner Geoff Lemon will launch the winners prize (a book) by 2008 Poetry idol winner Exra Bix.
Poetry Idol heats will be held at libraries throughout Melbourne culminating in the final at the 2009 Age Melbourne Writers Festival.
First prize is $2000 plus two x$500 runner ups.
To register to perform at the heats, contact mailto:mfrane2000@yahoo.com
For photographs of Poetry Idol events go to www.paradiseanthology.com
Enjoy!
--
Cheers,
Rachael and the harvest team
PO Box 1115
Elwood, Victoria 3184
e. writetoharvest@gmail.com
seeded at www.harvestmagazine.wordpress.com
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Book Binding Workshop tomorrow
Hello everyone, the City Library Street Press's book binding workshop with Janice Hook is tomorrow at City Library in the Seminar room.
253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne CBD
6 - 7.45pm
If you're coming then let us know here or on the Facebook event page (www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=89123030509) so we have an idea of numbers, also if you have any spare sheets of similar sized paper lying around then bring it along to bind...
See you there!
253 Flinders Lane, Melbourne CBD
6 - 7.45pm
If you're coming then let us know here or on the Facebook event page (www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=89123030509) so we have an idea of numbers, also if you have any spare sheets of similar sized paper lying around then bring it along to bind...
See you there!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Shac Zine
Call-out for submissions for the SHAC Zine
documenting the first 3 marvelous months of the co-op
Want to be a part of it? Get amongst it.
We're looking for articles and writing, pictures and illustrations, arts and your creativity on
DIY - stuff we've done around SHAC; useful crafty shit people want to know
How to- renovations on the cheap and simple
Personal/action stories
Politics of squatting
Recipes of some of the tastes of SHAC
Poetry etc.
Photos/Illustrations/art/shit
History and timeline of SHAC
ANYTHING else to do with SHAC you want to write/draw/make that can be photocopied
28th of November is the close of submissions, if its handdrawn/written drop it into the zine in-tray in the reception of SHAC, 278 Faraday st. or email it to velikaa@hotmail.com
documenting the first 3 marvelous months of the co-op
Want to be a part of it? Get amongst it.
We're looking for articles and writing, pictures and illustrations, arts and your creativity on
DIY - stuff we've done around SHAC; useful crafty shit people want to know
How to- renovations on the cheap and simple
Personal/action stories
Politics of squatting
Recipes of some of the tastes of SHAC
Poetry etc.
Photos/Illustrations/art/shit
History and timeline of SHAC
ANYTHING else to do with SHAC you want to write/draw/make that can be photocopied
28th of November is the close of submissions, if its handdrawn/written drop it into the zine in-tray in the reception of SHAC, 278 Faraday st. or email it to velikaa@hotmail.com
Monday, October 27, 2008
Some Submissions for you
http://www.wetink.com.au/subs.htm
http://sketchmediahouse.wordpress.com/submissions/
http://www.slowreview.com/index.php/Howtowriteforthe-Slow-Review.html
http://sketchmediahouse.wordpress.com/submissions/
http://www.slowreview.com/index.php/Howtowriteforthe-Slow-Review.html
Friday, October 24, 2008
Book Binding Workshop, 19th Nov
Book Binding Workshop with Janice Hook...
Learn about Book Binding,,,,
19th November @ City Library, 253 Flinders Lane
6 - 7.45pm
Learn about Book Binding,,,,
19th November @ City Library, 253 Flinders Lane
6 - 7.45pm
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Sketch Crawl
Check out this cool Melbourne event on 25th October :
http://sketchcrawlmelbourne.blogspot.com
We're going to be concocting some sort of collaboration between us... But show up and help sketch Melbourne. Remember, 'sketching' doesn't have to mean drawing...
http://sketchcrawlmelbourne.blogspot.com
We're going to be concocting some sort of collaboration between us... But show up and help sketch Melbourne. Remember, 'sketching' doesn't have to mean drawing...
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Shakespeare Competition
I'm struggling to figure out of this is an under 18's competition or not, but have a go...
www.makeascene.spikemobile.com
www.makeascene.spikemobile.com
Monday, October 6, 2008
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
voiceworks launch this friday
Cabaret Diablo Present the Special Editors' Handover Launch of Voiceworks Magazine #74 - The Innuendo Edition
FEATURING:
* Band Me and The Grownups
* VJ Marko Che-Gibbard
* Burlesque performer Maree Shefford
* Author Jasper Garner Gore
* Poet Jessica Alice
Join us as we say goodbye to Ryan Paine and welcome Tom Rigby as Editor.
PLUS: Win a Custom Voiceworks iMac!
Friday, September 12, 7:30pm.
Trades Hall – Bella Union Bar,
2 Lygon St (cnr Victoria St), Carlton.
Entry is free. Magazines and subscriptions discounted on the night.
Hope to see you there :)
Facebook: http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?e
Monday, September 8, 2008
Octapod
Here's a listing about the Octapod Zine Library, and a brief blurb:
The Octapod Zine Library
The Octapod Association
3/231 King St
NEWCASTLE NSW 2300
Australia
podadmin@octapod.org
Tel: (02)) 4927 0470
Fax: (02) 4927 1475
Based at the Octapod Association in Newcastle, the Octapod Zine Library is one
of Australia's oldest, largest and most significant collections of zines. A
broad range of zines covering the past 15 years are included in the collection.
A project is currently underway to catalogue the zines. Octapod was responsible
for the publication of the New Pollution (1998) - an anthology of zines from
around Australia. These zines have formed the basis of our collection, which
gets added to each year via people attending the Zine Fair at the National Young
Writers' Festival (as part of the This Is Not Art Festival). The collection has
been classified as significant by the National Library of Australia and we are
awaiting the outcome of our application to the National Library for funds to
preserve and catalogue the collection and make it more accessible through
developing an online catalogue (fingers crossed!). A group recently started up a
weekly drop in arvo, to make zines together. There is also a cataloguing
workshop scheduled during TINA (at Octapod on the Friday and Saturday
10am-12noon).
FYI - Octapod will be open to the public during TINA: Thurs 2nd Oct - Mon 6th
Oct 12-5pm. So, people are welcome to drop in and check out the zine collection.
The Octapod Zine Library
The Octapod Association
3/231 King St
NEWCASTLE NSW 2300
Australia
podadmin@octapod.org
Tel: (02)) 4927 0470
Fax: (02) 4927 1475
Based at the Octapod Association in Newcastle, the Octapod Zine Library is one
of Australia's oldest, largest and most significant collections of zines. A
broad range of zines covering the past 15 years are included in the collection.
A project is currently underway to catalogue the zines. Octapod was responsible
for the publication of the New Pollution (1998) - an anthology of zines from
around Australia. These zines have formed the basis of our collection, which
gets added to each year via people attending the Zine Fair at the National Young
Writers' Festival (as part of the This Is Not Art Festival). The collection has
been classified as significant by the National Library of Australia and we are
awaiting the outcome of our application to the National Library for funds to
preserve and catalogue the collection and make it more accessible through
developing an online catalogue (fingers crossed!). A group recently started up a
weekly drop in arvo, to make zines together. There is also a cataloguing
workshop scheduled during TINA (at Octapod on the Friday and Saturday
10am-12noon).
FYI - Octapod will be open to the public during TINA: Thurs 2nd Oct - Mon 6th
Oct 12-5pm. So, people are welcome to drop in and check out the zine collection.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Harvest Magazine seeking Contributions
Calling all artists!
harvest magazine is cranking up for its second issue and we want to publish your work. Our latest theme is…
Travel
Physical, mental or metaphorical
The journey or the destination
Going places, moving spaces
The Amazon jungle or the local shop
The journey of a thousand miles, one small step for man, etc.
We are looking for art, illustrations, graphics, collage, photography - anything really, if it's roughly on theme. Submissions can be emailed to our art director at harvest.artwork@gmail.com by Monday 15 September.
harvest is Melbourne's newest literary magazine, featuring the work of artists and writers, both emerging and established. Featuring full-colour art and printed on thick stock, aesthetics is as important to us as good content. We're about cross-pollinating between writing, art and design, and being kind to the environment. We have a circulation of about 1000 copies around the country.
Check out our website (www.harvestmagazine.wordpress.com) to see what we do, or pick up a copy at Readings, magnation, Brunswick Bound, Brunswick Street Books, Metropolis or Sticky. Alternatively, order straight from us to help fund our next issue by emailing writetoharvest@gmail.com.
Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in submiting work for issue two.
harvest magazine is cranking up for its second issue and we want to publish your work. Our latest theme is…
Travel
Physical, mental or metaphorical
The journey or the destination
Going places, moving spaces
The Amazon jungle or the local shop
The journey of a thousand miles, one small step for man, etc.
We are looking for art, illustrations, graphics, collage, photography - anything really, if it's roughly on theme. Submissions can be emailed to our art director at harvest.artwork@gmail.com by Monday 15 September.
harvest is Melbourne's newest literary magazine, featuring the work of artists and writers, both emerging and established. Featuring full-colour art and printed on thick stock, aesthetics is as important to us as good content. We're about cross-pollinating between writing, art and design, and being kind to the environment. We have a circulation of about 1000 copies around the country.
Check out our website (www.harvestmagazine.wordpress.com) to see what we do, or pick up a copy at Readings, magnation, Brunswick Bound, Brunswick Street Books, Metropolis or Sticky. Alternatively, order straight from us to help fund our next issue by emailing writetoharvest@gmail.com.
Please feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested in submiting work for issue two.
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