City Library Street Press workshop with Geoff Lemon 8th April

From the Man himself....

"As a writer myself, I can tell them about writing techniques and tricks, or I can focus on how to manage yourself professionally as a writer - that is, how to get you work out there, how to approach publishers and publication opportunities, and so on. I've published poetry, short stories, and articles, so I've encountered a range of different types of publication. And I brought my first book out last year, so that could also be a useful discussion.

I can also tell them about publishing from the other side of the fence, given that I have several years of experience working as a magazine editor and particularly as a poetry editor. This could cover both the mechanics of how to approach editing someone else's work, and the broader stuff of how to manage a publication financially and administratively - so, distribution, advertising, marketing, sales, grants, etc.

Then as a performer I've done a lot of work, including some pretty big venues supporting bands and so on, and I've won various competitions. So I could give advice on how to write for performance, on how to approach performance, and how to prepare for competition. And I've worked for a couple of years as a gig convenor, so again, I could talk about the administrative, promotional, and organisational aspects of running performances."

Visit www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/libraries or call (03)96589500 for more details and to confirm a space.

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'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!

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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

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.

Story To... Hits the Streets

I know I only turned up to one of the meetings but I love being part of the City Library Street Press Google group because I get so much info and so many awesome links to check out. Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've recently co-founded and edited a new commuter zine called Story To... Check out www.storyto.wordpress.com and download a copy for free!

Kate x