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!

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Cheers,
Rachael and the harvest team
PO Box 1115
Elwood, Victoria 3184
e. writetoharvest@gmail.com
seeded at www.harvestmagazine.wordpress.com

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

New website for Zinesters!

www.wemakezines.ning.com

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.

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.

Sticky Looking for Volunteers

Sticky is doing a shout-out for anyone interested in becoming a
volunteer, for 1 day a week in the shop. You don't need to be amazing at
maths or have retail experience, you just have to be confident with
people, like zines and be good with paperwork.
Please email elle at sticky
stickyshop@gmail.com or give her a call on 0421 479 153

Hoopla #3 call for contributions

Hoopla #3 is now in production and we're looking for more contributions. Hoopla is the world's most revolutionary craft zine and has a global audience and distribution network. After an initial foot in the water to see if there would be an interest in such a zine and discovering that there indeed is, Hoopla will now be offered quarterly. And it's gonna get a bit flasher!

Contributors get a free copy, website links in the zine and a 25% discount rate for all future issues. And yes, this applies to contributors to earlier issues, I'll be in touch to let you know how it works.

The theme of Hoopla 3 is 'Radical Inspiration'. We want to hear and see what it is that drives people to make political craft and participate in creative resistance.

Contributions are welcome in the following forms:
Opinion pieces
Craft action reports
Patterns and tutorials
Pictures of finished craft and other inspirational graphics

Contributions may be accepted in the following forms:
Poetry (completely over to editorial whim, don't get your hopes up)

Contributions are never accepted in the following forms:
Advertising (ick)

We'd also like to hear from anyone that wants to offer any of the following skills: graphic design/layout, distribution, proofing. Same deal goes for the contributor benefits.

If you have something that you want to contribute that doesn't fit in with the theme, get in touch and run it by us. It might still be suitable or it might be just perfect for the next issue!

Submissions are due by September by email. If you are planning a contribution, please get in touch and let us know so we can start planning space. The planned release date for this issue is September 30.

Please forward this email on to anyone you think may be interested in contributing.

Love + rage
The Hoopla Collective

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