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CORRESPONDENCE TO:
Wagga Wagga Writers Writers
Booranga Writers’ Centre
Locked Bag 558
Charles Sturt University
Wagga Wagga NSW 2678
Telephone/Fax:
(02) 69 33 2688
E-mail: [email protected]
Website: http://www.csu.edu.au/
Faculty/arts/humss/booranga/Index.
html
ABN: 72323065359
OFFICE HOURS
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday: 2pm -5pm.
WHAT’S COMING UP?
Closing date for submissions to
Take it as Red: 5 May
Open Youth Workshop for Take it
as Red: Sunday 28 April, between
11 am—4 pm
Greg Bastian:
22 April—12 May
HSC Student Open Mike:
12 June
Campion Decent:
15 July—10 August
MML Bliss:
14 August— 9 September
Jacqueline Williams:
24 September—12 October
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
Fellowship Writers 2002 . . . . .. ….1
Regional Literary Coordinator .. ….2
Book Reviews... . . . . . . . . . . . . . …3
News from the Region . . . . . .. . . 4, 5
Booranga Bulletin Board . . . . . . . . .5
Competitions, Opportunities,
Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6, 7
2002 Membership Subscription . …8
There’s something for everyone in
Booranga’s 2002 Literary Program,
whatever your age or writing expertise,
whether you enjoy creating prose, poetry,
scripts or autobiography. Four writers,
chosen from a highly competitive field of
sixteen applicants, have accepted the
writing fellowships offered by Wagga
Wagga Writers Writers.
The writers are, from Sydney, novelist,
Greg Bastian and playwright, Campion
Decent; poet, Magenta Bliss from
Tasmania, and prose writer, Jacqueline
Williams from Victoria.
From 22 April to the end of October, the
visiting writers offer a strong, vibrant and
diverse program featuring workshops in
short story and novel writing, poetry,
’life’ and scriptwriting.
Two of the authors have published work
for children and young adults. Greg has
published three novels for teenagers,
while Magenta has a collection of poetry
for children in production with Cornford
Press. Like Campion and Jacqueline,
Greg and Magenta can tailor a workshop
to your group’s needs. All are
experienced in delivering creative writing
workshops. Please contact Booranga for a
more detailed program and writers’
biographies.
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Greg has been writing professionally for
fifteen years. His latest novel, Ride the
Tiger was published in 2001. Greg
teaches at Nepean Community College,
has a postgraduate certificate in writing
from UTS, has been a writer-in-residence
at Varuna Writers’ Centre and received a
writer’s grant from the Australia Council.
He has worked too as an editor and
manuscript assessor. Greg also has a rural
connection having attended Griffith High
Booranga Fellowship holder, Greg Bastian.
School before moving to the city, so
he’s keen to revisit that area. Greg has
much to offer aspiring and more
experienced writers, whether
teenagers or adults.
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The timing of Greg Bastian’s fellowship means that we can offer
contributors to Take it as Red the
chance to polish and edit their drafts
in a special Open Youth Workshop at
Booranga. We have therefore moved
the closing date of submissions for
the youth anthology to 5 May, so that
students may take advantage of an
open workshop with Greg and a
number of writers and editors from
WWWW, at Booranga Writers’
Centre on Sunday 28 April, at any
time between 11 am to 4 pm. Each
workshop participant will work with
one of our experts.
Just come along with your draft story
or poem or telephone or e-mail
Booranga to find out more.
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BOORANGA NEWS
March / April 2002
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Wagga Wagga Writers Writers
welcome Caronne Porter as our
new office manager. Although
Caronne is from Melbourne, she
has a strong link with the
Riverina as she spent three of her
school years at Mt Erin High.
On the committee for 2002 are
David Gilbey (President), Dorothy
Simmons (Vice President),
Margaret Anderson, Ros Brennan,
Tony Dunn, Catherine Edwards,
David Pietsch, Christine RyanChapple and Colin Schumacher.
Caronne has a degree in Business
Administration from RMIT and
most recently worked in credit
management at Optus. She
arrived just in time for the Alyssa
Brugman tour and our AGM
(that’s called a baptism by fire).
The Treasurer’s position is vacant
now that Neil McKenzie has
retired from the committee after
looking after the WWWW
finances for many years. Anyone
suitably qualified and willing to
volunteer their time as Treasurer is
invited to contact us.
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newsletter, we did have a ‘nice’
night out at the AGM despite the
iy*itable for alities of such
meetings. The reports wre
relatively brief and our guest
speaker , John Saunders, the
Director of the Riverina Conservatorium and Lecturer in Acting
at CSU, entertained us greatly
with a sort of writers-I -haveknown-and-worked-with account
of his time in theatr.
The position of Publicity Officer
which includes co-editorship of
Booranga News, will be taken by
Kristen Donelan. Kristen works in
the International Office at CSU.
Welcome to Kristen and new
committee members David
Pietsch, a library officer at CSU,
and Catherine Edwards, head
teacher of English at Kooringal
High School.
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During her series of writing work-
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shops in the Riverina in February, Alyssa
Brugman inspired over 200 students from
Albury, Cootamundra, Junee, Temora, Tumut
and Wagga Wagga. We asked much of Alyssa
in the five days she spent with us but she’s a
dynamo who handled crowded, sometimes
back-to-back workshops with participants of
various ages, with apparent ease, enthusiasm
and professionalism.
The Riverina Regional Libraries and Albury
High School provided the venues and handled
the bookings for the workshops which
attracted students from the above cities and
towns as well as groups from Corowa, Leeton
and Ariah Park schools.
This collaborative project between Booranga,
the Eastern Riverina Arts Program and
Riverina Regional Libraries was funded by
Regional Arts NSW. It proved a great deal of
fun for students, providing them with some
guidelines for structuring work, creating
characters and communicating with potential
readers.
Some of the writing inspired by Alyssa
Brugman’s tour will feed into the forthcoming
anthology of creative writing called Take it as
Red. Dorothy Simmons, currently WWWW
Vice President., suggested the anthology and
the theme early last year and it’s now close to
realization with a grant towards publication
coming from Wagga Wagga City Council in
the form of a Crow Award.
Christine Ferrari
Short stories and poetry on the theme of ‘red’ are
sought for a new anthology of creative writing by
young people entitled Take it as Red in July/August
2002. Each writer may submit one story or one poem.
Contributors must be between 11 and 18 years and
resident in the Riverina or nearby rural regions of
NSW.
Entries must be original and previously unpublished.
Word lengths: short stories: max. 1,200, poetry: up to
30 lines. E-mail submissions are accepted.
More information: (02) 69 33 2688 or send entries to
[email protected] or to Take it as Red, Booranga
Writers’ Centre, Locked Bag 588, Charles Sturt
University, Wagga Wagga NSW 2678.
Closing Date: 5 May 2002
Greg Bastian. (2001). Ride the Tiger.
Scholastic, Lindfield.
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BOORANGA NEWS
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This collection is the fifteenth book of
published poetry by Geoff Page. Its
themes capture the variety of a life as a
middle aged person confronts the past
and the present; the light and the dark of
accumulated experience and wisdom.
The puzzles of a family living on the
north coast are juxtaposed beside the
realities of an urban ‘first floor slice of
air’, and the heavy pull of the past
reappears starkly, as the reasons for
going and staying compete in the words
and images .There is nothing gentle in
the choice.
Neither is there anything gentle in the
themes of drug addiction and ancestral
respect which Page describes from a
variety of political and emotional
vantage points. 'The Heroin Anecdotes'
are a set of seven clicks of the camera
revealing the sorrow, the wastage and the
subterranean immunity which authority
can develop about victims. 'The Sorry
Book', like so many of the poems in this
collection, focuses on the embarrassed
ambivalence of ordinary people trying to
make sense of the past and the present.
Poems such as ‘My Mother's
Letters’ ,’Clothes’ and ‘Three Widows’,
explore the consequences of history and
time for those who watch the
process with younger eyes. The slow
creep of urbanization parallels ageing
and only the 'reminiscent moan of dark
uneasy cattle' is left to remind the landscape and its occupants of other histories.
The separations of human life are extended in the theme of dissolution
and rediscovery. 'Strangers' captures the
details of relationships packed
up in pantechnicons, and 'Starting Over'
bravely confronts the realities
of two people with pasts as rich and
frightening as 'two substantial
novels'.
Page weaves these and other themes together in a coherent collection. The
imagery is economical and clever and is
perhaps best exemplified in 'Seven
Epigrams'. A wonderful read for anyone
who wants to dip in and out of some of
the insoluble riddles of being alive in
contemporary Australian society. It
is better and worse, 'Darker and
Lighter' than perhaps we are able to
contend with.
Roslin Brennan
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Ian McBryde's fourth collection
locates poems in contemporary
international (mostly urban) scapes,
as well as Greece, Cambodia and
Melbourne, though the title poem
seems more dreamlike.
McBryde's title and poems suggest
position, relationship and, above all
extremity, of people coming
unhinged due to the intense
pressure of their circumstances
(and the weather). Five Islands
Press has chosen a bold, colourful
cover and clear, plain typesetting
which complements the brusque,
muscularity of the poems.
Some of McBryde’s poems are
playful, such as ‘Monstera
Deliciosa’ seen as a kind of
striptease, or the poetic essay
‘Melbourne 4 a.m.’ – in the
tradition of ‘city of women’. There
are however disturbing and sinister
poems invoking a more clenched,
macho sensibility as ‘Sniper on
Leave’ or ‘Reports from the Palace’ (anonymous, post-coup) and
‘Arsonist’, where the impulse to
light fires is linked to a sexual drive
towards masturbation.
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or email
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email:
[email protected] or
phone (02) 4284 3020
His poems often take historical subjects
and turn them into poetic narratives or
dramatic monologues: ‘Mawson's Walk’,
‘Frances Farmer at the Beach’, ‘Last
Fathom’ (the Otama submariners who
drowned when their submarine dived,
leaving them to drown in the Pacific,
1987). While McBryde's poems are often
short in line and length, the longer
sequences are, for me, the best things in
Equatorial and remind me of the clipped,
tough incandescence of Anthony
Lawrence's Blood Oath.
David Gilbey
Note: this is an abbreviated version of a
longer review that appeared in Australian
But I was also moved by the
Book Review No.238, Feb 2002.
intelligent tenderness of ‘This is
my Kiss’ (‘this/ leaning cliff, this
raw/ oxygen, this unclosing/ of
roses’) and ‘Her Neck’ ('Impossible
column,/ stamen of doves … / …
the ghosts/ of bone'). McBryde's
forte is short lines, short stanza
forms and a juxtaposition of images, extended in a sequence. At
times he achieves a haiku-like
poignancy wedded to a modernist
brutality, as in the selection of
Iconastasia (small roadside shrines
in Greece, memorialising road accident victims), e.g. 'These tears are
peeling/ my face away, I am/ nearly
down/ to bone'.
Poets (from left to right) Brook Emery, Les Wicks and
Jill Jones at Gleebooks for the launch of fourW twelve.
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Oura’s own Jen Thompson took workshops with a group
of Barellan women in order to generate stories for a
publication to complement the recently opened Barellan
Museum. Barellan, probably best known as the birthplace
of Evonne Goologong Cawley and the site of a biennial
‘Back to Barellan’ festival, is a small wheat growing town
that’s well worth a visit with its new museum, community
public art work and friendly residents. Some of the
women involved in creating the Museum are also
participating in the writing project; intriguing stories are
emerging from the group. They’re still ‘moving and shaking’, this time with pen and paper.
Plotting the writing workshops: in front—Madeline Scully,
Musuems of the Riverina, Monika Velins, ERAP. Back row—
Margaret McCrae, Lyn Dalton, Nancy Dicker from the Barellan
Progress Association, and Marie McGee. Photo: C. Ferrari
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Roxanne Henderson was one of the Leeton writers who
impressed 2001 fellowship writer, Pat Skinner. Roxanne, who
is fourteen, also traveled to Junee to attend Alyssa Brugman’s
workshop. Like Pat, Booranga believe there’s real potential
here. Read one of Roxanne’s poems below.
The Barellan project is funded by a CASP grant from
RANSW and the North East Rural Counselling Service. It
is a collaboration between the Barellan Progress Association, ERAP, Museums of the Riverina and Booranga
Writers’ Centre.
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The gentle sound of the creek’s trickling
mixes with the softness of the lyrebird’s mimic
in the heart of the Minnamurra Rainforest.
Drip, drip, drip are the drops of dew
rolling from the dark green velvet leaves,
only to glimpse, while suspended in air,
the delicate fern fronds unfolding
to soak up the sun, until they fall and shatter
into thousands of broken fragments.
Nature blossoms in every corner and crevice
of this beauty of beauties.
To climb to the falls is steep
but I hardly noticed as I melted
into the yellow patches of early morning sunlight,
filtering the shadows.
A spectacular sight awaits as I undergo this magical walk.
Water falling in cascades
to crash on the smooth boulders below.
A rainbow shines in all her radiance midway.
The tangled mass of surface shrubs, wet on their edges,
for they dared to stand in the way
of the mountainous roar of Minnamurra Falls.
Roxanne Henderson
July 2000
Sandy Lyons, a member
of the Tumbarumba
writers has published a
novel, Dream in Danger
(Seaview Press, 2000) and
an MS diary called
Dancing, Not Falling
(2001).
Described as a romance/
mystery by one reviewer,
Dream in Danger follows
the adventures of Lauren
Bond, a journalist writing
for a British travel magazine. She travels to the
Northern Territory to
research its tourism
potential and to seek the
Both Sandy’s publications
were written after she was
diagnosed with MS in 1991.
As she says in Dancing,
Not Falling, this was the
year her ’world fell apart’ as
her life necessarily moved
in other directions in vocational, physical and
geographic terms. She resigned from teaching in
Albury, moved to Tooma at
the foot of the Snowy
Mountains, where her husband has developed a vineyard, and learnt to live with
chronic illness. There are
plenty of frustratingly
unpredictable ‘falls’ in
Sandy’s life, especially on
’MS days’ when it’s easy to
feel ‘lonely and especially
unloved’, but as her diary
shows, there’s also much to
celebrate. She’s writing,
taking on some tutoring
work, gardening, dancing to
music at water aerobics and
continuing her work as a
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marriage celebrant.
Sandy is currently editing a play for
senior high school students which
she worked on during a week long
play-writing course at NIDA. Consequently she’s looking forward to
Campion Decent’s visit to
Booranga in July.
To purchase Dream in Danger or
Dancing, Not Falling, contact
Sandy at ’Hesperia’, Tooma HSW
2642 or Phone/Fax: (02) 6948
4449.
Christine Ferrari
Visual artist and poet, Joy Cornish
(right) from Young, at the Sydney
launch of fourW twelve. Photo:
Joan Dwyer (above) performs stage
management duties at the Annual
Writers’ Prize Presentation at the Grove
Estate Vineyard outside Young last
October. Watch Booranga News for
information about this year’s FAW
Lambing Flat Competition.
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Nevenka Beyer, who recently arrived in
Wagga Wagga, is interested in a forming a
discussion group of writers of novels in order
to offer peer editing and support. If you are a
more experienced writer with unpublished
long fiction and would like to participate in
such a group, please contact Nevenka at
[email protected]
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Writers with ideas and drafts they wish to discuss with
each other, may wish to form regular discussion
groups at Booranga Writers’ Centre on Monday or
Wednesday or Thursday afternoons. Please let
Caronne or Christine know if you’re interested in
participating in such a group: 69 33 2688 or
[email protected]
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about writing are most welcome.
Writer may like to post poems or short
work for comment by others. Staff or
Committee members will respond to
any queries at least once a week.
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BOORANGA NEWS
March / April 2002
COMPETITIONS, OPPORTUNITIES AND EVENTS
Competitions
Tom Howard Short Story Contest No. 10
1200-8000 words. Entry form essential,
guidelines available. Total prize money:
$1250. Entry fee: $10 per story plus $1 GST.
Entry forms available from PO Box 237,
Wyong NSW 2259 or e-mail: rastar@tpg.
com.au
Closing Date: 29 March 2002
Seed Pearls: International Yellow Moon
Literary Competition
Entry fee: $3 each entry. Categories: A –
Prose: A Haiku Journey (Haibun) to 600
words, prizes: $125, $50. B – Haiku (sheet of
three haiku = 1 entry), $100, $50. C – Tanka
(sheet of 2 tanka = 1 entry, $80, $40.
D – Renga (36 linked verses written by 2-3
people), $120. E – Brief poem, theme
‘nature’ (to 20 lines), $80, $40 plus
certificates and publication. For guidelines
and entry forms: Yellow Moon, PO Box 37
Pearl Beach 2256 or send a SSAE to
Booranga Writers’ Centre.
Closing Date: 30 March 2002
Australasian Poetry Awards
Poetry to 100 lines, any theme. Prizes: 1st
$300 2nd $150 3rd $50 plus certificates and
commendations. Enry fee $5. Unpublished
works, no previous prize winners. For entry
forms send a long SSAE to PO Box 1563,
Mail Centre, Ballarat Vic 3354.
Closing Date: 31 March 2002
Radio National’s PoeticA
PoeticA is calling for submissions from
young regional poets around Australia—
people under 35 years and living outside the
state and territory capitals. The poems must
be original, unpublished works. Any theme or
style. Maximum of three poems, no longer
than 50 lines each. Enclose a SSAE if you
wish your poems to be returned. Send entries
to Young Regional Poets, PoeticA, GPO Box
9994 in your nearest capital city or e-mail to
[email protected]
in a book entitled Betrayals in July 2002.
Details and entry forms from PO Box 53,
Charnwood ACT 2615, or fax: ((02) 6258
9069 or e-mail [email protected] or
can be downloaded from http://www.
ginninderrapress.com.au
Closing Date: 30 April 2002
Slippery When Wet
Short story with a road theme to 2000
words. Prizes 1st $500, 2nd 200, 3rd$50. For
entry form send SSAE to Slippery When
Wet, 101 Parer Street, Burwood, Vic 3125.
Closing Date: 30 April 2002
Amateur Science Fiction and Fantasy
Competition
Three categories: written fiction, visual
and/or sound media and junior (under 16
years) achievement. Winners receive $100.
Access www.vicnet.net.au/-converge for
submission guidelines.
Closing Date: 10 May 2002
Yellow Moon: Quest for an Ode
A single verse of 11 lines based on the
rhyming scheme of the first stanza of
Keats’ ‘Ode to Autumn’. Three prizes of
$100. Entry fee: $5 per ode or three entries
for $10. Subscribers to Yellow Moon will
find an article on writing an ode in issue 10,
Summer 2001. Entry forms and guidelines
from Quest for an Ode, Box 37 Pearl Beach
NSW 2256.
Closing Date: 30 May 2002
Dreams: Ginninderra Press Short Story
for Children Competition
Entries must be suitable for children aged 8
to 12 years, original, between 2000 and
3000 words and inspired by the theme of
dreams. Entries must not have been published previously or currently entered in
any other competition. 1st prize: $250. A
shortlist of ten stories will be chosen for
publication by Ginninderra Press in a book
to be entitled Dreams. For details and
entry forms contact Ginninderra at PO Box
53, Charnwood ACT 2615, by fax: (02)
The selected poems will be broadcast in a
6258 9069, by e-mail: smgp@cyberone.
feature program later in 2002. Authors of
com.au of download from http://www.
selected poems will be paid a copyright fee of
ginninderrapress.com.au
$100. PoeticA, the ABC Radio National proClosing Date: 28 June 2002
gram of classic and contemporary poetry is
presented every Saturday at 3 pm.
Australian Women’s Weekly: Short Story
Closing Date: 31 March 2002
Competition
Word length: 3000-5000. Central character
Betrayal: Ginninderra Press Short Story
must be a woman. Prizes: 1st $20,000 and
Competition
publication in AWW, Runners up: $3000
Original stories between 3000 and 5000
and publication. Conditions of entry at
words in length inspired by the theme of
www.ninemsn.com.au/aww Send entries to
Betrayal. Entries must not have been
The Australian Women’s Weekly Short
published previously or currently entered in
Story Competition, PO Box 5522, Sydney
any other competition. The writer of the
winning story receives $300 while a short-list 1028.
of ten stories will be selected for publication Closing Date: 30 April 2002
First prize: $20,000 and publication, Runners Up: $3000.
CALLING YOUNG ARTISTS
BETWEEN 11 AND 18 YEARS TO
CREATE AN IMAGE FOR THE
COVER OF TAKE IT AS RED.
Take it as Red, a collection of
creative writing by young people
from the Riverina reflecting on the
theme of ‘red’, will be published by
FourW Press in July/August 2002.
We seek a cover image for the book
that, like the writing inside, relates
to the theme of ‘red’ in any manner
imaginable. The image may be a
drawing, a painting, a collage, a
photograph, mixed media design,
etc.
The image must be original and
previously unpublished. The cover
dimensions are 21 cm (height) X 15
cm (width). Send entries to
Take it as Red Image
Booranga Writers’ Centre
Locked Bag 588
Charles Sturt University
Wagga Wagga 2678.
Closing date: 5 May 2002
Opportunities
Australia Council Literature Fund
Copies of the Australia Council Support for
the Arts Handbook for 2002 are available
from Booranga. Call in to pick up your copy.
Playworks/Varuna Writers’ Centre
Fellowships
Up to two fellowships will be available each
year for emerging and established dramatists.
Writers who have had at least one play professionally produced (mainstage production,
co-operative of professional actors with a
professional director, youth company,
community based company) will be given
preference.
Fellows will be selected by two writers/
theatre workers nominated by Playworks and
the selection will be made in consultation
with the Executive Director of Varuna. The
selectors are looking for dramatists (both
male and female) with viable projects who
would benefit from dramaturgical assistance
and advice. There is one call per year for
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applications. The deadline for applications is 30 May 2002. This programme is
open to men and women. Contact
Varuna Writers’ Centre, 141 Cascade
Street, Katoomba NSW 2780 for
application forms and requirements.
Tel: 02 4782 5674, Fax: 02 4782 6220,
Email: [email protected] Website
www.varuna.com.au You must be a Playworks member to apply for these programmes.
Closing Date: 30 May 2002
Playworks
Booranga has brochures outlining Playworks’ programmes for scriptwriters in
2002. These include Mentorship for a
Regional Writer, Dramaturgy for
Promising Scripts, National Script/
Writer, Dramaturgy for Imminent
Productions and the Playworks/Varuna
Writers’ Centre Fellowships (above).
Send a SSAE to Booranga for your
brochure or contact Playworks PO Box
A2216, Sydney South, NSW 1235. (02)
92648414 or e-mail: playwks@ozemail.
com.au
New Radio Plays Required
Regina Botros and Jack Feldstein are
plannng and producing a Radio Drama
Show that presents radio plays and pieces
on 2-SER FM (Sydney). Pieces of 7 to 30
mins duration to Regina Botros, PO Box
14, Newtown, 2042. Ally styles, contents
and themes considered. Further details
e-mail: redvelvetproductions@hotmail.
com
Imajes Magazine Seeking Poetry and
Short Stories
Any theme, contact Gail [email protected]
Poetry Australia Foundation: New
Publication: Call for Contributions
First issue of the new Poetry Australia
will appear in May carrying poetry, reviews and articles about poetics. No
prose fiction of reviews of prose.
Intending contributors to send no more
than 5 poems, attach a cover letter with
your details and names of poems, do not
put name and address on the poems. Enclose a SSAE if you wish to have your
poems returned. Submission is by mail
only to Poetry Australia, PO Box U34,
Wollongong University 2500.
Submissions Sought for Book on
Chronic Illness
Emma Corcoran is seeking honest and
unique personal reflections on the impact
that chronic illness has had on the individual’s life. Contact Emma for more
details on (02) 66 841194 or [email protected]
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March / April 2002
Explore: Youth Submissions Sought
Explore is a youth writing magazine seeking contributions from 8-10 year old
writers. Stories about children in the 8-10
age group, of up to 800 words are sought.
Send a SSAE to Explore, Magazine
Division, Pearson Education Australia, 95
Coventry Street, South Melbourne, Vic
3205.
Events
2002 National Playwrights’ Conference
The Conference is Australia’s premier
working theatre event, and will be held at
the Australian National University in
Canberra from 22 April – 4 May. The National Playwrights’ Conference focuses on
an intensive workshop of ten new plays in
the collaborative process that is fundamental to the making of
theatre.
The two-week Conference also includes
readings of new works by visiting
playwrights from Germany, Israel, New
Zealand and USA. Also being run again,
after a huge success in 2001, is The Drama
Lab, a workshop program for Drama and
English teachers. For further information
on The Studio or the Conference, please
contact ANPC, phone 02 9555 9377, fax
02 9555 9370 or e-mail [email protected]
Conference Dates: 22 April – 4 May
Australian Festival of the Book
The South Coast Writers’ Centre, the
Southern Highlands Booksellers’ Association and Wingecarribee Council will host
the inaugural festival in Bowral over the
weekend of 26—28 April 2002. More information is available from www.
booktown.com.au
Visual artists Scott Baker and Adam
Bell who work together as co-lab. See
their work in fourW twelve and on
their website: connect.to/co-lab
Websites
Crime Factory : New Magazine for Crime Writers: www.crimefactory.net
Glen Eira Literary Awards:
Www.gleneira.vic.gov.au/literary
The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry
(Canada) www.griffinpoetryprize.com
National Playwrights’ Conference
Www.anpc.org.au
Fluid Ink: Online Poetry Journal
Http://www.fluidinkpress.com02.com/
Poets Union: www.ozemail.com.au/~poetinc
Metro Magazine (Australian Teachers of
Media—ATOM): www.metromagazine.com.au
New Youth and Culture Services
Portal: www.vibewire.net
Regional Arts NSW
www.regionalartsnsw.com.au
Writersdisplay.com: Bringing Writers and Publishers Together: www.writersdisplay.com
WOW International Touring Short
Film Festival
The WOW International Film Festival
presented by Women in Film and
Television, is currently on tour to 12 states
and regional destinations and is coming to
Wagga Wagga on Friday 22nd March.
Reel Indies Film Society in collaboration
with the Eastern Riverina Arts Program
(ERAP) and the Museum of the Riverina,
present a dynamic and diverse selection of
both 16mm and VHS short films at the
Museum of the Riverina Historic Council
Chambers, Cnr of Baylis and Morrow St,
Wagga Wagga on 22 March 7.30pm.
(02) 69 216 890 or [email protected]
Egyptian Tour for Writers
13 day escorted writers’ tour of Egypt
departing 3 September. Cost: $3680. For
details contact Chris Mansell: [email protected] or (02) 44 23
4774 or PO Box 1504 Nowra 2541.
CSU Acting student, Elyza Hall and musician
Phillip Chetcutti entertain at the Wagga launch
of fourW twelve. Photo Brett Martin.
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