BOORANGA NEWS
NEWSLETTER FOR BOORANGA WRITERS’ CENTRE OF
WAGGA WAGGA WRITERS WRITERS INC.
NOVEMBER - DECEMBER 2011
EDITOR: DEREK MOTION
fourW twenty-two
It’s that time of the year and Booranga is once again launching the annual
anthology of poetry and prose, fourW. fourW is published through our fourW
press imprint. Editor David Gilbey writes the following:
‘fourW twenty-two brings together some of the best new writing from around
Australia and overseas. Originating in the energetic and iconic Wagga Wagga
Writers Writers, fourW twenty-two is produced out of Booranga Writers’ Centre
at Charles Sturt University’s Wagga Wagga campus and links local, regional
voices to more established and international writers. New work by recent writers-in-residence Ali Cobby Eckermann and Jim Haynes, is included alongside
internationals such as Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, Goro Takano and Robert Berry,
plus well-known Australians A S Patric, Ivy Alvarez, David Prater, Jill Jones,
Les Wicks and ‘regionals’ Derek Motion, Jane Downing and Louise D’Arcy. A
fine banquet of sinuous imaginative writing.’
Come along to any or all of the launches and enjoy a glass of wine with us and
help celebrate the launch. David will be announcing the winners of the 2011
Booranga prizes for both best poem and best short story on the day.
Launch dates:
Wagga: Saturday 19th November, Wagga City Library, 2 for 2.30pm.
To be launched by Graham Gorrell.
Melbourne: Sunday 20th November, Courthouse Theatre, Carlton, 2 for 2.30pm. To be launched by Petra White.
Sydney: Saturday 26th November, Gleebooks, 3.30 for 4pm. To be launched by Rhyll McMaster.
Booranga Writers’ Centre (McKeown Drive) 2011 Office Hours:
Staff will be in every Monday (9am - 3.30pm), Tuesday (9 - 11.30am), Thursday (9 - 11.30am).
For enquiries (with a quick response) email us: [email protected]
Or alternatively email our director directly: [email protected]
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2011 Calendar of Booranga Events
Recent Booranga Events
Writer-in-residence: Holly Throsby
As this picture demonstrates, we had a
fantastic turn out for
Holly Throsby’s performance during October.
Over 100 people came
through the door at the
Museum of the Riverina’s Botanic Gardens
site, and all were treated
to a great show. Holly
played a selection of
songs from all of her previous albums. The quiet venue and stripped-back instrumentation really let her writing shine through.
The following day Holly also was present for a discussion on songwriting at the
Booranga Writers’ Centre. A group of enthusiastic writers and performers gathered to
hear Holly’s thoughts on the process - we discussed the genesis of songs, the crafting, editing and performing.
November
fourW twenty-one launches:
19th: Wagga Launch: Wagga
City Library, 2.30pm
20th: Melbourne Launch: The
Courthouse Theatre (Carlton),
2.30pm
26th: Sydney Launch: Gleebooks, 3.30pm
24th: WB Yeats Exhibition:
Wagga City Library, 5pm
Writer-in-residence:
Kalinda Ashton
During September Kalinda Ashton
- author of The Danger Game - was
in residence at Booranga. While here
Kalinda appeared at the Albury Write
Around the Murray Festival; spoke to
students at Charles Sturt University
(both in Albury and Wagga); gave
a writing workshops for Booranga
members; was interviewed on two local radio stations; and of course read
a selection of her work at the Wagga
City Library (alongside Booranga member Kelly Shaw). Kalinda has told me that her
time in the region was both busy and productive.
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2012
Featured writers-in-residence:
Jennifer Mills
Christopher ‘Kit’ Kelen
(dates to be announced)
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Booranga writers-in-residence for 2011
March - Novelist, Jennifer Mills:
Jennifer is an Australian novelist, short story writer and poet. She is the author of the
novels The Diamond Anchor (2009) and Gone (2011), both published by University of
Queensland Press, and a chapbook of poems, Treading Earth.
Jennifer Mills has lived in Alice Springs but now resides in Adelaide. She was the winner
of the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific
Region of the 2008-9 Commonwealth Short Story Competition, and the 2008 Northern
Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. She was shortlisted for the 2009 Manchester
Fiction Prize. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith
Review, Best Australian Stories 2007, and New Australian Stories 2. She has also been a regular contributor to Newmatilda.com.
Also on in the Region...
May - Poet, Christopher ‘Kit’ Kelen:
Christopher (Kit) Kelen is a well known Australian scholar, poet and artist whose
literary works have been widely published and broadcast since the mid seventies.
The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature describes Kelen’s work as ‘typically
innovative and intellectually sharp’. Kelen holds degrees in literature and linguistics
from the University of Sydney and two doctorates from the University of Western
Sydney – a PhD in the area of poetics and an EdD in Critical Pedagogy of Creative
Writing.
In 2009 Kelen was shortlisted for the PressPress Poetry Chapbook Award and his
volume of poems the whole forest dancing was published by PressPress in 2010 in
English, Chinese, Portuguese and Italian editions. In 2010, Kelen’s poem ‘time with
the sky’ (inspired by a 2009 Bundanon residency) placed second in the Newcastle
Poetry Prize.
Apart from poetry, Kelen publishes in a range of theoretical areas including writing pedagogy, ethics, rhetoric, cultural and literary
studies and various intersections of these. In 2010 Kelen coordinated a poetry translation retreat at Bundanon in NSW, part of an
ongoing project translating Australian poets into Chinese. A first volume in that series, Fires Rumoured about the City – Fourteen
Australian Poets was published in 2009.
* Specific dates for readings and performances will be sent to you via e-news updates, as well as in our first Booranga News for
2012.
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Opportunity for Writers:
Short Play Festival
Once again, it’s time for submissions for the SoAct’s annual “Ten x 10”
play festival.
The cut off date to get your 10 minute play sent in is 30th November.
SoAct hope to announce the successful applicants in Jan 2012.
Please email plays directly to Mick Radatti at [email protected]
The judges need to recieve two copies of the play, one with writers details
and another without any details. Remember that the plays need to be about
1600 to 2200 words to fit in to the 10 minute format.
This is a great opportunity to see some of your written work produced on stage, and in past years Booranga members have been successful in having works produced.
The Life and Work of
WB Yeats
Wagga Wagga City Library is thrilled to be hosting this exhibition from
the National Library of Ireland. The Irish Consul General will open the
exhibition on Thursday the 24th of November at 5pm. Wine, nibbles,
poetry and Irish accents - what could be better?
Thursday, 24th November from 5 - 6pm
Wagga Wagga City Library
RSVP: 6926 9700 or [email protected]
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Word Travels in Association with Sydney Theatre Presents . . .
Australian Poetry Slam 2011- National Final Write A Revolution!
From urban lanes to country rivers, thousands of Australians have spent
the last six months spitting poetry, stories, lyrics and monologues; winning audience love and a place in the finals. Now 16 of the nation’s best
wordsmiths are coming to wipe the Sydney Theatre stage with quick
heart-beats, sweat-breaking nerves and verbal magic. One will be chosen
to as Slam Champion to represent Australia with a writers’ tour of Asia
worth almost $11,000 plus some serious literati schmoozing.
What can you do?
With so many writers coming to Sydney perform their work, we want to offer them an awesome audience. Here are three
simple suggestions for getting involved:
1. Buy a ticket - outstanding! 2. Two tickets even better!! 3. Ask 5 friends to come with you... you will have blessings heaped
upon you in poetic heaven!!!
* Sunday 27 November 5pm,Sydney Theatre Main-Stage, 22 Hickson Rd Walsh Bay, $30 (plus booking fees)
Book tickets here: http://www.sydneytheatre.org.au/event.asp?pID=216
or call: (02) 9250 1999
Visit the Australian Poetry Slam website for more details: http://australianpoetryslam.com/
Supported by the Copyright Agency Ltd., Avantcard, Word Travels, Sydney Theatre, State Libraries of QLD and VIC, Public
Libraries of SA, NT Writers Centre, Alice Desert Festival, Tasmanian Poetry Festival, Jakamo Remote Services - WA, Traverse
Poetry - ACT
* Photo: by Claire Leticia Reynolds- Tariro Mavondo, APS 2010- Victorian Slam Finalist
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POETICA
PRESENTED BY MIKE LADD
SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 3.05 PM THURSDAY.
Program details:
November
5th 12th
19th 26th The Sixth Sense – extrasensory poetry selected by Regina Botros.
Baudelaire – famous poems from Les Fleurs du Mal, translated by Jan Owen.
Contre Baudelaire – John Tranter’s contemporary interventions on Baudelaire.
Circus Apprentice – the poetry of Katherine Gallagher.
December
3rd
10th
17th 24th 31st Tomas Tranströmer – selected poems by the winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Jejuri – Arun Kolatkar’s cycle of poems about a pilgrimage in Maharashtra.
Akiko – a feature on Akiko Yosano, who pioneered new forms for Japanese poetry.
Christmas Lights – Mike Ladd’s selection of Christmas poems, old and new.
Break on Through – a feature on the life and writing of Jim Morrison.
January
7th
14th 21st The Woman I Am – selected poems of Nancy Keesing.
Nine-Two-Five – the poetry of work.
The Revolution Will Not Be Televised – in memory of Gil Scott Heron
For further details please contact the producers of Poetica:
Mike Ladd
(08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271
Or visit our website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/
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PUBLISHING, COMPETITIONS and OPPORTUNITIES
Poetry
General Submissions
The 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize
for New and Emerging Poets... is closing soon!
Remember to keep in mind those literary journals that are
open for submissions all year. A good place to start researching the major Australian ones is here:
This is the richest and most prestigious award for new poets
in Australia, with a major prize of $6000, and two runner-up
prizes of $1000.
http://www.litmags.com.au
The judge of the 2011 Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for
New and Emerging Poets is Peter Minter.
(Booranga receives copies of the NSW based journals Southerly and HEAT, and these are available to borrow for Booranga Members)
The closing date is this week! Posted by Tuesday 15 November 2011.
The winners will be announced in March 2012.
For more information, including entry forms, see the Overland
website: http://overland.org.au/poetry-prize/
IP Picks
National Writing Competition for Unpublished Manuscripts
Royalty publication to the best book-length manuscript in
five categories: Best Fiction, Best Creative Non-fiction, Best
Poetry, Best Young Adult / Junior Prose, Best First Book.
Love Poetry
Australian Poetry would like to know what your favourite
Australian love poem is – it may be love of a person, place,
animal, sensation or an abstract concept. It might be a satire
on the whole notion of love. It might also be the lyrics to a
song by an Australian songwriter.
First Place Winners of each category are awarded publication.
Highly Commended entrants are given a short reader’s report
valued at $299, offering editorial advice on how to improve
the manuscript.
Selected poems will be played on all ABC networks and will
be available on the Poetica website as downloadable audio.
IP Picks opens on 1 October and closes on 1 December each
year.
A compilation will be broadcast on ABC Radio National’s
Poetica program on February 18th 2012. Please read the terms
and conditions before submitting and send the title of the
poem and any link or reference to it to [email protected] by January 31st, 2012.
Further details and entry forms available at:
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PUBLISHING, COMPETITIONS and OPPORTUNITIES
The Peter Porter Poetry Prize
Entry Forms available: http://www.australianbookreview.com.
Entry to the eighth annual Australian Book Review poetry prize
– renamed the Peter Porter Poetry Prize, in memory of the late
Australian poet – is now open.
au/files/Forms/Calibre_Prize_2012_Web_Entry_Form.pdf
Closing date: 1 December 2011
Judges: Judith Beveridge and David McCooey
The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative
and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees winners wide
exposure through publication in ABR.
First prize: $4000 / Shortlisted poems: $250
Entry forms available: http://www.australianbookreview.com.
au/files/Forms/PPPP_Entry_Form_2012.pdf
2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2000
– 5000 words). Submissions must be made by the author of the
short story. Regional winners receive £1,000 and the overall
Closes: 21 November 2011
winner receives £5,000.
Please read these eligibility and entry rules carefully before
beginning the online entry process. The Prize is open for entries
Prose
from 18 October 2011, entry forms must be submitted no
later than 30 November 2011 (5pm GMT). No entries will be
Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay 2012
considered if received after this date unless given prior consent
Australian Book Review seeks entries for the sixth Calibre
Prize for an Outstanding Essay, the nation’s premier award for
an original essay and one of the world’s major essay competitions. The Calibre Prize is intended to generate brilliant new
essays and to foster new insights into culture, society, and the
human condition. We welcome essays from leading authors and
commentators, but also from emerging writers. All non-fiction
subjects are eligible.
First prize: $7000 / Second prize: $2000 / Third prize: $1000
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from the Prize Administrator at [email protected]
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PUBLISHING, COMPETITIONS and OPPORTUNITIES
[untitled] Short Story Competition
Inner City Life Writing Competition
First prize: $300.00
Second prize: $150.00
A writing competition for writers of short stories and poetry
on the theme of “Inner City Life”, organised by the Australian
Writers Network, sponsored by Gleebooks, and open to anyone
from anywhere.
Third prize: $75.00
And two Highly Commendeds.
Winners will also be published in the next issue of [untitled].
Theme: The topic is “Inner City Life anywhere anytime”, whatever interpretation you give to the phrase.
The basic guidelines are a 5,000 word limit and stories can
be any genre. One entry costs $10.00, and two $15.00. If you
Closing Date: 5pm Friday 18 November 2011
entered last year, you can enter again!
Entries: Short Story (maximum 500 words) and Poetry (maximum 20 lines).
Competition opens 1 December 2011, closes 15 February
On a separate cover sheet, write your name, address, phone
number and email address, along with the name of your story or
poem.
Further details can be found on the entry form: http://www.
2012.
untitledonline.com.au/competition.html
Entry fee: $8 per entry
Screen and Theatre
You can either send your entries to [email protected]
and pay via Paypal at www.irinadunn.com.au. (Please make sure
you identify your last name when paying.)
AWG Horror Script Competition
OR send your entries and cheque/money order to:
The AWG is looking for honest horror scripts - supernatural
or non-supernatural - (ghost stories, creature features, zombie
and vampire scripts, splatter and slasher films etc) as well as
genre hybrids. Win an audience with & get your script read by
renowned genre producers and a once in a lifetime micro-mentorship with Australian Masters of horror Shayne Armstrong and
Shane Krause.
Inner City Life Competition
Australian Writers Network
PO Box 1600
Auburn NSW 1835
More information available at: www.awg.com.au.
Closes: 18th November
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BOORANGA WRITERS’ CENTRE
APPLICATION FOR 2012 MEMBERSHIP
Booranga (trading as Wagga Wagga Writers Writers Inc.) was formed in 1987 to assist and promote local authors and their
work. The group holds regular readings at local venues, conducts writing workshops, offers fellowships at Booranga, the Riverina Writers’ Centre at Charles Sturt University, and published an annual anthology, fourW, under the imprint of fourW press,
and is active in promoting writing and writers throughout the Riverina.
Membership period: 1st January to 31st
December 2012
Group membership (including one copy of fourW)
$55.00
Single membership (including one copy of fourW)
$36.00
Single membership (not including anthology)
$25.00
Concessional membership (one copy of fourW)
$26.00
Concessional membership (not including anthology)
$15.00
Student membership (under 21 years) not including
anthology
$11.00
MEMBERSHIP ENTITLES YOU TO...
- Copy of fourW twenty-three Anthology
- Regular newsletter (bi-monthly) & e-list mailouts
- 10% discount at Book City, Wagga
- 10% Discount at Angus & Robertson Bookworld,
Wagga
- 10% discount to RTC performances
- Member discounts to readings, performances & workshops
- Invitations to writing events & get-togethers
- Access to a network of writers, book enthusiaists &
other writers’ centres for information & friendship
- Use of Booranga Writers’ Centre resources, such as
library and computer
Please fill out and send application form to:
Wagga Wagga Writers Writers Inc. Booranga Writers’ Centre,
Charles Sturt University, Locked Bag 588, Wagga Wagga NSW 2678, Phone/Fax (02) 69332688
Name:
Address:
Telephone:
Email:
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