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EDITOR: DEREK MOTION
fourW twenty-three
The twenty-third annual edition of fourW is soon to be launched in Sydney, Wagga and
Melbourne. In a matter of days recent writer-in-residence Fiona Wright will be launching
the book for us in Sydney, and this year one of Australia’s most well known poets Les
Murray will be in Wagga and Melbourne to handle the launching duties.
This is what fourW editor and Booranga Presdient David Gilbey has to say about this
volume of fourW:
‘fourW twenty-three brings together some of the best new writing from around Australia
and overseas. The anthology links local, regional voices to more established and international writers. New work by recent writers-in-residence Jennifer Mills and Christopher
‘Kit’ Kelen, is included alongside internationals such as Jane Joritz-Nakagawa and Lance
Nizami, plus well-known Australians Les Murray, Ivy Alvarez, Matt Hetherington and
Brett Dionysius, as well as ‘regionals’ Derek Motion, Jane Downing and Claire Baker. A fine banquet of sinuous imaginative writing.’
Booranga would like to encouranga any or all of you to come along and help us celebrate at one of these launches:
Sydney: Saturday 24th November, 3.30 for 4pm, Gleebooks
Wagga Wagga: Saturday 1st December, 2 for 2.30pm, Wagga Wagga City Library
Melbourne: Sunday 2nd December, 2 for 2.30pm, The Butterfly Club, Bank Street,
South Melbourne
* The Melbourne launch is being held at a small venue, and seats have been filled by contributors. Please do
come along on the day if you are interested though, as some extra seating may become available.
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]
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Recent Events
2012 Calendar of Booranga Events
During August Booranga played host to well known writer and television personality Andrew Daddo. Andrew appeared at the Wagga Library August 14th, where he
gave a talk on becoming a children’s writer. Andrew ebtertained all present with his
anecdotes, and it was particularly interesting to learn of the connection Andrew has
with CSU academic Mark MacLeod - Mark was Andrew’s first publisher, and indeed
November
24th: fourW twenty-three,
Sydney launch. 3pm, Gleebooks.
encouraged him to start writing in the first place.
December
September was a busy month already too. On the 7th Booranga President David
Gilbey and I travelled over to Albury for the Write Around the Murray Festival. We
firstly attended the book launch event for Robyne Young’s The Only Constant, where
we were part of a large and enthusiatic crowd. Later we both performed at the Poet’s
Loft, and event that saw Booranga poets perform alongside special guests Andy
Jackson and Emilie Zoey Baker, as well as local open mic performers.
September 14th saw Booranga, the Wagga City Library and Word Travel partnering
to present to Wagga Heat of the Australian National Poetry Slam. Once again it was
1st: fourW twenty-three,
Wagga Launch. 2pm, Wagga
City Library (launched by Les
Murray).
2nd: fourW twenty-three,
Melbourne launch. 2pm, The
Butterfly Club (launched by
Les Murray).
2013
a great night at The Home Hotel and we had an audience of around 80 watching. It
was a competitive event as usual, but after tallying up the scores the two local representatives who went through to the state final were Zohab Khan and Jo Wison-Ridley
March
(pictured on the next page with Booranga and Library staff).
11th - 23rd: Writer-in-residence, Josephine Rowe.
Furthermore, at the time of writing this I have just been informed that Wagga win-
June
ner Zohab Khan has in fact taken out first place in the NSW state final as well. This
means that for the second year running Zohab will battle it out with the best spoken
word artists in the country at the National Poetry Slam Final! This event will take
place on Saturday 2nd December and we’re all wishing him the best of luck.
Writer-in-residence, Keri
Glastonbury
July
2013 ASAL conference to be
held in Wagga Wagga.
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And most recently we played host to our final writer-in-residence for the year, the aptly named Fiona Wright. Fiona took out
the Mary Gilmore award for poetry in 2012 (an award for the
best first collection in the preceeding two years) and she treated
us to readings from this collection, as well as other newer
pieces.
I always find it particularly rewarding when a writer gets a lot
out of coming to stay at Booranga. Our aim of our writer-inresidence program is twofold: we want writers to come here and
share their skills and experience with local writers; but we also
want to offer Australian writers a work opportunity, a chance
to take time out of their normal schedule, to be paid to work on
their new projects, and to promtoe their work to a new audience.
Fiona got a lot of writing done while in the Booranga flat and really appreciated the opportunity to be here.
If you can make it to the Sydney launch of
fourW you will be able to catch up with her
again.
*** BTW, did you notice our new
Booranga logo? It has been designed for
us by Monica Higgins of Green Peas for
Breakfast. In the coming weeks we will be
implementsing across all of our print and
online presences.
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Booranga Events Gallery
Clockwise, from top-left: Andrew Daddo describes how he came to writing; Booranga has a new sign!;
Jo Wilson-Ridley performing in the NSW State Final of the Aus Poetry Slam;
Maurie Kramer performs in the Wagga Heat of the Australian National Poetry Slam.
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Writer-in-residence, 2013
Booranga’s first visiting writer for 2013 will be Josephine Rowe.
Josephine is a Melbourne based writer of fiction, poetry and nonfiction. Her recent work appears in Best Australian Stories, Best
Australian Poems, Meanjin, The Iowa Review and the forthcoming issue of Harvard Review. She has taught creative writing at
Swinburne University and at the University of Melbourne, and in
2011 was the Australian representative at the University of Iowa’s
International Writing Program. Her new short story collection is
Tarcutta Wake (UQP, 2012). More information about her and her
publications can be found at josephinerowe.com
Josephine will be in the Riverina from 11th - 23rd March and
further details about her itinerary will be forwarded to you
early in 2013.
Later in 2013 we will visited by poet Keri Glastonbury (here for
a writing residency and also to participate in the national ASAL
conference - this conference will feature some of Australia’s most
well-known literary academics and writers, and Booranga will be
planning a number of events to coincide).
Finnaly for 2013 we will host noted novelist Margo Lanagan
(October 2013).
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Booranga on the Web
There are a number of ways to use the internet to keep us
with the activities of the Booranga Writers’ Centre. But
increasingly it seems that there is no one perfect method
to guarantee you will get the information. Which do you
prefer? Regularly checking the website for updates? Or
waiting to receive an email bulletin... Or do you still prefer
to receive the regular newsletter and print it out for comfortable reading?
My advce is that the best option is to sign up to all of the
updating services. Newsletter only come out bi-monthly, so they can’t keep you abreast of short notice opportunities. Email updates
are more regular, btu for whatever reason the statistics show that only around half of our emails are opened by recepients. So please
do take a moment to check that you have all the details correct: sign up for our email service, and then also like us on Facebook,
and follow us on Twitter. Also check that your emails are getting through to the right address (and not filtered out as spam). This is
important because the bi-monthly newsletter link will be sent out to this list.
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PUBLISHING, COMPETITIONS and OPPORTUNITIES
General Submissions
Short and Twisted
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:
http://www.litmags.com.au
‘Short and Twisted’, an anthology of short stories and poetry
with a twist at the end, is seeking submissions of short stories
(1500 words, 500 words and 100 words), poetry and images
for the 2013 issue.
(Booranga receives copies of the NSW based journal Southerly, and issues are available to borrow for Booranga Members)
For submission guidelines and more information visit: http://
www.celapenepress.com.au/
Closes: 30th
Poetry
November
Prose
The Peter Porter Poetry Prize
The EJ Brady Short Story Competition
The Peter Porter Poetry Prize, which honours the great Australian poet Peter Porter (1929–2010), is one of Australia’s
most lucrative and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees
winners wide exposure through publication in Australian Book
Review.
Two categories: the Major Short Story, for stories of 2,500
words or less and the Very Short Story, for stories under 700
words. Writers can enter one or both categories with as many
stories as they like. Monetary prizes. This year also features
the EJ Brady Youth Award.
First Prize: $4000
All information: www.australianbookreview.com.au
Information and entry details: http://www.artsmallacoota.
org/
Closes: 30th November 2012.
Closes: 30th November
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PUBLISHING, COMPETITIONS and OPPORTUNITIES
Commonwealth Short Story Prize
Awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (20005000 words). Regional winners receive £1,000 and the overall
winner receives £5,000. Commonwealth Writers is delighted to
partner with Granta Magazine again this year to give the overall
and regional winners of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize
the opportunity to have their story edited and published by
Granta online.
Visit website for details: http://www.commonwealthwriters.
org/
[untitled] short story competition
Opens 1st December! Stories of any genre, 5,000 word limit.
First prize $500.00, second prize $250.00, third prize $125.000,
and two highly commendeds. Winners will be published in
[untitled].
Check website for details: http://www.busybird.com.
au/?page_id=892
Closes: 15th February 2013
Closes: 4th December
black&write! Indigenous Writing Fellowships
Calibre Prize
Enter State Library of Queensland’s national black&write!
writing competition with your novel, short stories, poetry or
children’s book.
Two winners will each receive:
·
$10,000 prize money
·
Manuscript development with black&write!’s Indigenous
editors at SLQ
·
Publication by prestigious Indigenous publisher Magabala
Books
Published and unpublished Indigenous writers – this is your
chance to be a part of a growing community of deadly writers,
illustrators and editors
Details and entry forms avaiable at: http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/
whats-on/awards/blackwrite/fellowships
Entries close: 31 January 2013
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The Australian Book Review is currently taking submissions for
the seventh Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay. The Calibre
Prize seeks to generate brilliant new essays and to foster new
insights into culture, society, and the human condition. Essays
can range from 3000-7000 words and all non-fiction subjects are
eligible.
For submission guidelines and entry forms visit: www.australianbookreview.com.au/prizes/calibre-prize.
Closes: 10th December
BOORANGA WRITERS’ CENTRE
APPLICATION FOR 2013 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-one 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:
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