Your ideas, submissions and suggestions are invited for the 2010 Australian Poetry Festival.

1. Do you or your poetry group have a poetry project (reading, workshop, special event) you would like to see incorporated in the umbrella program of the 2010 Australian Poetry Festival?

   The Poets Union invites members to submit a proposal for a poetry event to be included in the umbrella program of the festival. Events can be held anywhere in Australia but preference will be given to regional events. This is a chance to be part of a national festival, to promote poetry in your region, to receive some funding for your event, and to access the email and website listings of the festival program as a way of publicising it.

2. Regional Poets in Residence

   It is planned to award three ‘scholarships’ to regional NSW poets to attend the festival on the basis of a short manuscript and a statement about what the poet would get out of attending the festival and what he/she would take back to the region as a result.

   It is proposed that the scholarship will include assistance with fares and accommodation, free entry to all festival events, manuscript assessment and some workshopping.

Please email your ideas to brookemery@gmail.com Subject Line: ‘Festival Proposals’

or by post to Festival Proposals (attn Brook Emery),
Poets Union Inc.,
PO Box 755, POTTS POINT NSW 1335.

Any suggestions or specific questions about the festival
may be emailed to Brook Emery: brookemery@gmail.com