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BOOK LAUNCH: Illustrated History Of Dairies by Joanne Burns
Friday October 12
Twenty-three poems about issues such as "The Truth and Other Shrapnel" (Glen Hooper), "How Would You Say Risk management" (Jill Jones) and the "Rogue State" (John Carey), have been selected from innumerable entries in the Journey into Spin competition organized by the Mistress of Spin (Poets Union committee member and performance poet) Jenni Nixon.
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Woodleigh Gardens Artists and Writers Retreat.
This unique tropical retreat promotes a healthy complete vegetarian lifestyle and offers a peaceful creative haven for artists and writers from around the world... |
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THE POETRY AUSTRALIA FOUNDATION The Poetry Australia Foundation was established in 2002 to promote the reading, writing, reviewing and appreciation of poetry in all its forms. It is a not-for-profit, community-based organisation. Its establishment arises out of the conviction that many more people would read and enjoy modern poetry, if only they knew it was there, and if it was presented in a way that allayed suspicion of poetry instilled in many potential readers by earlier experiences in schools and universities.The Poetry Australia Foundation supports the work of Five Islands Press, leading publisher of contemporary Australian poetry, and, in return, any profits made by Five Islands Press will be used to support the work of the PAF. The Foundation also seeks to co-operate with other writing organisations - poets' unions, writers' centres, the Taronga Foundation Poetry Prize and others. For just $40.00 per year you And, as a member you will get two issues per year of our magazine Blue Dog: Australian Poetry, a regular Newsletter; an annual catalogue offering discounts on recent poetry publications from most Australian publishers and a 25% discount on Five Islands Press books. For further information, contact: PAF, School of Creative Arts, University of Melbourne 3010; Ph 03 8344 8713; Email rpretty@unimelb.edu.au; Website: www.sca.unimelb.edu.au/paf/index.html
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The Australian Society of Authors
The Australian Society of Authors offers many benefits to members, including contractual advice, recommended payment rates and mentorships.
Mentorships provide practical and effective support, with successful applicants working closely with an experienced mentor of their choice for 20 hours over up to twelve months. The ASA has run mentorship programs since 1995 and over 90% of writers in previous programs rated their mentorship as very effective or effective, and over 50% were published subsequently.
Applications are accepted in the genres of fiction, literary non-fiction (autobiography, biography, essays, histories, literary criticism or analytical prose), poetry, Young Adult, children's writing and picture book illustration.
For more information, please call Jill Dimond on 02 9318 0877 or email jill@asauthors.org or go to the ASA website http://www.asauthors.org
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New Network for Disabled/Isolated Writers
Disabled writer Don Ludlow is inviting groups, organisations and individuals to join a new international network established for, and by, disabled/isolated writers. Penned Voices Unlimited (PVU) will be an international network of linked sites, individuals and organisations who are, or who accommodate disabled and/or isolated writers. PVU will provide a wide-ranging, robust, internet-based network that allows disabled/isolated writers to communicate with each other and the world. It will include a variety of email lists, chat rooms and linked websites - encompassing personal and collaborative websites, as well as existing independent sites where works may be displayed or where help can be obtained in getting established. Further details may be found at: www.geocities.com/penvoices/ | ||||||||||||
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Thylazine's Australian Poets Directory.
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Papertiger
Not quite a journal, not really an anthology, not a CD of 'spoken word' poetry to play on your hi-fi, and absolutely not a book, the papertiger: new world poetry CDROM didn't fit comfortably into any existing publishing category. Instead, it quickly established its own style, focus and reputation as a totally unique, high-quality hybrid of poetry journal-anthology-CD-book; a venue for the innovative, the compelling and the transformative.
Now in its sixth year, papertiger media has expanded from its original role as a publishing vehicle for the annual poetry CDROM, to also publish poetry on the web and in print.
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Dan Disney's chapbook, The Velocity of Night Falling, is published by Hit&Miss Productions (2003). He is a PhD student at the University of Melbourne; his thesis, "The Archaic Shudder: Toward a Pragmatics of the Sublime" is a re-reading of Kant's 'transcendental faculty of the imagination' via Derrida, the ordinary-language philosophers, and a selection of poetries. Before returning to university as a thirty-something student, he worked as a social worker. He is a previous winner of the Melbourne Poets Union Prize (2001) and the Somerset Prize for Poetry (2003). He lived in a shack on the snowline of Falls Creek in the Great Dividing Range in 2003, where he acquitted an Australia Council (Emerging Writers) Grant and spent a lot of time trying to stay warm. In 2004 he undertook an eight week residency at Yaddo, upstate New York. He has travelled extensively in Eastern Europe and India. It is his great wish to see Antarctica, soon.
Congratulations on being shortlisted:
MARK TREDINNICK (Glebe NSW) - "A New Age Pastoral"
Mark Tredinnick is a poet, essayist and writing teacher. His books include The Land's Wild Music (Trinity University Press, 2005), the forthcoming landscape memoir The Blue Plateau, and The Little Red Writing Book (2006). Mark is also the editor of A Place on Earth: An Anthology of Nature Writing from Australia and North America (University of Nebraska Press, 2003).
Mark's prizes include the Wildcare Nature Writing Prize and the Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize. His work has appeared in Orion, Resurgence, Island, ISLE, Southerly PAN and other journals in Australia, the US and the UK. His stories and reviews have appeared in all Australia's major newspapers. He writes regularly for The Bulletin.
Mark teaches creative writing, creative non-fiction, composition and professional writing at the University of Sydney. He is working on a volume of poems.
In 2003, with Kate Rigby and Charles Dawson, he founded ASLE-ANZ (the Association for the Study of Literature & Environment-ANZ). For many years, Mark lived in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, the place he writes about in The Blue Plateau; but he lives now in Glebe, in inner-city Sydney.
JUDITH BEVERIDGE (NSW) - "Three Fishermen"
"… makes global use of vernacular experience, and is a meditation on the correct posture - both bodily and spiritual - to adopt when sitting on a verandah."
Kathy Kituai is a poet and creative facilitator. Although she has published a children's picture book, radio documentary, three anthologies, reviewed and written for magazines, her first love is poetry. Her poetry collections are green-shut-green and The Lace-maker. Something more familiar is due out in 2006 and she is seeking a publisher for Straggling into Winter (tanka collection).
JAMES CHARLTON (Blackman's Bay, TAS) - "Transgressive Saints"
James Charlton and his partner Sonja Vanderaa live on five acres of scrub, south of Hobart. His book Luminous Bodies, published by Montpelier Press, came equal second in the Anne Elder Prize. Bruce Dawe has described Charlton's work in these terms: "His poetry is both visionary and anchored in the dailiness of life. He networks the finite and the infinite, enhancing our understanding and respect for both." Charlton is poetry editor of the literary quarterly, ISLAND, based at the University of Tasmania.
DAVID BROOKS (Glebe NSW) - "The Magician (a sequence)"
"… two beautifully realised sonnets and two more expansive lyrics that take the image of the stage illusionist into dark new metaphorical territory …" - The Judges
David Brooks' first collection of poetry, THE COLD FRONT, was published in 1983, and his second, WALKING TO POINT CLEAR (Brandl & Schlesinger), twenty-two years later. A third, URBAN ELEGIES, is about to appear from Island Press. He teaches Australian Literature at the University of Sydney, and is co-editor of SOUTHERLY.
The poems by all six finalists are available in an attractive booklet published by Picaro Press. Available for $6 from the 