1.Please note submissions for the 2010 Members’ Anthology are due on 21st April. The Members’ Anthology is printed to coincide with the Australian Poetry Festival 3rd – 5th September 2010. The fee is $25 per page – members only, please download the submission/payment form from the website listed under ‘Competitions and Prizes’.
2.Entries to the Poets Union Poetry Prize are invited and due on 30 June. Entry is open to all with $10 per entry for Members and $15 for Non-members. Please download the entry/payment form from the PU website under ‘Competitions and Prizes’
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POETRY, EVENTS, FESTIVALS AND READINGS ALL OVER AUSTRALIA
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Sydney: Newtown, RhiZomic poetry party and reading at Kerrie Lowe Gallery. 31st March – guest poet is Judith Beveridge
RhiZomiC Poetry is proud to present our: guest poet Judith Beveridge.
Date: Wednesday 31 March, 2010 (the last Wednesday of every month)
Time: 7-9 PM
Venue: Kerrie Lowe Gallery
Address: 49 King St. Newtown
RhiZomic Poetry Reading is held on the last Wednesday of every month (sometimes the 4th Wed - this time the 5th!). RhiZomic features new and established poets and offers everyone the opportunity to share their own poetry at an open-mic. RhiZomic is a Poetry Party and Open-mic.
About Judith Beveridge...Judith Beveridge is one of Australia's most highly regarded poets, the author of three award-winning books of poetry, 'The Domesticity of Giraffes', 'Accidental Grace' and 'Wolf Notes' (Giramondo, 2003), which won both the Victoria Premier's Award for Poetry and the Queensland Premier's Judith Wright Calanthe Poetry Prize. Her poems are widely studied in schools and universities. Judith Beveridge teaches creative writing at the University of Sydney, and is the poetry editor of Meanjin. In 2005 she was awarded the Philip Hodgins Memorial Medal for excellence in literature. Judith Beveridge's latest collection 'Storm and Honey' was launched recently at Gleebooks in Sydney by poet Mark Tredinnik. Judith Beveridge's audio CD of poems 'Cut With Stars' is available from River Road Press.
KERRIE LOWE GALLERY 49 King St, Newtown NSW 2042 P 9550 4433 / F 9550 1996
E lowekerrie@gmail.com W www.kerrielowe.com Mon - Sat 10 am - 5 pm
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In Newcastle – 1st -18th April Artist-in-Residence workshops with Jason Nelson.
From Hunter Writers’ Centre : Calling all Designers and Poets!
Jason Nelson, New Media Artist-in-Residence, The Lockup 1st – 18th April
Jason Nelson, winner of the 2008 Newcastle Poetry Prize New Media section and judge of the 2009 Prize, is coming to Newcastle as the Lockup’s Artist-in-Residence. This is a unique opportunity to work with Jason in Newcastle on the growing trend of New Media poetry: merging internet-based technologies and poetry. In recent years, The Newcastle Poetry Prize has incorporated a New Media section, where design and poetry come together. “Sound, animations, video, and other forms of internet based media are presented to enhance other poetry or art. The media can either be mandatory or available at the conscious decision of the viewer”, Nelson says. With such an online presence it’s no surprise Nelson also has a dedicated online cult following for his Digital Poetry Games, game, game, game and again game and I made this. You play this. We are enemies.
Nelson describes the field of New Media Poetry as relatively small and obscure. “Few people in the art or literary realms either know much about the fields or have even read/explored a digital writing artwork,” says Nelson. “This is both a concerning and exciting prospect.” Nelson won the 2008 New Media section of the Newcastle Poetry Prize with ‘Wittenom’, his first Australian dedicated digital poem. “I’ve lived on the Gold Coast for five years, having been recruited by Griffith University from the US to teach digital literature. And much like many artists and writers in Australia, my eyes and efforts were focused overseas,” said Nelson, “…winning the [Newcastle Poetry New Media] prize made me realise that we should work harder to promote digital literature here in the world’s southern half.”
"Poetry is a form of art that is not restricted by any demographic. While there are many avenues for poets, Nelson explains “…what [makes] the Newcastle Poetry Prize so exciting, and indeed internationally unique, is that it is the world’s longest running prize for New Media Poetry. Exploring past winners is like opening a timeline of the field, from early code works and simple animations to more interactive and multi-media works.” The Newcastle Poetry Prize encourages poets to explore, create and take a risk…One area I would hope future entries would explore or add is more interactivity, more non-linearity and multi-dimensionality, more layering of content and dynamic responsiveness… I want to see more works where the readers become part of the experience, where they take part in the exploration and indeed creation of the digital poem.”
Jason Nelson will be running a series of workshops during his residency from the 1st – 18th April, 2010. Please contact the Hunter Writers’ Centre on 49263485 or see the website www.hwcentre.com for more info.
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Perth Poetry Club: Sat.3 April, 2-4 pm with guest poet Elio Novello
Guest poet this Saturday 3 April - Perth Poetry Club: Elio Novello
COMING UP AT PERTH POETRY CLUB
10 Apr: BLACK RIDER PRESS: Jeremy Balius & his lit cats
17 Apr: MAUREEN SEXTON + TBA
24 Apr: Tom Collins Poetry Prize 2009: FAWWA presents the 9 WA winners
1 May: KAY CAIRNS + TBA
+ Plus open mike. Professional sound. Come listen and hang out with poetry lovers in the comfy back room of The Moon http://www.themoon.com.au/
Address: The Moon Café, 323 William Street, Northbridge.More info (yes, more!) : http://www.perthpoetryclub.com
Enquiries: Email: perthpoetryclub@gmail.com Phone: Janet 0406 624 578
Have you seen our Perth Poetry Links
Readings, groups, poets, journals, publishers... WA poetry.
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In Sydney - Word in Hand Tues 6 April @ The Friend in Hand Hotel with guest poets Steve Smart and Randall Stephens
TUE 6th April 2010 WordinHand presents...
from Melbourne, Steve Smart - Steve Smart is the hand that rocked the cradle. But the cradle was full of baby stone monkeys. A surprise? Not really, his life is quite a bit like that. Steve has performed his work all over the world for the past decade and a bit; released a bunch of chapbooks and independent CD's, posted several dodgy videos on YouTube and generally made a mess of himself all over the internet. It's been a little while between Sydney drinks and he's damn happy to be back at Word in Hand. If you can't find him, he'll be the one who looks too much like a poet not to be from Melbourne. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=24712285464
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Randall Stephens - 13.7 billion years ago a singularity of infinite density existing without time or space exploded for unknown reasons, creating the universe. For a while not much happened. In 1980 “The Empire Strikes Back” came out, and Randall $tephens was born. He is a poet. His many and varied pursuits include writing poetry, performing spoken word poetry, writing spoken word and occasionally typing it too. After travelling around the world, Randall returned home and is currently living in Denial, while visiting other emotional states in Australia. Find out even more about Randall $tephens, or make a large non-tax deductible donation to him:
http://www.randallstephens.blogspot.com/
Event: WordinHand
Venue: THE FRIEND IN HAND HOTEL,
Address: 58 Cowper Street, Glebe
Tel. (02) 9660 2326
Date: TUESDAY April 6TH,
Time: 7:30 for 8:00 pm.
Entry: Donation Requested $10; $5 conc.
Regular open mike and $50 first prize Slam.
Open Mike & Slam signup from 7:15.
NOTE: The Friend in Hand features Carlton Jugs @ $6.50 and glasses of wine for $3.00.
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In Newcastle –Youth Creative Writing Workshops for 10-14 year olds FULL DAY WORKSHOP IN THE EASTER HOLIDAYS
Next workshop: a full day workshop in the Easter holidays.
The HWC are running an after-school creative writing club for young people aged 10-14. All budding young writers are welcome on Tuesday afternoons from 3.30 – 5.30pm so they can learn about character, narrative, clarity of writing, poetry and language from the HWC’s director Brian Joyce.
The workshops start Tuesday 2nd March and will run for 5 weeks, culminating in a full day workshop in the Easter holidays. The full package costs $150 for 5 weeks and the workshop, or it’s $20 a class and $50 for the workshop. Brian has years of experience running workshops for kids so this is a great opportunity. Call the HWC on 49263485 to book. In term two we’ll be running youth writing workshops for 15-18-year-olds, so if you know anyone who’s interested, let us know!
What is it? Creative Writing Workshops
How old do I have to be? Aged 10-14
Where are they? At the Hunter Writers Centre, 90 Hunter Street Newcastle
How much are they? $20 a workshop, $50 for the full day or $150 for the whole term.
How do I sign up? Email hwcadmin@optusnet.net.au or call the HWC on 49263485.
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In Newcastle – Sat. 10th April workshop ‘Re-Imagining Your Work’ with Jason Nelson. BYOL - Bring Your Own Laptop.
Re-Imagining Your Work with Jason Nelson digital and hypermedia poet and artist.
Date: Sat April 10th 2010
Venue: The Hunter Writers’ Centre
Address: 90 Hunter Street Newcastle
Cost: $55 HWC Members, $77 non-members
Contact: Hunter Writers’ Centre on 49263485 or
see the website www.hwcentre.com for more info
This is a workshop to take your writing into the digital era, for interested writers and digital artists to explore the opportunities of electronic literature and poetry. Last year’s Judge of the New Media Section of the Newcastle Poetry Prize will show you how to re-imagine your texts in a new media. With the growing market for web publishing and electronic work, not to mention the 2010 NPP New Media Award closing date coming up, this is a timely workshop to shift your perceptions of electronic writing and show you how to create exciting digital works with your poetry. Those attending will need their own laptops.
Jason Nelson is a digital and hypermedia poet and artist. He is a lecturer on Cyberstudies, digital writing and creative practice at Griffith University in Queensland, Australia. He is best known for his artistic flash games/essays such as Game, Game, Game And Again Game and I made this. You play this. We are Enemies. Nelson's style of Web art mergers various genres and technologies, focusing on collages of poetry, image, sound, movement and interaction. He currently lives in Gold Coast, Australia.
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In Berrima POETRY ON A PLATE 23rd April with Robert Gray at the Bluemetal Vineyard
In Berrima Friday 23rd April – POETRY ON A PLATE hosted by Robert Gray.Acclaimed Australian Poet Robert Gray, is to host the next in the successful series of Bluemetal Vineyard's Poetry on a Plate, on Friday 23rd April 2010. Robert will read from a selection of his works over a relaxing lunch at Bluemetal Café starting at 12pm until around 2.30pm.
This is a wonderful opportunity to relax and listen to poetry within a beautiful vineyard setting. You will enjoy a delicious local produce Jackaroo's Plate, complete with tea, coffee and dessert treats for $40.00 per person. The Cellar Door is open for wine tastings and sales before lunch and throughout the afternoon. The atmosphere is casual and friendly and there is the opportunity for discussion afterwards with Robert, along with Mark Treddinick who mediates the luncheon.
Robert Gray grew up in Coffs Harbour and trained there as a journalist. He then worked in Sydney as an editor, advertising copywriter, reviewer and buyer for bookshops and his first book of poems, Creekwater Journal, was published in 1973.
Gray was a writer-in-residence at Meiji University in Tokyo and at several universities throughout Australia. He has also won many writing and poetry awards including:
- The Adelaide Arts Festival
- The New South Wales Premiers' Awards
- The Victorian Premiers' Awards
- The Patrick White Award
With Geoffrey Lehmann, he edited two anthologies, The Younger Australian Poets and Australian Poetry in the Twentieth Century. He edited Selected Poems by Shaw Neilson and Drawn from Life, the journals of painter John Olsen. After Images is his latest release and much anticipated memoirs, The Land I Came Through Last.
Cost: Poetry on a Plate is $40.00 per person and places are limited.
RSVP: 22nd April. Bookings are essential Tel: 02) 4877 1877 or
Email: cellar@bluemetalvineyard.com
Media Contact: Louise Horsley - Ph: 0438 377727
wine@bluemetalvineyard.com www.bluemetalvineyard.com
Bluemetal Vineyard is located in the beautiful NSW Southern Highlands region and produces premium single estate, award winning wines including Sauvignon Blanc, Pinot Gris, Fumé Blanc, Sangiovese Rosé, Petit Verdot, and The Cabernets.
The Cellar Door and Cafe is open Thursdays to Mondays from 10am to 5pm.
Bluemetal Vineyard and Cafe - 112 Compton Park Rd, Berrima, NSW Ph: (02) 4877 1877
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In Adelaide, South Australia: Goolwa Festival SALT ON THE TONGUE April 23-26, 2010
National Poetry Festival in Goolwa, South Australia between April 23-26 (Friday-Monday inclusive) Paul Kooperman, Acting Director, Australian Poetry Centre.
The Australian Poetry Festival is hosting the Goolwa Poetry Festival- Salt On The Tongue in Adelaide. Taking place on the 23-26th April 2010.
The festival will be opened by Chef Stefano de Pieri and will feature international poets: Robert Minhinnick (To Babel and Back), Arianna Pozzuoli, Elizabeth Smither (The Sea Between Us), Glenn Colquhoun (North South) and Australia's own poetry icon Emma Jones (The Striped World).
Media Contact: Paul Kooperman
Email: paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au (Festival Director)
Tel. (03) 90947827. (For interview times with festival organiser or poets - please contact)
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In North Sydney – 28 April ‘Live Poets @ Don Bank’ free entry for performers for the 20th Anniversary Celebration
Wednesday, April 28th - Live Poets @ Don Bank
LIVE POETS IS 20! And the party's on us! It will be FREE entry for poets/performers!
There wil be a GIANT OPEN SECTION.
BUCK AND DEANNE will kick up a musical storm AND sing poignant refrains.
After the Open Reading (to which everyone who has performed at Live Poets since 1990 will be invited if we can find them!) there will (weather permitting) be a GIANT PARTY and GAMES and QUIZZES under the stars in the courtyard.
Not to mention supper and drinks!
North Sydney Council reps (our landlords!), maybe even the Mayor, will be on hand!
The evening will be FILMED for possible future release on a dvd.
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ALSO from April 7th (app) there will a display of Live Poets Memorabilia at Stanton Library, Miller St North Sydney. Get along and find out how we got started and what we've managed to achieve!
Any more info: (02) 9896 6956 or Mobile 0422 263 373 or dannylivepoets@yahoo.com.au
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In Sydney – starting 29 April an online workshop with Julie Chevalier POETRY LAB BY EMAIL
POETRY LAB BY EMAIL With Julie Chevalier (10CHEV4)
Course dates: Thurs. 29 April – Thurs. 9 September
Full price: $450
Venue: on-line course
Enquiries: NSW Writers’ Centre Phone (02) 9555 9757
Email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au
Want to write poetry but can’t make it to a course or workshop? Need individual feedback on your work without leaving the house? Join widely published poet and teacher Julie Chevalier for an online, interactive poetry writing course.
You will write six poems using exercises and related materials sent by e-mail. Each poem receives written comments. Approximately every three weeks you will receive a poetry exercise, poems, commentary and related materials. Take a couple of weeks to explore the materials, write and rewrite a short poem, and e-mail it to the tutor. You will then receive the next exercise and materials along with the tutor’s constructive comments on your poem.
This course is suitable for someone who is interested in writing contemporary poetry and has reliable email. It fills the gap between working through exercises in a book (although books are recommended) and working with a mentor. It enables people who are unable to access courses and workshops because of isolation, time or distance to receive personal feedback to improve their poems. Students are offered the opportunity to contact each other. HSC students are welcome.
Enquiries: NSW Writers’ Centre
Phone (02) 9555 9757 Fax (02) 9818 1327
Email: workshops@nswwriterscentre.org.au
Website: www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
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COMPETITIONS AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES
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Submissions invited – KATIKATI HAIKU CONTEST 2010 due 16 April
An open theme haiku contest with proceeds going to the Haiku Pathway project. Thanks to Katikati Advertiser for sponsoring the bulk of the cash prizes - 18 & over: $NZ100 for first; $NZ50 for second Haikus entered should preferably be typewritten, otherwise clearly handwritten; previously unpublished (including on the web or broadcast).
Submit 2 copies of each haiku with 1 only including your name, address, phone number (no mobiles, please), e-mail address, and for the junior section only, your age. Putting several poems on an A4 sheet is fine.
Entry fee: Within NZ: 18 & over $5 for 3 haiku or $2 for 1 haiku. 17 & under $1 for up to 2 haiku. For overseas entrants: $US5/3 haiku or $US2/haiku. Post entries to: Katikati Haiku Contest, PO Box 183, Katikati 3166, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Results will be announced and presented on Sunday, June 6.
A judge’s report will be sent by email, otherwise please include a stamped addressed envelope. E: nzhaiku@gmail.com
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Submissions invited from PU Members and due 21st April for the 2010 Poets Union Members’ Anthology – Members: $25 per page
Poets Union Anthology 2010
Call for submission of poems
1 Members of the Poets Union are invited to submit a poem for publication in this year’s Anthology, which is due to be launched at the 2010 Australian Poetry Festival in September. For years now, a popular member activity has been to be published in the Anthology. Recent ones have been Prismatics (2008), Sun and Sleet (2006), Ask the Rain (2004), From the Annabranch (2002) and No River is Safe (2000).
2 To be in the new collection, send us a hard copy of your poem and payment of $25 per page of single-space Times New Roman 12-point typing in PC Microsoft Word 2003 (not 2007. If necessary, when using 2007 save the file into 2003) or Microsoft Word 2004 for Apple. Do not send it in pdf. You may submit more than one poem , but payment needs to be made at $25 per page. Make your cheque or money order out to Poets Union Inc.
3 In addition to hard copy, please send your poem if possible as an Attachment in an email with Subject: Poets Union 2010 Anthology. Please also provide a mail address and a phone number so we can check details where necessary. Send your email to info@poetsunion.com
4 Please supply a four-line biography, concentrating on your life in poetry, to be published in the Anthology.
5 Your poem may be a new one, never before published, or it may be prepublished.
6 If your poem has previously been published, you need to provide us with an acknowledgement, including reference details of where it was published, year, volume number, and page numbers.
7 Type your name on the poem sheet, the poem title, and the poem in single column format.
8 Please name electronic files with your surname and one key word of the poem title.
9 Please mark your envelope Anthology, Poets Union, PO Box 755, Potts Point NSW 1335 and make your cheque or money order out to Poets Union Inc. at $25 per page
All poets featured in the Anthology will be entitled to a copy.
10 Closing date to submit your poem is 21 April 2010. Please download the entry/payyment form from the website www.poetsunion.com under Competitions and Prizes on the left hand side of the home page.
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Submissions invited – 2010 BUSH LANTERN AWARD for bush verse due 21 May
Fancy yourself as the reincarnation of Henry Lawson or Banjo Patterson? Bush verse to 100 lines showing good rhyme and rhythm, and Australian theme. First prize $200. Entry $8. This year the club has also decided to run a written competition for Primary & Secondary school children.
Entry forms for both competitions from NTWC or email the competition contact (see below). E: lees@fastel.com.au
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Submissions invited – 2010 PRESSPRESS CHAPBOOK AWARD (POETRY) due 31 May
The PressPress Chapbook Award is for an original manuscript of poetry between 20-40pp. The winning manuscript will receive $600 and chapbook publication with PressPress. The Award will be announced in July 2010 on the PressPress site.
The manuscript must be unpublished and not on offer to another publisher in Australia or elsewhere (except that individual poems can be already taken or on offer to journals, sites or anthologies where you keep the copyright).
Have a look at the website to see what sort of thing we've done in the past and what the judges said last year.
Entry conditions and form from the website.
W: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~writerslink/PressPress/PressPress_Award_conditions.html
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Applications are invited and due 29 June for the Poets Union 2010 Youth Fellowships
The Poets Union, in conjunction with the Australian Poetry Centre, is pleased to announce the return of these outstanding Fellowships, offering one Young Poets Fellowship in 2010 for a poet between the ages of 19 and 30.
The Fellows will receive:
1. A mentorship with an experienced poet – the choice to be made in consultation with the incoming Fellow.
2. The publication and launch of a chapbook.
3. Publication on the Poetry Australia website.
4. The opportunity to present work at a Poetry Australia reading.
Some money may be available for assistance with travel costs, where necessary.
In return, fellows are asked to write one review-article on the work of a poet of their choice for publication in a Poetry Australia outlet, as a way of encouraging poets to contribute towards the critical discourse in Australian verse.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to enable an outstanding young poet to further develop his or her skills with input from an experienced mentor, and to provide opportunities for publication at the beginning of their careers. It is designed for young poets who have already made significant progress in the development of their writing, but who have yet to make the final steps towards full publication.
Previous winners and mentors are:
2002 Elizabeth Campbell (Vic) – Martin Langford
James Stuart (NSW) – Brook Emery
2004 Amanda Lucas (NSW) – Judith Beveridge
Simon West (Vic) – Chris Wallace-Crabbe
2005 Lucy Holt (Vic) – Jordie Albiston Stories of Bird
Luis González Serrano (ACT) – Kevin Brophy Cities with moveable parts
2006 Esther Ottaway (Tas) – Lyn Reeves Blood Universe
Claire Potter (WA) – Kevin Hart in Front of a Comma
2007 Ivy Ireland (NSW) – joanne burns Incidental Complications
Nick Powell (Vic) – Jennifer Harrison of Fallen Myth*
* Name of Fellow followed by mentor, and, after 2005, title of chapbook.
Closing Date for applications is 29th June, 2010. The Fellow will be notified in August, and the announcement made public at the Australian Poetry Festival (Sep 3/4/5). In most cases, mentorships will continue into 2011. See the Poets Union website for more details and an entry form
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Entries invited for the Poets Union 2010 Poetry Prize – due 30th June
The Poets Union Poetry Prize 2010 - First Prize: $3000
Plus
Up to Five Short-Listed Poems @ $100 Each.
Winner to be announced at the Australian Poetry Festival 5 September 2010.
Conditions of Entry
• The prize will be awarded for a single poem of no more than 100 lines.
• Entries must be typed on single-sided A4 paper. Manuscripts will not be returned. Faxed or emailed entries will not be accepted.
• Previously published or prize-winning poems are ineligible. Entries should not be on offer to other publications.
• 3 copies of the poem must be submitted. The title of the poem should appear on each page but the poets name must NOT appear anywhere on the manuscript.
• Multiple entries may be submitted but each entry must be accompanied by a separate entry form. Additional entry forms are available on the Poets Union website: www.poetsunion.com or by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to the Poets Union.
• Each entry must be accompanied by an entry fee of $15 ($10 for financial members of the Poets Union).
• Cheques should be made payable to The Poets Union Inc and posted to The Poets Union, PO Box 755, Potts Point, NSW 1335. Clearly mark the envelope ‘Poetry Prize’. Alternatively, credit card details can be supplied on the entry form.
• The closing date for entries is 30 June 2010. Late entries will not be accepted.
• Entrants must reside in Australia or be Australian citizens living overseas.
• Committee members or staff of the Poets Union are not eligible to enter.
• The judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
• Results, the winning poem, and short-listed poems will be posted on the Poets Union website after 5 September 2010 and appear in the journal Five Bells. Should you require a hard copy of the results and/or a receipt please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope, clearly marked ‘Receipt and/or Results’.
Presented in collaboration with the Australian Poetry Centre
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Submissions invited: THE REASON-BRISBANE POETRY PRIZE Due 2 July
Reason-Brisbane Poetry Prize - Closing date: 2 July
This is the competition's seventh year and in 2010 it is open to budding and established writers across Australia. Open theme. Prizes: 1st $1500, 2nd $500, 3rd $300. Ross Gillett, multi-award winning poet, will judge the entries and winners will be announced at the morning poetry event of Words in Winter, Daylesford on 14 August. For guidelines, see
Sheila Hollingworth, Competition Organiser
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Nominations due by 9 July for ‘The Nib’: CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature – fiction and non-fiction
The 2010 'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature which recognises excellence in research. The Award's major sponsor, Copyright Agency Limited's Cultural Fund , provides a winner's prize of $20,000 + trophy and all shortlisted authors receive the Alex Buzo Shortlist Prize.
All genres of writing including fiction and non fiction, published between 1 July 2009 and 30 June 2010, are eligible. The closing date for nominations is 9 July 2010.
If you would like additional information about the Award, please have a look at the website www.waverley.nsw.gov.au/library/award or contact Denis Moore , Project Officer,
'The Nib': CAL Waverley Library Award for Literature Waverley Library
32-48 Denison Street, Bondi Junction NSW 2022
Telephone (02) 9386 7709 ( usually Mon & Thur )
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Expressions of interest now open and invited for QLD Poetry Festival to be run from 27-29 August 2010
The Queensland Poetry Festival invites proposals from poets and other performers and artists interested in being part of the 14th annual festival in 2010. QPF 2010 runs from 27-29 August and will be held at the Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts in Brisbane.
QPF would like to hear from both individuals and groups for performances at the festival and for other projects in association with the festival. While all projects should have a relationship to poetic language, we encourage applications from artists wishing to explore the relationship between poetry and other art forms. An expression of interest form is now available for download from www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com. For further information please email info@queenslandpoetryfestival.com Graham Nunn - Chair, QLD Poetry Festival
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Submissions invited for 2010 Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize
Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize - Entries are invited for the 2010 Mary Gilmore Poetry Prize.
The Prize is awarded every two years by the Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) for the best first book of poetry published by an Australian in the preceding two years – in this case the calendar years 2008 and 2009.
This is a prestigious poetry prize which has helped the careers of many now well-known poets, including Jan Owen, Judith Beveridge, Alison Croggon, Lucy Dougan, and David McCooey; the prize also draws attention to their publishers. ASAL will meet the cost of the winning poet attending and providing a reading of his or her work at its conference to be held in early July 2010.
Eligible publishers or poets are asked to submit three copies of each eligible book to:
Dennis Haskell, English & Cultural Studies (M202), University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway, CRAWLEY WA 6009
Any queries about the prize can be sent to Dennis Haskell at the above address or dhaskell@cyllene.uwa.edu.au
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Submissions invited to Mascara Literary Review
Mascara Poetry has recently expanded into Mascara Literary Review and is now accepting submissions of short fiction and essays (as well as poetry).
We also have a new website: www.mascarareview.com
Mascara Literary Review is an online literary journal particularly interested in the work of contemporary Asian (as well as Australian and Indigenous) writers.
We are able to pay: $75 for two or more poems, $50 for reviews and essays.
For full submission details visit: www.mascarareview.com/submissions.html
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Call for submissions to Islet - a new on-line magazine from Island
Islet: a free online journal of micro works from emerging writers and visual artists. An initiative developed and supported by Island magazine. Call for submissions. Islet is a new online companion to Island magazine's existing print journal, and will publish a free quarterly collection of works by emerging writers and visual artists. Islet accepts poetry, fiction, and reviews, with size the only limitation: we are committed to publishing small works.
Maximum lengths: poetry -- 25 lines; fiction -- 600 words; reviews -- 400 words.
Our pay rates are $50 per poem and $75 per prose work (fiction or review). For submissions or more information, contact the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au
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Call for submissions to Cordite Poetry Review
Submissions now open for Cordite Poetry Review. Writing haikus, snryus or other ultra-short poems?
Submissions are now open for the 31st issue of Cordite – EPIC.
Details available at www.cordite.org.au
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Call for submissions to Margaret Reid Poetry Contest
The Margaret Reid Poetry Contest re-opened on November 15!
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Submissions invited for Jazz and Poetry section of annotated discography on jazz and literature - from PU member Peter JF Newton
I am nearing completion of the jazz & poetry section of a three-part annotated discography on jazz & literature which I expect to publish next year. The scope of this section includes recitation accompanied by jazz in any of its many varieties, poems converted to jazz vocal performances and instrumental compositions inspired by the work of individual poets. The emphasis here is on poetry with jazz and improv music as I know them; I have no wish to stray into the world of rock, rap, hip-hop and so on because they are well beyond my domain of competence.
I have adequate access to the world literature for this type of work and am in touch with a number of major overseas jazz poets working in this field, so I am looking specifically for Australian and New Zealand information which sadly seems to escape the literature.
The details sought are as follows: Band or artist name, recording dates and locations, identification of poets and composers, accompanying musicians and their instruments (including the voice), poem or song titles, type of recording medium together with recording company names, catalogue numbers, and album titles. A reference point for accessibility to these products would be a useful addition.
The recording medium can be any type of modality and of commercial, private or archival provenance. Details should be sent to me as Chair, NSW Jazz Archive Inc., 30 Boorea St, Blaxland, NSW 2774. E-mail jpnewton@tpg.com.au Tel: (02) 4739-1715. All advice received will be acknowledged in the book when it appears. Best regards, Peter J.F. Newton.
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e-zines and e-anthologies for poets
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Longlines e-anthology
Now up on the Poets Union website www.poetsunion.com : the 2008 Longlines e-anthology (from the 2008 Australian Poetry Festival is now up on the Poets Union website. The 2008 Longlines Fellows were:
Ali Cobby-Eckermann, Helen Hagemann, Kimberley Mann and Andrew Slattery.
What is Longlines? In 2008, the Australian Poetry Centre, together with the Varuna Writers’ Centre, devised a fellowship for poets who lived more than 100 kilometres outside Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane or Canberra. Four Fellows were invited to spend a week at Varuna workshopping their poetry with Ron Pretty. The manuscripts were then published in a series which effectively became a continuation of the Five Islands New Poets collections.
The New Poets Series 2009, comprises:
- little bit long time by Ali Cobby Eckermann
- Evangelyne & other poems by Helen Hagemann
- Awake During Anaesthetic by Kimberley Mann
- Canyon by Andrew Slattery
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Poetica - Radio National program – Australia wide
Poetica Radio National program www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/
Australia-wide Poetry program- every Saturday at 3.05 pm and repeated Thursdays at 3.05 pm POETICA PRESENTED BY BRENT CLOUGH AND MIKE LADD,
SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 3.05 PM THURSDAY.
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PIFF - Poetry in Film Festival launched – INVITATION TO JOIN THEIR MAILING LIST
PIFF (Poetry in Film Festival) is officially launched. Invitation from the APC (Australian Poetry Centre in Melbourne) to join their mailing list for the Poetry in Film Festival. Click here to subscribe to their mailing list www.poetryinfilmfestival.com.au
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new e-anthology from Meuse Press: FROM THIS BROKEN HILL
Available at http://brokenhill.tripod.com/BrokenHill.htm Meuse Press has released an e-anthology titled “From This Broken Hill” – a unique combination of writing from some of the country’s top writers (past & present) combined with a dazzling array of photography. A place of near mythic proportions, this city deep in the outback. A mine that put the money into Melbourne. Arts hub while simultaneously isolated by distance.
But in some ways Broken Hill was the experiment that became multicultural Australia – it had the country’s first mosque, many communities continue to thrive within its boundaries. The rough heart of Unionism still stands strong. People escape to this city, others escape a childhood there. It has its horrors and highlights, once there you’ll never forget.
Read an excerpt from a Napoleon Bonaparte set in the city, read the view back from leading poet Rae Desmond Jones who grew up there and wonder at the mining waste turned into a thing of beauty surrounded by red soil. Edited by Barbara De Franceschi, Marvis Sofield and Les Wicks.
Supported by Broken Hill Regional Writers’ Centre, Broken Hill City Council, Countrylink & ArtsNSW
Available at http://brokenhill.tripod.com/BrokenHill.htm
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Islet Magazine – Island magazine’s new online publishing
For submissions or more information, contact the editor at islet.online@utas.edu.au
Until the website is live, detailed submission guidelines will be temporarily available, at http://www.islandmag.com
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Guide to Sydney Beaches – a driftwood concept
A new web anthology saunters the sand with some of Australia’s leading poets.
Guide to Sydney Beaches - http://sydneybeaches.tripod.com/guide.htm - is aimed at an audience that may not normally access this artform.
This is a driftwood concept – people seeking information about a certain beach stumble across this collection & discover fine Aust poetry. 20 great beaches, 30 superb poets. Hit numbers indicate it is already a huge success. This will increase as we move into Spring. The anthology is from Meuse Press, edited by PU member Les Wicks.
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Melaleuca – monthly e-zine of Australian poetry
MELALEUCA is a free e-zine of Australian poetry, delivered monthly
through your email in-box. For submissions and subscriptions, contact
the editor, Phillip A. Ellis, at phillip.a.ellis@gmail.com
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The Compulsive Reader – latest on-line issue
The Compulsive Reader News
maggieball@compulsivereader.com
http://www.compulsivereader.com/html
Volume 11, Issue 1, 20 January 2010
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Jacket magazine: An Announcement from John Tranter and Al Filreis
Starting with the first issue in 2011, Jacket will have a new home, extra staff and a vigorous future as Jacket2. Jacket and its continuation, Jacket2, will be hosted by the Kelly Writers House and PennSound at the University of Pennsylvania.
The connection with PennSound, a vast and growing archive of audio recordings of poetry performance, discussion and criticism, is seen as a valuable additional facet of the new magazine, as is the relationship with busy Kelly Writers House, a lively venue for day-to-day poetic interchange of all kinds. The synergy in this three-way relationship has great potential.
Al will become Publisher and Jessica Lowenthal, Director of the Writers House, will be Associate Publisher. The new Editor will be Michael S. Hennessey (currently Managing Editor of PennSound) and the new Managing Editor will be Julia Bloch. John will be available as Founding Editor, and Pam will continue as Associate Editor.
John Tranter & Al Filreis
http://jackemagazine.com
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Jacket Magazine – Number 38 now available
http://jacketmagazine.com/38/index.shtml
Jonathan Williams -- Niedecker -- H.D. -- Blaser -- Dorn -- Geoffrey Hill -- Bei Dao
A free internet literary magazine -- Interviews -- Reviews -- Articles -- Poems
Editor: John Tranter :::::: Associate Editor: Pam Brown
Writers previously published in Jacket (only) may submit material. We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don't send material out of season.
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Folk Odyssey – the Magazine
Folk Odyssey – The Magazine http://www.folkclub.com/folkodyssey/
As you browse Folk Odyssey – the Magazine, you will discover that several sections offer an invitation for you to contribute your work to this enterprise. You may do this in the form of:
-a Letter to the Editor, -an article for Features,
-information for Event Horizon,
-photographs for FolkShot Gallery,
-poetry
-autobiography for Poet in Profile
-a story for StoryBoard.
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Keep up with Aesthetica
Keep up with Aesthetica and the latest arts and culture happenings at aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com
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if:book Australia
Based in Brisbane, if: book Australia is only the third centre of excellence of its kind for digital literature established in the world, after the New York and London Institutes. It is a Queensland Writers Centre international initiative. You can check out the UK branch here
if: book Australia will promote new forms of digital publishing and explore ways to boost connections between writers and audiences.
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The writer’s guide to making a digital living – Australia Council
Australia Council’s publication: The writer’s guide to making a digital living
The Australia Council has been getting a great response to the Writer’s guide both locally and internationally since its publication in December 2008. You can read the guide online or download it for free from our site. http://www.australiacouncil.gov.au/writersguide
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OTHER NEWS FOR POETS
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Congratulations to John Upton for having his poem ‘Dear God , It’s February’ published in the Sydney Morning Herald Feb 27-28, 2010
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Jean Kent WINNER of The Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize
Congratulations to PU member Jean Kent. Meanjin is delighted to announce that the inaugural winner of the Dorothy Porter Poetry Prize for 2009 is Jean Kent, for her poem ‘The Polish Guitarist’s First Paris Concert’ (Vol 68/4).
The prize was run this year as a tribute to much-loved Australian poet, Dorothy Porter, and her legacy of work, and is co-sponsored by Porter’s agent, Jenny Darling & Associates. Kent’s poem was chosen by judges Andrea Goldsmith and Kristin Henry out of all the poems accepted for publication in Meanjin throughout 2009. She was presented with a $1,000 cash prize at an awards ceremony to be held at Gleebooks in Sydney on Saturday 14 November at 4pm. The event featured readings from Porter’s most recent collection, The Bee Hut, which was published by Black Inc. in September 2009. ‘The Polish Guitarist’s First Paris Concert’ will also be published in the forthcoming December edition of Meanjin. Jean Kent has released three books of poetry, including Verandahs, which was recently republished by Picaro Press in its Art Box Series. Her fourth collection, Travelling with the Wrong Phrase Books, was highly commended for the 2008 Alec Bolton Prize. She lives at Lake Macquarie in NSW. Meanjin is pleased to announce that the Dorothy Porter Prize will run again in 2010
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Christine Paice WINNER of The Josephine Ulrick Poetry Prize 2009
Congratulations to Christine Paice poet and long term member of the Poets Union who was the winner of the 2009 Josephine Ulrick Poetry prize with her poem The Ministry Of Going In. Sorry we are so late in acknowledging it Christine – it’s wonderful news! A copy of the poem is on the Poets Union Website under Festivals and Competitions.
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Lucy Holt WINNER of the 2009 Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry
Congratulations to Lucy Holt - The 2009 NSW Premiers Literary Awards were announced at the Sydney Writers Festival.
Congratulations to Lucy Holt on her receipt of the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry for her collection ‘Man Wolf Man’. Lucy was a 2004 Poets Union ‘Australian Young Poets Fellowship’ holder and was mentored by the Poets Union. In 2005 the Poets Union published a chapbook of Lucy’s poems ‘Stories of A Bird’. The Poets Union is committed to raising funds to develop our mentoring, Poetry Fellowships, Poetry Scholarships, Residencies and Prizes. The full list of winners of The NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and more information about the awards can be found here: http://www.pla.nsw.gov.au/
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Australian poet Emma Jones WINNER Best First Collection, FORWARD PRIZE for her collection ‘The Striped World’
Congratulations to Emma Jones Emma Jones's The Striped World, inspired by her home country of Australia, was named winner of the £5,000 best first collection prize. Hart called her "an ambitious and intriguing new voice" whose poems "are both elliptical and visionary – inhabiting a parallel world of strange disjointed images within which we nevertheless find echoes of familiar experience".
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and congratulations to Forward Prize Winner: Don Paterson Scottish poet Don Paterson has triumphed over one of the strongest poetry shortlists in years to take the Forward prize for best collection with Rain. Paterson, 45, beat a line-up of acclaimed poets including Peter Porter, Sharon Olds and Glyn Maxwell to win the £10,000 award for Rain, a continuation of his personal and philosophical exploration of the world around him.
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2009 Wallace Stevens Award
Congratulations to Jean Valentine - Jean Valentine has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. The $100,000 prize recognizes outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.
and to Harryette Mullen Harryette Mullen has been selected as the recipient of the 2009 Academy Fellowship. The Fellowship is awarded to a poet for distinguished poetic achievement and provides a stipend of $25,000. The Academy’s Board of Chancellors, a body of sixteen eminent poets, selects the Wallace Stevens Award and Academy Fellowship recipients. Who says poetry isn’t profitable? Full story is here: http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21013
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Voiceworks
VOICEWORKS MAGAZINE TURNS 21 - The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine.
Edited by Lisa Dempster, The Words We Found: the best writing from 21 years of Voiceworks magazine is Express Media’s coming-of-age anthology and, like all good 21st celebrations, it’s a fierce, flirtatious and furious record of our life so far.
The Words We Found available through all good bookshops and online at www.expressmedia.org.au http://www.expressmedia.org.au/ . Extract rights are also available. For all media enquiries, please contact Bel Schenk, Artistic Director on 0431 054 190 artisticdirector@expressmedia.org.au
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