25 August
Fethiye Çetin, author of My Grandmother: A Memoir will be visiting Australia in September as a guest of the Melbourne Writers Festival.
Click here for details of events while Fethiye is in Melbourne and Sydney. She will also be taking part in a number of events and offering a personal window on family, identity, and the politics of history.
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25 August
THE FIFTH CALIBRE PRIZE
FIRST PRIZE: $10,000
CLOSING DATE: 10 DECEMBER
Australian Book Review (ABR) and the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) seek entries for the fifth Calibre Prize for an Outstanding Essay, the nation’s premier award for an original essay and one of the world’s most lucrative 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: from life writing to literary studies, history to politics, biography to philosophy, natural history to popular science, travel writing to environmental studies.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Elisabeth Holdsworth (2007)
Rachel Robertson, Mark Tredinnick (2008)
Kevin Brophy, Jane Goodall (2009)
Lorna Hallahan, David Hansen (2010)
HOW TO ENTER
The guidelines and entry form are attached here. They are also now available
on the ABR website:
25 August
Short and Twisted, an anthology of short stories and poetry with a twist at the end, is seeking submissions for of stories, super short stories and poetry for the 2011 issue.
Submissions accepted between 1 October and 30 November 2010. For submission guidelines see the website, email Short and Twisted or send a SSAE to 2 Bonview Court, Knoxfield, VIC, 3180.
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04 August
Sandy Jeffs has been shortlisted for the Age Book of the Year Award (non-fiction) for her autobiography, Paper Wings. Spinifex has published three collections of poetry by Sandy beginning in 1993 with the best-selling Poems from the Madhouse (now in its third printing). Blood Relations (2000) and The Wings of Angels: A Memoir of Madness (2004) followed. All of us at Spinifex congratulate Sandy Jeffs for this wonderful achievement.
04 August
Australian Poetry is a new organisation about to be launched in 2011 as a merger between the Australian Poetry Centre based in Melbourne and Poets Union based in NSW. It will be the peak industry body for poetry in this country with a charter to promote and support Australian poets and poetry locally, regionally, nationally and internationally.
Australian Poetry is seeking a National Director to oversee every aspect of the organization, including managing staff, stakeholders, membership, a national program of events, publications, festival involvement, an education program, an array of special projects, funding, revenue raising and financial matters. The Director should have a clear vision of where how the organization should evolve over the next three years (and beyond) and work towards executing a plan to achieve this vision.
The selected candidate must be based in Melbourne for the time of employment. Deadline for applications is Friday September 3rd. To find out more information or apply, please email admin@australianpoetrycentre.org.au for a position description and the selection criteria.
02 August
In lieu of the release of Ampersand’s third issue this Spring, the Sydney-based
curiosity journal is holding its first annual photography competition. Editors are
particularly thrilled to have Australian photographic legend and Ampersand fan Bill
Henson on board as the competition’s guest judge.
With interest in submissions from professionals and amateurs alike, and work that transgresses the boundaries of the photographic medium, Ampersand is looking for innovative, evocative, humourous and thoughtful reponses to the theme, The Fade.
Submissions may or may not be landscapes, portraits, still lifes, wedding photography, glamour shots, theatrical scenes, wildlife, commercial food or product photography, fashion photography, paparazzi or photojournalism. They may or may not be spontaneous or staged. They may or may not be natural, digitally augmented or play with the medium.
All submissions will appear on the Capture The Fade blog as they are submitted. Mr Henson’s 16 chosen winners will be exhibited at the Capture The Fade exhibition in early September and published in Ampersand # 3 – The Fade. The overall winner will also be profiled in that issue.
Ampersand Magazine explores creativity, societal change and the human condition through multiple disciplines. It is interested in the discussion of the unfashionable, unorthodox, illuminating or rare.
See website for submission guidelines
Capture The Fade blog
28 July
Spinifex is pleased to announce the launch of its new Digital Feminist Classics eBook series, made possible by a grant from the Australia Council for the Arts, and the launch of its new eBook Unspeakable.
The Digital Feminist Classics series marks a new direction for Spinifex, which has been focused since 2006 on digitising its back catalogue as well as making all new releases available simultaneously as eBooks.
The first classics will include Finola Moorhead’s manifesto on literature, A Handwritten Modern Classic; a number of anthologies originally published by the now defunct Sybylla Press; as well as non-fiction collections such as September 11: Feminist Perspectives and Radically Speaking: Feminism Reclaimed.
Unspeakable can be downloaded in multiple formats from http://tinyurl.com/usp-ebook
For details on the print edition or OtherWise Publications: http://www.feministagenda.org.au
26 July
Edition 31: Ways of Seeing
Deadline for submission: 22 October 2010
Publication Date: February 2011
More than ever before, scientific rationalism informs and quantifies human endeavour – from politics and economics to health care, journalism and education. Yet the gulf between the ‘two cultures’ – science and the humanities – is widening, and threatens to limit our ability to address complex global and local issues.
It is time to re-examine the role of the humanities, to better understand systems and flow – the flow of materials through economies, the flow of data from lab to laptop, the flow of ideas. Ways of Seeing will explore the gaps in our thinking and look at how Australia and other countries are adapting to new technologies and new problems.
For more information about submitting, head here
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19 July
THE PEACE POSTERS BREAKDOWN POSTER SERIES #4
Peace takes Courage \ Peace takes Initiative \ Peace takes Teamwork \
Distribute The Peace Posters in your local area!
The Peace Posters is a 32 page Broadsheet Newspaper which unfolds to 30 posters and is available for FREE in Australia … Help us get BREAKDOWN POSTER SERIES #4 out into the world. To obtain copies of this Free Broadsheet for bedroom walls, workplaces, street poles, community notice boards, shopfronts and schools, please email distro with your address and how many copies you wish to receive! This is our biggest poster series yet.
The project has been funded by the Graham F Smith Peace Trust:
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