Rochford Street Review is thrilled to announce a new on-line review site entirely devoted to new Australian writing.
The review functions more like a blog than a traditional magazine, with new reviews being added as they are received rather than being held and released in a single issue. Given our background as a small press publisher in the 80s and 90’s there will be a particular emphasis on small press publications (particularly poetry).
The first reviews have been posted and include reviews of:
• Michael Wilding’s Wild and Woolley: A Publishing Memoir
• Pete Spence ‘Perrier Fever’.
Coming soon…
• Chris Mooney-Singh’s The Bearded Chameleon
• Gig Ryan’s New and Selected Poems
• Mascara Literary Review Issue 10
• Laurie Duggan’s Allotments.
Visit the website to let us about your new release publications for review, upcoming launches, readings and conferences etc.
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On Saturday 26 November Griffith Review launch a timely new eSingle ‘Leader of the gang’ an essay by Glyn Davis on how political parties choose their leaders, suggesting that there are more similarities between street gangs than business enterprises. The essay provides useful insights for political insiders, politicians, journalists and public servants, but is important for every voter who cares about the health of Australian democracy and is just $4.95. Pre-register for your ePub or PDF copy at www.griffithreview.com and it will be delivered to you early on Saturday.
Judged by Joanne Burns, The Small Wonder Prose Poem/Micro Fiction Competition seeks entries of a Maximum 800 words. Entries must be in by December 16, 2011.
First prize $300, Commended entries $100 and both winning and shortlisted entries will be published in the Small Wonder Anthology.
Applications are now open, until October 31st, for the unpaid position of publicity intern at SPUNC. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about Australian publishing and literature and is pursuing a career in the sector.
For full details, please see the attached document.
The winning entries came from Queensland and Victoria. Those submitting sent up to 150 lines of sample poetry from a proposed manuscript. The prize for each of the winning poets is publication by Whitmore Press of a limited edition chapbook of their work. The judges were Amanda Frances Johnson and Anthony Lynch.
The shortlist was very strong and the joint winners of the Whitmore Press Manuscript Prize 2011 are:
B. R. Dionysius, whose satirical, energetic sonnets turn the great Australian road trip into a compelling anti-romance;
and
Jo Langdon, whose poems retrieve disturbing, ephemeral intimacies and let them stand as epic metaphors of relationships.
Congratulations to the winners, whose collections will appear from Whitmore Press in the first half of 2012.
Our thanks again to all poets who entered – there were many other excellent submissions that we know will find their way into print in the near future.
Launch details for the books will be posted on the Whitmore Press website at www.whitmorepress.com in early 2012.
It is time to revive the debate about national identity. The clichés of old have long exceeded their use-by date. This is a trying time of global transition and uncertainty, for societies and for individuals. Yet it is also a time when Australia has remarkable advantages – advantages it must build on if the nation is to prosper.
The Griffith REVIEW is looking for submissions for its 36th volume titled: What Is Australia For?
Deadline for submissions: 16 December 2011
Early submissions encouraged
Publication date: 7 May 2012
Instead of seizing the moment, and forging an exciting new future, public discussion is mired in the past. Politics is no longer the art of the possible. Whingeing has replaced can-do.
What Is Australia For? will sketch out visionary ideas for the future, uncover neglected stories from the past, and provide an exciting forum for new voices to make their case.
* Contributor guidelines are available for [download ](http://griffithreview.com/contact-us)
* Due to the volume of submissions received, those submissions which do not adhere to the guidelines can not be considered for publication
* Please send submissions directly via email to [Griffith REVIEW](mailto:griffithreview@griffith.edu.au)
* Submissions sent in hard copy form will not be returned unless accompanied by a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
The first title in the Giramondo Shorts Series, is Michael Wilding’s offbeat account of his publishing days, Wild & Woolley: A Memoir.
Giramondo has also begun publishing a series of Selected Poems by distinguished Australian poets, with Gig Ryan’s New and Selected Poems being the first in the series.
Giramondo has a special offer on its recently published new collections of poetry by Joanne Burns’s, Amphora, John Mateer, Southern Barbarians, and Fiona Wright, Knuckled. These collections can be bought from Giramondo direct, where they are offering all three together at a special price.
They are also available in your local bookshop.
Gig Ryan’s New and Selected and Michael Wilding’s, Wild & Woolley can also be bought together in a special offer from Giramondo’s website.
Australian Book Review (ABR) seeks entries for the sixth 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.
FIRST PRIZE: $7000
SECOND PRIZE: $2000
THIRD PRIZE: $1000
[Single winners only in each category]
CLOSING DATE: 1 DECEMBER 2011
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.
PREVIOUS WINNERS
Elisabeth Holdsworth (2007)
Rachel Robertson, Mark Tredinnick (2008)
Kevin Brophy, Jane Goodall (2009)
Lorna Hallahan, David Hansen (2010)
Dean Biron, Moira McKinnon (2011)
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