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08 September
Into The Woods has been shortlisted for all of the so far announced Premier’s Literary Awards and ABIA Newcomer of the Year Award 2011. An Express Media alumni, Anna Krien is a former Editorial Committee member and contributor to Voiceworks.
Simply ensure your subscription to Voiceworks is up to date at September 30th 2011 and you could go into the draw to win a copy signed by Anna!
Need to renew? One year’s subscriptions , four issues, to Voiceworks is just $36 (individual) or $76 (organisational) to get the best new poetry, fiction, non-fiction and visual art from young writers delivered straight to your door.
The winner will be announced in the October Issue of the Express Media eNews (subscribe to the eNews for FREE at www.expressmedia.org.au).
For subscription details head to www.expressmedia.org.au/voiceworks
For all media enquiries please contact Voiceworks Communications Intern Emmyrose Hobbs at marketing@expressmedia.org.au or General Manager Joe Toohey on 03 9094 7886 or at generalmanager@expressmedia.org.au
Voiceworks magazine is a quarterly publication released by Express Media featuring the work of young Australian writers. Express Media provides support and development opportunities for young people in writing and media.
20 August
At a time when the status of women writers and literary awards in Australia is under discussion, The Australian Centre is delighted to announce the shortlist for the 2011 Asher Award for a woman writer whose work carries an anti‐war theme.
This year’s shortlist drew from a robust and diverse field, and comprises women’s writing in genres including memoir, theatre, poetry and crime fiction.
The following titles have been shortlisted for 2011:
• Van Badham, Swamplands, 2010 (play)
• Quynh Dao, Tales from a Mountain City, Odyssey Books 2010 (memoir)
• Roberta Lowing, Ruin, Interactive Publications, 2010 (poetry)
• Jennifer Maiden, Pirate Rain, Giramondo, 2010 (poetry)
• PM Newton, The Old School, Penguin, 2010 (crime fiction)
Established in 2005 in collaboration with the Literature Board of the Australia Council, the Asher
Award has been made possible by a generous bequest from Mrs Helen Waltraud Rosalie Asher. Mrs Asher was a post‐WWII German refugee who came to Australia escaping fascism. She and her husband were deeply committed to the artistic and cultural life of their adoptive
country. The value of the award is $10,000.
The judges for the 2011 were Professor Kate Darian‐Smith, Director of the Australian Centre,
University of Melbourne; Professor Anne Orford, Michael D Kirby Chair of International Law at
Melbourne Law School; and celebrated novelist Professor Gail Jones at the Writing and Society Research Group at the University of Western Sydney.
The winner will be announced at the Melbourne Writers Festival, Friday 2nd September 2011, 5.30 – 6.30pm, The Cube, ACMI .
09 August
The Literature Board of the Australia Council for the Arts is pleased to announce changes to the way it supports Australian publishers.
In October 2010 the Literature Board published the report A Case for Literature which examined the effectiveness of the Literature Board’s publishing subsidies to Australian publishers from 1995-2005. Following the release of the report, Literature Board staff consulted extensively with small and medium sized Australian publishers across the country to discuss the report’s recommendations.
Overwhelmingly the publishers consulted are in support of the report’s recommendations. In light of this, the Literature Board is changing the way it supports Australian publishers by introducing Publishing Program Grants and Special Publishing Grants. These changes reflect a move away from funding publishers on a title-by-title basis, an increased level of flexibility and recognition of the value of the publisher’s literary program.
The application closing date for Publishing Program Grants and Special Publishing Grants
is 30 March 2012. Application forms will be available on the Australia Council website from early January.
Australian Book Publishers
Closing date: 30 March 2012, decisions advised: July 2012. Projects may start: 1 August 2012
The Literature Board assists Australian publishers to publish excellent literary work by Australian writers through annual publishing program grants and special publishing grants. Applications are accepted from Australian book publishers registered with the Literature Board for assistance to publish titles in eligible genres between 1 August 2012 and 31 July 2013. These grants are for a publisher’s annual literary publishing program and grants will be awarded based on the quality of the entire program.
Applications will be accepted in the following genres only:
• Fiction
• Literary non-fiction (defined by the board as autobiography, biography, essays, histories,
literary criticism or analytical prose)
• Children’s literature
For further information or enquiries about these changes please contact:
Susan Hayes, Director, Literature Board s.hayes@australiacouncil.gov.au or Lucy Byrne, Program Officer, Literature Board l.byrne@australiacouncil.gov.au.
28 July
Established in honour of Bejamin Frater (1979-2007) the first publications are a collection of Frater’s poems, 6am in the Universe and Perrier Fever, by Pete Spence.
Eight publications are in the pipeline. You can find out all about them at www.grandparadepoets.com
28 July
Full details are available here:
21 July
The Glen Eira Storytelling Festival is a new annual event produced by Glen Eira City Council to celebrate storytelling through writing, film, visual art, music and performance.
‘My Brother Jack Literary Competition’ will be part of this festival. The competition will be open to submissions from August 11 the deadline for last submissions is Friday 16 September. The winners will be announced at a special event on Sunday 23 October.
A complete program guide available here. Follow the arts and culture links.
You can also follow us on Facebook ‘Glen Eira Arts and Culture’
08 July
The poets are: Allan Boyd (aka the antipoet), Jeremy Balius, Liana Joy Christensen, Gabrielle Everall, Amber Fresh, Afeif Ismail, Janet Jackson, Sam Knee (aka Byron Bard), Dosh Luckwell, Kaitlyn Plyley and John Charles Ryan.
Richter said, “These poets give a sense of the diverse talent, variety and vigour of our performance poetry scene,” said Richter.
Guest editor and performance poet Scott-Patrick Mitchell said “The poets selected for this anthology represent what makes the Perth performance poetry scene so exciting and unique.”
Poets were selected by an editorial committee comprised of Georgia Richter and Wendy Jenkins of Fremantle Press and guest editor Scott-Patrick Mitchell.
About the poets:
Allan Boyd (aka the antipoet) (Heathridge) has been delivering performance poetry at and organising dynamic poetry arts and music events since 1995. These include the WA Heats of the Australian Poetry Slam, the Perth Poetry Slam, The Adelaide Fringe Festival, the Queensland Poetry Festival, Artrage, Overload and Openmouth Poetry at PICA. He is a lecturer and tutor in creative writing at Curtin University. For more information go to http://anti-poet.com
Jeremy Balius (Hamilton Hill) is Dallas Texas born, Giesen Germany raised, Los Angeles California educated and has lived in Fremantle for seven years. He is the general manager at Cottonmouth and the founder and managing editor of Black Rider Press. His work has been published in journals, zines and anthologies internationally including Visible Ink, page seventeen and the Stylus Poetry Journal. He is a translator of German literature and is the co-founder of a bilingual arts journal Regal 8 / Shelf 8.
Liana Joy Christensen (Fremantle) has lived in Fremantle all her life, as did her parents and grandparents. For the past two years she has been a member of the Voicebox Collective, which is committed to keeping poetry live in Fremantle. Her first chapbook ‘Wild Familiars’ was awarded an Honourable Mention in the 2006 Writers’ Digest International Self Published Book Awards. Her poems have been published in national and international literary journals. In 2010 she won the Peter Cowan Centre’s Patron’s Prize for Poetry.
Gabrielle Everall (Fremantle) published her first book of poetry, Dona Juanita and the love of boys in 2007. She has been published in several anthologies and has performed her work at Writers Festivals in Australia and overseas including Visible Verse in Canada, the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and Sappho’s Salon and The Encyclopedia Show in Chicago. For more information go to: voices.e-poets.net/EverallG
Amber Fresh (Bayswater) is a writer from Perth (via Albany and Paris). She has a book of poems called Between You and Me, a zine of other people’s writing called ‘A Few of My Favourite Things’, makes the annual ‘Perfect Thursday Club Diary’ and runs the Perth chapter of General Knowledge Club. She’s a member of the Cottonmouth committee, and has a band called Rabbit Island with whom she has just released the album O God, Come Quick. Her poems have been published in the Cottonmouth Anthology, Westerly, and various local zines. Current preoccupations include water, dreamlife, and breaking the law.
Afeif Ismail Abdelrazig (Shenton Park) was born in Elhasahisa Sudan in 1962. A published poet writer, playwright, artist and human-rights activist, his poetry is published in Arabic and English and his plays have been produced in cities, villages and towns across Sudan. Afeif was shortlisted for the inaugural Kit Denton Fellowship for Writers of Courage in 2007 and awarded the inaugural Australian National Playwrights’ Conference Bursary in 2008. In 2009 he was a recipient of a Western Australian Theatre Development Initiative.
Janet Jackson (North Fremantle) is a writer, editor and poet for page, screen and microphone. Janet has published four chapbooks including ‘q finger’ (PressPress) in 2011. Her first collection, Coracle, was published in 2009. Janet frequently features in national festivals including the Australian Poetry Centre Festival, the Queensland Poetry Festival, Melbourne Overload and the WA Spring Poetry Festival. Her work has appeared in Westerly, Mattoid, Blast, The West Australian, nthposition (UK) and the Hamilton Stone Review (US).
Sam Knee (aka Byron Bard) (West Perth) performs poetry as the character Byron Bard. He has participated in the National Young Writers Festival in Newcastle, the Perth Museum leg of the touring Nick Cave Exhibition, the 2009 National Final of the Australian Poetry Slam in Sydney and is a regular at Cottonmouth.
Dosh Luckwell (Crawley) is a spoken work artist. Dosh writes about sex, death, his mother and more. Dosh’s words roll with a frank and fox-like delivery luring his listeners deep into a world of dark play and illicit encounter. Dosh is tall and his voice is deep. May he elate, transform, and suffocate your understanding of that old dog of diseases – desire. His debut spoken word/music album ‘Sex Poems’ was launched in March. Demos can be found at www.myspace.com/doshluckwell
Kaitlyn Plyley (Hillarys) is a Perth writer and performance poet who has been described as “thought-provoking”, “a possible genius” and “really, really tall”. She made it into the 2010 Australian Poetry Slam nationals with a rap about bogans, and is currently Australian Poetry’s poet-in-residence at Il Lido café (Cottesloe). Her poetry has been published in dotdotdash magazine, the Perth Poetry Club zine, and on her arms. Her articles have sparked controversy, but not nearly as much as she would have liked. Kaitlyn also coordinates the WA branch ofTheatrePeople.com.au. And updates her blog: www.kaitlynplyley.wordpress.com
John Charles Ryan (Inglewood) was born in Neptune, New Jersey, but now lives in Perth where he has been writing poetry about the flora of Western Australia as part of his PhD project at Edith Cowan University. His small collection Katoomba Incantation, published this year, is structured around a three-day train trip across the Nullarbor.
08 July
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This issue features an Australian exclusive and extremely rare photo shoot with “Australia’s most important voice” – indigenous musician and singer Gurrumul and interview with his “brother in arms” and the man who would speak for him, Michael Hohnen.
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24 June
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08 June
Express Media is pleased to offer a series of Melbourne workshops this June as part of National Young Writers’ Month. These workshops complement the blogging, podcasts and online forums that support and encourage writers to achieve their personal goals over the one month period.
The Big Splash: Innovative Storytelling
In the first Big Splash event for 2011, join ABC Open’s Ann Chesterman, Freeplay Independent Games Festival Co-Director Paul Callaghan and creator of mystoryworld.com.au Matt Blackwood as they talk about innovative ways to share your story, from using new media to writing for video games.
WHEN: Saturday June 11, 10.15am-4.30pm.
WHERE: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
PRICE: $40 – lunch included. Places are limited to 20 people, so get in quick!
The Big Splash: Creative Writing
How can you avoid procrastination when you’ve got a day job, uni schedule, family, friends, and other interruptions? Authors Lisa Dempster, Steph Bowe and Toni Jordan give out some great tips on starting (and finishing!) that piece of writing.
WHEN: Saturday June 18, 10.15am-4.30pm.
WHERE: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
PRICE: $40 – lunch included. Places are limited to 20 people.
Assessing Your Own Work
The words are on paper, but how can you tell what you need to do from here? This workshop addresses revising, re-crafting and editing your piece.
WHEN: Thursday June 30, 5.30pm-7.00pm.
WHERE: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne.
PRICE: $20 – bookings essential.
For more information please visit www.expressmedia.org.au/nywm
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