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04 February
Kill Your Darlings is seeking a Marketing and Publicity Intern and a Subscriptions Intern. This is an exciting opportunity to join an expanding creative company, and to have extensive and practical experience in the publishing industry. Each position is voluntary and interns will report directly to the editors.
Expressions of interest are requested by 5pm on Monday 14 February 2011. Please provide a one-page CV, two references, and a cover letter explaining why you would like to become part of the Kill Your Darlings team. Please email all applications and/or queries here, with ‘Marketing and Publicity Intern’ or ‘Subscriptions Intern’ as the header.
Applicants may apply for both positions. We will notify the shortlisted applicants via email, and will be conducting in-person interviews on Friday 18 February.
Click here for the full position description.
28 January
Writers on Rafts is an initiative of Queensland Writers Centre and author Rebecca Sparrow to raise money for the Queensland Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal. More than 150 Australian authors, including Griffith REVIEW contributors Linda Jaivan and Nick Earls, have pledged prizes that include speaking at schools or book clubs, or lunching with the writers. Prizes also include manuscript assessments and even having a character named after you.
For more information, visit the Writers on Rafts website.
28 January
Postcards From The Asylum by Karen Knight (Pardalote Press) is one of the three shortlisted works for the $5,000 University of Tasmania Prize as part of the suite of Tasmania Book Prizes (Best book by a Tasmanian Publisher).
About the book
Karen Knight’s poetry is deceptive, disarming: from somewhere behind the muted music of a line, the delicate web of imagery, when you least expect it, comes the blare of a wake-up call. This is dark material, held up to the light and examined with skill, sensitivity and a life-affirming humour. – Dilys Rose, Scotland
Postcards from the Asylum, Karen Knight’s fifth poetry collection, won the Arts ACT 2007 Alec Bolton Award for an unpublished manuscript. These poems arise from her experiences as an inmate at the Royal Derwent Psychiatric Hospital in 1969.
28 January
ABC Poetica will feature the work of Pardalote Press’s Waiting for the Owl: poems and songs from ancient China by Ian Johnston (trans) on Saturday, 12th February from 3pm.
Doctor Ian Johnston is our ‘Man on the Edge of the World’. His recent publication by Pardalote Press, ‘Waiting for the Owl’, is a powerful, erudite bridge in poetry and song between ancient China and Australia today, a bridge built of tenacity, clarity and love.
More information here.
17 January
The Queensland Writer’s Centre is looking for offers of good and services to auction for its Writer On Rafts Flood Appeal to raise money for the Queensland Premiers Flood Appeal.
Between Christmas and New Year plans where being drawn up for Writers On Rafts, to contribute funds to the Queensland Premier’s Flood Appeal for those affected in North QLD and upon return to work QWC staff were prepping plans to make this happen. Due to the events of this week and our having to evacuate our offices in the State Library this project has become even more important and pertinent. QWC has thousands of members throughout QLD and many will be affected by the flooding. Furious work is being done at the moment to finalise details with a dedicated website expected to go live Thursday 20th Jauary with articles to appear in the press the following weekend. Brisbane author Rebecca Sparrow has been tirelessly garnering support from the writing community and the details so far of how this will operate are as follows:
1) There will be a number of prize categories available through the website:
Author visit (to your book club, writer’s group, school etc.
Writer Assistance (QWC workshop, MS critique etc.
Character Name: Get a character named after you in your favourite author’s next book.
Book Pack.
Special Prize
- Ultimate Girly Morning Tea with Rebecca Sparrow, Jessica Rudd, Mia Freedman, Erica Bartle, Emily Jade O'Keefe and Francis Whiting.
In addition QWC will provide each category winner with a prize pack which consists of:
Australian Market Writer’s Place Online subscription.
WQ electronic (PDF) subscription.
QWC merchandise.
Those wanting to enter the drawer will go to the website and register their details for a cost of $5.00 for each prize they wish to win. If they wish to enter for the Special Prize the cost will be $20.00.
There will be a winner drawn for each category for each State so for example if you are the winner of an author visit and live in NSW you will have a choice of local authors.
Any prize books left over after the drawer will be donated to statewide libraries and schools affected by the floods.
We will be publishing a target of $10,000 to be raised.
All QWC staff, authors etc are giving their time free-of-charge to ensure the maximum amount of money reaches the Premier’s Flood Appeal.
Contact Paul Landymore, QWC Operations & Development Manager if you wish to contribute with the program. All assistance is welcome and most appreciated.
More info available here
11 January
If you want a hopeful story about Aboriginal Australia, this is it. Listen to an interview on Life Matters with Andrew Stojanovski, author of the remarkable ‘Dog Ear Cafe’ (Hybrid Publishers), now in its second printing.
Andrew was based at Yuendemu, 300 km north-west of Alice Springs for 11 years.
He was instrumental in establishing a highly successful and much lauded program to combat petrol-sniffing at Mt Theo, an outstation.
Hear him discuss life in this part of remote Australia, with all its hardship, humour, compassion, adventure and violence.
11 January
Arts Minister Simon Crean today announced the new-look Prime Minister’s Literary Awards will open on 10 January. Entries must be received by the Office for the Arts by 5.00 pm on 2 February 2011.
The Awards are Australia’s richest literary prizes, which recognise and reward excellence in Australian literature.
Following feedback from the book industry we have redesigned the Awards to provide greater recognition for shortlisted authors. The overall prize money remains the same in 2011 with $100,000 for each of the four categories. This year the winning book attracts a tax-free prize of $80,000 with $5000 going to each of a maximum of four shortlisted titles in each of the award categories.
We are also implementing an annual timetable for the Awards. Entries will open in January each year, with shortlists revealed in May and winners announced the first week of July.
In 2011, Minister Crean will announce the shortlists in the week of 23 to 27 May and the Prime Minister will announce the winners in the week of 4 to 8 July.
Australian authors, publishers and literary agents are invited to submit fiction and non-fiction works published in 2010 for review by the judging panels.
The eligibility criteria in the Awards guidelines have been updated since last year. For example, books primarily published as e-books are now eligible, and wordless picture books are eligible in the children’s fiction category. We encourage anyone considering entering the Awards to read the guidelines carefully before submitting your entry.
The 2010 judging panels are returning in 2011. The judges will recommend shortlists and winners for each of the four categories—for adult fiction, young adult fiction, children’s fiction and non-fiction—to the Prime Minister.
For further information on the Awards visit www.arts.gov.au/pmliteraryawards. The guidelines and entry form are available on the website now.
11 January
Writing Australia is a new key organisation for the Australian literature sector and is seeking a National Director to steer it through its initial years of operation. The successful applicant will be dynamic and self-motivated and have a demonstrated background in senior arts management and familiarity with the Australian literary sector. The position will report to the Writing Australia Board on a three-year contract. For a full position description, selection criteria and background information, please go to:
http://www.writingaustralia.org.au/media/ND-jobpack.pdf
Queries should be directed here:
Applications close 5pm 31 January 2011.
04 January
coeur de lion’s multi award winning X6 received an unexpected plug from speculative fiction author Max Barry on ABC TV’s First Tuesday Book Club. or transcript at http://www.abc.net.au/tv/firsttuesday/s3081293.htm under ‘Max Barry’.
This caps off a fantastic year for the anthology which includes a World Fantasy Award win for Margo Lanagan’s X6 novella ‘Sea-Hearts’ and a Ditmar, Aurealis and Sir Julius Vogel Award for Paul Haines’s ‘Wives’, which Max rightly describes as ‘soul baringly horrific’.
You can view the video here.
04 January
The ArtStart program provides financial assistance to recent creative arts graduates who are committed to establishing a career as a professional artist.
Eliza Hull has recently received this ArtsStart opportunity and will be working with Australian Poetry in 2011 as an artist in residence at the Wheeler Centre to develop her career as a writer.
Eliza Hull has completed her Bachelor Of Communication, Media at RMIT, where during her course she came into contact with the APC through making a video work that responded to one of the cafe poets poems. She currently writes for music magazine Beat Magazine, and Hot Off The Press Publicity. She is a singer for local soul group Describe Eliza and also writes poetry and creative pieces. She produces a radio show called IN OTHER WORDS for SYNFM and has worked for the Wheeler Centre as receptionist and usher. She is excited to begin her residency as ‘artist in residence’ with Australian Poetry in 2011.
Congratulations Eliza!
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