News
24 September
Australian Poetry Limited is a merger of the Australian Poetry Centre and Poets Union, created for the purpose of better serving the needs of the Australian poetry community while developing an increased interest in, and providing all poets and the wider community with greater access to, Australian poetry and poets.
On Friday September 17th 2010, Paul Kooperman was selected as the National Director of this exciting new organisation based on his experience as Acting Director for the Australian Poetry Centre in 2010. He brings a wealth of experience to Australian Poetry via his background in theatre, film, television, arts management, stage management and education. You can read more about Paul here:
SPUNC wishes to congratulate Paul on his appointment and looks forward to the future of Australian Poetry Limited!
17 September
Much of the content of Overland 200 is already online – Anwyn Crawford’s stunning essay on women, body image and capitalism; Chris Graham’s feisty polemic against Noel Pearson; Michelle Carmody’s examination of the politics of the burqa; Clive Hamilton’s controversial take on climate change and the ABC; and Rjurik Davidson’s exploration of the commodification of creative writing. Watch the Overland page for more articles soon, as well as the great daily updates from our blog.
But Overland has always depended on its subscribers. If you like what we’re doing – if you want to support explorations of culture and politics from a progressive perspective – then you really should subscribe.
Right now, we’re celebrating the historic edition 200 with a special deal, with all new subscribers receiving five editions rather than the usual four. This is only until the end of September, so don’t hesitate to do the right thing – take out a subscription today.
15 September
ABC Landline is planning to run a story on Sunday, September 19, about show cooking, The Blue Ribbon Cookbook and Liz Harfull’s search for cooks for a national version. A Landline film crew with reporter Pip Courtney followed Liz around for the day when she visited the judging session at the Brisbane Show in August, and interviewed Liz, cooks and judges, as well as visiting one of the cooks as she prepared entries.
The program goes to air at midday on ABC1, and can be viewed online afterwards if you miss it.
08 September
Beneath Our Armour by Peter Bakowski has been shortlisted for the CJ Dennis Prize for Poetry in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards.
Here are the judges’ comments:
“Peter Bakowski’s Beneath Our Armour is a strongly crafted suite of portrait poems. From the everyday person to the wild persona, from suburban scuffling streets of Melbourne to labour camps of Siberia, his poetry is infused with empathy. Bakowski makes us believe that inside every home is a heartache. His work is touching, transforming and rich. He writes in his introduction that his aim is to write accessible poems, to use ordinary words to say extraordinary things. He has done this and so much more.”
Read the judges' reports here.
Read more about Hunter Publishers.
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.
Read more about Spinifex Press
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.
Read more about Celapene Press
19 August
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.
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