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.
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.
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.
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.
Melbourne publisher Ford Street has just uploaded its first e-book to Amazon.
F2M, by Hazel Edwards and Ryan Kennedy is now available in Kindle edition on the site. What’s it about? Well, it goes something like this…
School-leaver Skye plays guitar in her all-female Chronic Cramps band. Making her name in the punk/indie scene is easier than FTM (female to male) transitioning: from Skye to Finn, from girl to man. Uncovering genetic mysteries about family heritage tear the family apart. Trans gender identity is more than injections and surgery, it’s about acceptance. Going public, Finn sings ftm lyrics on TV. With a little help from bemused mates and family who don’t want to lose a daughter, but who love their teenager, Finn is transitioning.
We’re inviting submissions of short fiction inspired by music for our Issue 5…
Whether you’re an established, known writers or a new new fresh voices, we want your short fiction before 15 August!
Your submission does not have to be about music. All we need is a link, which you can supply separately and which can be as simple as ‘I was listening to an intensely emotional guitar solo by James Muller on my car radio as I barrelled down the highway from Cairns, and was inspired to write this story about loss and alienation’. See? Easy. Stretch out a bit and let the music in…
Oh, and we like lots of different kinds of music, but we specially like the jazz and improvised variety – if you’ve got any of that we’d love to see it!
The Australian Poetry Centre is seeking an enthusiastic person with high level communication skills, organizational skills, computer skills, experience in marketing and public relations, ideas and initiative to be part of our Events Team for the remainder of 2010. We are looking to grow our Events Program in 2011 and are now interviewing to select someone who is keen to play a significant role in helping the Australian Poetry Centre to develop this program.
The selected candidate will be offered an initial internship to learn more about the Australian Poetry Centre, what we do and how we work, which will include assisting the current Events Manager in delivering APC’s 2010 Events Program and assisting in the planning for 2011. At the end of the internship, if successful, a paid position will be negotiated. It is important the right person for this role understand that we are keen to build a diverse inclusive program of events which is innovative, collaborative, sustainable and exciting to APC members and the general poetry community, as well as being attractive to new audiences in order to expose more Australians to poetry and raise the profile of poets, poetry and the Australian Poetry Centre.
Full support, including use of APC facilities, office space and staff, will be provided during the internship. This is the perfect opportunity for someone who is keen to curate a program of national events, based at the Australian Poetry Centre’s home within the new literary hub of Melbourne, the Wheeler Centre. Please apply by emailing your one page CV with two referees to: paul@australianpoetrycentre.org.au or call (03) 90947827 for more information. Experience in organizing arts-related events is essential. Deadline for applications is Friday July 30th.
As it approaches its historic two hundredth edition, Overland is looking for a cover image by a new or established artist, designer or photographer.
Edition 200 will be loosely themed around reflections on the past of the Left and anticipations of its future, and the cover needs to be compatible with this. The image should be striking enough to stand out in a magazine display rack, while allowing sufficient room to include the masthead and associated text in a portrait orientation. Examples of previous covers are available at www.overland.org.au.
It is anticipated that Overland 200 will receive considerable publicity, and so this is an opportunity to see your work widely distributed.
Designs need to be submitted by 30 June 2010. For further information about dimensions, formats and payment, please contact overland@vu.edu.au.
The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize seeks to promote and celebrate the art of nature writing in Australia as well as encourage a greater appreciation of Australia’s magnificent landscapes.
All entries will be independently judged by literary journalist, Sally Blakeney and Australian renowned poet, Mark Tredinnick.
The successful entry will receive a prize of $5000 and the work will be published in indigo journal in early 2011.
The biennial prize will be offered again in 2012.
For an entry form as well as terms and conditions please email Australia@tnc.org
Closing date for entries: 30 September 2010. No entry fee.
SPUNC writes with the sad news that WA literary journal Indigo has decided not to publish after
volume 6, out in early December this year.
In their recent funding round the WA Department of Culture and the Arts
(DCA) declined the opportunity to fund the production costs for part of
volume 6 and all of volume 7 of indigo journal. While they considered indigo
an important literary project for WA, they felt it was not well known in the
Eastern States and should receive submissions from around Australia. This,
they believed would promote WA writing and writers more successfully.
Many in WA are upset about this decision and feel it should not go
without comment. If you are also disturbed by this decision Indigo encourages you
to express your views to any or all of the following:
¯ The Honorable John Day, the State Minister for Planning, Culture and the
Arts, 13th Fl, Dumas House, Havelock St, West Perth, 6005,
¯ Alana Lucas, the Director General, DCA, P.O. Box 8349, Perth 6000,
¯ The Editor of The West Australian Newspaper, Letters to the Editor, WA
Newspapers, GPO Box N1027, Perth WA, 6843. Fax 9482 3830
letters@wanews.com.au
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.
THE PEACE POSTERS BREAKDOWN POSTER SERIES #4 
The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize seeks to promote and celebrate the art of nature writing in Australia as well as encourage a greater appreciation of Australia’s magnificent landscapes. 
SPUNC writes with the sad news that WA literary journal Indigo has decided not to publish after
volume 6, out in early December this year.
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