OOTA Newsletter April 8, 2014
WRITING AT THE CENTRE Friday 11th April is Poetry with Shane McCauley – 10.00am til noon.
AUSTRALIAN POETRY/PROSE COMPETITIONS
POETRY BITES: Friday, 11th April: Cath Drake will be reading a few poems in the Fremantle Arts Centre Café @ noon. She’d love a WA audience! PUBLIC HOLIDAY NOTICES Please Note: There will be no Prose class on Friday 18th April as this is Good Friday and the FAC is closed for the day.
Click on Graphic to follow the Link. ≈ The 2014 Blake Poetry Prize is now open for entries. Presented by the NSW Writers’ Centre and the Blake Society, the $5000 Prize is named for visionary artist and poet William Blake, and was established to give Australian poets new possibilities to explore religion and spirituality in the twenty-first century. Closes 4 July 2014. More info here ≈ The Bruce Dawe National Poetry Prize 2014 To celebrate, this annual $2500 award has been endowed by Emeritus Professor Bruce Dawe, one of Australia’s most acclaimed contemporary poets. Closes: 31st July 2014. Info here New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing is for unpublished short-form crime writing in three Open categories: fiction, non-fiction and poetry, as well as two special awards: a New England Award and an Emerging Author Award, the latter of which is new this year. The New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Poetry: First Prize: $500 for a poem of up to 60 lines. Open to writers all over Australia, whether published or unpublished. Sponsored by Friends of Tamworth Libraries. Check out the details at http://www.newc.org.au/ Entries Close: 1 August 2014
The following Friday 25th April is also Anzac Day. Please check with Shane McCauley for information about his Poetry class. ≈
Meet David Whish-Wilson at Crow Books - Free Event Join David Whish-Wilson for a conversation about Zero at the Bone at Crow Books in East Victoria Park from 7 to 9pm on 9 April. If you can't be there in person but have a question for David then tweet it to us at @writingwa, hashtag it #bookclub, and we'll ask the question for you. To follow the event and hear David's response go to the ProximityWA website where the event will be live streamed. ≈ Asialink Eliza Roberts, Arts Residencies Manager is in Perth briefly to present an information session on the wide range of residencies available to artists and arts workers around Asia. The session is at 5:30pm on Wednesday 9 April at Fremantle Arts Centre. Or email OOTA for a .pdf information sheet.
Margaret River Press Calls for Submissions Margaret River Press is a small independent press established in 2011. They publish literary novels and anthologies from emerging and established writers, and are committed to publishing works of excellence, both local and global in origin and scope, that reward discerning readers. They are seeking both fiction and creative non-fiction writing that explores social, ecological, intercultural and gender matters. They are not accepting poetry and there is no closing date advertised. For submission guidelines, click here. THE SHOCK OF THE NEW - HAIKU Submissions are now open for paper wasp’s June/Winter issue of contemporary and experimental haiku. It is an issue in which poets can spread their wings, be different, be daring or even … just relieved that at long last all those experiments in the bottom drawer might find a home. The deadline for the experimental and contemporary haiku June/Winter issue is 1 May 2014. Email: ksamuelowicz@optusnet.com.au Postal: paper wasp, 14 Fig Tree Pocket Rd, Chapel Hill, Qld 4069, Australia. PERTH POETRY CLUB 12 April Guest: Cath Drake @ the Moon, 2pm, 323 William Street, Northbridge. CALENDAR APRIL 2014 11 – Peter Cowan 600 word short story award 12-13 Nurture: A Workshop for Playwrights 13 – The Sacredness of Place – Hovea Ashram 805 Margaret Rd, Hovea - 5pm 13 – The Writer’s Tales. Details: FAW website. 13 - Stringybark Stories Competition
26 - From Rejection to Acceptance Workshop @ KSP 30 – First Thousand Words competition. Details here. 30 – Bristol Short Story Prize: Details @ writingWA MAY 1 –WA Edition: http://griffithreview.com/future-editions 1– Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize 30 – Second Bite Poetry Prize. Details here JUNE 30 - Joe O’Sullivan & Joyce Parkes Writers Prizes details here. AUGUST 31 - Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2014 Details here.
Best of Aurealis Speculative Fiction Anthology As part of Aurealis’ twenty-fifth-year birthday celebration in 2015, Chimaera Publications will be publishing the all-time top twenty-five Aurealis stories in a Best of Aurealis anthology both in print and as an eBook. And in keeping with the Aurealis tradition of supporting local authors, the plan is to make this the highest paying SF anthology ever published in Australia. Although Aurealis contracts, in most cases, allow Aurealis to reprint stories in an anthology without further payment, Chimaera Publications will be running a crowd-funding campaign to ensure a payment of 7c per word for each story, which is above the SFWA's rates for professional publications. The aim is that every author who appears in the Best of Aurealis anthology will have a professional credit according to the SFWA criteria. Importantly, stories published in 2014 will also be eligible for publication in the Best of Aurealis anthology, so now is the best time to submit a story to Aurealis, remembering that submissions from subscribers are fast-tracked in the assessment process. POEM OF THE WEEK On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf by Alexander Posey How savage, fierce and grim! His bones are bleached and white. But what is death to him? He grins as if to bite. He mocks the fate That bade, ''Begone.'' There's fierceness stamped In ev'ry bone. Let silence settle from the midnight sky-Such silence as you've broken with your cry; The bleak wind howl, unto the ut'most verge Of this mighty waste, thy fitting dirge.
Our poem this week was sent in by Murray Jennings. Thank you! And here’s a link to Native American poet Alexander Posey.
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