OOTA Newsletter October 14th, 2014
OOTA NEWS 18th October AGM: 1-2 more committee members needed! Please bring a small plate of finger food. OOTA will supply the drinks, and we will have the announcements and readings by certain winners of the Spilt Ink Competition. We would love to see you there! Ω Please click on word or graphics for details
WRITING AT THE CENTRE Friday, 17th October is Prose with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre: Helen’s start will be directly after lunch in Room 3 1.00pm-3.00pm Class to read excerpts from Poppy by Drusilla Modjeska. Writing Exercises and discussion will include “fictionalised biography” and modern-day journal writing.
Loads of opportunities at the FAWWA
A new market for your short stories
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Ω A NEW LITERARY MAGAZINE FROM ROLAND LEACH A new literary magazine, Cuttlefish, produced by Sunline Press, will be released in the March, 2015. The magazine will feature one artist’s work, and will include poetry, flash fiction and other short fiction up to 1200 words. Writers should send poetry, up to 40 lines, flash fiction (250 words and less), and longer pieces up to 1200 words. There will be a payment of $40 for all works. The submissions will be selected anonymously so writers should send a hard copy to Sunline Press, 21 Jarrad Street, Cottesloe, 6011, with no name on the work. These should arrive by December 5. Writers should then send an email to rleach@plc.wa.edu.au with their names and the titles of their work after January 7 and before January 14. Those selected will be notified by late January. All submissions should be typed in 12 point Times Roman, with 1.5 spacing. Short Fiction: Sue Midalia Flash Fiction: Angela Meyer Poetry Editor: Roland Leach
Submissions are now open for Plumwood Mountain vol 2 no 1 to appear in February 2015. Both general submissions and submissions on the theme “Otherkind” are being considered. Alphonso Lingis writes: “Today we have become aware once again that we share this planet with innumerable other living things, whose voices summon our attention and must also direct our lives.” (“The Voices of Things”, Senses and Society 4, no. 3 (2009): 280). Are these others stunned by/in the Anthropocene as we are, as Deborah Bird Rose proposes? Are others saying their goodbyes to us, as Martin Harrison suggests? (Martin magpie Harrison and Deborah Bird Rose, “Postscript”, Text 20, http://www.textjournal.com.au/speciss/issue20/Harrison&Rose_P ostsc.pdf ) How might human saying be shaped by the summons of the multiple voices of other kind? Submissions close Saturday 15 November 2014. See the submissions page (http://plumwoodmountain.com/submissions/) for further details. CALENDAR OCTOBER 18 – Perth Poetry Club: Details 18- Margaret River Short Story Competition. Details here. 30 – Varuna Publisher Introduction Program 2015, click here 31 - Odyssey House Victoria 4th Annual Short Story: here 31 - The Best of Times short story competition #18. Details. NOVEMBER, 15 – 2015 Commonwealth Short Story Prize: Submit here 30 - Five Islands Press Ron Pretty Poetry Prize: Details 30 – 2014/15 Fish Short Story Prize. See Alumni. DECEMBER 15 – Tom Collins Poetry Prize: www.fawwa.org 19- Somerset National Poetry Prize: details Somerset 24 – Nature Writing Prize 2014 : Website 31- 2014 Aurealis Awards Calling for Entries: Details here.
Primo Lux 2014 will be launched at Clancy's Fish Pub in Fremantle on Monday, October 20th, at 6-30 pm. This is an anthology of high school student poetry and contains many new and exciting voices. These young poets are the future of Western Australian poetry and to hear them read their work is an inspiring experience. Copies of the anthology are on sale for $10-00.
Advanced Fiction Writing Techniques
This action-packed Australian Writers Centre Masterclass is aimed at the keen fiction writer. It gives you all the tools to tackle the technical aspects of your writing, enabling you to nail the essential elements of your story. The focus is on practical and specific knowledge - tackling the technical aspects of your writing. (For this reason, the AWC recommends completing Creative Writing Stage 1 or any of their Creative Writing Foundation courses first). The class is on Sat November 8 and Sun November 9, 10am-4pm at the Wembley Hotel and is led by novelist Natasha Lester. Cost: $395. For details, click here. POEM OF THE WEEK
Dispensation I see the dragonfly and the lily through a grey veil. The clarity is like what I would like to remember fine wine is and can’t because the distance is too great. But the accuracy is there in spite of the refusal. Yesterday I went to the garden as my mother did in the surety of solitude, my crawling into the dark in search of skeleton weed and hawk weed, ragwort, spurge, hound’s tongue, toadflax. The barren earth is what I want, the coolness there. I know I almost know. I am by the yellow lilies at the pond staring at the water through the fretful wing of a dragonfly. What is this divinity, that I must search for it again? My mother kneels under the mimosa, demure. Which she wasn’t. But that I see her so through the dragonfly’s pellucid wing. Going blind slowly. The deep beyond the gossamer. The purity of that. –
By Patrick Lane
Patrick Lane is a well-known Canadian poet. You can check him out @ http://www.patricklane.ca/ ootawriters@gmail.com http://ootawriters.blogspot.com.au https://www.facebook.com/groups/435245393226549/