OOTA Newsletter April 15, 2014
OPPORTUNITIES Behind Closed Doors: A View from the Publisher's Desk The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators invites children's creators, whether aspiring, emerging, or somewhere in between, to join them for "Publishing: Under the Covers", a panel presentation by Jane Godwin, (Publisher, Penguin Young Readers) and Cate Sutherland (Children's Publisher, Fremantle Press), with time for audience Q&A. Our guests will talk about how they work, what they're buying (and what they're not), and why. In a time when everyone seems to be writing a book, how can you increase your chances of standing out in an ever-growing slush-pile? Wed, June 11, 5:45-7:15pm, at the State Library of WA. Cost: $45 non-SCBWI members (inc. wine/nibblies). Booking and payment essential by 1 May. For details and bookings, click here. You can also come along from 5pm and cheer on some "Duelling Illustrators", who will battle it out to illustrate their response to an unpublished picture book manuscript being read aloud (no RSVP required). Lyndall Hadow/Donald Stuart Short Story Competition The Fellowship of Australian Writers WA is calling for entries in the Lyndall Hadow/Donald Stuart Short Story Competition 2014. For fiction to 3000 words. 1st prize $400; 2nd $100; 2 x Highly Commended $50. Entry fee $10 per story (max 3 stories per author). Closes 1 June. For details & entry forms, click here. page seventeen Submissions, Competitions Open page seventeen is an annual collection of short stories and poetry, interested in showcasing emerging writers. Submissions for short stories (5000 words) and poetry (100 words) will be open April 15June 30. Pitches for non-fiction articles and feature pieces are up to 5000 words. No limit on theme or style. There are a suite of competitions. Short story competition is up to 3000 words, poetry s up to 60 lines. Winners receive $200 and runners-up $100. Artists can enter the cover art competition, where photos and digital art are in the running for a cash prize and use as page seventeen #11’s cover artwork. For all details, click here.
WRITING AT THE CENTRE There will be no Prose class on Friday 18th April as this is Good Friday and the FAC is closed for the day. The following Friday 25th April is also Anzac Day. Shane McCauley has cancelled his Poetry class.
≈ The Big Issue: "Take Me Away" Entries are open for the 2014 Big Issue fiction edition. All submissions will be judged 'blind', with no names attached. All writers - of whatever age, whether emerging, established, or just keen to have a crack - are invited to submit stories. This year's theme is simple and open-ended: Take Me Away. You might write something with a travel theme, or about food, or neither of these. As always, lateral thinking is encouraged; originality is gold. Stories should be no longer than 2500 words. For details on how to submit, click here. Submissions close 6 June. 2014 PCWC PATRON’S PRIZE COMPETITION PROSE: Up to 50 lines of poetry per entry THEME: Open AGE: Open PRIZES: 1st $200, 2nd $100, 3rd $50 $50 Judge’s Encouragement Award Four Highly Commended certificates Four Commended Certificates ENTRY FEE: $10.00 each $20.00 for three entries $30.00 for five entries. Email for details, entry form and guidelines cowan05@bigpond.com CLOSING DATE: 30TH MAY 2014
Writing Your Novel: How to Stick It Out and Get It Done With FAWWA Writer-in-Residence Guy Salvidge Saturday 3 May, 1.30 – 4.30pm Book Here Mattie Furphy House, Claire Copse, Swanbourne Writing the Life Map 2014 A Goethean approach to the nature of writing Horst Kornberger presents a new course for 2014. Friday mornings at Swanbourne or Saturday mornings at Bibra Lake. COST: $380 per term, concessions available. Visit his website for more details. GIGS PERTH POETRY CLUB 19th April Guests: Dougie from Scotland & Joanna Wakefield @ the Moon, 2pm, 323 William Street, Northbridge. CHAOS CLUB IS BACK! No 7 is on the 23rd April,, 2014. At the velvet lounge. Watch this space!
VOICEBOX: Monday 28th April, 2014 April line up: Danny Gunzburg, Tineke Van Der Eecken and members from Dingo's Breakfast. 10 x 5 min. open mike. Doors open at 7 pm, poetry begins at 7.30.There is a bar and tea, coffee, snacks and cake will be available for purchase. The Fly Trap is a cash only venue. See Voicebox Fremantle on Facebook, or email poets.voicebox@gmail.com -- on behalf of the Voicebox Collective: Liana Joy Christensen, Sarah Leighton, Nandi Chinna and Josephine Clarke. Voicebox @ The Fly Trap on the LAST Monday of the month, except public holidays, 7.30pm.Tickets $10/$6 available www.flybynight.org or at the door.
CALENDAR APRIL 2014 26 - From Rejection to Acceptance Workshop @ KSP 30 – First Thousand Words competition. Details here. 30 – Bristol Short Story Prize: Details @ writingWA MAY 1 - The Shock of the New Haiku: paper wasp. Details here 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. JULY 4 – 2014 Blake Poetry Prize. More info here 31 – The Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. Info here AUGUST 1 - New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing 31 - Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2014 Details here.
Well Versed to bring poetry again to the Hollow: Date Sunday 27th April. 2.30—4.30pm. Place: the amphitheatre next to Mattie Furphy House, Swanbourne, for an open air Autumn experience of excellent reading. If the weather is wet, the performance will shift across to Mattie's House. Well versed will pose the big questions and the small in a program of readings from the great canon of war poetry brought about by world conflicts no less human despite their scale, including some lesser known voices. Just after Anzac Day, this is a tribute with a difference. Please note in your diary. POEM OF THE WEEK The Kite by Judith Beveridge Today I watched a boy fly his kite. It didn’t crackle in the wind – but gave out a barely perceptible hum. At a certain height, I’d swear I heard it sing. He could make it climb in any wind; could crank those angles up, make it veer with the precision of an insect targeting a sting; then he’d let it roil in rapturous finesse, a tiny bird in mid-air courtship. When lightning cracked across the cliff – (like quick pale flicks of yak-hair fly-whisks) – he stayed steady. For so long he kept his arms up, as if he knew he’d hoist that kite enough. I asked if it was made of special silk, if he used some particular string – and what he’d heard while holding it. He looked at me from a distance, then asked about my alms bowl, my robes, and about that for which a monk lives. It was then I saw I could tell him nothing in the cohort wind, that didn’t sound illusory. ootawriters@gmail.com http://ootawriters.blogspot.com.au