OOTA Newsletter July 15, 2014
OOTA NEWS The committee wishes to remind members that our Spilt Ink Competition 2014 is only 7 weeks away from closing on 31st August, 2014. If you have difficulty downloading the entry form and guidelines please contact us @ ootawriters@gmail.com This year we have two categories: poetry and short stories with separate judges. You can download forms from our blog site, and often if difficulties occur, it is a good idea to refresh the page. http://www.ootawriters.blogspot.com.au/p/spiltink-competition.html The Fremantle Arts Centre has advised that there will be a temporary closure of the premises, including Café, from Monday July 21 to Friday, Aug 1 for a major electrical upgrade. They will reopen on Saturday, 2 Aug. The Prose class for Friday 25th July will be held in the Swanbourne Book Caffe @ 10.00am. The class will include writing exercises and critiquing (esp. your short stories for the Spilt Ink!) There is no charge for this class, but writers will need to order food and coffee to satisfy the owners for providing the space (Barry tells us the pancakes are great!) Poets wishing to attend Shane McCauley’s poetry class during this time (1 Aug) should contact Julie Watts or Shane this Friday. CONGRATULATIONS TO: Fran Graham was recently Commended in the Ethel Webb Bundell Poetry Award for her poem The Old House; and even more recently Commended in the Peter Cowan Writers' Centre Patron's Prize for Poetry for her poem What If I Said You Are. Rose van Son’s poem appears in Westerly 59:1: Meatworks, Caversham. Plus 2 haiku: 1. The Heron’s Nest XV1.2 (06-14), June 2014: Salt pans 2. paper wasp #20 (2) winter 2014: sleepless the frogs’ chorus repeats repeats
Friday, 18th July, is poetry with Shane McCauley. 10.00am til noon. Poetry Biter for the 18th July is our own Shane McCauley. He will be reading after class on the 18th. Shane will have a new collection out soon by Walleah Press.
KSP’s Online Poetry Course for 2014: A Renaissance in the work of contemporary poets. Limit of 8 participants. This four week course will begin Monday 4 August and is being led by the absolutely fantastic, inspiring and accomplished Judy Johnson. Judy was our Established Writer-in-Residence last year and many of you may remember her by her booked-out workshop, The Poem Tells a Story. Your poems will be workshopped privately by Judy with specific feedback and suggestions, and you will enjoy set weekly readings and lively discussions with the other participants. Costs: $100 for members and $150 for nonmembers. Note that a regional or interstate membership is only $20 - visit membership page on KSP website for more details. Limit of 8 participants. Booking and payment in advance is essential. TO BOOK: Phone Shannon on 92941872 or email kspf@iinet.net.au
* ANDREW BURKE’S WA BOOK LAUNCH
Nicholas Hasluck will launch Andrew's 12th poetry collection, 'ONE HOUR SEEDS ANOTHER' Saturday, 2nd August 2-00pm Mattie Furphy House, Swanbourne Andrew will read some poems and has invited Annamaria Weldon, Peter Holland, David Hawkes and Murray Jennings to each read a poem of their choice, from the collection. The book will be on sale for $20.
Words in the Valley Budding writers and wannabe published authors are invited to the fifth Words in the Valley Readers and Writers Festival on Saturday, July 19, at the Bridgetown Library, commencing at 9.30am. You can 'Get Juicy' with creative writing tutor Jane Cornes. Jane is an award-winning features writer, editor, musician and songwriter, who will help you unlock your creativity in a gentle but powerful way. And you can 'Mine your Memories for Fact or Fiction' with memoir, crime and romance author Sarah Evans in a fun-filled, hands-on workshop. Leanne White of Wild Eyed Press will give a free talk on publishing. Workshops are $25 each or $40 for two. 'Soup n Stories' will be held at the Bridgetown Pottery Restaurant at 6pm for 6.30. There will be a panel of authors who will talk about their writing life and read extracts from their published work, followed by a Q&A session. Authors will include Jane Cornes, Sarah Evans, author-illustrator Leanne White, chick-lit author Lindy Dale, horror writer Dan Russell, Stephen Crabbe and Noreen Reeves. Cost is $25 with bookings through the Pottery. Numbers are limited. For more information call Words in the Valley coordinator Sarah on 97612156 or email sarahevanzz@hotmail.com or check out www.bridgetowninthewinter.com. Workshop bookings can be made through the visitors centre.
CALENDAR JULY 19 – Perth Poetry Club: Guest Mardi May 23 – Stories on Stage with Annamaria Weldon: Details 28 – Voicebox: Dick Alderson & company. The Fly Trap 30 - Kimberley Haiku Online Competition Details 31 – The Bruce Dawe Poetry Prize. Info here 31 - 2014 Henry Handel Richardson Writing Comp AUGUST 1 - Trudy Graham/Julie Lewis Literary Award: Prose: Details 1 – Best Australian Poems, Essays & Stories by Black Inc. 1 - New England Thunderbolt Prize for Crime Writing 2-3 - Magazine and Newspaper Writing Stage 1: Click here. 14-17 – Perth Poetry Festival 22 – Poetry d'Amour 2015. Details at WA Poets Inc 31 - Carmel Bird Award 2014 - Long Story Comp: details 31 - Aesthetica Creative Writing Competition 2014 Details. 31 – Wesrerly Magazine: Special Edition West Aust/Asia Issue SEPTEMBER 01 – Anthology of Loss: Details 30 – Gold Coast Writers Festival Adult Writing Competition OCTOBER 10 - The City of Rockingham Short Fiction Awards: Details ≈
Fancy Yourself a Critic? Want to be a book reviewer? Love reading novels? Fancy yourself a bit of a critic? UWA Publishing is offering you the chance to review some of their forthcoming fiction. They have advance reading copies of The Ever After of Ashwin Rao by Padma Viswanathan (out in October) and Isabelle of the Moon and Stars by S. A. Jones (out in November) and are offering three readers the chance to read and review them before they’re released. Your review will be published on their website, Facebook page and in their enewsletter. You’ll also receive a shiny new copy of the book when it’s officially released. To enter, email marketing-uwap@uwa.edu.au and tell them about the last review you read that prompted you to read the book being reviewed. Three winners will each be sent a copy of one of the two novels. POEM OF THE WEEK Politics by Jake Dennis Inspired by Constantin Brâncusi's Young Bird (1928). Songbird, our tongues are a terrain through which lions and rhinos in their stubbornness protest. Their ancient artillery heard by waterbirds at the edge of opposing territories. And when we open the dark caverns of our mouths in anger the lateral borders of our tongues are cataracts: beautifully dangerous, tempting as handguns. Rage, that salivary cacophony, is a flood in which buffalos slip like children through loose sediment necks strained for breath, blood vessels kneecaps tearing. And in this water, storks like white doves, flee where crocodiles snap. (first published in Eureka Street # 24.12)
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