OOTA Newsletter September 16th, 2014
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Regime are calling for submissions of short stories to their Anthology of Horror.
OOTA NEWS Our AGM has been announced for Saturday, 18th October 1-4pm, Room 3 at the Fremantle Arts Centre. We hope that members will keep this date in mind and that you come along and support your writing organisation. We will also have the winners of the Spilt Ink Competition. Prose Bites reader for the 19th September is Cecily Scutt Cecily will share some of her writing with you @ midday in the Fremantle Arts Centre Café. Prose writers can order lunch as early as 11.30am. WRITING AT THE CENTRE Friday, 19th September is Prose with Helen Hagemann @ the Fremantle Arts Centre: Our start will be in the Café at 12.45pm, then Room 3 to 2.45pm Class to read an excerpt from To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf. Writing Exercises and discussion will look at the “Passage of Time” in the novel, and “shifts in time” in the short story.
City of Rockingham Short Story Award & 2014 City of Rockingham Writing Expo
VOICEBOX On every last Monday of the month! But not this month!!!!!!!!! It is on the 22nd September, 2014!!!!! This month’s guests include five poets!!!! Ross Jackson, Laura Stocker, Rose Van son, Glen Phillips and Rita Tognini @ The Fly Trap, Parry Road, Fremantle. 7pm
Saturday Poetry Writing (at The Moon) Leap or tiptoe out of your poetic comfort zone in a supportive group environment with much-published poet Jackson as your guide. 10:15am-12:45pm Saturdays (September 13, 20 & 27) at The Moon Cafe, 323 William Street, Northbridge. Come to one or several. Book online now at proximitypoetry.com/saturday. $25/15 online; $30/20 cash on the day. Enquiries: lostpoetjj@gmail.com 0406 624 578 Poetry Kitchen Tactful feedback, writing experiments, yummy snacks. In Fremantle, with experienced poet & editor Jackson. Thursdays 10-12. Only 6 places. Book online now at proximitypoetry.com/kitchen. $20/$10. Enquiries: lostpoetjj@gmail.com, 0406 624 578. CALENDAR SEPTEMBER 18 – Trove – Poetry on the theme of Memento Mori here. 20 – Perth Poetry Club: (not advertised) 30- The Golden Shovel Anthology: Details via email 30 – Gold Coast Writers Festival Adult Writing Competition 30 – Gwen Harwood Poetry Prize: Details OCTOBER 01 – Prolitzer Prize : Further details here 03 – Glen Phillips Poetry Prize: Details here 10 - The City of Rockingham Short Fiction Awards: Details 10 – Trove –Poetry & Fiction: Details here. 18- Margaret River Short Story Competition. Details here. 31 - Odyssey House Victoria 4th Annual Short Story: here 31 - The Best of Times short story competition #18. Details. NOVEMBER 30 - Five Islands Press Ron Pretty Poetry Prize: Details 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.
Didactyl want short poems. Submissions close 30th September, a deadline that has been extended. All submitters will be notified of the outcome as soon as possible after submissions close. In the meantime, please tell your writer/poet-friends about Didactyl, and invite them to submit too. http://didactyl.org/submit/ Mending Wall by Robert Frost Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun, And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: 'Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of out-door game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbours'. Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbours? Isn't it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offence. Something there is that doesn't love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say 'Elves' to him, But it's not elves exactly, and I'd rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me~ Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father's saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, "Good fences make good neighbours."
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