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OOTA Newsletter March 18, 2014

WRITING AT THE CENTRE HELEN HAGEMANN’S PROSE CLASS This coming Friday 21st March@ 10.00am the prose class is in Room 3 and also on 4th April.

BOOK LAUNCH The Lake’s Apprentice by Annamaria Weldon

Our Monthly Critiquing First hour of the class will be a critiquing session. Writers are reminded to bring a 2 page, double spaced “scene/chapter” of a novel, or 2 pages of a short story. Please Times New Roman, size 12! PLEASE NOTE: Also bring enough printed copies to distribute to your fellow writers. Second Hour – class will read an action scene from Nicholas Evans’s The Horse Whisperer. A writing exercise and discussion will revolve around the inclusion of action scenes within the narrative of your novel or short story. On the Action Scene “This scene type will certainly drive the reader forward, but be warned that people have a tendency to skim action scenes, driven forward with their urgency, so you will want to balance them with other types of scenes,” says Jordan E. Rosenfeld.

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ANNAMARIA WELDON WOULD LIKE ALL POETS TO BE THERE TO CELEBRATE THE NEW RELEASE OF HER BOOK

THE LAKE’S APPRENTICE.

TO BE LAUNCHED BY LUCY DOUGAN 6.30PM , WEDNESDAY 2ND APRIL SUGAR GUM ROOM UPSTAIRS UWA CLAREMONT CNR PRINCESS AND GOLDSWORTHY ROADS CLAREMONT KINDLY RSVP TO UWA PUBLISHING MARKETING-UWAP@UWA.EDU.AU ANNAMARIA ADVISES THAT: SPACE AT THEIR LOVELY VENUE IS LIMITED TO A CERTAIN NUMBER, POSSIBLY FOR CATERING, BECAUSE IT IS AN OLD BUILDING, OR IT MAY BE FOR HEALTH AND SAFETY REASONS WHICH IS

WHY THIS INVITATION IS MAINLY TO OOTA POETS WHO ARE INVITED TO ATTEND.

A second novel, whatever sort you choose, is the best thing to do after you’ve done your first novel. You’ll learn from it, even as you have learned from the first. You’ll be able to see your own increased facility. You’ll be doing the best thing possible to cure the post-novel blahs.” Lawrence Block – Writing the Novel : from Plot to Print.

WARMEST REGARDS, ANNAMARIA HTTP://UWAP.UWA.EDU.AU/BOOKS-ANDAUTHORS/BOOK/THE-LAKE-S-APPRENTICE/


All Saints Storylines Literature Festival Announces their celebration of literacy, story, and reading and writing for young people. Presenters include current Australian Children's Laureate Jackie French, Robert Drewe, and many more. The festival runs March 27-28 at All Saints College in Bull Creek. Details/bookings here. Launceston, Tasmania Literary Award, 2014 The Society of Women Writers, Tasmania, Inc. is calling for short fiction of 1300-1500 words for this inaugural award. Entry fee $10. First Prize: $2,500; Second: $750; Third: $500. For guidelines, click here. Entries via email only; closes June 13. PERTH POETRY CLUB 22nd March Guest: Chris Palazzolo@ the Moon, 2pm, 323 William Street, Northbridge. VOICEBOX Look out for Voicebox on Monday 31st March. Our guests are Fran Graham who currently resides in Mandurah, and Annamaria Weldon who will be reading from her anthology The Lake's Apprentice. CALENDAR MARCH 2014 31 – Westerly for July Issue 31 - Ekphrastis Poetry Award 31 - The joanne burns (prose poem/microfiction) Award: 31 – Prole Collaborative Poetry Collection. 31- Fish Anthology Poetry Prize APRIL 12-13 Nurture: A Workshop for Playwrights 13 – The Writer’s Tales. Details: FAW website. 13 - Stringybark Stories Competition

MAY 1– Elizabeth Jolley Short Story Prize Deadline not advised - Readings New Australian Writing Award. ≈≈ ARTS POSITION OPEN: Regional Engagement Officer An exciting opportunity has come up to join the team at writingWA to assist in the delivery of its regional programs. See writingWA or the attached pdf for the job criteria and applications close 31st March 2014. Daevid Anderson Project Officer Visual Arts, Craft, and Writing Department of Culture and the Arts Gordon Stephenson House, 140 William St, Perth WA 6000

Write before you work an early morning creative writing laboratory with Horst Kornberger Always wanted to write but never had the time? Here is a way of doing it: The Early Birds of a Feather Experiment from 6.15 am till 7.30 am at the Writing Laboratory at PSAS in Pakenham St, Fremantle. Workshop 1 Finding Your Writing Wings - help your imagination to take off - a series of simple writing exercises that will help you jumpstart your writing practice. Why so early? To make time before your duties take it away You will be rested and your muse refreshed It will be quiet There will be free parking in the heart of Fremantle until 9.00am When:

Thursday 27 March 2014, 6.15am - 7.30am

Where: The Writing Laboratory at PSAS, 22 Pakenham Street, Fremantle, (3 minutes from Fremantle Station) Cost:

$35: to book click here

POEM OF THE WEEK The Novelist Encased in talent like a uniform, The rank of every poet is well known; They can amaze us like a thunderstorm, Or die so young, or live for years alone. They can dash forward like hussars: but he Must struggle out of his boyish gift and learn How to be plain and awkward, how to be One after whom none think it worth to turn. For, to achieve his lightest wish, he must Become the whole of boredom, subject to Vulgar complaints like love, among the Just Be just, among the Filthy filthy too, And in his own weak person, if he can, Must suffer dully all the wrongs of Man.

WH Auden (with thanks to Martin Amis – Perth Concert Hall, 2014)

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