Our Own Cafe Poet!

Trish Gearman has been chosen as a "Cafe Poet" at the Fremantle Arts Centre Congratulations to our class member @ WAC & OOTA writer Trish Gearman (aka Gardner) who will be a Cafe Poet at the Fremantle Arts Centre in 2012. Trish will spend her time as "Poet in Residence" in the courtyard cafe for a period of six months. We wish her many hours of happy writing! Visit Australian Poetry her...

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Calling All Tattooed Poets!

Best American Poetry is once again thrilled to spread the word to inked poets everywhere. Bill Cohen (Best American Poetry blog) would like to post an image of your tattoo on Tattoosday every day during April. Tattoos need not be literary in nature to qualify. If your ink is featured, Bill hopes to give a little history of your tattoo, some background about you and your poetry, and he'll include links to your own website, books, and poems. With your permission, he'll even post a poem. Last April, Tattoosday recorded over 30,000 hits and nearly...

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Castaways Poetry Competition

The City of Rockingham is pleased to announce that submissions are now open for the 2012 Castaways Poetry Prize, with almost $500 in prizes. Submissions are open until March 13th, 2012. Guidelines The body of your email must include your name, address, phone/mobile number, email address, and the title & line counts of your poems. To ensure anonymity, do not include your details on your entered poems themselves. Do not post entries. Only entries received via email will be accepted. Each poem must be no longer than 24 lines. Poems must be original,...

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Sandfire Launch Video

Over 120 people joined poets, Flora Smith, Rose van Son, and Chris Konrad to help celebrate the launch of their poetry collection Sandfire. It was a great day with plenty of food, good wine/champagne and plenty of heat...from the sun...! Still, plenty of smiles all around. OOTA wishes our three poets who are members much success with this very attractive collection. Published by Sunline Press, books will be available in all good book stores (where we don't want them to remain!). Video produced...

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Penguin (Aust) in now accepting unsolicited manuscripts

The Monthly Catch Penguin Group (Australia) is keen and excited to read new work from Australian authors, and as such we’ve developed the Monthly Catch. For the first week of every month, we throw our doors open to unsolicited manuscripts. In this time period (the 1st to the 7th of every month), please send through submissions based on our GUIDELINES. Click here for further info @  Penguin...

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Farewell Pocket Theatre

OOTA/Writing at the Centre extend their best wishes to Helen & Gordon of Pocket Theatre. Thank you for past fun, for supporting OOTA writers. We all loved No Insalata (written by Josephine Clarke) & the Christmas Parrot Play! Dear Friends and Supporters of Pocket Theatre It is with real sadness that we (Directors Helen Brett and Gordon Mac Nish) have decided to turn off the stage lights and bring down the final curtain on Pocket Theatre. When Pocket Theatre commenced in 2004, we, plus Geoff Pearson, aimed to provide a local live theatre...

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