OOTA CHRISTMAS PARTY 2012

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Going Down Swinging - Digital Edition #34

Going Down Swinging Some crazy exciting news, folks. GDS is once again putting out a shiny, whiz bang digital edition! We are looking for all manner of writing for the 34th edition, be it poetry, fiction, non-fiction, spoken word, sound and music projects, videos, animations, illustrations, even apps and interactive pieces. Head down to our submissions site for more information and downloads. December 14th is your deadline. Go forth! http://goingdownswinging.org.au/site/submission...

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The Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for Innovative Poetry

   The Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for Innovative Poetry Summer Literary Seminars would like to commemorate his life, if only in a small way, by establishing a literary prize in his honor. Participation is open to everyone, regardless of  previous level of accomplishment or native language. All entries must be in English. We will look for poetry that Arkadii himself would have liked: interesting, thoughtful, inventive, unafraid to be bold, driven by strong inner rhythm,...

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Poetry Prize: Helen Bell Poetry Bequest Award 2013

The Department of English at the University of Sydney is pleased to announce that the first biennial award under the Helen Anne Bell Poetry Bequest  will be made in 2013.  Under the terms of Helen Anne Bell’s will, a cash prize of $5,000 will be offered for the best collection of 30 poems by a female poet over the age of 18.  Applicants must be Australian, and the poems submitted must be “about Australian culture,” broadly defined.  The submitted poems should not...

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foam:e calling for submissions

foam:e invites submissions for the next edition of foam:e to be published in March 2013. Please use the word foam:e in the subject line and send up to 6 poems in the body of an email to the editor. Submissions will only be accepted until the close of November 2012. The poems should be your own work, not currently submitted to any other journals and if previously published, foam:e wishes to acknowledge the journals in which they've previously been published...

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Farewell Meredi Ortega! & Congrats to our writers in Cordite!

It is with sadness that we say goodbye to Meredi Ortega a long-standing member and once committee member of OOTA. She is off to Aberdeen, Scotland. We wish her well for the future, settling in is often a challenge and an adventure, however we are sure all the unknowns will become familiar knowns. The good news is we are also wishing Meredi (before she goes) CONGRATULATIONS!!!! for her poem lost in translation in Cordite Interlocutor #40. Also CONGRATULATIONS!!! to Josephine Clarke (a Friday/ Monday poet) for her poem This Smile in Cordite Interlocutor...

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