Book Launch Invitation to Helen Hagemann's "of Arc & Shadow"

LAUNCH OF NEW POETRY
"of Arc & Shadow" by Helen Hagemann

Saturday, 12th October @ 2-4pm

Launched by Lucy Dougan

Gallows Gallery

53 Glyde Street,

Mosman Park. WA

Drinks & Finger Food

RSVP: Roland Leach - rleach@plc.wa.edu.au or (Helen) hagemann.helen@gmail.com

by 5^th October.  $20 Note: no credit card facility
All welcome!

of Arc & Shadow is published by Sunline Press (October 2013)

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Sponsorship Drive for OOTA Anthology

Out of the Asylum Writers Group

PO Box 142,

Fremantle.WA 6959

Help Sponsor

our OOTA Anthology 2013

All Donations gratefully accepted.

OOTA is fast approaching the deadline to have our anthology entitled “Jukebox” published and ready for the Fremantle Festival in November.  Due to reasons beyond our control, the Department of Culture and the Arts and the City of Fremantle have not supported this project. OOTA is therefore determined to see this project through and is now asking members and the community to help.  Our event on Sunday 10 November is to launch the book, but also to celebrate OOTA’s 10 year anniversary.

10^th November 2013 Launch
at the Fremantle Arts Centre

with readings

from Jukebox

Further enquiries to
Leanne Searle at
ootawriters@gmail.com

 

RETURN THIS PORTION TO: OOTA, PO Box 142, Fremantle, WA 6959

 

Payment (Cheque/Money Order) Amount:  $__________   Please acknowledge me in the book   √

Please note: that your ‘name’ and not your donated amount will appear on the credits page of the book.

Name: .............................................. 
Signed:...............................................

Address:...................................................................

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Telephone No:...................................

Payment can be made into our Bank West - BSB 306-048 - account number 046281-4 

Please include your surname + ‘sponsor’ for administration purposes, ie, ‘Smithsponsor’ 
as the reference.

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It's AGM time again!

Dear Members,

It's AGM time again. We will be conducting the meeting in Room 2 at the Fremantle Arts Centre at 1.00pm for a 1.30pm start on Saturday the 19^th October.

The Committee and I are looking forward to seeing you there. 
Join us for collegial networking and camaraderie as well as the business of the day.

Hope you can come.

Best wishes
Julie Watts
President

Please find forms to download 
:  Proxy form here
:  Nomination form here

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The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets

The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize for New and Emerging Poets is open now

The Overland Judith Wright Poetry Prize prize was established in 2007, with support from the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, to foster poetry by writers who have not yet published a book of poems under their own name. In 2013, the major prize is $6000, with a second prize of $2000 and a third prize of $1000. All three winning poems will also be published in Overland.
It is the most prestitigous prize of its kind in the country – and it's exclusively open to unpublished poets. Check out overland.org.au for more information.

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The Griffith Review: The Novella Project 2

Edition 46: The Novella Project 2: Forgotten Stories
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2014, early submissions encouraged
Publication date: late October 2014

Griffith REVIEW is pleased to announce the Novella Project 2, once again supported by the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund.
In 2012, Griffith REVIEW 38: The Novella Project played a major role in enabling Australian and New Zealand authors to gain a foothold in the English language revival of the novella underway internationally. It was a best-seller at independent bookshops and widely praised by reviewers. Digital editions and eSingles of the winning novellas are available here.
Griffith REVIEW 46: Novella Project 2: Forgotten Stories will explore in fiction forgotten stories with an historical dimension, delving beyond the handful of iconic tales that have grown threadbare.
The massive migration of the past generation is not only changing Australia but reviving the need to find new ways to tell forgotten stories that are part of a shared but often overlooked cultural heritage of this country. Forgotten Stories will redefine what it means to be Australian in the twenty-first century. Further details @
http://griffithreview.com/the-novella-project-2-call-for-submissions

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Inkerman & Blunt's Australian Love Poems 2013 launched at FAC

Thoughts of "Love is in the Air" permeated the Pavlich Room at the Fremantle Arts Centre on Sunday for the launch of Inkerman & Blunt’s Australian Love Poems 2013. According to Donna Ward, “love” not hate should be a new tone for Australia. OOTA wishes to thank Julie Watts, our President, for organising the event. The Pavlich room was filled with poets and old friends. We think we made Donna 'feel like home', and Kevin Gillam did as well with his familiar Cello renditions.  Thanks also to committee members Liz Hearden and Leanne Searle for selling books on the day, and to all members who contributed with plates of food.  We thank Anthony Watts (Julie's better half) for a sterling job he did as our drinks waiter.

    Last but not least, thank you poets of WA! for your inclusion in this anthology, and to guest readers, Julie Watts, Sue Clennell, Jackson, Shane McCauley. Kevin Gillam and Roland Leach for making the event, pardon the pun, lovely. Unfortunately Miranda Aitken could not attend, but Donna read her poem Fish like Flowers and also a favourite On her Wedding Day (for Kate) by Michael Crane.

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