Season's Greetings & Happy Holidays!

The management team of OOTA wishes all its members a very happy Christmas and a safe and healthy New Year. We hope to see many of you in 201...

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OOTA Christmas Party, featuring Irish poet Tony Curtis

Tony Curtis Helen Hagemann OOTA CRISTMAS PARTY! Friday 18th December, 12.30 - 3.00 in the Pavilion at Fremantle Arts Centre Please bring a plate to share Prose reading by Helen Hagemann Poetry reading by Tony Curtis OOTA CHRISTMAS RAFFLE Copies of Westerly for members Tony Curtis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis_%28Irish_poet%29 ...

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OOTA's AGM 17th October 1.30pm

The Annual General Meeting for Out of the Asylum Writers' Group will be held on Saturday, 17th October, 2015 at 1.30 pm in Room 3 of the Fremantle Arts Centre. We hope you will be able to join us. If you are able to bring a plate of finger food to share for the occasion, please email Josephine Clarke at j.sephine.c@gmail.co...

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OOTA's Writing Marathon with Kevin Gillam

OOTA Writing Marathon with Kevin Gillam 10th October 1.00-4.00pm @ Fremantle Arts Centre, Upstairs, Room 3 Cost $25 In the ‘Marathon’ on October 10th, participants will be asked to write to a number of stimuli, including 'cello music, tactile objects, starting lines and sensory imaginations. The idea behind the ‘marathon’ concept is that the longer we write for, the looser our thought processes and imagination become. It is hoped that class members will take at least 2 or 3 ideas away...

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Book Launch: Thylacine by Jan Napier

OOTA warmly welcomes you to the book launch of Thylacine  a collection of poetry by Jan Napier To be launched by Kevin Gillam in the Pavlich Room of the Fremantle Arts Centre, Saturday, 12th of September, 2-4 pm. RSVP  Jan Napier   yangjan10@gmail.com ...

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Aesthetica: Deadline 31st August

Enter the Creative Writing Award by 31 August There is one week to go to enter the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award! Register by 31 August to be in with a chance of winning £500 plus publication in an inspiring anthology of new writing. The Award is dedicated to supporting and championing creative talent from around the world, and is a celebration of outstanding poetry and short fiction. Judges include literary experts such as Arifa Akbar, Literary Editor of The Independent and inewspapers. Prizes...

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OOTA Member Laurie Steed to judge the SALA Short Story Prize

The Arts Council of Mansfield is going national, with the SALA  Short Story Prize. And entries are now open, so polish up those short stories and send them in! National prize – $1000 plus a mixed pack of wine from Delatite Winery and publication in SALA Short Stories 2015 Local author prize – $500 plus publication in SALA Short Stories 2015 Publication for up to 20 submissions – we’ll offer publication in SALA Short Stories 2015 to up to 20 additional submissions. SALA Short Stories 2015...

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One free Copy of Westerly (NOVEMBER ISSUE) for OOTA Members

OOTA advises that membership renewal is now due for July-June 2015. You can download the form in pdf or doc or why not take advantage of our direct debit system? Included in your membership is one free copy of Westerly Magazine.(November issue)  Download membership form here Westerly 60.1 The launch will be held on Friday the 17th of July, at the UWA Boat Shed, from 6pm. The issue will be launched by the wonderful Susan Midalia, and drinks and nibbles will be on offer. The Boat Shed...

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OOTA Writers take out most major prizes at PCWC for the Patron's Poetry Prize

Congratulations are in order to all OOTA writers who took out (nearly all) of the major prizes for the PCWC Patron's Poetry Prize 2015.  Shane McCauley (Tutor at Writing at the Centre, FAC) 1st prize, for ‘Shape Shifter’, Second Prize was awarded to Christopher Konrad for ‘East Gippsland and other Enoch Anecdotes’, and Third Prize was awarded to Julie Watts for ‘Chyna’, Carolyn Abbs received a Highly Commended for ‘Girl at Bus Stop’ and Rose van Son for ‘History Lesson'. Christ Konrad also...

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Two Great Workshops in June @ The Fremantle Arts Centre

Laurie Steed will conduct a workshop on Friday 12th June @ 1pm at the Fremantle Arts Centre. Room 3, Upstairs in the North Wing Guy Salvidge will run the following class on Friday 26th June at 1pm. Both classes will be in Room 3 as usual.   Please Note: the class fee remains at $20 for OOTA members - $25.00 Non-OOTA Members. Laurie Steed is an author and Ph.D Candidate at the University of Western Australia. His work has been broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and published in Best...

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Launch of Shane McCauley's "Trickster"

OOTA Writers Group Inc. invites you to the launch party of tRICKSTER by Shane McCauley Walleah Press (Tasmania) To be launched by Andrew Lansdown Saturday, 6 June 2015 @ 2pm Pavlich Room Fremantle Arts Centre Please RSVP by 29 May shnmccly@gmail.com SMS- 0432983310 Book sales $ 20 (no credit card facilities) Drinks, finger foods & a trick or two ** The launch will be concluded with raffle and door prize draws.*...

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Launch of Cuttlefish by Sunline Press

Sunline Press invites you to the launch of Cuttlefish Gallows Gallery 53 Glyde Street Mosman Park Saturday 2nd May 5pm to 7pm RSVP: rleach@plc.wa.edu.au before 28th April 2015...

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Upcoming Classes

APRIL Poetry Fri 24th, 1pm-3pm with Shane McCauley MAY Prose Fri 1st, 1pm-3pm with Helen Hagemann Poetry Fri 8th, 1pm-3pm with Shane McCauley Prose Fri 15th, 1pm-3pm with Helen Hagemann Poetry Fri 22nd, 1pm-3pm with Shane McCauley Prose Fri 29th, 1pm-3pm with Helen Hagemann JUNE - Please note that Helen Hagemann is away until  10th July 2015               and Laurie Steed and Guy Salvidge will each run a workshop         ...

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Voicebox at a new venue: Blinco Street Cafe

Upcoming Events 20 APRIL, 2015 Maitland Schnaars, Zainab Syed and Mags Webster Join us at the Fremantle Fibonacci Centre, 19 Blinco Street, Fremantle. Tickets: $10/$6 available at the door Doors open at 6.30pm, poetry begins at 7pm. Food, coffee, tea and juices available at the Blinco Street Cafe. BYO poems and drinks. Note: the Fremantle Fibonacci Centre  is a cash only venue. 25 MAY, 2015 Jennifer Kornberger, John Mateer and Amy Hilhor...

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Keep Track of Overland's List of Prizes

Mark this in your diary: Overland’s magnificent list of prizes For several years now, Overland has been hosting a number of prestigious prizes, with support from organisations such as the Malcolm Robertson Foundation, Victoria University, Story Wines and the National Union of Workers. To save you having to keep track of when they open and close, we've made this handy list @ https://overland.org.au/prize...

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Bunbury Writing for Performance Competition

The Shore Lines Writing for Performance Festival creates opportunities for established and emerging writers of all ages to have their work seen by a live audience. If you like to write and would like your work performed then Shore Lines is for you. The competition calls for written entries that will be judged on the quality of the writing and its suitability for performance. We encourage a wide range of genres including monologues, poems, plays, songs, stories, comedy, hip hop or rap. Entries...

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Be a Bad Romeo Competition

CALLING ALL WRITERS: Win a 1-on-1 meeting with Pan Macmillan’s Commissioning Editor! Those wonderful folks at Pan Macmillan have done it again for aspiring writers, putting the incredible opportunity of a 1-on-1 meeting with their Commissioning Editor up for grabs in a new competition! To celebrate the release of Bad Romeo, they’re asking you to submit a 1000-word story using the characters from William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet to badromeo@macmillan.com.au before Friday the 3rd of April! Pretty...

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Bringing out the Writer in You - Classes at the Fremantle Arts Centre 2015

Creative Writing Classes for the Writer in You Shane McCauley and Helen Hagemann offer friendly, insightful and erudite classes at the Fremantle Arts Centre, every Friday from 1pm.  Why not join us, together with members of the Out of the Asylum Writers Group, for some informative and fun writing classes. Shane conducts the poetry class on alternate Fridays to the Prose class with Helen Hagemann. Fremantle Arts Centre, Room 3, upstairs in the main building. Shane's first class...

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