An Invitation to Gail Willems 1st Poetry Collection: Blood Ties & Crack-Fed Dreams

Perth and Mandurah based award winning poet Gail Willems is celebrating her first poetry collection titled

“BLOOD TIES AND CRACK-FED DREAMS” 

(published by GINNINDERRA PRESS) 

The collection will be launched by award-winning W.A. poet Annamaria Weldon

Saturday 2/11/2013 at 2pm upstairs in the Pavlich Room at the Fremantle Arts Centre at 2-4.30pm and in Mandurah at Falcon eLibrary and Community Centre on Thursday 14/11/2013 at 6-730pm (cnr Flavia St and Cobblers Rd Falcon) 

At Mandurah there will be an open mike session before the launch for 30mins. If you want to read then please come 10-15 mins earlier to put your name down.

Books on sale at both venues ($18.50 no credit card facilities)

All welcome to help Gail launch her 1^st poetry collection.

Drinks and finger food provided

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Video Launch of Helen Hagemann's "of Arc & Shadow"

Launch of Helen Hagemann's "of Arc & Shadow" at Gallows Gallery on Saturday 12th October. The collection is now available from the publisher Sunline Press, in the Lane Bookshop, and from the author.

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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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The David Harold Tribe Poetry Award 2013

The Department of English is pleased to be hosting the David Harold Tribe Poetry Award, which is now open for submissions.
The Award is designed to encourage the writing of and appreciation for poetry in Australia, and is open to poets across the nation. The prize money of $12,000 makes it one of the most generous poetry prizes in Australia.
The award will be made for the best original poem of up to 100 lines, and the winner will be selected by an expert judging panel, which is made up of Dr Peter Minter (poet, poetry editor at Overland, senior lecturer at University of Sydney), Sarah Day (poet and poetry editor for Island Magazine) and Geoff Page (poet and former poetry critic for The Canberra Times).
The deadline for submissions is 13th September 2013, and the winner will be announced at the Department of English's Creative Writing Soirée in mid-November.
This award has been made possible by a donation from David Harold Tribe through the David Harold Tribe Charitable Foundation. The Poetry Award forms part of an awards program that supports a number of different cultural pursuits at the University of Sydney. The program offers five prizes worth $12,000 each in the areas of fiction, poetry, philosophy, sculpture and symphony. These categories rotate each year.
This is the second David Harold Tribe Poetry Award, the first of which was awarded to John Bennett in 2008 for his poem Kitchen Music.
David Harold Tribe, himself a poet since his school days, says of the award "I believe that poetry is worth celebrating, and I'm very excited about giving poets the opportunity to submit their work without having the stress of finding an entry fee. I feel that my award of $12,000 could be a life-changing sum of money for some poets."
"It is my hope that the award enables poets to begin their literary career with confidence and/or encourages them to use the money to travel overseas, increasing their awareness of the world, which I feel builds a strong foundation and is very important."
For Terms and Conditions and to apply, click here

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Contact: Kate Mayor
Phone: 02 9351 2208, 0434 561 056
Email: kate.mayor@sydney.edu.au

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Vale: Sally Clarke - our dear member and poet will be sadly missed

We are sad to learn of the passing of our much loved member and poet Sally Clarke.  RIP

from Dancing in Odessa
             by Ilya Kaminsky


We lived North of the future…
 

were born there
into summer twilight evenings;
cold winter nights, frost and snow
underlay our present,
hard-to-ignore cuckoo call,
hazy bluebell woods, deciduous trees,
gold autumn Cotswold stone,
that way of thinking...

yet we have lived here
more years than there,
accept another language,
red earth, drought-ridden summers,
bask in sea/beach clarity,
hard-to-ignore antipodean flora/fauna,
gum trees you can see the sky through,
red callistemon, parakeet, kookaburra...

we will not go back.

        

                    —     Sally Clarke

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Multilingual Poetry @ the Perth Poetry Festival 2013

Rosie Barter will read at an evening of poetry performed by bilingual and multilingual poets coordinated by Belgian-born poet, Tineke Van der Eecken. Rosie 's poetry will be read in both English and Greek. Other poets, incl. Weina Fan, Vivienne Glance, Anna Kiss-Gyorgy, Afeil Ismail, Rashida Murphy and Hessom Razavi. Including the host Tineke Van der Eecken these poets will charm you with language, and introduce you to rich and diverse cultures of the world. There will be open mike for anyone inspired to join in this language festivity.
8–10pm
PICA Bar
$15 / $10 concession

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Peter Porter Poetry Prize

The Peter Porter Poetry Prize 2014 is now open, with prize money worth a total of $6500. This year we will be accepting online submissions for the first time and we encourage poets to  enter online. Also for the first time this year, we will be accepting international entries.
Click here to enter online.
We will also be accepting hard copy entries using this entry form.
The Peter Porter Poetry Prize is one of Australia’s most lucrative and respected awards for poetry, and guarantees winners wide exposure through publication in ABR.

First prize: $4000

Closing date: 20 November 2013

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