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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for writers December 2020

December 2, 2020January 2, 2021 By Underground Team

Cover image from Canva free images Pitches open for Women With Disabilities Australia ‘WWDA will soon be launching a blog on their website

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Opportunities for Writers September 2020

September 1, 2020September 3, 2020 By Underground Team

Image from Pexels free images Kill Your Darlings First Nations Editor-in-Residence ‘We are now accepting non-fiction pitches and submissions from Aboriginal and/or Torres

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#Dylan Dartnell #Past editors #Reader Resources #Reviews

Review: Siarad by Caroline Reid, by Dylan Dartnell

August 16, 2020January 2, 2021 By Underground Team

Title: Siarad: Poetry & Prose Publisher: ES-Press, an imprint of Spineless Wonders Published: 2020 ‘Siarad [sha-rad] is a Welsh word meaning to talk,

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for Writers August 2020

August 2, 2020August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

Photo by Anastasia Zhenina from Pexels Pulch Magazine open for submissions Seeking submissions of ‘anything and everything, from politics, to culture, to identity, fictional short stories,

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#Reader Resources #Reviews #Shelley Carter

Review: Fire Front poetry anthology, by Shelley Timms

July 8, 2020December 31, 2020 By Underground Team

Title: Fire Front: First Nations Poetry and Power Today Editor: Alison Whittaker Genre: Anthology/Poetry collection Publisher: UQP “Our legacies become futures, written from

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for Writers June 2020

June 3, 2020June 3, 2020 By Underground Team

Cover image from Pixabay free images Bloodaxe Books Sri Lankan Poetry Anthology Callout “Editors Vidyan Ravinthiran, Shash Trevett and Seni Seneviratne are seeking submissions to

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Jess Gately #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for Writers May 2020

May 4, 2020June 3, 2020 By Underground Team

Cover image from Pixabay free images The Bird Makers Project ‘Through the remnants of shared experience, each stitch becomes bigger than the self.

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for Writers April 2020

April 1, 2020 By Underground Team

Cover image from Pixabay free images A Journal of the Plague Year: An Archive of COVID-19 “The Melbourne History Workshop in the School of Historical

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for Writers March 2020

March 1, 2020 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images Parliamentary Book Club taking book nominations The Parliamentary Book Club is a new, bi-partisan initiative led by Senator Hollie

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for Writers January 2020

January 3, 2020 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images You can also find listings of international publications open for submission, residency opportunities, and writing competitions at Aerogramme Studio

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Opportunities for Writers December 2019

December 1, 2019 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images Aerogramme Writer’s Studio also has a list of 31 Writing competitions to enter before the end of the year,

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#Listicles #Reader Resources #Shelley Carter

The Writer’s Reading List: Books to help you become a successful writer by Shelley Carter

October 16, 2019December 31, 2020 By Underground Team

Becoming a writer involves so much more than just having a talent for telling stories. There are so many aspects you must consider

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities for October 2019

October 1, 2019 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images The Correspondent is currently accepting pitches ‘As conversation leaders, our expectation is that a freelancer who works with us

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities for September 2019

September 1, 2019August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images 2019 Deborah Cass Prize  “Early career writers of migrant background are invited to apply for the 2019 Deborah Cass

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#Jess Gately #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities July 2019

July 5, 2019September 28, 2019 By Jess

Overland speculative alternatives issue ‘Overland is seeking fiction submissions for a special online edition themed around the future(s) you would manifest, to be

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Writing Opportunities for June 2019

June 2, 2019 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images BREW: Bush Retreats for Eco-Writers residencies The Bush Retreats for Eco-Writers (BREW) network offers free 10-day residencies for writers,

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#Announcements #Issue Release #Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Shelley Carter

Issue 26: Ashes

May 5, 2019August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

Cover by Ari Moore Issue 26: Ashes is here for your reading pleasure. This month we bring you a tasting plate of short

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Writing Opportunities March 2019

March 4, 2019 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images Yirra Yaakin Writers’ Group “Yirra Yaakin invites established and aspiring Aboriginal playwrights to participate in an intensive playwriting program

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#Announcements #Issue Release #Jess Gately

Issue 25 is here!

February 5, 2019February 1, 2019 By Underground Team

It’s a new year and we’re happy to be presenting issue #25 of the Underground Writers zine, featuring more fantastic work by a

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities January 2019

January 5, 2019January 3, 2019 By Underground Team

Image from Canva free stock images Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize for Young Indigenous Writers The prize will be awarded to

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Writing Opportunities for December 2018

December 3, 2018 By Underground Team

Earth Island Journal – currently open for article submissions We cover the entire spectrum of environmental issues, including, wildlife and lands conservation; innovations

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#Jess Rae #Past editors #Reviews

Review: Blakwork by Alison Whittaker, by Jess Rae

November 28, 2018November 18, 2020 By Underground Team

Title: Blakwork Author: Alison Whittaker Genre: Poetry Look at that: the fantasy editor is reviewing poetry! Pigs really do fly after all. I

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities for October 2018

October 5, 2018October 5, 2018 By Underground Team

Wollongong Writers Festival Short Story Prize 2018 Seeking short stories up to 2,500 words on the theme ‘Feeding Time’. Entry is $15, closing

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities for September 2018

September 9, 2018September 9, 2018 By Underground Team

Writing Opportunities for September 2018 Big Sky Publishing Big Sky Publishing is currently accepting unsolicited non-fiction manuscripts in the genres of history, military

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#Interviews #Reader Resources #Shelley Carter

Interview: Maddie Godfrey, author of ‘How To Be Held’

August 12, 2018December 31, 2020 By Underground Team

An interview by Shelley Timms  Photo by Michael Reynolds Firstly, tell us a bit about your book! How To Be Held is my debut

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities July 2018

July 5, 2018August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

Writing Opportunities for July 2018   Windfall: Australian Haiku A small annual print publication which seeks to publish fine examples of contemporary Australian

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Writing Opportunities for June 2018

June 6, 2018August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

Writing Opportunities June 2018 Girls Will Be Girls submissions GWBG is currently open for submissions for their winter-spring issue. ‘Accepting words, art, comics,

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#Announcements #Issue Release #Jemimah Halbert Brewster

Issue 22 release!

May 5, 2018May 7, 2018 By Underground Team

Issue 22: Pop! is here! This issue we’re very happy to have our cover designed by the talented Perth-based Alisa Dempster—you can follow

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Writing opportunities for March 2018

March 4, 2018August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

Writing Opportunities for March 2018 Western Australia Museum – WA in Words What novels, poems, plays or song lyrics paint a literary picture

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#Announcements #Dylan Dartnell #Issue Release #Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Past editors

Issue 21: Mythological Figures

February 6, 2018November 18, 2020 By Jess

Issue 21: Mythological Figures is here! This issue is packed full of poetic goodness form MTC Cronin & Peter Boyle, Alys Jackson, Elise

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing opportunities for January 2018

January 3, 2018August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

ABR 2018 Calibre Essay Prize Seeking non-fiction essays from 3,000 to 6,000 words, written in English. Entry fees are $15 for current ABR

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#Dylan Dartnell #Reviews

Review: The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry, reviewed by Dylan Dartnell

November 28, 2017March 24, 2020 By Underground Team

The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry My first real introduction to poetry was in my high school literature class. My teacher

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#Announcements #Issue Release #Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Jess Gately

Issue 20: Nostalgia

November 5, 2017September 28, 2019 By Underground Team

Issue 20: Nostalgia is here! This issue you’ll find some excellent poetry by Allan Lake, Jan Price and Bradley Baronner, a few delectable

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#Jemimah Halbert Brewster #Writing Opportunities & Events

Writing Opportunities for July 2017

July 8, 2017August 9, 2020 By Underground Team

Opportunities for July City of Rockingham Short Fiction Awards “Authors can submit up to three stories. Entered stories must be inspired by, drawn

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#Announcements

Submissions for issue 12 are open!

October 2, 2015May 22, 2017 By Chris

Submissions for issue 12 are open! 2nd July, 2015 Issue 12 will be released in September, so you’ve got heaps of time to

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#Announcements #Issue Release

Issue 11 now available!

October 2, 2015August 9, 2020 By Chris

12th June, 2015 Issue 11 is now live! Featuring pieces received in the three-year gap since our last issue, issue 11 is our

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