Image from Pexel free images Red Room Poetry Object for Australian students, U18s and accredited teachers Red Room Poetry Object is Australasia’s largest free poetry-writing competition for young people and their teachers. Poetry Object ignites imaginations by inviting poems inspired by treasured, curious, everyday, extraordinary, interplanetary, or talismanic objects. You must be an Australian…
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Opportunities for Writers May 2020
Cover image from Pixabay free images The Bird Makers Project ‘Through the remnants of shared experience, each stitch becomes bigger than the self. Suitable for beginner and advanced sewers, you will be guided through online resources to create a single black bird made from your own donated piece of black clothing. These black birds will…
Opportunities for Writers March 2020
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 Hughes and Graham Perrett MP as part of the Parliamentary Friends of Australian Books and Writers group. Find your MPs by postcode and let them know your recommendation of a book by…
Opportunities for Writers February 2020
For lists of opportunities for writers, check out Aerogramme Studio’s Residencies for Writers in 2020 and A Guide to Short Story Contests in 2020, writingWA’s Opportunities page, and Writers Bloc’s Opportunities page Australian Multilingual Writing Project seeking editors and readers The AMWP is is looking for editors and readers fluent in/confident with a language other…
7 Australian Literary Magazines You Should Read & Submit To, by Jess Gately
Publishing your writing in literary magazines is one way authors and poets give themselves credibility when submitting longer works to publishers. Having a publishing record means that you not only have experience working with editors and publishers but that you are likely to already have a following of readers who recognise your name. To give…
Writing Opportunities for October 2019
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 will not just deliver exceptional journalism, but will also join the discussion their journalism sparks. For journalists who produce multiple pieces for us, we will also talk about how we can make…
Review: Bird Country by Claire Aman, by Jemimah Halbert Brewster
Issue 22’s review Bird Country (2017) by Claire Aman A review by Jemimah Halbert Brewster (this review can also be read in the Underground zine, issue 22: Pop!) Bird Country is Claire Aman’s first book, a short story collection featuring works that have previously been published by Black Inc., Griffith Review, Spineless Wonders, Margaret River Press,…
Writing Opportunities for April 2018
Writing Opportunities for April Australian Storytellers Festival Sunday 8th April at the Literature Centre in Fremantle Monash Undergraduate Prize in Creative Writing This prize seeks entries of 1,500-3,000 words of creative writing, including fiction, creative non-fiction, and short stories on any theme. Open to all undergraduate students currently enrolled in Australia or New Zealand –…