Writers' Network Update May 2008
UTS ALUMNI WRITERS' NETWORK E-ZINE
May 2008
In this issue you'll find author Libby Sommer's WRITERS ON WRITING article which discusses the short story versus the novel, perhaps it will open up a debate in our forum or ezine? Please send in your contribution about any aspect of writing or being a writer that you feel would inspire, assist, inform or encourage your fellow writers.
We congratulate Susanne Gervay on her UTS Alumni Professional Achievement Award, well done, Susanne. More about the Alumni Awards in your latest Stay Connected.
Dr Jeremy Fisher, Executive Director ASA, has generously agreed to be guest speaker at a Writers' Network lunch event on 6 September 2008 at The Hughenden. Please see below for further details.
The 20th Anniversary Cocktail Event is on Tuesday 27 May, details below.
As usual there is news of the latest competitions, opportunities, courses and writers' events for poets, playwrights and authors of almost every genre to inspire you on these longer autumn nights (or shorter grey days).
Can you help with our monthly e-zine? Please send news of interest to writers: notices of competitions, opportunities, events, articles about writing and your own achievements, publications and new books. We would also welcome guest editors and volunteer proofreaders.
Let us know if you have a website, so we can list it in our WEBSITES OF WRITERS' NETWORK MEMBERS section.
We're always interested in hearing from you, our network members, about how we can improve the network to better cater for your needs and interests. You can fill out the survey posted in our Writers' Network E-community forum by clicking on 'reply' to the survey message. You can also join in the discussion going on in our discussion forum. A special thank you to all those who send in contributions and are active in our e-community forum.
There's a link in our e-community forum to the Copyright Agency Limited which can answer your questions about copyright, including advice about digital copyright. As well, there are links to information from Anita Heiss regarding writing about Indigenous Australians. Our Writers On Writing contributions are also posted in our writers' network forum. All this and more at our e-community, which we aim to make as positive and interactive an experience as possible, with a group atmosphere and plenty of interaction between members of our network. The discussions are moderated.
Please join us in the forum - go to http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au and log on; then click on 'Communities' and then 'Writers' Network'. To find the survey, click on 'Suggest a Topic' in the Writers' Network forum and then click on 'Survey for Writers' Network'. You can find back issues of our e-zine online at http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au/networks/writers/index.html
Please note that all contributions and comments by members published in our monthly e-zine are those of the individual author and that all responsibility for accuracy and liability for comments made in contributions lie with the author of the contribution.
Contributions remain the copyright of the individual author and no copy or reproduction should be made without prior consultation with the author.
Please send contributions for the UTS Writers' Network JUNE 08 E-zine by 18 May 2008 if you want to be sure they are included. Email your copy to Sharon.P.Rundle@alumni.uts.edu.au
Sharon.
NEWS FROM OUR NETWORK
20TH ANNIVERSARY COCKTAIL EVENT
In 2008, UTS celebrates its 20th anniversary as a university. To mark the creation of UTS and to highlight plans for the next decade, the University is hosting a week-long series of events.
All alumni of UTS and its antecedent organisations are invited to a special cocktail event on Tuesday 27 May 2008. Join your fellow alumni to celebrate this milestone in UTS's history and hear about your University's exciting plans for the future.
The cocktail event will be hosted by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ross Milbourne. Mingle with fellow alumni and enjoy cocktails to the sounds of a jazz quartet. We look forward to seeing you there.
Date: Tuesday 27 May 2008
Time: 6-8.30pm
Venue: UTS City campus, Chancellery, Level 4, Tower Building
Cost: Free. Event includes cocktails and a live jazz quartet
RSVP: Monday 19 May 2008 to alumni@uts.edu.au or call +61 2 9514 9861
UTS ALUMNI WRITERS' NETWORK LUNCH
Guest speaker: Dr Jeremy Fisher, author and executive director of the Australian Society of Authors. All network members welcome.
Date: Saturday 6 September 2008
Time: 11am-3pm
Venue: The Hughenden Hotel, Queen St, Woollhara
Cost: FREE. Lunch and coffee/tea provided
Our event is sponsored by UTS Alumni & Development
RSVP: As soon as possible to assist catering by emailing: Sharon.P.Rundle@alumni.uts.edu.au or alumni@uts.edu.au or call +61 2 9514 9861
UTS: ALUMNI WRITERS' NETWORK FACEBOOK GROUP PAGE
Joining this Facebook group is entirely optional and is designed as an added feature for our network to get to know one another better.
Group Info
Name: University of Technology, Sydney Alumni Writers' Network
Type: Entertainment & Arts - Books & Literature
Description: This group is a closed group for UTS alumni members who are interested in writing and publishing. The reason it is a closed group is to help protect privacy and copyright.
Group Type: This is a closed group. Members must be invited or approved by an admin.
To join go to: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10057226734&ref=mf
After you send an application to join this Facebook group, it will be approved and then you become a member. If you apply to join and this doesn't happen, please email me and I'll try and rectify it.
SAVE! DISCOUNTED TICKETS ON STATE LIBRARY WRITERS' TALKS
The State Library holds regular talks with renowned writers and they are offering $15 tickets for UTS alumni.
For more information, visit the UTS Alumni website.
WRITING CONVENTIONS, EVENTS & FESTIVALS
CREATIVITY AND UNCERTAINTY
Australian Association of Writing Programs
27 - 29 November 2008
CALL FOR PAPERS
An International Conference on Writing, Teaching and Creativity, at University of Technology, Sydney.
Abstract deadline: 30 June 2008
Writing is a kind of grappling with uncertainty. Writers write to find out what they do and don't think. Uncertainty is also inherent in the challenges thrown up by the world in which we write, the challenge of living in an increasingly complex, increasingly mediated society. Uncertainty is also the process of writing itself. The journey into the unknown. The shot in the dark. The way the work transforms itself in the process of writing.
This international conference, a creative collaboration between the Centre for New Writing, University of Technology, Sydney and the Australian Association of Writing Programs, seeks to investigate and explore the interconnectedness between creativity, uncertainty and writing in the context of the creative writing program. In particular, it will examine specific approaches to writing and the teaching of writing in the contemporary university, examining writing as discourses or conversations between students and teachers, assessing the role, function, and purposes of fiction in society, writing movements, styles and developments in new media in the academy.
Papers are sought from those engaged in the fields of creative writing, literature, media, cultural studies, teaching, creativity studies, philosophy and theory.
Possible topics may include but not limited to:
- Creativity and Uncertainty
- Creativity and Pedagogy
- Creativity and Identity
- Reading creatively
- Originality and constructions of 'the new'
- The semiotics of graphics and photographics
- Metaphor and the metaphorical
- Genre fiction and short fiction
- Creativity and the writer/academic
Peer review and acceptances in principal: 31 July 2008
Full paper submitted for refereed acceptance: 3 October 2008
Please send abstracts to: Conference Convenor: Assoc Professor John Dale, UTS Centre for New Writing. newwriting@uts.edu.au
INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL THEATRE METHODS 08
Between Tradition and Contemporaneity
7-13 July 2008
Malpils, Latvia
"TM" is the annual professional festival-fair bringing up the question of the Bridge between Tradition and Contemporaneity in performing arts. It is uniting performers from all over the world interested in the research of theatre methods between tradition and contemporaneity. Participants: actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, teachers, playwrights, stage designers, script writers, theatre critics, journalists, cultural managers.
At the moment the festival has been accepting applications for creative presentations in 2008!
Presentation format:
- workshop/master class
- work in progress
- performance fragment (not requiring any special technical conditions)
- reading/lecture
- any other way of demonstration to the presenter's discretion.
More details: http://www.iugte.com/projects/TM08.php
Registration: http://www.iugte.com/projects/register.php
WRITERS ON WRITING
SHORT STORY VS NOVEL
By Libby Sommer
As we all know, Australian publishers are not interested in collections of short stories by unknown writers. As a short story writer, my challenge is to write a publishable book that is written in self-contained chapters that together form a whole that equals more than the sum of its parts.
The thing is that there is a widespread conviction among fiction writers that sooner or later one moves on from the short story to the novel. I read that when John Cheever described himself as the world's oldest living short story writer, everyone knew what he meant.
But is a novel a short story that keeps going, or, is it a string of stories with connective tissue and padding, or, is it something else? Essayist Greg Hollingshead believes that the primary difference between the short story and the novel is not length but the larger, more conceptual weight of meaning that the longer narrative must carry on its back from page to page, scene to scene. 'It's not baggy wordage that causes the diffusiveness of the novel,' he says, 'it's this long-distance haul of meaning.'
Perhaps I'm working in the genre of the novel-in-stories, that is, a novel that is neither a collection nor a conventional novel-rather, stories that build on or interact with each other. Not a narrative of linked stories, or a story series, or a novel fragmented but short stories that speak to each other. However, English Assistant Professor, Laura Morgan Green believes that whatever you call it, the novel-in-stories does have a tendency to proceed by flashes of observation rather than the accrual of meaning.
So this is the problem I grapple with as I write. How to keep the narrative momentum, the forward thrust necessary for a novel, whilst writing discreet episodes when my particular skill is that of a short story writer.
Do I need to keep training to run a marathon, when what I am is a sprinter?
Greg Hollingshead says that every once in a while, to the salvation of literary fiction, there appears a mature writer of short stories-someone like Chekhov, or Munro-whose handling of the form at its best is so undulled, so poised, so capacious, so intelligent, that the short in short story is once again revealed as the silly adjective it is, for suddenly here are simply stories, spiritual histories, narratives amazingly porous yet concentrated and undiffused.
So I sit here at my desk agonising about form as a low-slung blanket of cloud obscures my view of the sky. Through the flyscreen I inhale the sweet smell of earth after rain as another morning of possibility beckons.
Libby Sommer ©
Please note: All the articles in this e-zine remain the copyright of the individual author and no copy or reproduction should be made without prior consultation with the author or their agent.
COMPETITIONS & OPPORTUNITIES
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SLIPPERY WHEN WET 2008
Closes: Midnight, 9 May 2008
Entry open to all amateur writers across Australia and New Zealand
Open Theme, max 2000 words, special prize for the best story with a Road theme
Entry Fee $7.50 per story (includes GST)
Prizes
1st $550 2nd $250 3rd $150
Best Story with Road Theme: $100
Most Humorous Story: $100
Best Story by Student under 19-years age: $100
(It is possible for the same story to win multiple prizes.)
Submission guidelines and Entry Form:
http://www.slipperywhenwetstories.com.au/index.php?main_page=page&id=2
WOORILLA ANNUAL POETRY PRIZE 2008.
Closes: 30 May 2008
Judged by Judith Rodriguez
Fee: $5.00 ($3.00 youth) per poem ($20 / $10 for 5 poems).
Open Section: Prize $1000, Youth Section: Prize $100.
Poem by Yarra Ranges / Cardinia Shire residents: Prize stay in Melbourne
Prizes awarded 22 June 2008.
Conditions of entry: poems must be typed and on A4 paper, one poem to a sheet; poems 50 lines or fewer -- neither published nor won a prize; coversheet attached with name, address, tel. no. and section entered; do not put name on poems; if contributing poem to both sections A & C, 2 copies of poems must be submitted; Judge's decision will be final; Copyright remains with author; Publication in Woorilla may be offered to the winners; The right is reserved not to award a prize; include a SSAE for notification.
Send entries and fee to: Woorilla Magazine, 255 Macclesfield Rd. Macclesfield, Vic 3782.
VIGNETTE PRESS SHORT STORY COMPETITION 2008
Closes: 30 May 2008
Judged by short story writer Paddy O'Reilly.
The Vignette Press Short Story Competition is seeking your creative outputs.
Prizes
First prize: $500 and your story will be published as a magazine in the Mini Shots series.
Second prize: $200 and a subscription to Mini Shots.
Details
Open theme to 3,000 words. Entry costs $5.50 email entries, $6.60 fax/snail mail entries. Entries must be accompanied by an entry form: http://www.vignettepress.com.au/?p=108
PRESSPRESS CHAPBOOK AWARD 2008
POETRY
Entries are open from 5 February 2008
Closes: 30 May 2008
The PressPress Chapbook Award is for an unpublished chapbook length manuscript of poems. The winning manuscript will receive $300 and chapbook publication with PressPress. The Award will be announced in July 2008 on the site.
The manuscript should be an original poetry of chapbook length (ie 20 to 40 pages). It must be unpublished and not on offer to another publisher in Australia or elsewhere (except that individual poems can be already taken or on offer to journals, sites or anthologies where you keep the copyright). The Award will be made to the best overall chapbook received.
PressPress reserves the right not to make an award if the standard of submitted entries is insufficient or to split an Award. The Award will be judged by the PressPress Award panel. The Award, $300 and publication of the manuscript as a PressPress chapbook, will be announced on the PressPress site in July 2008. The final content of the winning chapbook will be negotiated with PressPress editors.
The conditions and entry form are on the PressPress site at: http://www.presspress.com.au/award.htm
Send your entry to: PressPress Chapbook Award 2008 PressPress PO Box 94 Berry NSW 2535 Australia.
AHWA Flash & Short Story Competition
Closes: 31 May 2008
Horror stories, tales that frighten, yarns that unsettle us in our comfortable homes. All themes in this genre will be accepted, from the well-used (zombies, vampires, ghosts etc) to the highly original, so long as the story is professional and well written. No previously published entries will be accepted - all tales must be an original work by the author. Stories can be as violent or as bloody as the storyline dictates, but those containing gratuitous sex or violence will not be considered.
There are two categories for submission:
FLASH FICTION
Stories up to 1000 words in length. The winning author will receive paid publication and an engraved plaque.
SHORT STORY
Stories with 1001 to 8000 words. The winning author will receive paid publication and an engraved plaque.
Writers may submit to one or both categories, but entry is limited to 1 story per author per category. Any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us. Please edit your manuscripts before sending them.
Contact competitions@australianhorror.com if you have any further questions.
Entry details: http://www.australianhorror.com/index.php?view=57
2008 - THE YEAR OF THE SHORT STORY
Closes: Monday 30 June
The National Jazz Writing Competition is a competition with a focus on jazz-related writing. For its first three years (2005-2007) the competition focused on reviews. In 2008, we focus on the short story. Entrants should submit a short story with a maximum of 2,000 words.
The story must be about, inspired by or responding to jazz or improvised music.
- 1st Prize of $750 and publication in extempore, Australia's journal of jazz-related writing and art
- 2nd and 3rd prizes of CD packs from Birdland Records and publication in extempore
Note: Where the reference to jazz is not explicit in the story you will also need to supply a brief (200 words maximum) explanation of the link. For example, if a story was inspired by the music at a gig or on a recording, name the musician(s) and give details of date and venue or CD.
The winning entry will be printed in extempore each year, and pieces by other entrants may also be published.
Further details and full submission guidelines: http://www.jazz-planet.com/njwc/
DOGWOOD PLAYWRIGHTS AUSTRALIA'S RICHEST RADIO PLAY WRITING COMPETITION
Closes: June 30 2008
The 2007- 08 Dogwood Playwrights Initiative's exciting, challenging and new, radio play format is being launched by the Miles Regional Arts Council Inc. in partnership with the Murilla Shire Council.
Prizes
First $3000
Second $1500
Third $800
Fourth $700.
We reserve the right to perform, record and distribute the plays on CD through our Tourist Centre for 2 years.
For details, submission guidelines and entry form:
http://www.murilla.qld.gov.au/events/2007/dogwoodplaywrightsinitiative.shtml
BRIDPORT PRIZE
Short stories & poetry
Closes: 30 June 2008
http://www.bridportprize.org.uk
ASHAM AWARD - SHORT STORIES BY WOMEN
Closes: Summer 2008
http://www.ashamaward.com
DOROTHY SARGENT ROSENBERG POETRY PRIZES FOR 2008
Closes: Entries must be postmarked on or before 18 October 2008
The Fund plans to disburse between $125,000 and $200,000 in "Dorothy Prizes" each year, reserving the right to adjust the size and number of awards to suit the quality and quantity of the submissions in any given year.
http://dorothysargentrosenbergmemorialfund.org/2007awards.htm#selected
AUSTRALIAN WRITERS' MARKETPLACE ONLINE
It provides information on competitions, agents, publishers and mentorship programs
http://www.awmonline.com.au/Listings/top100-listings.aspx
AUSTRALIAN COMMUNITY WRITERS INC LITERARY AWARD AND OPPORTUNITIES
A long list of current writing competitions, etc.
http://www.australiancommunitywriters.org.au/Competitions/index.htm
GOLD COAST WRITERS ASSOCIATION
Lists competitions for stories and plays at:
http://www.goldcoastwriters.org.au/htm/htm/competitions_other.htm
OPPORTUNITIES
MENU 971
Stories of 971 words
http://www.971menu.com
PUBLISHING OLDER WOMEN WRITERS
http://www.chicorybluepress.com
WATERMARK LITERARY SOCIETY RESIDENCY
WATERMARK Literary Society is offering a residency for an emerging Australian writer of natural history, nature and place.
The Fellowship includes accommodation at Camden Haven, on the Mid North Coast for six weeks during June and July 2008; assistance with travel; a living allowance and mentorship by Martin Harrison, a widely published poet and critic who directs the program in Writing and Cultural Studies at University of Technology, Sydney.
More information is available at http://www.watermarkliterarysociety.asn.au/Fellowship.htm. Email inquiries should be directed to fellowship@watermarkliterarysociety.asn.au
SOUTHERLY
Special Issue on the Short Story
The deadline for submissions is 31 May 2008
Since 1939 when Southerly was established, short fiction has formed a vital part of its content and reputation. Southerly has been the first point of publication for many of our leading fiction writers. In November 2008, Southerly will be publishing a special issue devoted to the short story.
Contributions are being sought for:
(a) Short Stories: fresh, innovative, crossover, risky and lively fiction is encouraged, including work from new and emerging writers. "When I'm in need of a hit of real writing, a good stiff drink of paradox and complexity, I'm likeliest to encounter it in short fiction" - Jonathan Franzen.
(b) Essays, Articles and Book Reviews on short fiction in Australian literary culture.
Suggested topics:
- the historical/cultural context of the short story (such as the resurgence of the form in the 1970s)
- the 'apprenticeship' of the form
- short story cycles or collections; the discontinuous narrative
- genre slippage or other formal questions (eg when is the short story not?) critical essays on individual authors of the short story
- short fiction theory
- adaptation of short fiction to film
- publishing and short stories
- short fiction and gender
- sex and the short story
Please contact the editors directly with your submissions, or further enquiries:
Dr Debra Adelaide - dkadelaide@iprimus.com.au / Ph: (02) 9558 9408
Associate Professor John Dale - John.Dale@uts.edu.au / Ph: (02) 9514 1951
MAGAZINE OPPORTUNITY
North Queensland women's magazine is looking to buy entertaining, relationship-based lifestyle stories - eg. 'Talkin' Bout My Generation', 'My First Love', 'Age is No Barrier'. Happy to purchase second rights stories. If interested, please email editor@duomagazine.com.au
WET INK SEEKS SUBMISSIONS
Wet Ink is a quarterly magazine that focuses on publishing fiction, poetry and non-fiction by new and emerging writers. It is distributed throughout Australia and in more than 40 countries. As well as poetry, non-fiction and literary-style fiction, we are interested in high-quality work in all genres (eg, crime, sci-fi, romance, horror, thriller, speculative etc) and those with light-hearted themes. There are no word count restrictions - extremely short pieces are welcomed and long work will be considered. All published work receives payment. For more details, please view our submission guidelines at www.wetink.com.au
AUSTRALIAN ARTISTS AND WRITERS FOR THE WORLD: THE THYLAZINE FOUNDATION
Seeks submissions of prose (non-fiction or fiction) with the purpose of initiating positive personal and social change, so that together we are working towards a world where unnecessary suffering for all beings will be a thing of the past. This section is open to all Australian artists and writers who care about a world in crisis and who seek to empower themselves and others. Previously published work is acceptable with appropriate acknowledgments. Please include a piece of writing (500 - 1000 words) on what we can do to make the world a better place, a photo and a 300-500 word biography via email.
All enquiries/submissions for The Thylazine Foundation Australian Artists and Writers for the World are to be made to The Co-ordinator: Liz Hall-Downs: world@thylazine.org
http://www.thylazine.org/world/
POPULAR FICTION/COMIC STRIP MAGAZINE SEEKS WRITERS AND ILLUSTRATORS
Writers and illustrators are sought for the first edition of a magazine of popular fiction short stories up to 5000 words covering a wide range of genres: spy thriller, detective mystery, retro science fiction, western, Australian outback gothic, historical adventure etc - the list is endless, and the genre boundaries may be fluid. The general idea is that each story will be illustrated with line drawings, as per the old fiction mags of the long-ago past, and that the first edition would also contain one or two comic strip stories of between 8 and 12 pages.
More details are at www.rmsed.com.au
ALLEN & UNWIN - FRIDAY PITCH TO ARENA IMPRINT
With access to agents and publishers almost impossible for many first-time authors, Louise Thurtell - fiction publisher of Allen and Unwin's new Arena imprint - has made every Friday her pitch day. Authors of adult popular fiction who are looking for publication can send Louise their FIRST chapter and a synopsis by email (preferably) or mail to reach her on a FRIDAY. Louise will read all submissions but will only get back to authors whose work she wants to take further.
http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=462
Or go to http://www.allenandunwin.com and click on Submission Guidelines.
MACMILLAN NEW WRITING
is calling for unpublished novels
For more details of their fiction list and submission process go to: http://www.macmillannewwriting.com
POCKET BOOK SERIES
Stories wanted
Just a note to let you know that I am a Melbourne publisher looking for short stories for our new pocket book series, launched a few weeks ago.
The publisher invites writers to register and submit their stories. The stories should be no less than 9,000 words and not more than 30,000 words. The writers get paid for the stories selected and quarterly payments on sales from the online catalogue. This is not an e-book. It is a hard copy printed pocket book. We are not looking for famous writers or best-sellers, we are looking for great stories. And we need lots of them.
Marlene Meier
Publisher
http://www.pickapocketbook.com
THE AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM: A COLLECTION OF BOOKS - MAKING TRACKS
The National Museum has become a children's publisher. In an innovative publishing venture, the Museum publisher selects an item from their collection. An established Australian children's author is invited to write a narrative which reveals the historical period of that archival item and includes it in the story. Authors include Jackie French, Hazel Edwards, Libby Gleeson, Wendy Orr, Christopher Cheng, Susanne Gervay and many others. Illustrators include David Cox and Donna Rawlings
For details, visit: http://www.nma.gov.au/kidz/making_tracks/
THE BARCELONA REVIEW
No payment for fiction, but good critical reputation.
http://www.barcelonareview.com
INTERNATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WRITERS OF VARIOUS GENRES.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/arts-literature-links-creative-writing.htm
Magazines which accept short stories are listed on the following website:
http://www.theshortstory.org.uk/magazines/index.php4
HYPERTEXTS, NEW MEDIA, E-ZINES AND ONLINE RESOURCES FOR WRITERS
For information about collaborative fiction:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_fiction
COLLABORATIVE HYPERTEXTS
Join in and add your stories:
THE COLOSSAL CAVE ADVENTURE
Try this interactive fiction website: http://www.rickadams.org/adventure
RELAYWRITE.COM
Is a story factory. Writers from all over the world assemble stories piece by piece until they are completed. Many people want to write a story or novel but never do. The hardest part is just starting. Once you do, you might be amazed at what comes out. Relaywrite.com gives you the chance to stop procrastinating and create something you can be proud of. You don't have to be the next Dickens or Shakespeare. Just have some fun. What are you waiting for? Get writing.
http://www.relaywrite.com
NOVEL TWISTS
The constantly evolving novel. The story is undecided, and you can influence the direction it takes!
http://www.noveltwists.com
ONE MILLION MONKEYS TYPING
is a community story-telling site. Choose a story from the grove. In this grove new snippets thrive or wither based on rank and offshoots. http://www.1000000monkeys.com
NEW WORLDS PROJECT
Science-fiction play-by-post role-playing game and creative writing project. New Worlds Project features an original setting that is used as a platform for creative pursuits. The war-torn setting is set 500 years in the future and offers limitless opportunities for writers, role-players, readers, and artists. http://rpgnewworlds.net/news.php
E-ZINES
ECLECTICISM
The Australian e-zine,Eclecticism (www.eclecticzine.com) aims to draw on a diverse range of creative minds, styles and genres seeks contributions from writers of prose and poetry, illustrators/artists, and beat-musicians. The first issue was released late July 2007. Each issue will have themed and open sections. Eclecticism is free - a non-profit e-zine that hopes to showcase current writers, expose emerging writers and artists and provide an avenue for those with one or two stories within them. It will be available to download (PDF format) from the website. Readers are encouraged to subscribe to the e-zine to build its fan base and be the first to receive notification of each issue's release. http://www.eclecticzine.com
CRIMEDOWNUNDER
Got a killer short story that you'd like to get out there? I am calling for submissions of crime short stories from Australian authors. It doesn't matter whether you write detective mysteries, thrillers, hardboiled, noir or cosy stories, I'm keen to publish your story on-line at the Australian Crime Fiction Database as part of a new on-line magazine. All details can be found at www.crimedownunder.com or email: pizerule@yahoo.com
PULP.NET
Online monthly, pays £100 per story, their current 'call for work' is 'Holidays from hell' in under 4000 words. http://www.pulp.net/about/submission-forms/send-story.html
FLASHQUAKE
Flash fiction, non-fiction, poetry and artwork
http://www.flashquake.org
EAST OF THE WEB
is calling for submissions; they are interested in receiving works that exploit the creative possibilities of electronic media to communicate emotionally engaging narratives.
http://www.eastoftheweb.com/hyperfiction/index.html
A LONG STORY SHORT.NET
Publishes the best work of new and established writers.
http://www.alongstoryshort.net
THE CUD
An Australian e-zine calling for new contributors! Essays, articles, opinion pieces on a wide range of subjects and issues - take a look at the website for an overview at http://www.thecud.com.au Enquiries to: feedback@thecud.com.au
REAL TRAVEL ADVENTURES INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE
(No payment for this one)
http://www.realtraveladventures.com/ContactUs/howtosubmit.htm
PAYING E-ZINE MARKETS
http://www.dowse.com/ezine-markets.html
GENRE FICTION MAGAZINES AND E-ZINES
http://www.ability.org.uk/genre_fiction_mag.html
USEFUL BOOKS ON THE CRAFT OF WRITING AND EDITING
CREATIVE WRITING STUDIES
Practice, Research and Pedagogy
Edited by: Graeme Harper & Jeri Kroll
ISBN: 1-84769-019-X Publication date: 15 Dec 2007
http://www.multilingual-matters.com/display.asp?K=9781847690197&sf_01=lcode&st_01=40793&since=90&sort=sort_multi/d&ds=New+Books:+Multilingual+Matters+Titles+Published+in+the+Last+3+Months&m=1&dc=23
ENGLISH A - Z THE ESSENTIAL HANDBOOK
A very useful book by UTS Alumni Writers' Network member, Lyndall Hough. Lyndall's book has an alphabetical list of terms used in the study of English, including traditional and new media terms. Words have a pronunciation guide beside them where needed and cross section has a number of sample texts which have notated examples of many of the alphabetically listed terms.
The text was reviewed in English in Australia No 137, the journal of the Australian Association for the Teaching of English. This particular edition was titled A Guide to Texts and Resources. The review was very favourable and summed up as "highly recommended". The book would be a useful text for anyone who writes, or studies English. Published Heinemann in 2002.
ROUND TABLE MAGIC
A workbook for writers and writers' groups. Available through the NSW Writers Centre website at http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
Or go to: http://www.roundtablewriting.com and click on Books.
For more helpful books on writing, please go to:
http://www.bookaholics.com.au
Dorothy Shorne is a Writers' Network member and is happy to promote your books. Please visit the website for more information.
http://www.booksonwriting.com
http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
Have you written books on writing that you would like to publicise? Or is there a book that you'd like to recommend? You're welcome to use this opportunity to promote your books. Please let us know the title, author and publisher and any other relevant information. You can add a brief review if you like.
WEBSITES OF WRITERS' NETWORK MEMBERS
Dianne (Di) Bates at http://www.enterprisingwords.com
Chris Broadribb at http://www.geocities.com/spiky_one/stories.html
Pamela Freeman has 2 websites, as she publishes for both children and adults, at
www.castingstrilogy.com (adults)
www.pamelafreemanbooks.com (kids)
Susanne Gervay at http://www.sgervay.com/
Prof Graeme Harper at http://www.bangor.ac.uk/creative_industries/harper.php.en
Lyndall Hough at http://www.thelearningcurve.net.au
Amy Huang at http://www.travelstring.com
Valerie Khoo at http://www.sydneywriterscentre.com.au
ONLINE PORTFOLIOS
Po Yi Leung (Natalie) at: http://www.poyileung.wordpress.com
WRITERS' GROUPS
WRITING GROUP IN PADDINGTON/WOOLLAHRA
Wanting to start writing group in Eastern Suburbs, have a venue around Paddington/Woollahra area. Any writing genre welcome. If interested, please contact Joanna at jodinn@theplanet.net.au
SYDNEY CHILDREN'S WRITERS & ILLUSTRATORS NETWORK AT THE HUGHENDEN
is open to published children's writers and illustrators who meet to network, share publishing information and discuss the state of children's writing. The venue is the Hughenden Boutique Hotel (circa 1870s) and meetings are on the first Wednesday of every month from 10.30am-12.30pm.
The Hughenden has hosted this group for 10 years. Usually between 10 and 20 writers/illustrators meet and include authors such as Moya Simons, Jeni Mawter, Christopher Cheng, Deborah Abela, Felicity Pulman, Vashti Farrer, Susanne Gervay.
Enquiries can be made through The Hughenden: Attention Susanne Gervay
admin@hughendenhotel.com.au
http://www.sgervay.com
Please, published writers only. This is a professional group and is open to only authors.
PARTNERS IN CRIME
They are crime writers who meet over complimentary Devonshire Tea every two months at The Hughenden Boutique Hotel. Full details of Partners in Crime are available on their website:
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/7255/
Writing groups also meet at the NSW Writers' Centre, for more information visit the website at: http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
BOOK CLUBS AND READING GROUPS
BOOK CLUB IN NORTH SYDNEY
As writers, we all love to read. And sometimes there is nothing better than getting lost in a great book. If you are looking for a book club, Café Conte will be holding one on Saturday mornings in North Sydney. For more information, check out all the details which have been posted on The Sydney Writers' Centre blog: http://www.sydneywriterscentre.com.au
WRITING COURSES, WRITING CENTRES & COMMUNITIES
UTS ALUMNI WRITERS' NETWORK E-COMMUNITY WEBPAGE
To have a look at our e-community webpage, please go to: http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au
Then log in (or register) and go to Communities and then Writers' Network.
E-ZINE
Back issues of our monthly Update are archived on our webpage for easy reference. You can find our e-zine online at http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au/networks/writers/index.html
UTS CENTRE FOR NEW WRITING
The UTS Centre for New Writing, established to showcase and explore new developments in Australian writing, offers short courses, seminars and lectures. 10% discount to all UTS Alumni on their Autumn 2007 courses.
For more information about the short courses or any activities run by the UTS Centre for New Writing, please contact Saskia Rotunno at newwriting@uts.edu.au or phone the Centre on (02) 9514 7905 or visit the website at: http://www.newwriting.uts.edu.au
SEASON OF INSPIRATION
6 October 2008
A nine-week Interactive Global Online Writing Course. Contact us at info@newmediawriting.com for more information or to register for the course. You can find more information about the course and comments from our Season of Inspiration writers on the website. http://www.newmediawriting.com
THE SYDNEY WRITERS' CENTRE
Milsons Point
To join the mailing list, please contact Valerie Khoo at: valerie@spindriftmedia.com.au
or phone: (02) 9929 9237. For a full list of courses available and other news from the Centre go to http://www.sydneywriterscentre.com.au
NSW WRITERS' CENTRE
http://www.nswwriterscentre.org.au
The NSW Writers' Centre has many courses and workshops on writing and publishing in various genres, as well as regular writing and publishing events.
INTERNATIONAL COURSE "PERFORMERS VILLAGE 08"
1-28 August 2008
Malpils, Latvia
http://www.iugte.com/projects/Performance
VARUNA, THE WRITERS' HOUSE
Varuna has many programs for writers, including Readers' Reports; Residential Fellowships; Master classes and the Longlines Workshops and Residencies.
http://www.varuna.com.au
AUSTRALIAN SOCIETY OF AUTHORS
Have you joined the Australian Society of Authors yet? Visit their website and see the benefits of belonging to the ASA.
http://www.asauthors.org
98 Pitt Street, Redfern NSW 2016
Ph: (02) 9318 0877
Fax: (02) 9318 0530
http://australiansocietyofauthors.blogspot.com
THE COPYRIGHT AGENCY LIMITED
http://www.copyright.com.au can answer your questions about copyright.
COPYLEFT
is a general method for making a program or other work free, and requiring all modified and extended versions of the program to be free as well.
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft
All contributions are passed on in good faith in our monthly e-zine but no responsibility is taken for accuracy. Some contributions may be edited due to space considerations.
Sharon Rundle
Editor
Co-ordinator,
UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY ALUMNI WRITERS' NETWORK
http://www.alumni.uts.edu.au
E-mail: Sharon.P.Rundle@alumni.uts.edu.au
Thanks to Adrian Sellaro, Database & Web Coordinator; Chrissa Favaloro, Communication Officer; and our volunteer contributors and proof-readers.