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Queensland Voices QUEENSLAND VOICES Nick Earls – Sustaining a Writing Career Ashley Hay ISSUE 259 WWW.QLDWRITERS.ORG.AU/MAGAZINE December 2017 – 1 Trent Jamieson February 2018 QUEENSLAND VOICES Buy Queensland books ... FICTION A Curious Intimacy Jessica White Logan’s Peak Buy: Kobo.com Graeme Ratcliffe eBook Buy: Booktopia.com.au In the 1870s two remarkable women meet in a remote country print town in Western Australia. Ingrid is hundreds of miles from home Tom’s home is a remote valley torn by WWI. and Ellyn is a young woman living in stark isolation. When the two Though his older brothers lie dead in France, women meet, they forge a bond that grows ever deeper. But can he envies them and dreams of his own heroic their intimacy find acceptance in their conventional world? deeds. After falling for a showgirl and finding JessicaWhite.com.au himself pursued by her vengeful cardsharp partner, his dreams will be put to the test. The Silver Well Kate Forsyth and Kim Wilkins Wisdom Tree series Buy: bookshop.ticonderogapublications.com Nick Earls print • eBook Buy: Bookshops One English village. Two-thousand years of stories. print People have always come to make wishes at the Silver Well: in Five pocket travel-guide sized booklets make Pagan times and Christian, during revolution and war. up Nick Earls’ Wisdom Tree, a collection of interrelated novellas. Reinforcing the Best-selling fantasy writers Kate Forsyth and Kim Wilkins have ‘travel’ connection are the individual teamed up in this collection of seven incredible stories, set in titles: 1 Gotham, 2 Venice, 3 Vancouver, 4 seven time periods. Juneau, and 5 NoHo (North Hollywood, Los Angeles). Together these novellas create CHILDREN’S & YOUNG ADULT a 21st century world in which five families struggle and resolve the tension of our time: Lily Fabourama Glamourama balancing the desire for fame and fortune Emma Mactaggart with the obligations and responsibility, and Buy: BoogieBooks.com.au or any fabulous bookstore near the love, to be found in everyday family life. you! NickEarls.wordpress.com print Burger Force Lily Fabourama Glamourama is a glorious tale about a little Jackie Ryan girl who is trying to find one single silly shoe. Lily is herself Buy: BurgerForce.com representative of the iconic idyllic childhood of those growing up in the Australian Bush, and she takes you on a delightful romp print • eBook through her home, with all the characters who share her world. Effortless style. Killer charm. Extra fries. 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Buy: All bookshops and Booktopia Hachette.com.au/book/the-dream-walker print • eBook This Is My Song Daniel Whittaker’s will requires his three Richard Yaxley adult children to hand-deliver letters addressed to strangers from their father’s Buy: Shop.Scholastic.com.au past. Who are these people and what was print their significance to Daniel? Parting Words This is my blood, this is my song. explores the legacy we leave behind, and In the early 1940s in Czechoslovakia, Rafael Ullmann and his family asks the question: How well do we really are sent to Terezin, the so-called ‘model ghetto’ for Jewish artists. know our loved ones? In the 1970s in Canada, Annie Ullmann lives a predictable, lonely CassMoriarty.com life on a prairie with her reclusive father and deaf-dumb mother. Thirty years later, in Australia, Joe Hawker is uncertain about himself Burning Down and his future. Told across three continents and time-lines, This Is Venero Armanno My Song is a symphony, encouraging us to find our own music. Buy: Dymocks RichardWYaxley.com print • eBook Was Not Me! It’s the mid-70s and ex-boxer Charlie Smoke is living out his retirement from the ring. Shannon Horsfall Charlie’s best days are behind him, but when Buy: Where the Wild Things Are he meets Holly Banks and her teenage son, print Ricky, he has a new chance at life. However, A very funny book about a cheeky twin brother, ‘Not Me’. Sure to as an unlikely friendship develops with Ricky, delight pre-schoolers - and their exasperated parents! Charlie is unwittingly pulled back into the ‘I have a naughty twin brother who only I see, gambling underworld he thought he’d left A cheeky twin brother. His name is Not Me’. behind. In order to make a new future, first he must help settle some old scores. This A playful, funny and charming book about a young boy who is a powerful novel about family, regret, love escapes getting into trouble with his mother by declaring, ‘Was and the promise of salvation. Not Me.’ Ages: 4 - 7. VeneroArmanno.com ShannonHorsfall.com Advertise in WQ - [email protected] ISSUE 259 December 2017 – February 2018 3 Editorial 4 Staying power Nick Earls 6 To feel like a writer again Trent Jamieson 8 A long journey home Krystal Sutherland 10 World Expo 88: You’re the Voice er ... I’m one voice Jackie Ryan 12 Cat’s clause: Punctuating dialogue Catherine Moller 14 Finding the maps: On writing A Hundred Small Lessons Ashley Hay 16 More of a wonky goat track… Victoria Carless 18 The lucky ones Richard Yaxley 20 eBooks – deliberate before you celebrate Emma Mactaggart 22 Competitions and opportunities 23 Events 24 Open calls 26 About QWC Membership 27 QWC Membership benefits 27 Membership form 28 Milestones GUEST ARTIST Shannon Horsfall Shannon Horsfall is an author and illustrator based in Australia but living in fairyland. Her head is a mess of stories, pictures and the occasional cake recipe. She loves to draw, doodle, dream, design, imagine, write, dance, sing (badly), scribble, splatter & cook. Although she is not young, she is very much a child. (Or immature, depending on how you look at it.) WWW.QLDWRITERS.ORG.AU/MAGAZINE 1 She has had two picture books, Was Not Me! (2016) and Nomax! (2017) published by HarperCollins. PUBLISHED BY ISSN 1444-2922 About WQ About QWC WQ is the quarterly publication of the QWC is the leading provider of specialised Queensland Writers Centre. A magazine for services to the writing community in Queensland writers, it examines issues and Queensland. Through its annual programs, topics relevant to writing and publishing QWC promotes the creative and professional in Australia and around the world. It also development of writers and advances the publishes member milestones and lists of recognition of Queensland writers and workshops and events, competitions and writing locally, nationally and internationally. opportunities. qldwriters.org.au The WQ you get in your mailbox or inbox seasonally should be read in tandem with the magazine’s online counterpart: Staff Katie Woods qldwriters.org.au/magazine Chief Executive Officer Sharon Phillips Editorial and production General Manager Sharon Phillips Editor Jackie Ryan Program Manager Siobhan Reardon Marketing and Social Media Simon Groth if:book Australia Manager Shannon Horsfall Guest Artist Siobhan Reardon Marketing Communications Officer Popeye Creative Design Christopher Currie Marketing and Communications Coordinator Paradigm Print Media Printing Samantha Schraag Customer Service Officer Catherine Moller Submissions Programs and Publications Coordinator Members can submit Milestones or details of Events or Competitions and Opportunities, Tristram Peters or pitch articles for WQ, by emailing us at Project Officer [email protected]. Valerie Whitmore QWC reserves the right to edit all Finance Officer submissions with regard to content and word length. Management Committee Leanne Dodd Advertising Chair Information on how to advertise in WQ is Andrea Baldwin available at qldwriters.org.au/advertise. For Vice Chair advertising inquiries please contact Siobhan Reardon: [email protected]. Kym Hausmann au. Treasurer QWC members enjoy a reduced advertising Ann Wilson rate. Before booking an advertisement Secretary potential advertisers should read QWC’s Andrea Brosnan, Kylie Chan, Sandra Advertising Terms and Conditions at Makaresz, Jo-Ann Sparrow, Shel Sweeney qldwriters.org.au/advertise. Ordinary Members The Queensland Writers Centre, Management Committee and staff present WQ in good faith and accept no responsibility for any misinformation or problems arising from any misinformation. The views expressed by contributors or advertisers are not necessarily those of the Management Committee or staff. Queensland Writers Centre is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland and is assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body. 2 WQ Editorial Readers, haven’t you always wondered why every fantastical world only Beth Doherty opens through a ‘gump’ in London or the USA? Narnia could be hidden QWC Volunteer underneath a trapdoor in GOMA, Lake Lachrymose should be discovered in Tanbar, perhaps there is a Hogwarts, heavily disguised, in Mission Beach? For some, having a Queensland voice is a burden – it’s that misshapen vegetable you’ve accidentally grown in your garden that no one wants to eat. International publishers don’t want you because your voice is too niche, yet national publishers don’t want you because your voice appears the same as every other Australian.
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