Newsletter of the SA Writers’ Centre Inc October 2006 We’re Winners! The City of Onkaparinga and the SA Writers’ Centre have won an Australian Business Arts Foundation Award for En- gaging the Community through Literature. The inaugural South Australian Writers’ Festival occurred in September 2001, becoming a launching pad for a strong and enduring partnership between the Council and the Centre. Subsequently a further two writers’ festivals and four poetry festivals (Poetry Unhinged, formerly Unplugged) have grown from this collaboration.

Another winner was local writer Peter Goldsworthy, whose play Honk if you are Jesus by the State Theatre Company of South Austra- lia won a Ruby Award for Best New Work or Event. 8,338 peo- ple saw the play over four weeks following its world premiere at the 2006 Bank festival of Arts.

Geoff Strempel, Manager, Libraries & Arts, Paula Miller, Regional Franchise Devel- opment Manager, Toyota Motor Corporation Ltd and Barbara Wiesner, Director, SA Writers’ Centre with the awards.

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The 2006 Salisbury Writers’ Festival begins on Friday 13 October at 7pm at the John Harvey Gallery, 12 James Street, Salisbury. The evening features Sean Williams talking about love, murder and ‘things on the edge’, and the presentation of awards for the HomeStart 3-day Novel Race and Salisbury Writing Competition. All welcome.

The Festival runs until Thursday 26 October, when former crime reporter Jeremy Pudney talks about ‘Sensitising Sensational Topics’, also at the John Harvey Gallery at 7pm. Jeremy Pudney is the author of Snowtown: The Bodies in Barrels Murders, published by HarperCollins.

For more details of all the Festival’s events please contact the Centre. Programs were inserted in the previous edition of Southern Write.

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Centre Donations The Ghantastic Writers’ Muster and Thank you to the following who lunch at the SAWC was a great afternoon. donated books, journals and magazines Thanks to all those who attended and a to our Resource Centre. big thanks to the following members who provided an array of scrumptious food: Jo University of Press, Vabolis, Jo Dey, Betty Collins, John and The Best Australian Poetry Coie Dikkenberg, Lindy Warrell, Cathy 2006 and Sweeping the Light Jones and Ros Schulz. Back Into the Mirror by Nathan Shepherdson (winner of the 2005 Advance Notice – Seminar Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Writing for Children & Young Adults Prize). – Belinda Bolliger, ABC Books Wakefield Press, Imagine If: a – Dyan Blacklock, Omnibus Books handbook for activists by Joy – Jane Covernton, Working Title Press Noble and Fiona Verity. – Christine Harris, writer Laurence McCrea, The Opal – Sascha Hutchinson, writer and illustrator Gougers, Brannigan Publishers, Saturday 25 November, 10am-4pm 2006. Tom Skinner, Round Fish, Square More details in November Southern Write. Bowl, illustrated by Mini Goss, New Frontier Publishing, 2006. David Conyers, Arkham Tales: Legends of the haunted city, nimate Chaosium inc, 2006. Ray Liversidge, The Barrier Range, A quarterly Flat Chat Press, 2006. it’s a live literary journal The Chinese PEN, Spring 2006, Taipei Chinese Centre, We finally have a date for the first Animate International PEN. Quarterly. It’s on Thursday, November Phillip Edmonds, Don’t Let Me Fall, 16 at 8pm at La Boheme, 36 Grote Street, short stories. Red Hill Press, 1991. Adelaide. Opposite Coles Supermarket. John Harwood, The Ghost Writer, Harvest, 2004. Friendly Street Poets generously re- donated readers 26 and 29.

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Saturday 7 October Saturday 7 October Saturday 7 October 10am-1pm 10am-1pm 1.30-4.30pm From Palate to Pen From Page to Voice Write to Play with or Mouth to Mouse with Helen Tiller Annie Fox with Barbara Learn the skills of Explore and celebrate Santich public speaking. Learn your life experience how to move the in this creativity Food writing takes audience to feel the workshop. a variety of different emotions you wish to convey. forms, from restaurant reviews to dietary This workshop encompasses writing, advice, from producer profiles to recipes. In this workshop Helen will cover the drawing, gentle movement and Each has particular requirements, but use of punctuation, intonation, contour visualisation. Please wear comfortable all should be engaging, informative and and “flow” of thought. All of these things clothes and bring a notebook and some reliable - and, if possible, include a little are paramount to understanding how to coloured pencils or crayons to draw with. humour. This workshop will discuss deliver text, even if it is your own. This No experience necessary. All welcome. elements such as finding information, workshop will also deal with how to convey developing a story, writing style, publishing appropriate emotion and will explore how A multi-award-winnning screenwriter and will also consider recipe format and to believe in and own those thoughts, for children’s television programs recipe copyright. which you have set down in textual form. including Wicked Science, Pirate Islands, The reasons why we write what we write Thunderstone and Ocean Girl, Annie Barbara Santich is a food historian and and what we want to convey to a listening Fox writes across all genres, including food writer with a particular interest in audience as against a reading audience will animation, comedy and drama. She the foods and cuisines of Australia and also be explored. has also worked as a consultant and France. She is currently employed at the script editor on many other programs , where she has Helen Tiller has a private practice in including Blue Heelers, Shark Bay, responsibility for the Graduate Program which she teaches vocal skills to actors, Chuck Finn and Good Guys, Bad Guys. in Gastronomy, now in its fifth year, and classical, operatic, contemporary and Annie is a graduate and Ambassador in will be contributing to the University’s new music theatre singers, speech pathologists, the Community for Flinders University. Graduate Certificate in Food Writing in politicians, teachers, radio and television As part of the Flinders University 40th 2007. Barbara is the author of six books, announcers – in fact anyone who needs Anniversary Celebrations this year she is including What the Doctors Ordered: 150 assistance, whatever his or her vocal the proud recipient of a “Distinguished years of dietary advice in Australia (1995) endeavour. In 2005 Helen was awarded Alumni Award”. and In the Land of the Magic Pudding: A the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award gastronomic miscellany (2000), and has for her field, spanning all types of voice written for numerous Australian and skills and remediation of vocal trauma Workshop costs: international newspapers and magazines. and asymmetry at the Second World $44 for SA Writers’ Symposium of Vocal Professionals in Centre members. Orlando, Florida. $66 for non-members. 6

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Thursday 2 November, 7-10pm Making Dollars out of Sense with Sharon Mascall-Dare This workshop offers practical, no-nonsense advice on how to make money from freelance journalism and professional writing. It covers: What is the difference between journalism and professional writing? What kinds of articles can you expect to sell and to whom? How do you make your pitch? How much can you expect to be paid? What are the pitfalls? How to build a portfolio and use networks to advance your writing career. The workshop is lively, interactive and packed with tried and tested strategies to generate income from freelance writing. You’ll come away with an insider’s understanding of how to sell your work successfully.

Sharon Mascall-Dare is an award-winning journalist. After six years at the BBC in London, she relocated to Australia with her family 1999 and went freelance. Today she continues to work for the BBC as a documentary producer and presenter and writes for a number of Australian newspapers including The Independent Weekly and The Age. She is also a lecturer at the University of , teaching creative writing. Sharon is passionate about the printed and spoken word and enjoys helping others to develop their talent. She is one of the founders of South Australia’s first networking group for freelancers, helping the state’s photographers, broadcasters and writers to advance their careers. www.sawriters.on.net October 200

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Tasmania is the Island of Residencies ParentingExpress ... February 2007. in 2007 is a website for creative people who write CONTACT: Dr Jeremy Fisher, Executive Published writers from every state & about raising children. Updated monthly, Director, Australian Society of Authors Ph: territory in Australia, and from Islands it features poems, stories and memoirs 02 9318 0877 or 0438 318 673 around the world, are invited to apply to the about the complex range of feelings and Tasmanian Writers’ Centre’s 2007 Island of experiences associated with being a parent, Call for Submissions Residencies Program. Successful applicants plus book reviews and recommended ICORN Webzine (www.icorn.org). The will be provided with accommodation in weblinks (including a section for writers). International Cities of Refuge Network Tasmania, a fee for presenting a writers’ Since its inception in January 2006 in has launched its new quarterly webzine. workshop, a contribution towards living Australia, the site now reaches a global ICORN’s work focuses on the importance expenses and, in most cases, return airfares audience with only 16% of readers from of freedom of expression. The first webzine to Tasmania. Application details can be our region. It contains creative pieces issue features the work of award-winning obtained from www.tasmanianwriters.org/ from writers in Australia, , novelist Chenjerai Hove and the renowned island_of_residencies Canada, the USA, UK, Ireland, and philosopher Etienné Balibar. They are Applications close Thursday 30 November . Submissions are now open for inviting writers to submit essays on the 2006 new material and detailed guidelines for subjects of: writers are available on the site. www. 1) nationalism, identity, the exile 2007 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards parentingexpress.com experience, patriotism and/or & Translation Prize citizenship Call for Nominations LITTLE BIG BOOK CLUB 2) cross-cultural literatures, translation, The New South Wales Premier’s Literary The SA organization LITTLE BIG BOOK critical analysis of fiction and poetry with Awards honour distinguished achievement CLUB is canvassing for submissions by an eye on history or current events. by Australian writers and translators. SA authors and illustrators for a picture They are also accepting submissions for They are worth $167,000 in total. Awards book text, aimed at 6-12 month old babies, our Babel Voices section: poetry, are given for published books of fiction, which is to be given away to every new short stories or short creative non-fiction nonfiction and poetry; for books for South Australian baby in 2008. For more related to the focus of the zine and are children and young people; for plays which information, please contact the SAWC. especially interested in work we can publish have been performed publicly and for in two languages. SOUND FILES of oral scripts which have been produced for film, Mentorship Program presentations are also of interest. radio or television. The Australian Society of Authors is Please see the website for our submission Awards are also offered for a first delighted to receive funding of $150,000 guidelines. www.icorn.org book of fiction (the UTS Award for New from the Cultural Fund of the Copyright Writing) and for a book of critical writing Agency Limited (CAL) to provide an New Sitcom (the Gleebooks Prize). The Community expanded mentorship program for Write comedy, can you? Dialogue, Relations Commission Award is for a work three years from 2007. The mentorship situation? Send small sample, less than a which portrays the interaction of Australia’s program will assist 20 talented emerging page, to Valencia, PO Box 174, West Beach, diverse cultures and canvasses issues writers and picture book illustrators 5024. Enclose SAE or email address. arising from the Australian immigration each year to develop their manuscript to Member interested in finding one or two and migrant settlement experience. The the highest professional standard and, collaboraters for sitcom. closing date for nominations is Friday 10 through their participation in writers’ November 2006. festivals, bring their work to the attention One Fifty The NSW Premier’s Translation Prize of publishers, literary agents and future www.onefifty.com.au is a new website and PEN Medallion is for Australian readers. Successful applicants will have devoted to microfiction. Administered by • October 2006 translators who translate work into English the opportunity to work closely with an the Hunter Writers Centre and supported from other languages. The closing date for experienced mentor of their choice for 30 by the Australia Council for the Arts, this prize is Friday 1 December 2006. hours over 12 months. Mentors include onefifty.com.au aims to showcase the Nomination forms and guidelines are Gary Crew, Luke Davies, Delia Falconer, microfiction more widely and encourage available from: Kate Forsyth, Sherry Anne Jacobs, Ann young writers to self-edit themselves silly. Arts NSW James, Judith Lukin-Amundsen, Dorothy Australians aged 30 and under can submit PO Box A226 Porter and Sally Rippin. The mentorship work for inclusion via email or mobile SOUTH NSW 1235 program will be open to emerging writers phone, in the following format: 1. The or download them from and illustrators aged 18 and over and is not Micro Story (up to 150 words) via email to Website: www.arts.nsw.gov.au limited to ASA members. 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Closing dates: 30/11/06 and 28/02/07. One Book One Salisbury available A small hard copy publication of the 50 in 15 Languages as Author Donates Dear Editor, best stories will follow in mid 2007, and Personal Copies In early August I stayed at the writers’ contributors will be remunerated at the flat Thanks to the generosity of author Lian flat at Port Willunga. This has been rate of $10 per SMS story or 10c per word Hearn, even more people can participate made available through a a generous for the emailed stories. in Salisbury’s city-wide book club. Across offer by the owner to provide short-term the Nightingale Floor, the adult selection accommodation to SA Writers’ Centre Wordfire Literary Salon for One Book One Salisbury 2006 is now members for writing-related work. Calling for submissions with a Christmas available in an additional 14 languages. The flat has an entrance, bathroom and a theme for our end of year Christmas Across the Nightingale Floor, the love largish room split into sleeping and eating Salon/Party to be held Monday, 4th story of two young people, set against areas. Glazed rear windows open onto an December. Search through your stock of the political rivalries, super-powered outdoor dining setting under cover. The flat poems or short stories for something with ninjas, formal rituals, lightning sword is ground floor and tenanted above. a Christmas vibe (whatever this means to fights, honour, duties and tradition of a For food preparation there is a small you), or write something completely new mythical, feudal Japanese land has been stovette. The bed is queen size. for the event. Please email submissions to published in over 30 countries. Its South Having lived at Port Willunga in the wordfi[email protected], and for more Australian-based author, Lian Hearn, has 1980s and being very fond of the area, the info about Wordfire please visit http:// donated copies in Thai, Indonesian, Dutch, flat provided a good opportunity to read www.wordfire.onestop.net Lithuanian, Swedish, Estonian, Norwegian, through my current screenplay and do German, Chinese, Polish, Slovak, Italian, some further research on it. Altogether, Cordite 25: Spanish and Portuguese to go with the my stay there was a rewarding experience, Generation of Zeroes – closing date 6th multiple English language copies already and gave me time and space to further my October 2006. Cordite now accepting available through the Salisbury Library project. The flat is a definite plus to services submissions of poetry, fiction and non- Service’s five branches. ‘I do hope they provided by the Centre. Port Willunga fiction. Submission processes have changed add something extra to the One Book One with its clean beach and background of so make sure you check out the details at: Salisbury Project’ says Ms Hearn who is the beautiful hills provided a refreshing www.cordite.org.au looking forward to meeting everyone on background for work. Wednesday 25 October at the One For more information about the flat, AGENCY magazine ... Book One Salisbury Meet the Author contact the SAWC on 8223 7662. is a quarterly, Canadian, somewhat session. Gwen Dally literary publication of fresh, original and So curl up and read Across the occasionally irreverent articles, essays, Nightingale Floor in the language of your Overheard at the recent Novel fiction, poetry and art. They are seeking choice, create your own reading group, Writing Seminar new writers, visual artists, photographers discuss it at work, round the dinner table The main issue I see is that everyone in the and other creative types to feature in the or attend a One Book One Salisbury event. courses (it seems) is writing literary novels premiere issue of the magazine. Details of events are available from one of – the hardest books to write and sell. I don’t See: www.agencymagazine.ca for Salisbury’s local libraries or call 8406 8311 think there is such a lack of outlets as is submission guidelines and details. for more information. often claimed, for good, well-written and 6 well-conceived nonfiction of many kinds (from biography to cooking). All publishers are on the lookout for those sorts of manuscripts. Also – with everyone writing, who is left to read? Michael Bollen Wakefield Press

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The following is an extract from Max bookshelf and suddenly you saw the sun genius, for genius of his kind, as well as his Fatchen’s tribute to his great friend, come out of the stubble or felt uplifted by outstanding ability as author and educator Colin Thiele, which was published in a boy, an aboriginal man and a pelican in also contained those powerful elements The Advertiser on September 9, 2006. the long, low, sandy and sea setting of the of faith, compassion and understanding, Coorong that was to supply his masterpiece his clear vision of the factors that made up olin Thiele illuminated our lives, Stormboy, to be filmed and admired the quality of life. His life was a deep well Cgenerations of us, with the joy worldwide. He loved the landscape of his from which one could draw refreshment and warmth of his prose, the humour state and therefore he created a landscape and encouragement. He walks tall down the and images of his verse and his own so true and beckoning and so right for the road of recollection among the people and character as strong and productive as characters that were to people it. His stories the land he loved and portrayed so well. the paddocks of where he and his descriptions took hold of you but spent his boyhood. they went further than that. They often It is not too extravagant to say his made you look around at your own place mind was a magnificent mansion which and look into your own self and you had that we entered when we turned the front kind of revelation that you were missing page of one of his books. He engaged things but here was a man who could help us, entertained us and often enchanted you find them. He was the best kind of us. guide. The reader soared with Thiele prose, There was nothing of pomposity enjoying the great company of characters, about him. Visit him and you were tough old German-speaking farmers, yarning and he was telling his stories indomitable women, the hard life on the in that inimitable way that kept you land, living as children with the seasons, hanging on his words. You went going barefoot over stubble paddocks; away with your batteries charged and this early life shaping his personality and chuckling at a Thiele joke or turning a later giving him the remarkable recall that Thiele phrase over in your mind. typified his work. If you felt a bit out of sorts, he He was someone who left his imprint on was there waiting for you on your our society. We should celebrate his gentle

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October PoeticA or mourning. The genre is 1300 years old, suitable for the absolute beginner as well as Presented by Mike Ladd but is surprisingly relevant to the way we the regular yoga practitioner. Saturday at 3.05pm, repeated at 9.05pm think and feel today. In the first part of The retreat is an all inclusive residential Thursday. National Poetry Week becomes the workshop we will read translations weekend in beautiful bushland. Set on more National Poetry month on PoeticA! of poems from the Heian Court Culture than 600 acres, Glenroy Homestead sits in 7th Ezra Pound – a new approach to and in the latter half we will consider the rain shadow of the rugged eastern slopes one of the giants of 20th Century poetry. contemporary tanka written in English. A of the Adelaide Hills in South Australia. 14th Bird Song – an exploration workshop for people who love language and The 3-day retreat program will be held on of the ancient and enduring connection are willing to extend their understanding of October 20, 21, 22. between birds and poetry. poetic forms. The cost is $760 per person and includes 21st Simon Armitage Live – this Workshop presenter, Beverley George, twin share accommodation, 3 days’ yoga exciting U.K poet in performance at is president of the Australian Haiku Society and writing classes, delicious vegetarian Adelaide Writers’ Week. (www.haikuoz.org), Editor of Yellow Moon meals and snacks including 3 lunches, 2 28th I Will Survive – a feature on (www.yellowmoon.info) and founder/ breakfasts and 2 dinners, and use of the contemporary Russian women poets from editor of Eucalypt, Australia’s first journal Homestead facilities including swimming Moscow to Vladivostok. dedicated entirely to tanka (www.eucalypt. pool and tennis court, plus a guided info). Her tanka and haiku have been bush walk through the Saunders Gorge Interested to discuss the research aspects published in UK, Japan, US, NZ, Russia, Sanctuary. of your writing? INDEPENDENT , Canada and Australia in over 30 For all enquiries and registration contact: SCHOLARS (SA Group) next meets on journal titles and have won several major Sandy on 0419 807718 or email Thursday 10th October 2.30 pm at the SA international contests. The workshop is free. [email protected] Writers’ Centre. Website www.glenroyhomestead.com.au Call 8344.7810/ 0415 052 174 Writing and Engagement [email protected] Anne Summers discusses “Writing and Writing the Short Film ISAA: SA Group Convenor Engagement”, at the University of Adelaide The Australian Writers’ Guild SA Branch is Library, Thursday 5 October, 6pm. pleased to present ‘Writing the Short Film’ Australian and International call for Anne Summers, author of The End of with Jim Roberts. A full day workshop on Playwrights and Tutors Equality and chair of Greenpeace Sunday October 8, 2006 10 am till 5 pm World Interplay is the largest Festival for International, is an eminent member of at the SA Writers’ Centre young playwrights (aged 18 - 26) in the Sydney PEN and until recently an Cost: AWG and MRC members: $55 inc. world, where fifty of the world’s best young active member of its Committee of GST. Non members: $75 inc. GST playwrights gather in Townsville, Australia, Management. Deadline: Thursday October 5 for two weeks of intensive dramaturgy, Bookings by Tuesday 3 October to: Only 12 places available script development, workshops, forums and Email: [email protected] Areas covered in the course include: artistic and cultural exchange. Telephone: 8303 4064 • script layout The next World Interplay is from the • short film structure 3rd - 17th July 2007 in Townsville, North Writing and Yoga Retreat • developing character

6 Queensland. The call for scripts is open Indulge your creative self – 3 day fully • screen language until June 2007. residential Writing and Yoga retreat at • making the drama work To apply, contact the partner or theatre Glenroy Homestead. Do you dream of • writing dialogue company listed in your country (see our writing? Together Sarah Armstrong and • editing your script website for details: www.worldinterplay. Kathryn Riding show you the intrinsic link • screenings of short films org) or contact World Interplay for an between yoga, creativity, body wisdom, self application form at: nurturing and self-expression. Let Sarah Christine Sweeney, MRC Creative Producer, Email: [email protected] and Kathryn help you find your unique will discuss state and federal short film Phone: +61 7 3854 0261 writing voice and unearth the characters production opportunities. The course will Mail: PO Box 1102, Fortitude Valley, QLD, and stories that already lie within you. be valuable for those seeking to develop Australia 4006 Sarah Armstrong is an author, journalist their best possible script and production and writing teacher. Her first novel – Salt applications for the South Australian Film EAST MEETS WEST Rain – was short listed for the 2005 Dobbie Corporation, Australian Film Commission, SA Writers’ Centre Workshop Thursday Award for a first novel by a woman and for Raw Nerve or the Media Resource Centre November 2nd 6:30 pm- 9:30 pm. the 2005 Miles Franklin Literary Award, Members Production Group. EAST MEETS WEST – an introduction to Australia’s most prestigious literary award. For further information and to make a the Japanese poetry genre, tanka Experienced yoga teacher Kathryn Riding booking phone: Japanese waka (now called tanka) are will lead gentle classes of restorative, 8232 6852 www.sawriters.on.net October 200 five line poems. Usually they address rejuvenating yoga. The classes will be [email protected] profound human emotions, such as love 7 What’s On…

Screen Stories October 16 Book Launch The Australian Writers Guild is also LEE MARVIN IN AN ETUDE BLEU pleased to present Screen Stories of the Stephen Whittington Slowly it Grows Desolate independent feature Modern Love, in JOHN JENKINS an illustrated talk by Alex Frayne. Alex Linda Marie Walker A collection of poetry Frayne is an Adelaide based independent Shannon Burns by Matthew Smith, published through filmmaker who wrote, directed, produced Carol Lefevre Seaview Press, to be launched by Rory and edited his debut feature film Modern Harris at the SA Writers’ Centre on Love in 2006. The film was shot entirely October 23 Wednesday October 11, 7pm on location in the ghost town Milang, LEE MARVIN IN A BROWN STUDY for a 7.30 start. on the shores of SA’s Lake Alexandrina. Ken Bolton Drinks and Nibbles provided. Modern Love has been formally invited to Jordan D’Arsie screen in competition at the 30th Mostra TRACY CRISP The Hard Boiled Sessions International Film Festival in São Paulo, Miriel Lenore invites all and one in October. Alex will show excerpts from Teri Hoskin to the launch of the new Modern Love and talk about the writing Paroxysm Press Anthology and production process. October 30 Shotgun Date: Thursday, 9th November 2006 LEE MARVIN ON A BENDER to be held at Higher ground Inc Time: 7pm for drinks for 7.30 pm start Bel Schenk (The old IMAX cinema, located adjacent Place: SA Writers’ Centre HEATHER TAYLOR JOHNSON to the Palace Cinema) Cost: $5 AWG members Cath Kenneally on Tuesday 24th October $8 Non Members KHAIL JUREIDINI 6-8pm. Free Entry Bookings: 8232 6852 or [email protected] Steve Evans Come down and have a drink with a few of more than twenty published authors The Hills Poets BOOKS. BE IN IT. in the anthology. The Hills Poets will meet again on Sunday The SA Children’s Writers and Illustrators 8 October at 3.30 pm at the Crafers Inn, Festival. Come celebrate the wealth of River Magic Crafers. New readers are always welcomed. talent we have right here in South Australia. by Tricia Stringer, published by Convenor, Jill Gower would like to thank When? Sunday 29th October 2006, 1.30- Equilibrium Books. Rob Walker and Yahia al-Samawy who were 4.00pm. Adelaide launch at Dymocks, Rundle Mall guest readers (as part of National Poetry Where? Unley Civic Centre, 181 Unley 6pm on October 12. Week) at our September meeting. Road, Unley. Kadina launch at the Ascot Theatre Foyer, Enquiries for Hills Poets to Jill Gower: What? An afternoon of mingling with some Kadina on October 13 at 6pm. 8339 5119 of SA’s best authors and illustrators. All welcome. Listen to stories, watch illustrators at THE LEE MARVIN READINGS work, browse at the bookshop, check Day of the Imprisoned Writer Mondays at Gallery de la Catessen, 9 Anster out kids’ artwork, visit the face painter, Plans for Adelaide PEN’s first major public Street, Adelaide (off Waymouth at the King meet the Book Bear. event to commemorate the Day of the William end, near FAD nightclub). Imprisoned Writer are well under way. New Writing Group in Salisbury The event – a lively mix of exciting guests, October 2 Interested in writing, don’t know where to talks, readings and music – will take place LEE MARVIN ON THE LAM go? There’s a new writers’ group starting on the lawn in front of the State Library Jordan D’Arsie up in the Bagsters Community House (on in North Terrace between 12pm and 2pm • October 2006 KERRYN GOLDSWORTHY Bagsters Road, Salisbury North.) Starting on Wednesday 15 November. The next Ashley Graetz on Thusday October 5, 6:30 - 8:30pm, PEN meeting will now be at 6pm at the SA Bern Smith with guest speaker, Stephen Orr. Contact Writers’ Centre on Thursday 12 October. Naomi Horridge Laurie on 82647778 or email Nicola at [email protected] Wordfire Literary Salon October 9 Next Event – Monday, November 6 at the LEE MARVIN IN AN ETUDE BLUE The Gawler Poetry Reading ... Crown and Sceptre Hotel, King William PETER ROSE kicks off at the Old Spot Hotel, 2pm Sunday Street, Adelaide with special guest Peter Stephen Lawrence October 29th. Open mike, music by Alan Goldsworthy. For more details, please visit, Moya Costello Handley. Enquiries to Martin or Cathy http://www.wordfire.onestop.net PAUL HOBAN 8522 4268 Andrea Jorss www.sawriters.on.net

8 Congratulations…

Jason Fischer has been accepted in Winter’ and ‘Rawson Summer’) and a 90 micromacro in an interview on Radio into Clarion South for 2007, a writing word minisaga (‘The Secretaire’) published Adelaide’s Arts Breakfast (9/9/06) and course held in . Clarion has been in Positive Words, September 2006 issue. also at Hills Poets, Crafers as part of described as ‘boot camp’ for speculative National Poetry Week (10/9/06.) He was fiction writers. www.clarionsouth.org Adrian Flavell had the following poems awarded third prize in the SA section of published: ‘she chooses’ in Famous the National Poetry Week Poetry Slam The Advertiser journalist Derek Pedley’s Reporter 33 and ‘she is alone’ in Beyond (12/09/06.) His collection micromacro is second book, Australian Outlaw – The the Rainbow 27. available online @ seaviewpress.com.au True Story of Postcard Bandit Brenden Abbott was published by Sly Ink in August. Lidija Simkute was guest reader at ‘The Juan Garrido-Salgado’s poem ‘Please The first print run of 6000 had almost sold Salon’ in Vienna and attended the Spring let him be a bird on this land’, was out by the end of the month and a reprint is Poetry Festival in Lithuania at the end of published by Eureka Magazine, August expected. May. She was invited to present a paper 2006; ‘Sonnet’ (Writers’ Week in Adelaide, and read her poetry at The Blind Literary 2006) was published by Famous Reporter Janeen Brian’s Hoosh! Camels in Festival near Lake Zelva in July. She also # 33. Another poem in translation was Australia won an Honour Award in the had a poem published in Wet Ink, issue 3. published in the Anthology Mollusca Vol: Children’s Book Council of Australia In Translation and he was a guest poet at Awards (Eve Pownall Information David Mortimer’s poem ‘Backlift’ from the Latinamerican SBS Radio program: La category). his collection Red in the Morning was Bodeguita-Melbourne. read on ABC Radio National’s PoeticA as Sonya Bates’ chapter book Midnight part of its National Poetry Week Survey in M.L Emmett’s poem ‘The Forensic Ghost was published in October by September 2006. Science of Grief’ was published in Artstate Limelight Press. and ‘The River at Henley’ was published Margaret Crohn had her short story in the New Zealand Magazine Valley Shen’s poems ‘Geography’ and ‘Wounds’ ‘Baby Sitting? Get Real!’, which was highly Micropress Volume 9, issue 7. were in the anthology Windchimes: Asia commended in the FAW Vic National in Australian Poetry (Pandanus Press), Literary Awards, recently published in Ross Duffy’s short story ‘In the Lift’ ‘Wounds’ was reprinted in July’s Australian the FAW anthology The Envelope Please. has been published in the September Family Physician and ‘Two men’, ‘Wounds’, Imogen Koch had her story ‘Letters from edition of The Write Angle, a Queensland ‘Indigo Stains’ and ‘Certifying the Dead’ Japan’ similarly commended and magazine. For more information about were in the anthology Verbal Medicine: included. The Write Angle, contact Coral Hartley at 21 Contemporary Clinician Poets of [email protected] Australia/NZ (Ginninderra Press). Kami has had five poems published in the latest Paroxysm anthology Shotgun, his Elaine Barker’s poem ‘From the Bus’ Fabienne Bayet-Charleton’s novel story ‘A Day In The Life Of A Cactus Killer’ was published in Broken Hill’s Barrier Watershed was shortlisted for the Victorian appeared in BP #28, and he was highly Miner. Her poem ‘In Verona’ has appeared Premier’s Literary Award, and her commended in the Midlands Literary in Artstate no. 15 and ‘On the Footpath’ short story ‘Twenty Pink Questions’ has competition 2006 for his story ‘Tommy and ‘Consolation’ were published in Poetry 6 been published in The Best Short Story Two-Tone’. Monash no. 72. Anthology 2006. Jarred Thomas’s novel Sweet Guy was also shortlisted for the Ashley Arnold has had three short stories Norman MacLucas received first prize Victorian Premier’s Literary Award. published recently: ‘Mr Ted’ was published for ‘Ice Bergers’ in the Leeton Eisteddfod in the current issue of Flashquake (www. Society competition and third prize for ‘Sea Adeeb Kamal Ad-Deen’s poem ‘Theft’ flashquake.org); ‘Catlike Filaments ...’ in Debris’. was published in Southerly vol 66. Issue #100 of AntipodeanSF (www.antisf. com) and ‘New Beginning’ in the October The following South Australian poets have The winners of the Friendly Street Mystical issue of Lorelei Signal (http://www. been anthologized in the second edition of Poetry Competition were: 1st - Maeve loreleisignal.com/) Senior Poetry, formerly Blue Light, Clear Archibald, 2nd - Margaret Fensom, Atoms, edited by Peter McFarlane and Lisa 3rd - Jill Gloyne. Hon Mentions: Dawn rob walker poems ‘Flood and Desert’ Temple (Macmillan Education Australia): Colsey; Alice Sladdin; Matt James. (for Yahia al-Samawy), ‘Jesus the Sequel’, John Bray, Christine Churches, ‘Choice Theory’, ‘The bird leaves its cage Steve Evans, Diane Fahey, Peter Dave Diss scored a double-header letter and enters another’ (for Juan Garrido- Goldsworthy, Geoff Goodfellow, John in The International Herald Tribune Salgado), ‘advice to a politician, colin Griffin, Jeff Guess, Rory Harris, Jeri (18/8/06) and the Brisbane Sunday Mail powell addresses the UN’ and ‘Jordy’s Kroll, Mike Ladd, Kate Llewellyn, (20/8/06). balloons’ were all published on the Poetas Neil Paech, Graham Rowlands, Andrew Taylor and Barry Westburg. www.sawriters.on.net October 200 del Mundo (World Poets) website. rob read Helen Cooper had two poems (‘Rawson a selection of poems from his collection 9 Literary Competitions…

JF 13 Octuber 2006 FJ 20 November 2006 Feast Short Writing Comp. J indicates a competition listed for the first time Patrick White Playwrights’ Includes short stories, memoir ´ indicates a competition with sections for young writers Award. Offers a $20,000 cash prize to a full-length and essays (3000 words or F indicates the SA Writers’ Centre holds the entry forms less) , poetry up to 65 lines, unproduced play of any genre performance pieces (6 pages) As a service to members, the SAWC holds entry forms and written by an Australian and blog entries (under 300 guidelines. Call in and collect copies for 20c each or send one playwright 20 years of age or words). The theme of Feast’s business-sized stamped self-addressed envelope, plus one loose over. short writing comp 2006 is 50c stamp for every TWO competitions requested. Magic, tying in perfectly with the theme for the Festival - Faerie J 22 November 2006 Tales. Entry forms downloadable 2nd Kathleen Julia Bates from http://www.feast.org.au/ Memorial Writing Competition entry form required. Postal contact details, story title and Unpublished lyrical poem orders, cheques made out to category and where you heard suitable for children aged TACE. Cash accepted. 6 The about the competition. Post to 9 to 14 years. Theme open. F 20 October 2006 Parkway North, MALLABULA Chris Broadribb, PO Box 116, All entries are to have a Wannabee has teamed up with 2319. Enquiries to Geoff Burwood NSW 1805 or email separate title page with full literary journal Wet Ink to offer Walker 02 4982 4095. to [email protected] contact details (not stapled) great prizes. First prize: $300, See www.geocities.com/spiky_ and to include a stamped publication in Wet Ink, and a F 31 October 2006 one/times.html for further self-addressed envelope for one year subscription to the details. results. Manuscripts will not United Federation of Planets magazine. Second prize: $200. be returned. Entry fee $5 per Sci-Fi or Fantasy Competition. Open theme to 30 lines. Entries poem. Open to Australian 3000 words. Entries to be close 20th October. Entry forms F 1 November 2006 residents only. Prizes: $300 first in M.S Word 2000 or less to from www.wannabee.com.au Friendly Street Single Poet prize and $150 second prize. [email protected] or by post: PO Box 59, East Volume. More info from www. www.enterprisingwords.com Melbourne 8002. friendlystreetpoets.org.au Send entries c/- Di Bates, PO FJ 31 October 2006 Box 2116, Woonona East NSW 2517. No late entries. F 27 October 2006 Australasian Short Story FJ 11 November 2006 Awards. Open theme to 5000 NSW Writers’ Centre 2006 The Australian Young Poets words. Entry fee $5, or $15 for Prize. $500 will be awarded to Fellowships. Open to all citizens FJ 27 November 2006 4 stories. First prize $300. the best self-published book and residents of Australia, aged Eyre Writers Awards. Short (between 1/9/05 and 31/8/06). 18-30. Each fellow will receive a story, non-rhyming poetry, entrants must supply 2 copies J 31 October 2006 six-month mentorship with an rhyming poetry. Entry fee $5 of the book with an entry fee experienced poets; publication per category. First prize in each Rhyming Poetry Competition. of $20, and a fully completed in Five Bells; accommodation category $150 plus trophy. Prizes: 1st - $100, 2nd - $75, entry form, available at www. and expenses for the 3rd - $50. Entry forms from nswwriterscentre.org.au Wollongong Poetry Workshops; [email protected] or publication of a 32-page Competition Co-ordinator. 13 chapbook; the opportunity to Rockford St, Mandurah, WA F 31 October 2006 present work at a public reading 6210. Yellow Moon Nutshell 20. in Sydney. Categories include Cinquain, Idyll, Clerihew, Humorous/ FJ 31 October 2006 nonsense and Tetractys. $5 each entry or $10 for three. Yellow Moon Spirit of Place. $5 Prize money $30-$70. each entry or $10 for three. • October 2006 Free verse, or traditional with rhyme and metre about the F´ 31 October 2006 place you live. Details from The Examiner Port Stephens SAWC. Literature Award. $1300 in prize money. Adults:- Short stories to 2500 words -any J 31 October 2006 theme. 1st $500, 2nd $200 The Best of Times Short Story and 3rd $100 plus $100 Tanilba Competition. Two categories: House Award and four $50 humour and general. Stories highly commended prizes. up to 3000 words. First prize Children:- Short story to 500 $300. Entry fee $5.50 (inc. words. Ist prize $60 and 2nd GST) per story, payable to prize $40. Two sections 6 to Chris Broadribb. No entry www.sawriters.on.net 12 years and 13 to 16 years. form required. Include a Entry fee:- $5 per story. No cover sheet with your name, 10 The Venezuelan Gig by Mike Ladd

n board the plane I looked at the should have been nervous, especially as Oimmigration form for the “Republica I was going to read one of my poems in Bolivariana de Venezuela.” In the space for Spanish, a language I can’t speak. I’m used “profession” I wrote “poet”, instead of my to reading to 30 people in small venues, usual “radio producer.” That felt good. At not being on the big stage. But the response the immigration desk in Caracas airport, of the people was so warm, so buoying, the border guard, an attractive young that any nerves disappeared. Afterwards woman, looked at my form and said, “You people queued for autographs, photos, and have a noble profession. Say something just to shake hands with the poets. We did beautiful to me, and I’ll let you into the interviews for the press, radio, television country.” I could tell I was going to like this and film-makers. For an Australian poet, place. used to the indifference of the mainstream Between the 17th and 23rd of July this media, this was quite extraordinary – here it off.” Señor Novàs went on to say that year, Venezuela’s Third World Poetry poetry is respected, important, news- we are poets who represent “the poetry of Festival was held in Caracas and in 24 worthy. The response was repeated in our liberation, protest against domination and regional cities. The Chávez government other readings in Caracas and also in the imperialism,” and that “we are part of the invited 29 poets from around the world. regional cities. socialist fight for human values.” Socialist, All their expenses were paid, every poet It’s partly a Latin American tradition. eh? – so where do I fit in? As soon as I see had a personal guide and translator, and A love and respect for poets. It’s also a political line I start looking at how not to every continent was represented. Poets because of government support. Uruguayan tow it. Never-the-less, the vibrant political came from as far away as China, Iraq, poet Saúl Ibargoyen told me there’s a atmosphere in Venezuela was a welcome Nigeria, France, Japan, Germany and of kind of festival circuit in Latin America, change from the dreary meanness of the course all over North, Central and South and while poets still have to teach or do Howard vision. America. All the poets managed to get other writing, they can almost sustain The Venezuelan festival organisers there – all except Joumana Haddad from themselves by touring. Columbia’s Medellín are predictably anti-Bush, but not anti- Lebanon, whose airport was being shelled Poetry Festival is the longest running and American. In fact, they invited four poets by the Israeli army at the time. I was the best-known outside South America. In from the United States: Sam Hamill (the only representative of Oceania, and so was Venezuela’s case, the government promotes poet who founded “Poets Against the War”), seen as somewhat exotic, the “one who an anti-elitist, socially engaged literature. Jack Hirschman (the current poet laureate came the farthest”. I’m actually the third Their motto is “Ahora Es De Todos” – “Now of San Francisco), Luis Rodríguez (a barrio Australian to attend, the first two were It’s For Everyone.” Ramón Medero, head of poet from Los Angeles) and Allison Hedge Lauren Williams and Susan Hampton, and the national book council, told me that since Coke, a native American poet. The festival it was Sue who told me what a great gig it is the Chávez government has been in power is also keen on indigenous voices; as well as in Venezuela. they have given away 24 million books: Allison’s poetry we heard poetry in Mayan All events were free to the public. The titles such as Cervantes’s Don Quixote, and by Jorge Cocom Pech from Mexico and opening reading (five minutes each by all Hugo’s Les Miserables, but also poetry by in Creole by Nicole Cage-Florentini from 28 poets) was held in the main theatre Neruda, Hikmet, Palomares, and others. Martinique. I recommended that the next 6 of Caracas, the beautiful Teatro Teresa Ramón Palomares was the honoured poet of poet from Oceania should be Aboriginal Carreño. Two thousand people attended, this festival, and we all got to meet him. or Maori, or maybe they’ll choose a Pacific beginning to queue an hour before the When I asked Adriana Ferrer (one of Islander. Wherever they come from, let reading started. Posters were put up around the festival organisers) how the poets were me tell you, the Venezuelan World Poetry the city, free programs given out. Poets chosen, she said by recommendation from Festival is a great gig. read in their mother tongues, backed by the committee, previous poets and the projections of their work translated into audience, but also they are looking for a Spanish. Waiting in the wings to go on, I particular type of poetry, “anti-imperialist, Mike Ladd is the producer and presenter and in the spirit of the Chávez-Bolivarian of PoeticA on ABC Radio National. His revolution.” During a press conference in most recent book of poems is Rooms and the National Library, we also had a pep- Sequences from Salt publishing. talk from the minister of culture himself, Francisco Sesto Novàs. Halfway through his talk, his mobile phone rang. He stopped mid-sentence and left us all waiting while he had a brief discussion. Ripples of amusement spread around the room. Then he finished the call and turned to explain. www.sawriters.on.net October 200 Mike signs autograhps for fans. “That’s the hotline to Chávez. 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