Come celebrate the launch of Voiceworks #74 (Innuendo) - featuring contributor readings, burlesque performance, cheap subscriptions and back issues, and a door prize of a stencilled vintage cherry red iMAC!

Friday, September 12, 2008 at 7:30pm

Trades Hall - Bella Union Bar, 2 Lygon St (cnr Victoria St), Carlton South, Melbourne, Australia.

BUZZCUTS 2008
Applications are now open for volunteers for this year’s Buzzcuts. If you are under 25 and you would like to write reviews as part of the Melbourne Fringe Festival (September 24 – October 12), this is for you.

VOLUNTEER ARTS REVIEWERS will have the chance to see the Melbourne Fringe show of their choice, write reviews and see them published on the Buzzcuts website. The best reviews will be published weekly throughout the Fringe in Beat Magazine. Participants will also be skilled up at a free workshop on writing critical arts reviews.

During the workshop industry professionals will tutor you in writing critical arts reviews for both major publications and street press. Successful applicants will be required to attend a four-hour training workshop and seminar to be held on a Sunday in August – date to be confirmed.

Exceptions from this workshop may only be granted on the basis of past involvement in the Buzzcuts program. If you feel you have significant reviewing experience and cannot attend the workshop, please include two examples of your best work in the application.

Applications for reviewers close WEDNESDAY 13TH AUGUST 2008 and must be received at the Express Media office or post-marked by this date to be considered. PLEASE NOTE THAT YOU MUST BECOME AN EXPRESS MEDIA MEMBER OR BE A VOICEWORKS SUBSCRIBER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS PROGRAM. Membership costs only $10.

HOW TO APPLY

By the due date, submit:
• the Buzzcuts application form (available below)
• a covering letter explaining why you would like to be involved and any experience you have in the relevant area
Please do not forget to include your name, address, email address, and contact telephone numbers.

Submit your application by Wednesday the 13th of August 2008 via post:
Buzzcuts Reviewer
Express Media
247 Flinders Lane
Melbourne
3000

If you have any questions please phone Express Media Artistic Director, Bel Schenk, on 9663 4155 or e-mail questions to buzzcuts@expressmedia.org.au

Express Media presents Buzzcuts 2008 in partnership with: Melbourne Fringe, SYN Media, Beat, RRR and RMIT.

Wednesday September 24th, 6-8pm.

Cost: $22 for E(x)_m members or $25 for non-members.

This workshop will cover the process of editing your own work, from first draft through to working with editors on your oh-so precious baby darlings. Participants should bring a short piece of their own work and be prepared to discuss it with other workshop participants. There will be a focus on the process of collaborative drafting - giving a piece to two or three people and consolidating their feedback into your own redraft. Red pens will be provided, but participants will need to bring their own concoctions of brutal honesty mixed with diplomacy and tact.


Ryan Paine is the editor of ‘Voiceworks’ magazine, a youth-literature quarterly renowned for its active engagement with writers in drafting and developing their work. He writes for Radio National’s ‘The Book Show’, a gig that seems to require more drafting than writing - especially in the studio when his ‘p’s keep popping.

Download the full program here and keep an eye out for a new PayPal section which will be up soon!

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