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NYWM: Travelling Story – Chante Donald

Today’s contribution to the NYWM Travelling Story will be written by Chante Donald. Chante Donald (19, Parkwood QLD) is in her second year of university and hopes to have a career based in writing some day. She’s always been an avid reader, and has been writing since she could hold a pen. NYWM is definitely […]

Riverbend Poetry Series 2012

The final event of the Riverbend Poetry Series 2012 will definitely be one to warm up a winter’s night. The evening will feature two launches: QPF will be launching the program for spoken in one strange word 2012, and Brisbane poet Julie Beveridge will be launching her latest collection, home{sic} (Another Lost Shark Publications). If you missed Julie at QPF last year (or […]

NYWM: Day Twelve

Are you in a regional or remote area? Do you just prefer to do your learning from the comfort of your own home? Here’s one to suit you. The Australian Society of Authors are hosting an online chat about publishing basics tomorrow. Head over to their website to register, then log on tomorrow and participate […]

NYWM: Travelling Story – Cassandra Priestley

Today’s contribution to the NYWM Travelling Story will be written by Cassandra Priestley. Cassandra Priestley (13, Edgeworth NSW) is about to turn fourteen. She likes to play piano, sketch and write! She truly enjoys writing because, when you get right down to it, she can write whatever she wants. No thing or place is out […]

Poetry in Film Festival 2012 wants you

PIFF is on the hunt for the feature poem to be interpreted into 4-7 minute short films. PIFF is open to filmmakers from around Australia. The best submissions will be screened in November this year in Palace Cinemas around the country. This year’s theme is ‘The Future Imagined’ and the poem can be up to […]

NYWM: Day Eleven

One for the Melbourne writers. The Wheeler Centre are offering an amazing opportunity to have a dedicated work space for two months inside the beautiful offices at The Wheeler Centre. That’s right, you could come work in the same space as us! Applications close June 18, so check out how to apply by visiting the website. Here […]

NYWM: Travelling Story – Emily Rose Charlton

Today’s contribution to the NYWM Travelling Story will be written by Emily Rose Charlton. Emily Rose Charlton (15, Coal Point NSW) is a passionate young novel writer with aspirations to be an architectural historian, and is in year 10. By the end of National Young Writers’ Month, she aims to have completed her first modern […]

NYWM: Day Ten

Don’t forget today is the final day for entries to the Stringybark Seven Deadly Sins Short Fiction Award. Poets, it is your last day to submit to the Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry. Details here. West Australian writers, do you have a script you want to develop? The latest round of applications for […]

NYWM: Travelling Story – Saba Vayana-Lai

Today’s contribution to the NYWM Travelling Story will be written by Saba Vayana-Lai. Saba Vayani-Lai (18, Kellyville NSW) might speak horrendous French, but she is fully fluent in waffle. She is fond of turtlenecks, sushi and watching Carl Sagan videos on YouTube. Currently, she is studying International Studies/Law at Macquarie University. In her spare time, she runs […]

The Westside Writers’ Group ‘Westside Jr’ publication

Westside Jr. Vol 4: Coming to Voice – this is the final edition of the Westside Jr. series, a publication devoted to sourcing the younger writers of Western Sydney. In this special edition BYDS is teaming up with the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation to produce a publication that combines the works of new and […]