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The last week was an amazing one. We made contact with more writers than
ever before, we’ve received more mail than ever before and we have more new
ezine subscribers than ever before.
In purely commercial terms this translates to business
expansion. To us, however, it’s more important than that – particularly
when you scan the spectrum of our readership. Among our subscribers and
members are doctors, engineers, financers as well as those that call
themselves purely ‘authors’.
You see, the creative field is far larger than we could
imagine. Everyone has a creative fibre...just not everyone has found it.
But those that do express it in different ways than what would purely be
called ‘art’. They express it in their work, in their engineering, in their
doctoring, in their day-to-day lives.
Art, then, is everywhere. But, I’ll stop here before I
digress into a mushy monologue and tell you a little about this week’s
issue.
IN THIS ISSUE
The humble story competition presents a far greater opportunity to the
writer than many may first think. For some, it will be the first time their
work sees the light of day. Livia
Chang from Express Media (John Marsden Prize – www.expressmedia.org.au) explains
the importance writing competitions have for the aspiring author in her
article “The Real Gains of Literary Competition”.
Read
the article...
OPPORTUNITIES
Watsonia
Library Writing Competition
Winter Words
Write a poem or short story with the theme of winter (Up to 500 words).
Junior (under 16) and adult sections. Entries displayed at the Library.
Winners announced at Winter Warmer celebrations on Saturday 18 July. Prizes
to be won. Submit entries to Watsonia Library by Saturday 4 July marked
'Winter Words Competition'
UPCOMING
EVENTS
JULY
July 11, 2009
Festival of Fiction
ACT Writers Centre Gorman House, ACT www.actwriters.org.au/writers_festivals.html
July 14 - 18 2009
Voices on the Coast
Sunshine Coast, Queensland www.immanuel.qld.edu.au/voices
July 15 - 18 2009
Whitsunday Voices Youth Literature Festival
Queensland
www.whitsundayvoices.com.au
Victorian Writers'
Centre Events
Genre
Publishers Tell All With Black Dog Books, Aurealis & Five Mile Press
Tuesday 30 June, 6.30-8pm
Click here for more
details...
INTREPID
YA - Writing Young Adult Fiction
With Simmone Howell
Weekend
Workshop: This workshop will explore: the common themes and tropes of young
adult literature
Saturday
& Sunday 11-12 July, 10am-4pm
Click here
for more details...
AUGUST
MILL PARK LIBRARY
MONDAY 24th August, 6.30pm
Get a jump start on your novel with detective fiction author Anthony
Santoro, Founder of the Writers’ Resource Centre, and co-author of the new
book Get Your Book off the Ground.
For more information, contact Suze: smale@yprl.vic.gov.au
NEW VIDEO CLICKS
Every author, no matter their level of success, will have to contend
with REJECTION LETTERS. You can ponder them, read them over and over, feel
a complete failure or... Find out what to do with them in this new.
Click here to watch video intro
Trying to write a book but can’t quite seem to
get it completed? No luck getting it published? Rejections taking its toll?
Click here to watch a video intro to our new book Get Your Book off the Ground. Stay
tuned for more video seminars!
ARTICLES IN LAST ISSUE:
You Wrote a Book – What Now?
South Australian writing guru, Rob Parnell explains self-publishing, self-promotion
and much more in a few easy steps
Read the
article...
From their new book Get
Your Book off the Ground, Suzanne
Male and Anthony Santoro
take you through the world of publishing and explain the key things to know
when it comes to self-publishing in The
Sure-Fire Way to Get Published.
Read
the article...
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