Tuesday 17 January 2023

2023 Monthly Writing Workshops

 


Monthly Writing Workshops

Booranga Writers' Centre
CSU Campus
Building 410, Mambarra Drive
Wagga Wagga 

Location on map

 

 Places limited. Please adhere to current Covid-safe practices at these workshops.

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We invite writers of all abilities, genres and interests to join us with a piece of writing you are working on, to workshop, develop and share with fellow writers. Please bring multiple copies (6 - 8) of the work to share around the table for editing purposes if you wish to share your work. These will be returned to you at the end of the workshop.

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.

Booranga is a friendly environment to nurture your creative writing while enjoying the company of like-minded people of all ages and stages of their craft.


Workshop fees:
$10 for 2023 financial members
$15 for non-members 





Usually the Third Saturday of each month 

Proposed dates, subject to change


18 February: Regular workshop at Booranga, 2 - 4pm

18 March: Regular workshop at Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

22 April: Special Event with Jacquelene Pearson at Community Learning Space 1+2, Wagga Wagga City Library. Tickets

20 May: Booranga, 2 - 4pm with writer-in-residence John Stephenson

17 June: Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

22 July:  Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

19 August: Booranga, 11.30am - 1.30pm with writer-in-residence Fiona Kelly MacGregor 

Fiona's Workshop topic will be ' Planning, Practice, Reading and Research. It's a good intro workshop which guides people into creating time, and timetables, and gets them to ask themselves what exactly they want to do and how they can affect it within their own individual circumstances. And it tackles ways to read and research that support specific projects.'


16 September: Booranga, 2 - 4pm with writer-in-residence Judith Beveridge

21 October:  Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 

18 November:  Regular workshop Booranga, 2 - 4pm 


Proposed dates, subject to change





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Tuesday 3 January 2023

2023 Competitions and Opportunities

 2023 Competitions and Opportunities

 

Submissions to fourW Anthology of New Writing  
Closes 30 June each year
All submissions to fourW are considered for the Booranga Literary Prizes
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Booranga Literary Prizes
The Booranga Prizes, of $500 each, are chosen from all submissions to fourW and are awarded to the best poem and the best short story submitted each year and are published in our annual anthology, fourW.
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CLOSING SOON

Penguin Literary Prize
Closes 12 December


Nan Tien Temple x SCWC Writers Residency
Closes 14 December


Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize   
Closes 15 December


Scenes from the Sage Age
Closes 15 December



Helen Ann Bell Poetry Bequest Award
Closes 18 December


Heroines Anthology
Closes 18 December

ONGOING OPPORTUNITIES


Australian Writers’ Centre Furious Fiction
First weekend of each season (March, June, September, December)
Writers have 55 hours to write a 500 words-or-fewer story to be in the running for $500. On the first Friday of every month, a new set of short story prompts will be revealed to guide writers.
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Baby Teeth Journal Submissions
Ongoing
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Big Issue
Contributor guidelines
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Emerging Refugee Artist Development Program
Ongoing


Eureka St Submissions
Ongoing


Fairlight Moderns - novella submissions
Currently seeking submissions of novella-length works in English from authors based anywhere in the world. We are particularly keen to publish work by new and emerging writers,
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Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc
Various competitions open throughout the year
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KSP 2023 Residency Program 
Various dates
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Light Horse Australia: Harry Chauvel Foundation
Help us build on online Light Horse Anthology
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Lighthouse Arts Residencies
Applications ongoing


Mona Magazine submissions
Ongoing


Rabbit Journal Submissions
Ongoing


Science Write Now Submissions
Ongoing


Sisters in Crime Australia Inc


Spread the Stories not the Virus
Ongoing
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The Moderate Review
Submissions Ongoing


The School Magazine
Ongoing submissions.
Writers, Illustrators, Comic Serial Creators, Cartoonists.


The Suburban Review
Various dates


Writing NSW
Regional Writers support
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Writing NSW Grants - Various
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The Man from Snowy River Bush Festival Elyne Mitchell Photo Story Competition

Info provided by The Man from Snowy River Festival, for further information contact  

Honor Auchinleck on 0437 751 552


The Vision Splendid:

The Man from Snowy River Bush Festival Elyne Mitchell Photo Story Competition

https://bushfestival.com.au/


Believe it or not the 2023 Man from Snowy River Bush Festival (13 th – 16 th April

is only just under six months away and entrants for the Elyne Mitchell Photo Story Competition are beginning to think about their entries once again. 

Entries open on 1 December 2022. Entries close in mid-February.  Keep an eye on the website for confirmation.


Elyne Mitchell only ever wrote one anthology of photo stories A Vision of the

Snowy Mountains (1988). She enjoyed the experience so much that had she

started writing photo stories earlier in her long writing life, she would have

written many more. She loved the inspirational interplay between her

photography and her writing.

The Man from Snowy River Bush Festival Elyne Mitchell Photo Story

Competition hopes that you will find great pleasure in creating your entry for

this year’s Competition. The theme is ‘The Vision Splendid’. You have six

months to find or take a photograph that inspires you and to write about your

interpretation of the ‘Vision Splendid’. Keep an eye on the Man from Snowy

River Bush Festival website for the closing date and other information relating to

the Photo Story Competition. Please remember that your photograph should be

eye-catching and that the photograph and your written component should

complement each other. The quotation ‘Vision Splendid’ comes from A B

Paterson’s poem Clancy of the Overflow.

Enjoy finding a ‘vision splendid’ for yourself. Now that Covid restrictions are a

thing of the past, perhaps you will find your ‘vision’ in some of our wonderful

countryside. Equally you might find it in a dream and then set about working out

how you might use photography to illustrate the description of your dream.

In past years there have been enquiries about whether entrants can use

inspiration from their artwork in their photo stories. I can’t see why not as art is

a wonderful form of inspiration for writing. Entrants may photograph their

artwork and craft their entries from the photograph. The photograph can then

be copied and pasted into the entry above the writing component. Ensure you

use a high-resolution photograph. The photograph and the written component

must be the entrant’s own work. If the entrant wants to submit an entry inspired

by someone else’s artwork, for example a sculpture, the entrant must

photograph the work and acknowledge the artist or sculptor. The written

component can also be written as poetry.

The Photo Story Competition has two categories, one for juniors under eighteen

and the senior category for those over 18 years of age.

You may find that over the next few months you might create a number of

potential entries. You can submit up to five pieces, so choose your photo stories

carefully and submit before entries close in mid-February. 

Keep an eye on the website for confirmation.

The Photo Story Competition took off after the 2020 Black Summer bushfires

and Covid. For some people photo stories became a hobby and a part of their

lives that brought great pleasure. As Patron of the Photo Story Competition,

nothing can please me more than framing and helping exhibit the shortlisted

entries in the Art and Photography exhibition and taking part in some of the

subsequent conversations with writer-photographer entrants and Festival

visitors. Go to it and enjoy!!

Honor Auchinleck

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