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Hello fine people!

As you would all be aware of NYWF is upon us! This year we have a program called The Younger Young Writers Mentorship Program (YYWMP)  which we are all pretty stoked about. The aim of which is to make sure young peeps stay/become engaged with the festival and that NYWF doesn't age as we get old, decrepit and start wanting to eat soup soup and more soup. ( not that that will ever happen to us!)

Ahead of the program release, I can officially announce that we have a younger writers program, which includes events that are aimed specifically at encouraging younger writers along with the rest of the regular crew.

The program is basically hooking up young writers and artists from the age of 16-20 with a mentor who helps tailor a festival experience specific for them. For example what events they should go and see, who they should try to meet that will help them in their future arts practice.

We are looking for a group of HOT mentors to t-up with a mentee or two during the festival. The commitment is actually quite minimal, an initial meet and greet, attending an event or two and a chat over a coffee or a burger where you get to know each other and work out what they want to get out of their arts practice.

If you are an artist this year, have been previously or are simply attending the festival this year and would like to be involved please shoot me an email at amy.nywf@gmail.com and we will hook you up with your respective mentee. It is an exciting program and we all ready have over a dozen pretty keen young writers  from Newcastle and across Australia looking forward to meeting YOU!

Dib to the Dob

Amy

There are currently a whole bunch of opportunities for writers out there at the moment. Look below for a list of competitions/job opportunities and call outs currently on offer. For more information check out each of the different websites.

Good Luck

• Call for Entries. Environmental Journalism

Australian Museum Eureka Prizes
Awarded to an Australian journalist(s) or communicator(s) whose work is assessed as having most effectively communicated environmental issues to the public.
Prize $10,000
www.australianmuseum.net.au

• Call for Entries. Fiction or Non-Fiction

Scribbli Gum Literary Works
Fiction or non-fiction, any theme, from 200 to 1000 words.
Winning entries will be published on our website.
FICTION - First prize, $100AU
Second prize $50AU
NON-FICTION - First prize $75AU
Second prize - $40AU
www.scribbligum.com

• Call for Entries. Literary Awards

Peter Cowan Writers Centre
Guidelines for entries in the 2009 Julie Lewis Biennial Literary Awards
SHORT STORY: Up to 2000 words
POEM: Up to 50 lines
THEME: Open
AGE LIMIT: Open
ENTRY FEE: $10.00 each entry or 3 entries for $25.00
PRIZES (both sections) 1st: $400; Runner-up: $100; Highly Commended and Commended certificates
CLOSING DATE: 25 September 2009
www.petercowancentre.homestead.com/blog.html

• Call for Entries – Literature Prize

Cottesloe-Peppermint Grove-Mosman Park Library
This Literature Prize is intended to provide an opportunity for people of any age to combine their creativity and local knowledge and contribute to the collective history of the Cottesloe, Peppermint Grove and Mosman Park areas.
Entries may be set in the past or present and styled in the form of prose or poetry. Photographs and other illustrations may be included to enhance the subject.
www.thegrovelibrbary.com

• Call for Entries. Short Story Competition.

Raspberry and Vine
Raspberry & Vine seeks to develop Australia's culture through literature, film and art. We aim to have Australia recognised as a world leader in the arts, and make Australia as rich in culture as Europe.
To encourage new writers, we offer a twice yearly Short Story Competition, and a forum to discuss all things writing.
www.raspberryandvine.com.au

• Call for Entries – Writing Competition.

The Book Abyss
www.thebookabyyss.com.au/writing-competition

• Call for Essays. Published or Unpublished

Black Inc.
The Best Australian Essays 2009
Edited by Robyn Davidson
Please send one essay – recent work only, published or unpublished – to Robyn at the address below.
Previously published work must have been published after 1 August 2008.
Robyn Davidson c/- Black Inc.
www.blackincbooks.com

• Calling all soon to be Journalists

Humanity in conflict - National IHL writing competition for students of journalism
The National IHL writing competition commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Solferino (1859) and the birth of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
Would you like to:
write a feature article of 1000 words? put your research and writing skills to work? investigate a contemporary topic relating to armed conflict and the laws that apply? win cash prizes and be published in a national Red Cross magazine?
www.redcross.org.au

• Literary Award

Allen and Unwin
Do you dream of being a published writer? Enter Australia’s most prestigious award for an unpublished manuscript.
The Australian/Vogel Literary Award offers publication by Allen & Unwin and prize money totalling $20,000.

• Poetry, Critical Prose and Fiction Submissions.

‘Like Poetry [USA], Blast is an upper-echelon affair, born from a philosophy of quality. . . it is an engaging and polished anthology.’ - Australian Book Review
Blast is a sturdy and discerning little literary magazine. Published biannually, it aims to provide space for high quality contemporary Australian poetry and other critical writing. Blast is serious about poetry and the magazine has already built a reputation for publishing poetry of the first rank.
Blast does not set themes. The poems in Blast are varied in subject and form – from traditional through to experimental. In selecting poems for publication we are always convinced by quality.
www.blastpoetry.com

• Self Directed Residency

Sturt Craft Centre invites applications from experienced craft practitioners to the Sturt Artist-in-Residence program. Residencies occur in the disciplines of ceramics, jewellery, textiles, wood, photography and writing.
Four to six residencies occur at Sturt each year. Each Residency includes studio use and provision of accommodation.
www.sturt.nsw.edu.au

• Traval Grants Playwrights

State Exchange
fostering creative relationships across state and territory boundaries
Australia's great size isn't always conducive to great collaborations. Through the state exchange programme, PlayWriting Australia supports artists working across state and territory boundaries by contributing to travel and accommodation expenses.
www.pwa.org.au

 

Thankyou to everyone who submitted for this years Festival, again we have been flooded with expressions of interest and as a whole are very excitied about some of the ideas that have been coming through. We will be contacting everyone who applied very shortly via email so stay tuned to your emails people and BE EXCITED........be VERY excited.

Over and Out.

Amy, Dan and Sarah

Your NYWF Directors