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Get involved. Whether you're keen to come to perform, participate or just punt, we'd love to hear from you. Whether you've had a couple of novels published, the odd article or are still filling journals at home, the National Young Writers' Festival is open to anyone of any age: we're all about the emerging writing talent of Australia.

Zine Fair Registrations Open
Author(s): Sarah Howell | Posted: Friday Jun 18th, 2010 | Categories: Zines

To register for a full or half table at this year's Sunday Zine Fair email Susy Pow at zinefair.nywf@gmail.com

YYWMP Wants You, Needs You! Always.
Author(s): Amy Ingram | Posted: Sunday Sep 6th, 2009 | Categories: Fun!

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

GET AMONGST IT! NYWF SEEKING YOUNG WRITERS ( THATS YOU! )

Like writing?  Like poetry or spoken word, zines or comics?  Think you might have what it takes to be the next hot young thing in the Australian Literary Scene? If only you knew where to start off or had someone to talk to about how awesome you are?

Well then you are in luck my young squires as The National Young Writers Festival is putting a call out to younger writers aged between 16 and 20 to be apart of our Younger Writers Mentorship Program.

Once accepted NYWF with find you a super hot mentor for duration of the festival, (1st-5th October) who will then meet, talk and nut out what it is that you love about writing and where you want to go with your potential writing career.

There will also be specific programs in the festival designed for you to go along to and maybe pick up a few hot skills on the way.  Your mentor will also help you tailor a NYWF experience that will best suit you.

So if you keen to get involved and be exposed to one of the biggest emerging writers festivals in the country then simply email us your details ( name, age, address etc) including up to a 1-page summary about who you are/what you do and why you want you be involved. If you have any previous work you have done then shoot that on through as well…the better we get to know you the better we can find the right mentor for you!

So what are you waiting for? Email youngerwriters.nywf@gmail .com right now to get amongst it all!

 

Writing Opportunities
Author(s): Amy Ingram | Posted: Monday Sep 14th, 2009 | Categories: Grants and Funding

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 for your Submissions!
Author(s): Amy Ingram | Posted: Monday Apr 20th, 2009 | Categories: Fun!

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

Pool at This Is Not Art / National Young Writers' Festival
Author(s): Nicolas Low | Posted: Monday Sep 8th, 2008 | Categories: Web publishing New media

POOL is a new online initiative of the ABC and this year is a feature of the festival.  It’s a free online space for artists to showcase their work and network with others. If you're coming to the festival, it's an excellent place to post your work.

POOL allows you to upload, download, share, remix, find, network, contact, browse, search or merely amble through the wide array of creative works that the festival artists are contributing to the site. Works are licensed with Creative Commons, and when adding content, you can tag it with festival-specific tags (e.g.: electrofringe), helping others to find the things they’re looking for.

Together with the rest of the This Is Not Art festivals, we have partnered with POOL to develop the online community and host the artwork of festival participants both during and in the run up to the festival. Head directly to the This is Not Art category now: www.pool.org.au/content/this_is_not_art, or at the festival itself,  head to the Festival Club where the POOL man can give you an in-person tour.

Join up, add to the buzz, and be a part of the festival before we even arrive in Newcastle.