Writers' News
Poetry Unleashed Festival 2010
Keep September 3-12 free to take part in the City of Onkaparinga’s Poetry Unleashed Festival. There will be events praising poetry and teasing the senses.
These include Candles, Wine and Classics at the Leconfield Winery, Poets and Pizza at the Coriole Vineyards, The Great Debate: Poetry Sux? at the Noarlunga Arts centre, a Spoken Word Competition at the Singing Gallery, McLaren Vale, Poets on Parade: Poets in Schools, the Friendly Street Poets Southern Meeting, a Youth Awards Night, a Speed Poetry Assessment.
There are also five written word competitions – Adrian Kavanagh Award, Open Poetry competition, Single Collection of Poetry competition, Spoken Word competition and the Young Persons’ Poetry Competition (details on page 11), plus the Poetry Unleashed Competition Awards Ceremony.
The Poetry Unleashed Launch is on Sunday, 1 August at the Arts Centre, Port Noarlunga at 2pm – no need to book, it’s free.
More details will be coming in next month’s Southern Write or you can visit the Poetry Unleashed website at www.onkaparingacity.com/poetryunleashed
Young Writers' Night - North
Student places for the second of our Young Writers' Nights at Salisbury East on Wednesday, 1 September are filling fast. Please note that the Salisbury Writers’ Festival Program has incorrectly listed the date as August 30.
Our third Young Writers' Night for 2010 will be held on Tuesday, 19 October at Noarlunga Downs. If you're interested in a young writer and their family coming to either of these events, please contact the SA Writers' Centre on 8223 7662.
Salisbury Writers' Festival 2010
The fifth annual Salisbury Writers' Festival returns to the City of Salisbury from August 27 – September 5 2010, proudly presented in partnership with the SA Writers' Centre and the Salisbury Library Service. The Festival program provides a series of presentations and workshops for the literary enthusiast, across a variety of genres.
As in past years, on the Saturday we’re bringing publishers together with writers to talk about how to get your work out to readers. We will also provide an opportunity to submit your first page to four of the publishers.
This year our special guests include: Beverley Cousins, Associate Publisher of fiction at Random House Australia; Erica Wagner, Children’s Publisher at Allen and Unwin; Michael Bollen from Wakefield Press; Stephen Matthews from Ginninderra Press; and Angelo Loukakis, the Executive Director of the Australian Society of Authors.
To whet your appetite, here are a couple of publishers’ biographies:
Before moving to Australia with her family in 2007, Beverley Cousins had twenty years’ experience of London publishing (first for Pan Macmillan and then Penguin Books UK). Following a year’s secondment with Penguin in Melbourne, she moved to Random House Australia as Associate Publisher for fiction. During her career, she has published a number of brand-name authors, including Minette Walters, Colin Dexter and Janet Evanovich, and currently looks after bestselling authors Judy Nunn and Susan Duncan, among others.
Erica Wagner has worked with books for most of her life, first as a bookseller, then as an editor and publisher. She was with Penguin Books for ten years before starting up a children’s list for Duffy & Snellgrove in 1999. That same year she was awarded the Beatrice Davis Editorial Fellowship and spent three months working with a variety of publishers in the US. She has been Publisher – Books for Children & Teenagers at Allen & Unwin since 2000.
The following successful local authors will provide tips for success based on their own experience in this industry: Helen Halstead (fiction), Lolo Houbein (nonfiction), Christine Harris (children’s books) and Jude Aquilina (poetry and short stories).
There will be panels, small break-out sessions and on the Sunday a chance to workshop your writing with poet Mike Ladd, Patrick Allington (editing your work) and Katrina Germein (Children’s Picture Books).
The Salisbury Writers' Festival Program can be found at
http://cweb.salisbury.sa.gov.au/manifest/servlet/page?pg=17553&stypen=html
SAWC's 25th Anniversary Celebration
Sean Williams & Garth Nix
Come along for a three-course dinner in honour of the SAWC’s 25th Anniversary and listen to our special guest speakers – Garth Nix and Sean Williams in
Conversation – with music by Blind Mary. Join us for an evening of celebration at Jolleys Boathouse Restaurant on Thursday July 29. Bookings essential. Tickets $70 per head from the SA Writers’ Centre.
Happy Birthday, Max!
Max Fatchen, the SA Writers’ Centre inaugural Life Member, will be celebrating his 90th this month. Max started his writing career as a copy boy and later became a journalist with The Advertiser. His novels have been published widely overseas, along with his poetry. Max received the Order of Australia in 1980, the Advance Australia Award for literature in 1991 and the Walkley Award for journalism in 1996.
Many happy returns, Max!
The SA Writers' Centre is assisted by the South Australian Government through Arts SA, and the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory bodies.