Cover Image: L. Marsden

All welcome Bring your friends and family!
ZW18 Print zine launch and after, ZW Word… Saturday 13th October
UNE Sydney,  232 Church Street, Parramatta.
Launch: 11:30 am finger food  and group photo
Noon – 1:30 pm: Readings, prizes, giant raffle
Entry: $10. Zines: $10 (Contributors get one free)
Prizes announced at the launch – no warning!
Writing: 1st = $400, 2nd and 3rd = Giramondo titles (NWG Inc’s co-sponsor is the Writing and Society Research Centre, WSU.
Art: 1st = $100; plus Runner-up (private donors)
ZW Word 2:00 pm Win $100 for three minutes work! – Details below

Launch speaker: Rob Field, director UNE Sydney; Hosts: Carol Amos, Pres of NWG Inc, and her committee; Co-ord: Sue Crawford (ed. ZW); Judges: Luke Carman (writing), Sophia Kouyoumdjian (images); ZW WORD MC: Adam Marsden; ZW Word judges: Jason Gray, Kate Brown; Guest musician: Fernando Andres.

ZW Word’s Open Mic is a friendly hour of spoken word which follows the launch at 2:15. If you have time (or know someone else who likes a turn at the mic) sign up at 2:00 pm
1st=$100 (private donor) Runner-up awards = Titles from SWEATSHOP
ZW Word rules: English only, solo only, no props/singing/dancing, no lectures, all your own work, 16 years and over,THREE minutes only…
GUEST MUSICIAN: FERNANDO ANDRES
$2 entry if you haven’t already paid $10 to attend the launch.
NOTE: at both events primary school children are free entry but content is suited to 16 years and over.

See you there!

It is a wonderful challenge to select a publication list for ZineWest. Some pieces that did not go on the list had verve and relevance, so as always we hope those writers will present their entries at ZineWest WORD which follows the print zine launch – details below. But first the list:

ZINEWEST PUBLICATION LIST 2018
(32 writers)
Frances Gia Phung An – Using The Toilet
C.A. Broadribb – Moon, Peace, Between
Kate Brown – Share If You Agree
Peter Cartwright – The Twenty Year Affair
Victoria Cartwright – Fresh
Danielle Catherine – Murder in a Westfield Parramatta Cinema
Lindy Courtney – The Masterpiece
Terry Dingwall – Photos
Danny Draper – Was That You
Alexander Donoghue – Shoal Craft
Robert Dunn – Sunkissed
Eric Esber – Yesterday
Norm Fairbairn – Just One Time
Fayroze – Let’s Start Again
Damian Fedele – Western Arguments
Michele Freeman – I Guess You Call Us Westies
Sian Furniss – Him
Jason Gray – Bad, Boy + Honor
Nix Hamilton – Unbearable Tunes
Lisel Herrmann – Snowflakes
Wafa Kulsoom Khan – The Plan
Sime Knezevic – Airflow
Morgana Ladrina – Haunted Ontologies of Desire
Peter Lewis – The Reassignment
Zena Maghchouch – The War Within
Jo Mularczyk – The Day the Technology Stopped
Kathryn Neto – Extrude
Paul O’Loughlin – Focus
Michaela Simoni – The Closing Ceremony
Dannielle Viera – The Tree
Dona Samson Zappone – Grandma’s Lament
Annie XY Zhang – A Bush Barely Burning

ZINEWEST LAUNCH SATURDAY, 13th OCTOBER
UNE Sydney, 232 Church Street, Parramatta
(opposite campus reception at 211)
11:30 am Finger food, drinks
Noon-1:30 pm Readings Prizes Giant Raffle
Chat, more food, photos…
Entry: $10; Zine: $10. Copies can be mailed – small postage fee applies.
We hope to offer first copy free to all writers and artists included in the zine.

ZW WORD follows at 2:15 pm with some great pieces!
Invite your friends to go in the Open mic or try it yourself…
$2 entry unless you’ve already paid for launch entry