NWG Inc last 2022 Gathering

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Saturday, 12 November at UNE, 28 George St Parramatta 
3-5 pm Please sign in downstairs 2:50-3:00

Masks please, and no food or drink except bottled water.
We always bring wrapped sweets. No obligation to eat them.

Open Mic – short work or extract
Survey on your suggestions for 2023
*Ekphrastic writing – discussion and exercise
Afterwards, join us at the Woolpack for a quick drink/snack
*Ekphrastic Writing – one among many definitions – “describes or pays tribute to a piece of visual art”.  

Here is an artwork we will include in the exercise: Meandering City by Kathryn Munro

 

 

 

 

ZineWest 2022 Launch and Prizes

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ZineWest 2022, our 16th edition, was launched at the Harry Todd Band Hall on Sunday 16 October on a sunny day in Parramatta. Around 15 writers read from their works, Luke Carman gave his usual amazing response to the writing, prizes were won and raffle tickets drawn. Food featured Sahtein Lebanese Feasts thanks to Sue Chamoun. Carol Amos (NWG Inc President) gave us a quick summation of our twenty years and we celebrated with cake!  Congratulations to all with a special cheer for our visual artists whom we love to publish. Cover image: Kathryn Munro.  Gallery photos here.

You can purchase a copy or two from our shop!

PRIZES AND AWARDS:
Writing: 1st and Best Prose ($400) Danielle Catherine; 2nd ($300) Nic Lesley; 3rd and Best Poem ($200) Peter Cartwright; Highly Commended (Giramondo Titles) J. Marahuyo, Norm Fairbairn, Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan; Editors’ Writing Award  (Australiana by Yumna Kassab) Marion Claire

Art: Best Image ($100) Sandra Borri; Runner-up (Book Award) Erin Macnaught

 

 

ZineWest 2022 Book Awards

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The cash prizes are great but here are some of the terrific Australian titles to be won too as awards – or by luck in the door prizes and giant raffle. All three of these authors once won ZineWest. Joins us on Sunday 16 October for the launch of ZineWest 2022.

 

ZineWest 2022 Launch

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Sahtein Lebanese Feast
Harry Todd Band Hall
NWG Inc 20th Birthday
ZineWest 2022 Launch

All welcome to the launch of our 16th edition of ZineWest.
SUNDAY, 16 October, 2022
10:45 am for brunch (featuring Sahtein Feasts and salad snacks) 
11:15 am Readings, Prizes and Giant Raffle
12:45 pm NWG Inc’s 20th Anniversary Cake

HARRY TODD BAND HALL Jubilee Lane Parramatta
Street Parking. 10-15 minutes walk from Parramatta Station.

ENTRY: $10 includes door prize ticket (Free for primary age and younger)
ZineWest: $15.00 (Contributors first copy $5)

MC: Carol Amos, President NWG Inc
ZW Editor: Sue Crawford
Writing Judge: Luke Carman
Art Judge: Hayley Megan French 

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Writing: 1st $400, 2nd $300, 3rd $200
Highly Commended: Giramondo Titles
Editors’ Pick: Book Award
Art: 1st $100, Runner-up: Book award

Poetry Matters – NWG Inc 10/9/22

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  Saturday, 10 September, 2022, 3-5pm   
 UNE, 28 George Street, Parramatta  
 Please sign in downstairs 2:50-3:05 pm 
 Please note we wear face masks. No food/drink except bottled water .  
 Bi-lingual poet and translator Mihaela Cristescu will get us thinking about poetry and then,  whether you’re a poet or not, we’ll help fix a poem that  needs help and maybe write a limerick. 

 Please bring a poem of your own to read AND/OR one of your favourite poems by someone else and tell us what you value about it. NB Our usual rule is no reading of works not written by the reader! So here’s your chance to break the rule…

 

ZineWest 2022 Art Publication List

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We thank all the art entrants for their range of talented and imaginative work. We wish we had space for more than those listed below. We also thank our Art judge, Hayley Megan French, Curator and Artist Development, Parramatta Artists Studios who sees all the entries and nominates the listed works and the prizes. Prizes will be announced at the October Launch.
 
ZINEWEST 2022 ART LIST 
 
Sandra Borri: Thought Patterns and Falling Apart
 
Mihaela Cristescu: Axis Mundi
 
Erin Macnaught: For the Love of Pizza and Reading on the Train
 

Kathryn Munro:  Eucalyptus Dream and Meandering City

Karla Schindler: The Rainbow Duck and Curious Cat

Michaela Simoni: Lake in the Afternoon

Dannielle Viera: Sanctuary and Freedom

Write a character

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Carol Amos will head up the drama team. Everyone draws a character from a hat. With a bit of information supplied, you write up the character’s story/style and then introduce them to the team. A whodunnit? Find out …
Saturday, 13th August, 3-5 pm at UNE Sydney’s 28 George Street, Parramatta

Please sign in on ground floor (28 George, Parramatta) 2:50-3:05 pm. This will be a masked event!

Plus Open Mic – bring something short to share!

ZineWest 2022 Launch

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Sunday, 16th October

Harry Todd Band Hall, Jubilee Lane, Parramatta 
(Based within Jubilee Park in walking distance from Parramatta Station)

 

 

10:45 am: Morning Tea / Chat

11:15 am – 12:45 pm: Readings, Prizes, Giant Book Raffle 

Entry: $10 includes two door prize tickets and covers venue hire and insurance

ZW22: $15
Contributors: Please collect your first copy at $5 at reception table

MC: Carol Amos, President NWG Inc

Judges: Luke Carman (writing) and Hayley Megan French (art)

 

ZineWest 2022 Publishing List

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Congratulations to the writers who have an entry selected for ZineWest 2022.  (Image: Mihaela Cristescu.) 

ALL entrants are welcome to offer work to our Pop Up Zine 2022, a project where we we can freely discuss reviews and edits. 

 

ZW2022 Publication List

Carly Bertuccio – High Voltage

C.A Broadribb – Fairies

Peter Cartwright – The Bloke Who’d …

Victoria A Cartwright – Life is (my Loom)

Danielle Catherine – Haircuts 1 to 3

Marian Claire – Delay

Danny Draper – No Barrier the Highway

Marie Dustmann – Contacts

Norm Fairbairn – To Die Upon the Sea

Kerstin Ferrol – The Cold Skin that …

Sophie Hall – Roadside Assistance

Myra Koch – Old Man Harold

Ilona Krueger – Cornflower Joy

Harold Legaspi – Fifties

Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan – Eric the Elver

Artelle Lenthall – Wolfie and Son

Nic Lesley – Runs in the Family

Louise Loomes – Paper Man

J. Marahuyo – Before the Rain

Jo Mularczyk – The Final One Hundred

Denise Newton – Tree Huggers

Arna Radovich – Catching Poems

Michaela Simoni – Rear Vision of my Time

Jake Tarasenko – The Better

The Tropics888 – For us to Keep

Paul Traynor – The Submission

Dannielle Viera – Scared Stiff

 

 

Creative Writing with Ariella Van Luyn

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Writing Workshop …
creating memorable scenes in a range of genre including historical fiction.

Saturday, 11 June 3-5 pm
UNE Sydney 28 George Street PARRAMATTA 
Sign in on ground floor 2:45-3:00 pm
$5 entry with door prize
NB This is a masked event.

 

 Dr Ariella Van Luyn is a lecturer in writing at UNE Sydney. She is the author of the historical novel Treading Air (Affirm Press) and her short stories have been published in international and Australian journals including Voiceworks, Overland, Southerly and The Lifted Brow. Her areas of research are Creative writing, Practice-led research, Online writing pedagogy, Historical fiction. See more of her bio here.

Q&A with Ariella Van Luyn