We have extended the due date for art and photographs of Parramatta – city and LGA – to 30th September. (Writing entries are now closed.)
Writing Parramatta 2021 Entry Form
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ZineWest 2021 Launch
Elizabeth Chang, Art Judge, and Luke Carman, Writing Judge: Fifteenth edition of ZineWest
Zoom: Saturday, 16th October, 2021, 3-5pm – details below.
AWARDS – winners are not notified prior to the launch.
Writing:
A generous supporter has donated cash prizes for 2nd & 3rd place.
A generous supporter has donated cash prizes for 2nd & 3rd place.
- First Place = $400 (Co-sponsor Writing & Society Research Centre WSU)
- Second Place = $300 (Private donor)
- Third Place = $200 (Private donor)
- Highly commended writers will receive book awards (Giramondo, Sweatshop, private donors)
- Editor’s Award: Book prize (Giramondo)
Images
- Best Image = $100 (private donor)
- Runners up = Book prizes
NB Award winners are not notified prior to the launch.
LAUNCH DETAILS – Zoom link available early October.
- Opening: Carol Amos, President NWG Inc
- Artwork – Comments and awards: Liz Chang
- Writing – Comments and awards: Luke Carman
- Readings
- Editors’ writing award
Free entry. Copies: $15. Sales online due to Covid.
Contributors’ first copies are free, but we will need to recoup postage.
ZineWest 2021 is part of the Writing Parramatta 2021 project which has been supported by a City of Parramatta Creative Economy Grant.
Felicity Castagna
Publishing Workshop with Felicity CastagnaZoom
7th August, 2021, 3-5 pm
7th August, 2021, 3-5 pm
More info contact
“Felicity Castagna is a Lecturer in Creative Writing at the Writing and Society Research Centre, Western Sydney University. She publishes essays on home, suburbia, site-responsive art making and Australian literature and has a particular interest in collaborative and community- based art practice as well as the methodology of teaching creative practice. Her creative non-fiction and critical responses to literature and art are published both here and internationally on platforms such as The Sydney Review of Books, Electric Literature, LitHub, The Griffith Review and ABC radio and television.
Writing Parramatta 2021
We are looking for your stories, memories and images of Parramatta, CBD and LGA, for online publication. You need to be 16 years or over and have a strong connection to Parramatta. Due 31st August. ENTRY FORM
Jim Taggart and Darryn Capes-Davis on Spotlight Alive 90.5 Radio on 7th July 2021
about Writing Parramatta 2021 Thanks for spreading the word!
ZineWest 2021 Publication List
Thank you to all the writers who sent work. Some entries needed a little more editing than our rules allow, but they matched the competition standard of energy, ideas and desire to communicate. If you entered this competition and have not received an email, please let us know. The launch will be in October, details to be finalised. Prizes are announced at the launch. Judge is Luke Carman.
ZineWest 2021 has been supported by a City of Parramatta Council Creative Economy Grant.
Don’t forget we are looking for Art Entries! Due 11th July.
ZW21 Publication List
Raqiya AHMED “Let Go and Give”
C.A. BROADRIBB “Three Good Whiffs”
Katelyn BRUNNER “Creative Writing Class: A Guide…”
Peter CARTWRIGHT “The Time”
Victoria CARTWRIGHT “Landing Station”
Neil COLLIS “Villanella”
Marie DUSTMANN “Mystery Birds”
Norm FAIRBAIRN “On the Lake”
Nix HAMILTON “Obviously Dead”
Alicia JONES “Covid Haiku”
Matilda HART “Meat Market/Modern Love”
Lisel HERRMANN “Associations with Parramatta”
Myra KOCH “Piano for Sale”
Ilona KRUEGER “Beyond the Grim Mash”
Harold LEGASPI “Kabayo”
Artelle LENTHALL “The Making of Bella Pappas”
Louise LOOMES “Mrs Kin Goes to Church”
Jo MULARCZYK “Lies of Love”
Amanda NASSIF “A Crack in the Parramatta Sky”
Denise NEWTON “Justice”
Katharine POLLOCK “Girl Talk”
Arna RADOVICH “Meeting Magda”
Christopher SAMMUT “Breathe”
Pete SHMIGEL “Geronimo’s Day Break”
Akshaya SIVAKUMAR “Kolam”
Geneva VALEK “The Rat”
Dannielle VIERA “Stockings, Stings and Sympathy”
ZineWest 21 Art
Liz Chang is our art judge for ZineWest! Your entries are due 11th July, 2021. ZW21ArtEntryForm
We love artworks in our annual ZineWest publication and look forward to your entries.
You are eligible if 16 years and over with a strong connection to Western Sydney.
Best Image $100 plus book awards
More details see ZineWest page
Liz Chang is Curator and Artist Development at Parramatta Artists’ Studios (PAS) and has years of experience working in Western Sydney. She specialises in commissioning new works for unconventional exhibition spaces and developing meaningful engagement programs for artists and communities. Notable projects include the inaugural Movers and Makers and permanent public art projects in Shanghai, Shenzhen and Chengdu, China.
She was previously Curator at Urban Art Projects, Shanghai; Programs Officer at PAS and worked at the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Lindy Lee Studio.
Second City
SECOND CITY
is a collection of essays by Western Sydney writers published by the Sydney Review of Books, from the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University, and edited by Luke Carman and Catriona Menzies-Pike.
In the introductory essay, On Agon in The Area, Luke Carman speaks of the tides of critical interest in literature from the Western suburbs of Sydney, what we judge as cliche, what is received as memorable, and the people who help fund the future riches of talent. Among the new and diverse voices of Western Sydney,
“…other unexpected outbreaks in the literary landscape occur on a regular basis; the postmodern poet Mihaela Cristescu, for instance, continues to publish her never-ending Romanian-Australian series of anthologies, marrying the English works of writers from Western Sydney, to Romanian writers in a truly unexpected poly-lingual bond, celebrated every year at the State Library, with all the fanfare and passionate solemnity of an offer to Apollo.”
Mihaela Cristescu (Secretary NWG Inc) is at Code-Mixing Poetry. Her latest Rom/Aus anthology is 9000 Miles Away co-edited by S.E Crawford and supported by NEW Writers Group Inc and the State Library of NSW. Her latest poetry collection is The Way You Dare – See Luke Carman’s Review
Luke Carman Workshop
Saturday, 1st May 3:00-5:00 pm Creative Writing with author and academic Luke Carman. Email for a Zoom link. This is a Writing Parramatta 2021 event supported by a City of Parramatta Creative Economy Grant.
Luke will comment on a few pieces by attendees as part of the workshop. You are welcome to send a short work or excerpt of your original writing (max 800 words prose or one poem) to our email address, see above, by 24th April. (Don’t send work you intend to submit to ZineWest 2021 – Luke is the judge!).
Open Mic on Zoom
SATURDAY, 24th APRIL, 2021, 3-4:30 PM – ZOOM
- 2 mins of your original work
- free entry
- No sermons, no politics, no props, no pets
- 16 years and over
- We begin with intros, audio/visual checks, so everyone is off to an equal start
- You keep a score card on the other contestants to cast a vote for the winner
- Our judges also announce a winner
- You don’t need to be a contestant to attend
- Prizes are chapbooks or anthologies by Australian writers
ZOOM LINK AVAILABLE FROM
ZineWest 2021
2021 marks our fifteenth year of publishing new writers from Western Sydney. Contributors include people who live, work or study in WS and also people who belong to a WS cultural organisation. We include around 30 writers in the print zine. You need to be 16 years or over and your entries not previously published in hard copy or online.
WRITING ENTRY FORM Entries due 16th May, 2021 1st = $400 plus book awards
ART ENTRY FORM Entries due 11th July, 1st = $100 plus book award
We also publish around ten visual artists with a connection to Western Sydney. Work is still eligible if previously published but not if won an award.)
ZineWest 2021 is supported by a City of Parramatta Creative Economy Grant.
