We have extended the due date for art and photographs of Parramatta – city and LGA – to 30th September. (Writing entries are now closed.)
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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.
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
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.
NWG Inc’s Ezine 2021 – Parramatta
We are very happy to announce that our Ezine edition focusing on Parramatta city and suburbs is ready to receive entries. This edition is part of the Writing Parramatta 2021 project supported by a City of Parramatta Creative Economy Grant.
BOOK AWARDS will be announced later in the year for written entries and images.
WritingParramatta2021_EntryForm In brief if you have a strong connection to Parramatta, and are 16 years or older, you are welcome to send us poetry, prose and images that reference the area. Your connection might be as a resident, worker, student or perhaps a frequent visitor. Feel free to contact us (see email on form) if you need clarification.
First round of entries closes 31st May, 2021. The editors look forward to your entries.
Photo: Mihaela Cristescu
Writing Parramatta 2021
NEW Writers Group Inc is grateful for the interest and encouragement shown to Parramatta writers, and to our colleagues in Western Sydney, through the support of our project, Writing Parramatta 2021, by a City of Parramatta Council Creative Economy Grant. More details soon. Carol Amos, President NWG Inc.
NWG Inc Members’ Anthology 2020
We are delighted to bring together members of NWG Inc and friends in a 2020 Anthology. Due to a very tight budget this year, C.A. Broadribb has prepared a zine similar to past printed editions that is available as a free pdf. NWG Inc Anthology 2020 will be uploaded to the National Library of Australia as part of our ISSN 2201-2699 series. There will be readings from the anthology at a zoom meeting on Saturday, 12 December. Contact us if you’d like to attend. The pdf will be moved to the ezine shortly. Cover image by Dannielle Viera.
