Category Archives: Prose

ZineWest 2020 Launch

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Launch date for ZW2020, Saturday 28 November, 11 am on Zoom

Program: Writing and Art awards plus readings and Luke Carman’s report! 
Launch will finish around 12:30 pm
Prizes – Writing: Judge Luke Carman
1st Prize is as previously stated  $400
Due to a generous donor we now have cash prizes for 2nd: $300 and 3rd: $200 
This means we can offer Giramondo titles to the highly commended writers

Best Prose and Best Poem – certificates
Editor’s award – Giramondo title

Prizes – Art: Judge Sophia Kouyoumdjian
Best Image: $100, runner-up: Book
NB We don’t advise awards ahead of the launch.

Obtaining your ZW2020 copies $15
Contributors’ first copy is free 

Your free copy and purchased copies can be obtained from 10th November at this website using direct deposit or paypal/credit card. 

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1 Free copy $5
1 Free copy + 1 bought $15$20 (includes $5 postage)
1 Free copy + 2 bought $30$40 (includes $10 postage sent as two parcels)
More copies contact us re postage cost

Cover images: Front: Michaela Simoni  Back: Angela-Ana Pavlovic

What we’re publishing atm

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ZineWest 2020 will soon go to the printers, and in September we gather works for our in-house anthology from NWG Inc members and Western Sydney colleagues. Pop Up Zine takes a break with two exceptions:

Haiku: we’d like to see more from Western Sydney writers – but all Australians welcome. Send up to ten and we select up to five. Haiku Entry Form

Reflections on childhood stories: Your brief adult reflection (500 words max) on a story of your childhood that had lasting impact. Artelle Lenthall has started us with a positive comment but we expect a range of responses. Artelle has also supplied an illustration but we usually assign a random, peaceful image.) PUZ Entry Form

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Members’ Anthology 2020

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Our 2020 Members Anthology is now open! Since 2005 we have published a print anthology, but finances are tighter in this Covid-19 year and we will publish the digital file only. However, it does mean we can have colour images throughout, not just on the cover. NB All our zines are uploaded to National Edeposit.

Free entry for members; $10 admin fee for invited non-members.
We are looking for short prose (up to 800 words) poems (up to 60 lines) Short drama or comic/cartoon are welcome also. Plus we include focused images that reproduce well on an A5 page.

 

For more details
NWGAnthoEntryForm_2020

Due date is 30 September, 2020
Editors: C. A. Broadribb; S.E. Crawford

Image – Last year’s cover
Image by Dannielle Viera

 

 

WARRANT Magazine

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Introducing WARRANT MAGAZINE and its founder, Holly Blackmore 

Holly Blackmore is a “weaver of words and experience”. She founded Warrant Magazine  as a sustainable and accessible platform for young AUS/NZ creatives over two years ago.

NEW Writers Group Inc and Code-Mixing Poetry shared a table with Holly and Warrant at the  2019  MCA Zine Fair in Sydney. Today, ZineWest editor, Sue Crawford, is catching up with a few leading questions…

As “a community of conscious travelers and creatives” what do you and your contributors most want from WARRANT?

The central purpose of WARRANT is to form a community of young creatives across Australia and New Zealand. There is so much depth, variety and raw talent to be discovered in our own backyard. Collectively, I think we want to explore how to make sense of an evolving world through creative means. Employing artistic mediums to connect with ourselves and one another. READ MORE

ZineWest 2020 Publication List

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We are delighted to advise that after the usual tussle the ZW team selected 29 works for ZW2020. We are always short on space and hope to hear more entries read at ZW WORD following the print zine launch. All the pieces below are seen by the judge, Dr. Luke Carman. His award decisions are announced at the launch. (Due to Covid we are waiting on a date.) 

Congratulations to the writers listed: 
Raqiya Ahmed – Colour the Crescent
Shobna Arumugam – King of Kings
C.A. Broadribb – Whoever’s Counting Has to be Loud
Katelyn Brunner – Eighteen
Peter Cartwright – Bi@19
Dianne Cikusa – An Ending and a Beginning
Neil Collis – Sanctuary
Danny Draper – Open Road
Marie Dustmann – Shape-shifting
Norm Fairbairn – To My Father’s House They Came
Matilda Hart – Magic Deck
Lisel Herrmann – A Day that Sparkled and Shone
Smaranda Kafka – The Perfect Candidate
Myra Koch – Bench on the Beach
Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan – Witch Sliver
Louise Loomes – The Still Point
Ana Rose – Two-Way Window
Erin Middleton – My Body Stands in the Mirror
Alison Miller – Drooping Rose
Jo Mularczyk – Behind the Veil
Denise Newton – In the Pool
May Ngo – Edouard Louis
Anastasia Pavlovic – In Search of Sanctuary
Arna Radovich – Last Breath
Christopher Sammut – Rats
Michaela Simoni – A New Canvas
Nathan Smith – The New Frontier of Literature
Dorian Stoilescu – The Insomnias of Summer
Dannielle Viera – The Ring

ZineWest 2020 Selection Team: S.E. Crawford, Mihaela Cristescu, Rob Dunn, Lyn Leerson (FAW), Jacqui de Staic, Ruth Wyer . Comp Secretary: Carol Amos

 

 

 

 

 

 

NWG Inc gatherings online

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  Next NWG Inc  Zoom Gatherings are Saturdays 13 and 27 June. We will schedule one at 3pm and one at 4pm. (Free zoom meetings last 40 minutes) Financial members will be emailed but any Sydney writer 16 years or over is welcome to ask for an invitation. Short readings from your original works plus a discussion on authenticity. We usually believe we’re genuine, but how do we convince the reader/listener … Chaired by Carol Amos

NWG Inc’s Pres. Carol Amos at UNE Sydney

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art for ZineWest 2020

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ArtEntryForm_ZW2020
ZineWest loves to include art from creatives (with a Western Sydney connection) in the print zine.  Unlike the writing entries, art can be previously published or exhibited (but not won a prize). Created in the last 18 months and suitable for an A5 (Portrait) digitally printed zine. Free entry, offer up to 3 works, first prize: $100 Judge sees all entries.

Due Date: 5 July  Our printer asks for 300 dpi please.
See below the winning image by Marina Robins in ZineWest 2019. Go to ZineWest Page for pdf of full zine 

ZW19 Best Image Award

Flowers in Wax – Marina Robins

 

 

 

 

 

 

ZineWest – Our Judge

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Our ZineWest judge is author and lecturer Dr Luke Carman. All the entries selected for publication by the NWG Inc panel are forwarded to Luke who nominates the following prizes: 1st $400; 2nd and 3rd Giramondo titles; Best poem, Best prose, Highly Commendeds. Read Luke’s commentary from last year in pdf format ZW19_Judge’sReview_LukeCarman

ENTRY FORM ZW2020

Co-Sponsor of writing prizes is the Writing and Society Research Centre, WSU.

Luke Carman ZW19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ZineWest 2020 due 10 May

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We hope your are enduring this tough period and that you have time to send us your wonderful short works – poetry prose cartoon/comic. Due date: 10th May See ENTRY FORM for eligibility, word limits and prize details!  If you click on ZineWest in the menu you can find  pdfs of earlier editions. Co-sponsored by Writing and Society Research Centre WSU

Writing in all Circumstances

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Corona’s difficult challenge timed with our annual reflection on writing in all circumstances. In our POP UP ZINE we hope to publish a lovely motley of pieces: humour, people’s useful opinions on other people’s writing, timely poems, images from nature … We have started with Mihaela Cristescu’s poem From Upstairs The opening stanza seemed a good place to start.