Category Archives: ZineWest

ZineWest is a print zine and competition for Western Sydney Writers run by New Writers’ Group Inc

ZineWest 21 Art

Posted on by
Reply

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.

Luke Carman Workshop

Posted on by
2

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!).

ZineWest 2021

Posted on by
Reply

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.

Writing Parramatta 2021

Posted on by
Reply

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.

ZineWest 2020 – Award List

Posted on by
Reply
  • Back Cover Image: Angela-Ana Pavlovic
  • Front Cover Image: Michaela Simoni

Congratulations to all our contributors for putting together another memorable collection of writing and art from Western Sydney. The award winners are:

ART AWARDS – JUDGE, SOPHIA KOUYOUMDJIAN, Director of Parramatta Artists Studios

Best Image: $100 – Erin Macnaught 
Runner-up: Giramondo title – Marina Robins

WRITING AWARDS – JUDGE, LUKE CARMAN, Author and lecturer WSU

1st Prize $400 – Arna Radovich for Last Breath 
2nd Prize $300 – Louise Loomes for The Still Point
3rd Prize $200 – Matilda Hart for Magic Deck

Highly Commended: Awards – Giramondo titles
Peter Cartwright for Bi@19
Erin Middleton for My Body Stands in the Mirror
Dorian Stoilescu for The Insomnias of Summer

Editor’s Award: Giramondo Title – Raqiya Ahmed for Colour the Crescent

ZineWest Shop

Posted on by
Reply

 Thanks to everyone who has used our NEW SHOP to purchase copies of ZineWest 2020. Please order very soon if you want a copy in time for the launch on Saturday 28th November. Any delivery issues please let us know. ZW2020 sells for $15 plus postage. Contributors’ first copy is free plus $5 for posting.

ZineWest 2020 Launch

Posted on by
Reply

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 plus postage


For five or more copies ask for a postage quote:


Order at our Shop 

ZINE Items availablePRICE
1 Free copy $5 (postage)
1 Free copy + 1 bought $15$20 (includes $5 postage)
Two bought @$15$35 (includes $5 postage)

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

ZineWest 2020 Publication List

Posted on by
Reply

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art for ZineWest 2020

Posted on by
Reply

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

Posted on by
Reply

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