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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

Art for ZineWest 2020

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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

ZineWest 2020 – due 10 May

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ZineWest 2020 is OPEN!  ZineWest is an annual competition and  journal for new writers, 16 years and over, with a strong Western Sydney connection. We welcome any word-based creative work we can reproduce. (NB but this year we are declining work written for the under 16’s.) Free entry, up to three pieces. Deadline is 10 May, 2020. WritingEntryForm_ZW2020

This is our fourteenth year. A good number of our past entrants have graduated to trade publication and we hope the same for all writers who entrust their work to us. We print publish around 30 writers and ten visual artists, plus a further ten writers are invited to present their work at an Open Mic comp. We welcome a range of styles and subjects. ZW is a good place for those shorter works not necessarily suited to a bigger competition. All works selected for print publication are forwarded to the judge, Luke Carman (An Elegant Young Man, Intimate Antipathies). Prizes include $400 (first place) and Giramondo Titles. We look forward to reading your work! NB The art entry form will be available in May.

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ZineWest 2019 PDF

ZineWest 2019 Comp results

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Writing Awards from Left: Rob Field (Director UNE Sydney, Nic Lesley (HC), Danielle Catherine (HC), Peter Cartwright (Best Poem), Alexander Donoghue (3rd Place), Hamish Spark (2nd Place), Naima Ibrahim (Winner of ZW19), Luke Carman (Judge).

Co-sponsor Writing awards the Writing and Society Research Centre WSU ; Art: private sponsors; ZW Word: private sponsor and SWEATSHOP

For full pdf see ZineWest Page plus two winning artworks

Editor’s Award was won by Laila Nawsheen. The prize was Yumna Kassab’s story collection The House of Youssef, (Giramondo) and presented by the author on left.

.ZWWord – Open Mic awards: From Left Carol Amos (NWG Inc Pres), Sue Crawford (ed ZW), Michaela Simoni (joint runner-up) Chris Winspear (joint runner-up) Kathryn Yuen (winner) Judges Annie Zhang and Jason Gray. Private sponsor and SWEATSHOP

Winners of ZW Word 19

ZW19 Art Awards: From left – Art Contributors Erin Macnaught, C.A. Broadribb and Michaela Simoni stood in for winner of Best Image Marina Robins and runner-up Tom Blake both unavoidably absent. On the right is Parramatta author Felicity Castagna and Rob Field UNE Sydney who did the honours!
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ZineWest 2019 launch

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SATURDAY 12 OCTOBER AT UNE SYDNEY
232 CHURCH STREET PARRAMATTA

ZW18Writing winner Annie XY Zhang

PRINT ZINE LAUNCH:
$10 Entry includes door prize and entry to ZW WORD
Zines @12 (contributors get first copy free)

11:30 am: Light lunch featuring Sahtein Lebanese Feasts

12 Noon – 1:30 ish …

  • Address by Rob Field, Director of UNE Sydney
  • Readings
  • Prizes with Luke Carman (writing) and Sophia Kouyoumdjian (art)
    Co-sponsor for writing awards: the Writing and Society Research Centre WSU $400 1st Prize plus Giramondo Titles. Art prize $100 (private donor)
  • More Readings
  • Editors’ Award
  • Music with Fernando Andres and Victor Valdes
  • GIANT RAFFLE
    followed by

ZW WORD!
Entry $2 (unless you paid for the print zine launch)

Loredana Tudor-Tomescu – Winner ZW WORD 2018

2:00 pm Nibbles/drinks – sign on for Open Mic
2:15 – 3:30 pm

  • MUSIC – Fernando Andres and Victor Valdes
  • GUEST WRITERS
  • OPEN MIC –  Win $100 & SWEATSHOP Titles
    Judges: Jason Gray and Annie Zhang
  • Rules: 2 mins only; solo; your original work; english only; no music, dance or props; preferably no rants/lectures!

Luke Carman at UNE Sydney

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Group photo: Luke Carman creative writing workshop at UNE Sydney, 6th July, 2019

Luke Carman talked about his latest book Intimate Antipathies, Giramondo Publishing. He used samples of writing from five local writers to give individual feedback and to motivate the group to “see again” what more they can bring to their work. Luke is writing judge of ZineWest and every year helps launch the Romanian/Australian Anthologies of our NWG Inc Secretary Mihaela Cristescu – who we can thank for the photos. Below are some random pics… And thanks to our venue UNE Sydney !

  • Mihaela Cristescu
  • Door Prize 1
  • Door Prize 2

ZineWest ’19 Art due 1st July

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Publish your visual art in a Western Sydney zine!

The writing entries are in, and it’s time to invite artists with a connection to Western Sydney to send us images for inclusion in our annual print zine. There is a prize of $100 for the Best Image. We aim to publish work by at least 10 visual artists.Our Judge (who sees all entries) is Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Director Parramatta Artists Studios. ArtEntryForm_ZW19 

Launch is 12th October, at UNE Sydney 232 Church Street, Parramatta

Img: L. Marsden

ZineWest 2019 due 27th April

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Over the last twelve years, ZineWest has published around 360 short works by Western Sydney writers. You are most welcome to enter this year’s competition if you live, work, study or attend a local cultural org in Western Sydney; are 16 years or over; and haven’t yet been professionally published except in multi-author journals. Entry is free, you can offer up to three pieces, and since this is a niche comp you have an excellent chance of either being print published in the zine, or applauded at ZW Word which follows the zine launch. Entries must be your original work, not previously published in print or on-line, and not previously received an award. (ZW18 Cover Image : L. Marsden)

We are interested in all word-based work – anything we can reproduce in an A5 zine.You can discover what we’ve previously picked by looking at the ZineWest Page (includes ZW18 Judge’s commentary, YouTube link and launch photos) and the Ezine Page (Page numbers for ZW18 winning works in zine PDF). 

All pieces selected by the editors for publication (notification in early June) are sent to our judge, Dr Luke Carman, who decides  on the prizes:  1st = $400, 2nd and 3rd = Giramondo Titles, plus commendations. There is $100 cash prize for ZW WORD too. 

Are you also a visual artist? We will post the Art Entry form in May. 

Many thanks to our writing co-sponsor

Writing and Society Research Centre (WSU)