ZineWest 2020 – Award List

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  • 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

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 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.

Getting published …

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Planning your writing in 2021? We consulted our ZineWest colleague, Jo Mularczyk, who has been published in a variety of journals, print and online.
The sources Jo uses to find submission calls include Australian Writers’ Centre, Writing NSW, WOW (Women in Writing) and Buzz Words (for children’s writers). “It is worth following publishers and magazines on social media or joining a facebook group for the specific genre you are interested in. Another tip is to follow the social media pages of other emerging authors so you can learn where they are being published. I often enter competitions which offer placement in an anthology or magazine.” 

We’ve picked three of Jo’s suggestions for you to explore if you wish. NB These are not recommendations, however – always check for yourself! We will add more on FB.

AUSSIE SPECULATIVE FICTION – Australian/New Zealand   “… a community of Australian readers and writers of speculative fiction, particularly aimed at supporting Indie writers.”

FICTION FACTORY – Uk based, open to international writers using English. Current short story up to 3000 words closes 30th November, 2020 

BOORANGA Writers Centre fourW Anthology  Australian and International
Associated prizes: Best Story, Best Poem.  Entries due 30 June. This is a very popular and established anthology and competition. (Charles Sturt University)

 

 

 

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 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

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

Lake Parramatta

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 Art

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With guidance from our art  judge, Sophia Kouyoumdjian, Parramatta Artists Studios, the following artworks have been selected for ZineWest 2020. They are all eligible for the Best Image Award. We appreciate the support of every entrant. In no particular order:

Carol Amos – Bicycles
Paul Azize – Minimalism
Sandra Borri – Salmon Sunset
C.A. Broadribb – Stairs at La Perouse
Mihaela Cristescu – Spiral Steps and New Old and Blue in Parramatta
Erin Macnaught – Lady Bug
Angela-Ana Pavlovic – Eye of the Day and Morning Commute
Marina Robins – Flowers
Michaela Simoni – Selphie
Dannielle Viera – Blue Reflections

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