Carol Amos will head up the drama team. Everyone draws a character from a hat. With a bit of information supplied, you write up the character’s story/style and then introduce them to the team. A whodunnit? Find out …
Saturday, 13th August, 3-5 pm at UNE Sydney’s 28 George Street, Parramatta
Please sign in on ground floor (28 George, Parramatta) 2:50-3:05 pm. This will be a masked event!
Plus Open Mic – bring something short to share!
Sunday, 16th October
Harry Todd Band Hall, Jubilee Lane, Parramatta
(Based within Jubilee Park in walking distance from Parramatta Station)
10:45 am: Morning Tea / Chat
11:15 am – 12:45 pm: Readings, Prizes, Giant Book Raffle
Entry: $10 includes two door prize tickets and covers venue hire and insurance
ZW22: $15
Contributors: Please collect your first copy at $5 at reception table
MC: Carol Amos, President NWG Inc
Judges: Luke Carman (writing) and Hayley Megan French (art)
Congratulations to the writers who have an entry selected for ZineWest 2022. (Image: Mihaela Cristescu.)
ALL entrants are welcome to offer work to our Pop Up Zine 2022, a project where we we can freely discuss reviews and edits.
ZW2022 Publication List
Carly Bertuccio – High Voltage
C.A Broadribb – Fairies
Peter Cartwright – The Bloke Who’d …
Victoria A Cartwright – Life is (my Loom)
Danielle Catherine – Haircuts 1 to 3
Marian Claire – Delay
Danny Draper – No Barrier the Highway
Marie Dustmann – Contacts
Norm Fairbairn – To Die Upon the Sea
Kerstin Ferrol – The Cold Skin that …
Sophie Hall – Roadside Assistance
Myra Koch – Old Man Harold
Ilona Krueger – Cornflower Joy
Harold Legaspi – Fifties
Nicole Lenoir-Jourdan – Eric the Elver
Artelle Lenthall – Wolfie and Son
Nic Lesley – Runs in the Family
Louise Loomes – Paper Man
J. Marahuyo – Before the Rain
Jo Mularczyk – The Final One Hundred
Denise Newton – Tree Huggers
Arna Radovich – Catching Poems
Michaela Simoni – Rear Vision of my Time
Jake Tarasenko – The Better
The Tropics888 – For us to Keep
Paul Traynor – The Submission
Dannielle Viera – Scared Stiff
Writing Workshop …
creating memorable scenes in a range of genre including historical fiction.
Saturday, 11 June 3-5 pm
UNE Sydney 28 George Street PARRAMATTA
Sign in on ground floor 2:45-3:00 pm
$5 entry with door prize
NB This is a masked event.
Dr Ariella Van Luyn is a lecturer in writing at UNE Sydney. She is the author of the historical novel Treading Air (Affirm Press) and her short stories have been published in international and Australian journals including Voiceworks, Overland, Southerly and The Lifted Brow. Her areas of research are Creative writing, Practice-led research, Online writing pedagogy, Historical fiction. See more of her bio here.
ZW2022Art Entry Form
ZineWest 2022 is now open for Art entries. We are looking for digital images (jpeg’s 300dpi) from creatives with links to Western Sydney (residents, workers, students or people involved with WS cultural/arts activities.) We publish around 6 greyscale images and 8 full colour in our A5 print Zine. $100 for best image.
Free entry, up to three images.
Judge: Dr Hayley Megan French (PAS)
Please read form for more information!
There are a few examples on the ZineWest page and pdfs of past ZineWests in our Ezine archives
It is with sadness we advise that our friend and colleague Thomas Thorpe has passed away, shortly after his wife Jennifer. To the family we extend our deepest sympathies.
Our poet colleague, Romanian Australian Loredana Tudor-Tomescu, knew Thomas through the literary group Poetry at Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts. This led to Thomas becoming a contributor to Mihaela Cristescu’s Romanian/Australian Anthologies along with several other SMSA members.
Distance prevented Thomas from readily attending NEW Writers’ Group Inc’s meetings, however on one memorable occasion (before the pandemic halted onsite celebrations) he came via three sets of transport to a NWG Inc Anthology dinner in Parramatta – to our delight.
Thomas had a wonderful reading voice, and we wish we had heard more. He was ever keen to promote and support other writers, bringing to poetry conviction, warmth and understanding.
Here is the brief description of himself that Thomas wrote for one of the Romanian/Australian anthologies – Between Dusk and Dawn.
‘Born and grew up in England. A geographer by training. Officer in Royal Air Force. A ‘ten quid Pom’, arrived in Australia by ship in 1962. One of the foundation staff of Australian Catholic University. A lover of poetry since school days, who occasionally puts pen to paper.’
A poem by Thomas Thorpe will be included in Street Musicians, the 7th edition of Mihaela Cristescu’s Romanian/Australian bi-lingual anthologies, by permission of his family.
Video link of Thomas Thorpe reading at Romanian Rhythm in Sydney, State Library of NSW, 2016
Carol Amos, President of NEW Writers’ Group Inc, welcomed us to our first onsite Parramatta gathering in two years of Covid on Saturday, 26 March. We lined up outside for the group photo (inside it’s masks on always) and a kind passerby took this shot with Mihaela’s camera. Special thanks to UNE Sydney at Parramatta for this ideal venue. Kudos to Eric and Chris for tech support with Sue, Carol and the Cartwrights for ideas on Dialogue, and everyone for turning up on an unpredictably rainy day.
GATHERINGS UNE Sydney at 28 George Street Parramatta
Queries:
Saturdays 3-5pm: Sign in 2:50-3:05 Ground floor entrance
April 9, May 14, June 11,
July 9, August 13, Sept 10, Nov 12
Attendance: $5 for onsite gatherings
Free for financial members and carers
Please wear well fitted masks.
We are looking forward to your ZineWest 2022 entries due 14th May.
Writing: First prize $400; Second $300; Third $200.
Best Image $100; Book awards and commendations.
ZineWest 2022 Writing Entry Form
Art Entry Form available from 21 May.
On 12 February, we took up our annual challenge of ‘rating’ completely different works of two minutes duration. We enjoyed all the contributions and the judge would have been happy to give out multiple book awards, but there was only one copy. Congratulations to Geneva Valek who won in a photo finish. We welcome into our Pop Up Zine 2022 all entries (except those being developed as longer works for a future we hope to hear about!)
Book Award – Girls in Boys’ Cars by Felicity Castagna – which won the 2022 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for YA.
Saturday 12 Feb 3-4:30 pm
Valentine’s Day Spoken Word Val’s Rules:
2 mins of your original take on love/romance – the joy the despair the mundane. Solo, no music, no props, no intros, English only. You lose marks for unnecessary swearing and going over time.
Book award!
We’ll also swap news on our latest reading and writing and discuss the NWG Inc’s 2022 calendar before wrapping up with Open Mic: your original work any topic, 2 mins max.
Zoom Link:
1st March ZineWest 2022 Writing Entries open – entry form available soon.
Saturday 12 March 11:30 am
Launch of Stay A While, 6th edition of Mihaela Cristescu’s Romanian /Australian bi-lingual anthologies. State Library of NSW.
Saturday 26 March, 3-4:30 pm Writing Exercise and discussion plus Open Mic. Details to come.