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NWG Inc Venue 2023

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FutureCampus Parramatta

With heart-felt thanks to UNE Sydney. Starting on 4th February, we will meet once a month on a Saturday 3-5 pm, at 211 Church Street Parramatta, for tutorials, workshops and open mic – except when we launch Parramatta Expression in June and ZineWest in October at 100 George Street.

Saturday Gathering Dates:

February: 4
March: 25
April: 15
May: 13
(June: 17 Parramatta Expression Launch)
July: 8 
August: 12
September: 9
(October: 14 ZineWest Launch)
November: 11 – Includes AGM 

These events are open to the public but please introduce yourself first by email at and visit our About page to see our charter and other info.

 

 

ZineWest 2022 Launch

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Sahtein Lebanese Feast
Harry Todd Band Hall
NWG Inc 20th Birthday
ZineWest 2022 Launch

All welcome to the launch of our 16th edition of ZineWest.
SUNDAY, 16 October, 2022
10:45 am for brunch (featuring Sahtein Feasts and salad snacks) 
11:15 am Readings, Prizes and Giant Raffle
12:45 pm NWG Inc’s 20th Anniversary Cake

HARRY TODD BAND HALL Jubilee Lane Parramatta
Street Parking. 10-15 minutes walk from Parramatta Station.

ENTRY: $10 includes door prize ticket (Free for primary age and younger)
ZineWest: $15.00 (Contributors first copy $5)

MC: Carol Amos, President NWG Inc
ZW Editor: Sue Crawford
Writing Judge: Luke Carman
Art Judge: Hayley Megan French 

PRIZES AND AWARDS
Writing: 1st $400, 2nd $300, 3rd $200
Highly Commended: Giramondo Titles
Editors’ Pick: Book Award
Art: 1st $100, Runner-up: Book award

Onsite in Parramatta

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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.

Carol Amos getting ready
Rainy arrival
Mihaela Cristescu Signing us in
Peter Cartwright

NWG Inc in 2022

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Photo: Mihaela Cristescu

NEW Writers’ Group Inc will soon be back at work!  In January the committee will draw up a calendar for 2022. No onsite venue yet, but the following events and projects are decided:

  • Our first gathering will be on Zoom in February, date to be confirmed.
  • ZineWest will open for entries from 1st March and be launched in October.
  • Romanian/Australian Anthology (Stay a While) launch is 12 March at the State Library of NSW. 
  • Writing projects for our regular anthologists and other Western Sydney creatives are being discussed.
  • The FB page Writing Parramatta will continue. We have a backlog of Q&A’s to post and will seek more from local artists and writers.
  • Gatherings – whether on zoom or onsite – will be held at least once a month for open mic, workshops and tutorials.
  • In the monthly sessions we plan to include short Q&A’s with individual writers.
  • We will run additional sessions with a specific focus – details to come. 

ZineWest 2021 Launch

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Elizabeth Chang, Art Judge, and Luke Carman, Writing Judge: Fifteenth edition of ZineWest

Zoom: Saturday, 16th October, 2021, 3-5pm – details below.

AWARDS – winners are not notified prior to the launch.
 
Writing:
A generous supporter has donated cash prizes for 2nd & 3rd place.
 
  • First Place = $400  (Co-sponsor Writing & Society Research Centre WSU)
  • Second Place = $300 (Private donor)
  • Third Place = $200 (Private donor)
  • Highly commended writers will receive book awards (Giramondo, Sweatshop, private donors)
  • Editor’s Award: Book prize (Giramondo)
Images
  • Best Image = $100 (private donor)
  • Runners up = Book prizes

NB Award winners are not notified prior to the launch.

LAUNCH DETAILS – Zoom link available early October.
 
  • Opening: Carol Amos, President NWG Inc 
  • Artwork – Comments and awards: Liz Chang 
  • Writing – Comments and awards: Luke Carman
  • Readings
  • Editors’ writing award

Free entry. Copies: $15. Sales online due to Covid.
Contributors’ first copies are free, but we will need to recoup postage.

ZineWest 2021 is part of the Writing Parramatta 2021 project which has been supported by a City of Parramatta Creative Economy Grant.

Open Mic on Zoom

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SATURDAY, 24th APRIL, 2021, 3-4:30 PM – ZOOM

  • 2 mins of your original work
  • free entry
  • No sermons, no politics, no props, no pets
  • 16 years and over
  • We begin with intros, audio/visual checks, so everyone is off to an equal start
  • You keep a score card on the other contestants to cast a vote for the winner
  • Our judges also announce a winner
  • You don’t need to be a contestant to attend
  • Prizes are chapbooks or anthologies by Australian writers

ZOOM LINK AVAILABLE FROM

 

 

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NWG Inc 2020

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February: How to please the reader was our first topic this year. Do our reactions as readers help us write better for our imagined fans? What techniques/topics/style do we admire? We agreed that personal opinion isn’t easy to corral. 

Mihaela Cristescu and Norm Fairbairn received book awards: This Little Red Thing and Bent not Broken for reading their poetry in tribute to Valentine. Titles courtesy of SWEATSHOP See photo below.

Our second gathering for 2020, was a mock editing panel where each group had to decide between three good, but rather different pieces, for the one remaining space in an earnest new journal. It proved what we all know, that given a different editing/selection team, you will get different answers!