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Just a quick

round-up of openings/competitions I’ve noticed over the past few weeks, whether they came through Twitter, my RSS or friends emailing/chatting me. Have a look and see if anything takes your fancy.

• The Lifted Brow

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This is why

Non-poets shouldn’t be allowed to write poetry, or at least shouldn’t be allowed to indulge in exercises such as National Poetry Writing Month. Because when they get bored of the monotony of trying to …

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The twitter account

of Vintage Books recently asked for submissions of questions from users to their editing team. I duly submitted my question, “How seriously do you take unsolicited/agent-less submissions?” and forgot about it. Yesterday they …

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I was alerted by Qishin (that guy has his ear to the literature ground harder than an Indian on a railroad track) that another Australian competition has been announced, this time the Text Prize for Young Adult …

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Friday afternoon was

finally time for the much-anticipated Velociraptor Awareness Seminar Series that was organised by Andy. I’d been working on my powerpoint presentation for the week or so before hand, so I was a bit keyed …