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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 is open for entries to their next issue themed around an atlas of the world. Click here [...]
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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 find words to describe all the stuff in their heads–but they still need to come up [...]
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I was alerted
by the Sydney Writer’s Centre via their excellent twitter account that there has been quite a large fiction competition for Australian writers announced at the University of Sydney that you can read about here:
David Harold Tribe Fiction Award
The University of Sydney is hosting the David Harold Tribe Fiction Award, made [...]
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We have a five
day weekend coming up, which has made the office a bit like a tentatively stacked house of cards. Stable up until the moment knocks it a little bit with a suggestion of playing poker, or briscola, or eating food. And then any chance of working goes out the window [...]
tortured verse.
There’s one really great advantage to scoping out the magazines that you want to get yourself published in, and that is that you get to buy them guilt free. It’s research, and therefore as much as you are loathe to have to sit around all day and read lovely pieces of prose and poetry [...]