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The Fair Australia Writing Prize is open for entries
The 2018 Fair Australia Prize – Australia’s only union-sponsored literary competition – is now open for entries. The prize invites writers of fiction, poetry and essays, as well as graphic artists, to be part of setting a new agenda for our future. The prize will...
read moreApply now for an APA Publishing Industry Internship
The Australian Publishers Association, with support from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund, is again offering its Publishing Industry Internship Program. The program offers six interns an opportunity to work with, and be mentored by, talented industry staff and a...
read moreEmerging Writers’ Short Story Prize Deadline Extended to July 31
The Australasian Association of Writing Programs has chosen to extend the deadlines of two of its current competitions—AAWP/Australian Short Story Festival Emerging Writers Short Story Prize and AAWP/Ubud Writers & Readers Festival Emerging Writers Prize—to the...
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Dodge Rose: Heretical Modernism by Jonathan Dunk
Words || Jonathan Dunk It’s been ubiquitously noted that the publication of Jack Cox’s Dodge Rose in 2016 bucked a number of Auslit publication trends, and some international formal ones. Beginning with the obvious, it was published by Dalkey Archive in the US before...
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Neurological Illness in Australian Fiction
I don’t read fiction about illness much. I know that’s not what you expected, as it goes directly against the premise of this essay. But fiction allows me to inhabit another body; it’s a luxury. I’m not sure I want to read about a body that is ill like mine. Thinking...
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Distilling Illness in ‘Shaping the Fractured Self’
Words || Katerina Bryant “Sometimes pus, sometimes a poem… but always pain.” —Yehuda Amichai, as quoted in Shaping the Fractured Self The first poem I loved was Sylvia Plath’s Tulips. I didn’t understand it; not at first. I was in the last year of high school and our...
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Long Paddock Archives
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.
