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JULY 2014 The KSP News E s t a b l i s h e d 1 9 8 5
Upcoming Event
Make Your Own E-Book
A full day creation class
LIMITED TO 10 PLACES Saturday 26 July, 9.30 – 4.00pm
KSP Writers’ Centre, 11 Old York Road, Greenmount
Advance bookings essential.
Produce a finished product * Design it the way YOU want
Gain practical new skills & insights into the online publishing industry
Learn about modern publishing techniques & social media strategies
Formulate a specialised plan to successfully market & sell your book
Become a published author & keep all the profits for yourself!
FOR MORE DETAILS:
http://www.kspf.iinet.net.au/eventworkshops.php#ebooks
Suitable for: Writers of all genres - Writers with any length of polished work
Publication of a short work collection, novella or novel-length manuscript
The day will include breaks for lunch and tea.
Beverages and bikkies provided.
Bring lunch, water, notebook, laptop, charger and USB.
$80 KSP members, $120 public.
Upcoming
Workshops
Booking in advance is essential for all workshops and events.
Please see the KSP website for payment details.
9294 1872 / kspf@iinet.net.au
ONLINE POETRY
COURSE
with former Established
Writer-in-Residence
JUDY JOHNSON
4 weeks from Mon 4 August
$100 members, $150 others
This online poetry course for
advanced poets will inspire and
instruct you in the practical
application of four poetic
forms, enjoying a renaissance
in the work of contemporary
poets: villanelles, sestinas,
sonnets and pantoums.
Each week you will be engaged
in readings on the selected
form, and join in with lively
discussions with the group.
Your set ‘poetry homework’
for the week will be critiqued
in a private online session with
Judy only, where you will
receive personal feedback.
Visit the website for a full
outline and Judy’s biography.
LIMITED TO 8 PLACES
MEMBER’S CHOICE
WORKSHOP
Saturday 15 Nov, 1.00pm-4.00pm
Thanks to everyone who entered
the Member’s Choice Workshop
vote. And the winner is…
ROMANCE WRITING.
KSP is now organising a theme and
facilitator for Your Workshop!
How to Write a Short Story
written by Established Writer-in-Residence Paddy O’Reilly
Ingredients
A person
Another person or more people
A place
Method
Take the first person, gender her, name her, crack her, separate the body from the soul and set body aside. Place Meg’s soul in a bowl and whisk to a soft peak.
Put the remaining people into the place. Name the people and the place. Leave Tanya, Laird and Pauli to marinate in the Fitzroy sharehouse for at least a week.
Preheat the situation to at least 220 degrees, or 200 if fan-forced.
Fold Meg’s soul back into her body, making sure not to overbeat or the air will go out of her and she will be flat.
Transfer Tanya, Laird and Pauli into a large bowl. Beat well. Add Meg slowly, stirring after each addition.
Grease the sharehouse. Pour everyone into the house and place in the superheated situation. Cook for 2500 words.
Test whether the story is done by inserting a reader. If the reader comes out clean, the story is done. If the reader comes out sticky, place the story back into the situation for another 500 words.
When cooked, remove the story from the situation, turn onto a piece of paper and allow to cool.
Serve with a title and bio. For a special occasion, sift a few asterisks in Copperplate Bold over the transitions.
First published in New Australian Writing, Scribe Publishing
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COMPETITIONS,
EVENTS &
OPPORTUNITIES
Val Vallis Poetry Award
Closes 10 July 2014
Details here
WAPI Song Lyric Contest
Closes 13 July 2014
Details here
AlburyCity Short Story Award
Closes date 16 July 2014
Details here
Yarram Writing Competition
Closes 21 July 2014
Details here
Henry Handel Richardson
Society Competition
Closes 31 July 2014
Details here
Best Australian Poems 2014
Closes 1 August 2014
Details here
TGJL Literary Award for Prose
Entries close 1 August 2014
Details here
Clare Writer’s Festival
Scholarship
Applications by 15 August
Details here
WAPI Poetry d’ Amour Contest
Closes 22 August
Details here
Prayers of a Secular World
Poetry Collection, closes 29 Aug
Details here
Aesthetica Writing Comp
Closes 31 August 2014
Details here
Anthology of Loss
Closes 1 September 2014
Details here
Janice M Bostok Haiku Award
Closes 1 September 2014
Details here
UBUD Writer’s Festival
1 –5 October Details here
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2014 Thawley Prize
Closes 31 October 2014
Details here
Odyssey House Victoria
4th Short Story Competition
Closes 31 October
Details here
Freefall Writing Retreat
October and November
Details here
The Write Week!
Clare Writer’s Festival
24- 30 November Details here
UWRF cruise with guest
authors Amitav Ghosh and
Deborah Baker Details here
The Digital Edition
Call for submissions, non-
fiction and poetry Details here
MEMBER
CONGRATS…
Jackson for winning
First Place in the Ethel
Web Bundell Literary
Awards (poetry).
Jen Banyard for
having Riddle Gully
Runaway accepted for
publication with
Fremantle Press.
Danny Gunzburg for
winning a Commended
Award in Poetry
D’Amour 2014.
Many more congrats
to come next month!
Member
Renewals
winner
Barbara Gurney
Barbara has won a
voucher for a standard
$30 KSP workshop
funded by DCA.
Congratulations
Barbara!!!
KSP Presents…
Established Writer-in-Residence Paddy O’Reilly
Paddy is ‘in residence’ 16 - 29 June and 7 - 20 July
Paddy O'Reilly's debut novel The Factory was
included in the Australian Book Review and
Sydney Morning Herald's Best Books of the Year
list, Highly Commended in the FAW Christina
Stead Award for Fiction, and broadcast in fifteen
episodes as the ABC Radio National Book
Reading during July 2009.
Paddy latest novel, The Fine Colour of Rust (HarperCollins and Simon and Schuster), was
released in 2012 in Australia, the UK and the
USA. Her short story collection, The End of the World (UQP) was published to
critical acclaim in April, 2007. The stories in the collection have won a number of
national and international story awards including 'The Age', the 'Judah Waten',
'Zoetrope All-Story' (USA) and the Commonwealth Broadcasting Corporation (UK).
The End of the World was chosen as one of the year's best books in various
publications from Australian Book Review to The Financial Review, shortlisted in
the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards and commended in the Victorian
Premier's Literary Awards.
Paddy has also written screenplays and worked as additional screenwriter for films
which have been nominated for AFI awards and screened nationally and
internationally. She has been Asialink writer-in-residence in Japan, a fellow at
Varuna: the Writers' House, writer-in-residence at Kelly Steps Cottage, Tasmania,
and The Lockup, Newcastle, presenter and reader at the International Conference
on the Short Story in Toronto and Arkasas, and a full fellow at the Vermont Studio
Center, USA. Paddy spent several years working as a copywriter in Japan. She
now lives in Melbourne, Australia.
MEET PADDY at these events:
Writing Workshop: A Story from an Anecdote. Saturday 12 July, 1-4pm
All of us have anecdotes that we tell or that we hear from family and friends. They're
entertaining or funny or saddening, but they are not stories that can hold the attention
of a reader and reverberate in the way of great fiction. However, they can be the raw
material for great stories. In this workshop you will take your anecdotes and turn
them over and tear them up and put them back together to see if there is a story
inside. There usually is. Participants should come with an idea of an anecdote they
tell or a family story or an anecdote they have heard that has stayed with them for
some reason. Costs: $30 members, $45 non -members.
3-course Literary Dinner at the KSP Café:
Tuesday 15 July, 7-9.30pm at KSP. $25 members, $30 others.
Advance bookings essential. Phone 92941872 or email kspf@iinet.net.au
Patron
Dr Glen Phillips
Public Fund
Chairperson KSP
Treasurer KSP
Clive Aldridge
Denis McLeod
Robert Perks
Literary Advisory Board
Dr Glen Phillips
David Caddy
Prof. Brian Dibble
Kathleen Dzubiel
Mardi May
Dr Melissa O’Shea
Karen Treanor
Dr Amanda Curtin
Juliet Marillier
Management Committee
Chairperson Renee Hammond
Secretary Andrew Levett
Treasurer Robert Perks
Newsletter Ed. Shannon Coyle
Committee Mardi May
Karen Treanor
Shannon Coyle
Guy Salvidge
Andrew Levett
Valerie Everett
Tabetha Beggs
Coordinator
Shannon Coyle
Competitions Secretary
Vacant—please apply
Write-a-Book-in-a-Day
Christopher Oakeley
KATHARINE SUSANNAH
PRICHARD WRITERS’ CENTRE
Regular Writing Groups
Open for Everyone to Join (Per class: $5 members/$10 nonmembers)
Poetry Writing Group (Poets@KSP) 2nd, 4th Mondays 1.00-3.00pm
Writers’ Circle Tuesdays 10.00-12.00pm
Writefree Women’s Writing Group Wednesdays 9.45-11.45am
Young Writers’ Group (8-16s) Thursdays during school term 4.00-6.00pm
Home Schoolers Group (9-16s) Thursdays during school term 10.00-11.30am
Thursday Night Group Thursdays 7.30-9.30pm
Romance Writers Group Fridays 9.30-11.30am
Marathon Writers Group Fridays 12.00-4.00pm
Non-Fiction Writers Monthly 1st Saturday 10.00-12.00pm
Past Tense (Social History) Monthly 2nd Saturday 10.00-12.00pm
Speculative Fiction/Fantasy Monthly 2nd Sunday 10.00-12.00pm
Avon Valley Writers Group Wednesdays 10.00am & Thursdays 7.00pm
NaNoWriMo Support Group Mondays during October and November only,
9.00am - 12.00pm
Katharine’s Place
11 Old York Road
Greenmount
WA 6056
AUSTRALIA
Phone: (08) 9294 1872
Fax: (08) 9294 1872
Email: kspf@iinet.net.au
Web: kspf.iinet.net.au