Applications are open until 5pm Friday 30 January 2009 to enter Eat Your Words – an Australia Council for the Arts competition for people under 30 interested in writing about the arts.
The top eight entrants get to attend ‘an intensive writing workshop in Brisbane, and collaborate with academics, visual artists and leading Australian arts writers’ as well as publication in Artworker.
Get writing!
I’m going to be a bit unconventional and post about 2009 Traverse events out of chronological order – as you can see from the events page, there are a couple of activities planned for next year before the exciting Canberra Zine Fair. I’m doing this because I want to give people as much lead time as possible to get cracking on their zines.
Here are the details:
Canberra Zine Fair as part of SCRIBBLE: young writers, young readers festival
7 February 2009
Q2 Foyer
Gorman House Arts Centre
Ainslie Avenue, Braddon
Times are unconfirmed at the moment, but it’s most likely they’ll be like this year’s – i.e. doors open 9.30am and it wraps up in the early evening.
It’s entirely free to come a sell/trade your work (and we’re encouraging not just zinesters to be there – anyone who’s into self-publishing, DIY and etsy are welcome) but if you don’t have your own table the ACT Writers Centre are renting trestle tables at $10 per table (fits three people comfortably), payable on the day. Chairs will be free and plentiful.
Please send me a quick email if you’d like to book a spot!
There’s also a facebook event if you want to check out who’s going to be there (or at least claiming to be).
Hello and welcome to the online home for Traverse Poetry.
Traverse Poetry is a new Canberra project funded by artsACT due to take place in 2009. This blog will contain updates and information about the project as well as details of spoken word events in the ACT, plus miscellaneous musings on writing and poetry.
Planning has already begun on the Traverse Project – so keep your eye on this blog or, better still, subscribe to this blog by RSS and sign up to the ACT Poetry Slam e-Newsletter.
|
www.traversepoetry.org