We’ve got you covered for the last month of winter: festivals, book clubs, writing competitions, and performances – you name it. Make some time in your schedule for some of these fantastic events this August.
We interviewed the founder of Australian Poetry Slam Miles Merrill ahead of his one-day workshop at Writing NSW, Write to Speak.
We interviewed songwriter, novelist and poet Pip Smith, whose six-week online poetry course will be launching on 27 May.
Congratulations to the winners of the Quantum Words 2018 Science Poetry Competition. Helen Thurloe won first prize, Lorne Johnson won second prize, and Eileen Chong was highly commended.
“The important thing in his poetry is that he does not feel sorry for himself nor dwells on the knowledge that his days are numbered. On the contrary his poems are a song to life.” Beatriz Copello reviews Injury Time by Clive James.
Read the five poems shortlisted for the Quantum Words 2018 Science Poetry Competition, by Jenny Blackford, Eileen Chong, Lorne Johnson, Jack Oats, and Helen Thurloe.
‘Maiden’s collections have won the NSW and Victorian Premier’s Awards for Poetry, and the Victorian Premier’s Award for Literature among others, and it’s not difficult to see why.’
Each month the NSW Writers’ Centre staff share what we’ve been reading. This month we’ve been inspired by authors who appeared at the Sydney Writers’ Festival, with Ivan Coyote’s Tomboy Survival Guide and Julie Koh’s Portable Curiosities. We’ve read Australian works including Heather Rose’s Museum of Modern Love, Kate Cole-Adams’ Anaesthesia, and Cory Taylor’s Dying: […]
This month our Spotlight On featured author is poet and creative artist Sara Saleh. Sara is an Arab-Australian human rights law and refugee advocate and grassroots activist with a decade-long career working with NGOs like Amnesty International Australia. She has also performed her poetry locally and internationally. She recently published her first poetry collection, Wasting […]
