QUOTE FOR THE MONTH

 

A successful novel should interrupt the reader’s life,

make him or her miss appointments, skip meals, forget to walk the dog.

- Stephen King

NEXT FWG MEETING

NEXT FWG MEETINGS

24th of September 2011

Novel/Short Group-10.30am

Anthology Group-12.00pm

8th of  October 2011

Exercise Group-10.30am

Anthology Group-12.00pm


15th of October 2011
ANTHOLOGY 2011 BOOK LAUNCH

22th of October  2011 

Novel/Short Group-10.30-12pm

 

VENUE:

Fairfield Library

Fairfield Gardens Shopping Centre
180 Fairfield Road
FAIRFIELD Q 4103

COMPETITIONS

Third National Republican Short Story Competition

Blog: http://republicanfiction.blogspot.com
W: http://www.republic.org.au

Closes 6 November 2011

Third National Republican Short Story Competition

Entry: $11.99
Length: 2000-4000 words
First Prize: $500
Details at http://republicanfiction.blogspot.comE: fiction@republic.org.au
The theme for the Third National Republican Short Story Competition is 'Citizen or Subject'. Short stories will speculate on Australian republican futures. They don't have to be political thrillers or constitutional whodunits as long as they are an exploration of our future, our republican future.

The 2011 judges are novelist Thomas Keneally, Professor John Warhurst (ANU) and Professor George Williams (UNSW).

Send entries to:Australian Republican Movement
PO Box 87
Geebung Q 4034

Inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award

http://writingaustralia.org.au/

$10,000 + $2,000 for a mentor of your choice

The Award, to aid in the development of the next stage of an unpublished manuscript, is for a work of adult literary or genre fiction. It will be granted to the work that shows the greatest promise and likely to benefit most from this opportunity.

The winner will receive a cash prize of $10,000 and, in consultation with organisers, will be offered a suitable mentor selected from some of Australia’s best authors.

The Judges

Valerie Parv, international best-selling author, is a successful writer of romance and non-fiction. Valerie’s books have sold more than twenty-six million copies internationally, and been translated into over twenty languages from Russian to Japanese and Icelandic.

Mark Macleod is a Senior Lecturer in English at Charles Sturt University and well known as a Television and Radio Presenter. Mark was Project Manager of ‘My Favourite Book’ for ABCTV. He published books for young readers and for adults under his own name imprint at Hodder Headline.

Peter Bishop is one of Australia’s most effective writing teachers and mentors. Working with Australia’s leading authors he has enjoyed outstanding success as the Creative Director of Varuna -The Writers’ House in the Blue Mountains - from 1994 to 2010.

Applications close: Thursday 13 October 2011

Entry form: http://writingaustralia.org.au/

COMING EVENTS 2011

Writers Festivals and Events 2011

Australia

http://bclbooks.com.au/festivals.htm

• 7 to 11 September 2011 - Brisbane Writers Festival

• 7 to Sunday 11 September - Write Around the Murray Festival - in Albury, New South Wales.

• 2nd to 5th October 2011 - Australian School Library Association XXII Biennial Conference

WRITING WEBSITES

 Pottsville Writers Group have recommended theses sites

 

http://myfreecopyright.com/

 

http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2011/08/on-distractions.html

 

http://blog.nathanbransford.com/2010/08/how-to-write-novel.html

LIMERICK

A limerick represents the lighter side of literature.
It represents the fun part as a joke represents the fun in our life.
Like a joke, it can be sad or emotional whilst still giving a smile.

History suspect that the origin of the limerick lies with a group of Irish soldiers (from a town called Limerick), that were returning from a battle in France in 1700. In literature Edward Lear is considered the father of the Limerick.

A limerick is a kind of witty, humorous nonsense poem with a strict rhythm scheme.

It is a five line poem containing a three lines rhymed triplet and a two lines rhymed couplet.

The pattern of the rhymes is a-a-b-b-a, with lines 1, 2, and 5 containing 3 beats and rhyming.

Lines 3 and 4 having 2 beats and rhyming. The cadans of the beats are as important as the rhyming.

The pun of the poem is mostly in line five

Example: by C Alan Beber

The limerick is fugitive and mean

You must keep her in close quarantine

For she sneaks to the slums

And promptly becomes

Disorderly, drunk and obscene