Opportunities

Writing opportunities from around the globe, listed by submission deadline date.

27th February 2009

Expressions of Interested Invited for 2009 QLD Poetry Festival

The 2009 Queensland Poetry Festival (QPF) invites proposals from poets and other performers and artists interested in being part of the 13th Annual Queensland Poetry Festival:spoken in one strange word, to be staged at The Judith Wright Centre of Contemporary Arts, August 21 - 23.

QPF would like to hear from both individuals and groups for single performances at the Festival and for other projects in association with the Festival. While all projects should have a relationship to poetic language, we encourage applications from non-poets wishing to explore the relationship between poetry and other art forms (e.g. performances with a music and/or multi-media focus etc).

For full submission guidelines visit www.queenslandpoetryfestival.com

If you have any questions regarding your submission please don’t hesitate in contacting Festival Director, Julie Beveridge at julesbev@yahoo.com.au.

No Submission Deadline Date

Speaker Needed for the City of Subiaco, Dept of Arts and Culture and Positive Ageing

Julia Jones, Senior Project Officer of the Culture, Arts & Positive Ageing is seeking a speaker for their lunch club. They hold a monthly lunch group for senior citizens, which are themed to the time of year with a relevant speaker. She is seeking a local writer who would like to speak at their first Lunch Club for the year on the 12th of February, which is themed Valentine's day.

The speaker could address any number of themes including (but not limited too) romance or love in a cultural or social sense, expressions of romance or love, the history of Valentine's day or a love story about Subiaco. The talk could be personal, factual, historical or fictional, and they may be able to pay the speaker for their time.

Anyone interested should contact:

Julia Jones, Senior Project Officer
Culture, Arts & Positive Ageing
City of Subiaco
PO Box 270
Subiaco WA 6904
(08) 9237 9303 : juliaj@subiaco.wa.gov.au : www.subiaco.wa.gov.au

Positive Words Creative Writing Magazine

They are seeking stories, poems and articles for the 2009 issues. Sample copies of the magazine are available from the editor by sending $2.20 in unused stamp. For submission guidelines (Please include SSAE) or a sample copy of the magazine please contact Sandra James, PO Box 798, Heathcote 3523, Victoria. (Please note change of address for 2009)

WritingRaw.com

FREE literary sharing website (like YouTube but for the literary world) where writers can upload, view and share their writing. The only restriction is that the material cannot be illegal in any sense of the word (such as child porn, plagiarism, etc.). Other then that, feel free to post in any of the following categories:

• FICTION
• POETRY
• NONFICTION
• REMEMBRANCE
• and, ASSORTED writings

Our goal at Writing Raw is simple - to serve the literary community with the opportunity to have their work online and out in the world. Who knows who may see it! In this world of disappearing literary magazines, Writing Raw is providing the blank pages for writers to fill.

To view someone’s writing, just click on the link and a .pdf version (Acrobat Reader must be installed on your computer – click here if you do not already have it) of the piece will open in your browser. Read it, comment on it, vote for it to be a showcased piece! Most important - ENJOY IT.

There is no catch here – all writings will be posted. Let’s create a world where no one rejects a writer or the work of their future masterpiece.

Publish Opportunities on planbooktravel.com.au

planbooktravel.com.au is an Australian website dedicated to promoting Australian content. The site offers writers the opportunity to publish articles including fact, fiction, historic, stories, community, news, poems, yarns and more. The only criteria is that the article must be positive and related to an Australian location.

The benefits to writers include: Gain exposure for your content and self, link your articles to your own site/blog and resources, publish under your own copyright or choose from Create Commons licenses and interact with other writers in the community.

More Details at planbooktravel's Editorial Policy

Extant: A Literary Press

This new, Perth-based press with a focus on producing experimental poetry. Extant’s editorial vision is to enrich and advance the tradition of experimental literature in Australia. All manuscripts are evaluated for their artistic, poetic and thematic vision and their ability to contribute to the conversation about experimental literature. The editors will be looking for each manuscript to display an awareness of the poetic traditions that precede it, and to utilise their poetic thoughts and devices toward ends which represent their own philosophical, poetic, and aesthetic movements. Extant Press will present a grouping of alternative and experimental voices of Australian poetry so as to further the discussions which are responsible for the progression of experimental literature.

The mandate of Extant is to:

• Provide an opportunity for established writers to publish experimental works which may fall outside mainstream publishing options.
• To continue the tradition of experimental literature by stimulating the creation of new books and creating an experimental community around whom these books and ideas may flourish.
• Publish innovative poetries, innovative engagements with language, innovative poetic theory, and innovative writers, both emerging and experienced.

Queries and chapbook sized submissions (of 20-48 pages) can be emailed in Word or .rtf format to ExtantEditor@gmail.com

Narrative Magazine

Welcomes submissions of previously unpublished manuscripts or all lengths, ranging form short stories to complete booklength works. Narrative regularly publishes fiction, poetry and nonfiction, including stories, novels, personal essays, novel excerpts, humour, sketches, memoirs, literary biographies, commentary, reportage, interviews and features of interest to readers who take pleasure in storytelling and imaginative prose. For poetry submissions Narrative is open to all forms and genres. We look for quality and originality of language and content.

Website: www.narrativemagazine.com/share/submit.php

Accepts only email submissions, with reading fees between $10 to $20. First two weeks of April and August are Open Weeks when no reading fee is charged. Work submitted then should go through the Open Submissions Page.

All accepted work will receive payment.