Congratulations to the winners and runners up of our Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition.
Timothy Robinson won the Short Story category for his entry “Henry Stanfield Can Fly”, while Lindy Alexander took away the Creative Non-fiction prize for “Hiding from the World”. In second place for fiction was Melanie Cheng for “Stone Baby”, and Lorna Hendry came second in Creative Non-fiction for “Killing the Dogs”. Commended entrants include Sarinah Hope for “The Second Marriage”; Julie Twohig for “The Glove” and Kate Rotherham for “Here and There”.
Commended authors receive a year’s VWC membership.
The VWC thanks the Grace Marion Wilson Trust for its support.
Publishing – The Whole Shebang is on this Friday 27 August
Publishing – The Whole Shebang, presented by the Melbourne Writers Festival, is on this Friday 27 August. Hosted by Peter Donoughue (VWC board member), other guests include Penguin’s Bob Sessions and Text Publishing’s Michael Heyward, Sue Hines and Aviva Tuffield, Toni Jordan and Christopher Milne, and representatives of the Australian Poetry Centre, Australian Society of Authors, Melbourne PEN, Express Media and SPUNC.
This is a great opportunity to network, learn about grants, editing, writing and, well, the whole shebang!
Proudly supported by the Victorian Writers’ Centre.
Starts 10am at the Wheeler Centre.
The Melbourne Writers' Festival has two free double passes to give away to VWC members. To be eligible, simply email admin@mwf.com.au with ‘VWC’ in the subject line.
Chris Wallace-Crabbe features at this month’s Stopping all Stations, on Saturday 21 August. The new spoken word event also has an open section and great lucky door prizes. $5 entry. Station Street Cafe, Station Street, Nunawading (opposite station), 2 – 5pm. For more information see the Stopping All Stations website or call 0408 741 316.
The 2010 Doris Leadbetter Poetry Cup Winners announced
Congratulations go to Anna Fern who is the winning poet of the 2010 Doris Leadbetter Poetry Cup receiving the mega prize of $2000. Other wonderful poets to note are Luka Haralampou as runner up receiving $300, and Bronwyn Lovell and Sharne Vate who received the encouragement awards of $100 each.
Special thanks go to:
– Our judges, Grant Caldwell, Katherine Gallagher and Ania Walwicz who had a hectic task choosing from an eclectic array of 40 performances
– Doris Leadbetter patrons, Pam Davison and Ron Smooker who kindly donated the prize money
– The great team of the Australian Poetry Centre and Overload Poetry Festival who partnered this event
– Michael Nolan as the spectacular Master of Ceremonies
– and all the event volunteer staff.
It was a great night had by all. Watch our website for the winning poems to be posted soon.
VWC Emerging Writers Comp: winners notified in mid-August
Winners of the 2010 Grace Marion Wilson Trust Emerging Writers Competition will be notified by mid-August and announced in September, then published inthe October issue of Victorian Writer magazine.
The VWC is pleased as punch to announce a huge increase in entries to the competition from last year. In 2010 there were 144 fiction entries and 48 non-fiction entries.
Congratulations to all who entered – and good luck!
VWC partners up to present Cate Kennedy and Lee Gutkind
The VWC has entered into two special partnerships to present two special events in June:
1) Lee Gutkind
Tashmadada and the Victorian Writers’ Centre present “the Godfather” of creative non-fiction Lee Gutkind, the indisputable leader of the fastest growing genre in publishing history. Direct from the US this is his only Melbourne appearance – don’t miss out! Date: Thursday 24 June Time: 7.30pm sharp Where: Glenfern Writers’ Studios, 417 Inkerman St (cnr Hotham St.)St Kilda East Cost: $20 (includes light refreshments) Book: online at www.trybooking.com/FTX
For more information contact Leah Kaminsky at leahkam@netspace.net.au, or Deborah Leiser-Moore at info@tashmadada.com, 0414 624 908.
2) Cate Kennedy
The Independent Type: Books and Writing in Victoria, in partnership with the VWC present Reading for Writers workshop with Cate Kennedy. Date: Saturday 19 June Time: 11am – 1pm Where: Bendigo Library, 259 Hargreaves St, Bendigo
The Victorian Writers’ Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of Roderick Poole as its new Director and CEO. Roderick has an excellent background in arts management including his roles as the founding Artistic Director & General Manager of the acclaimed international performance group, Strange Fruit. VWC Chair Chris Thompson said that “in a strong field of candidates, Roderick stood out for his clear and articulate vision of the way the Victorian Writers’ Centre will develop over the next several years.” Roderick takes up his new position with the Victorian Writers’ Centre from 5 July. Read more about the new director in the VWC media release below.
Thanks to the support of the Grace Marion Wilson Trust, the Victorian Writers’ Centre is pleased to announce the second year of its writing competition.
Closing date: 14 June 2010
The competition is open to Victorian residents, with entries sought in two categories: short story and creative non-fiction.
Entries will be independently judged by established writers (tba).
Prizes in each category are 1st $750, 2nd $250, plus three additional shortlist prizes of a one-year VWC membership. Winning entries will also be published in a special edition of Victorian Writer (anticipated October–November 2010).
Works should be 2000–3000 words. Entry is free but an official entry form is required. Winners in our previous competition (1st and 2nd prize) are not eligible to re-enter.
