The Society of Women Writers, Tasmania, Inc.

Stylus
Incorporation No: IA 08090 ABN: 91 079 957 602



DECEMBER 2016




THEME FOR DECEMBER, 2016

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Deadline: January 20th 2017


Our Patron: Governor of Tasmania, Her Excellency, (short poem - max.16 lines - , or prose up to 750 words)
Professor the Honourable Kate Warner

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ANY NEWS? in tracking down articles. It actually becomes


It would be great to receive news about meetings quite easy over time, and others will give you

(committee
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writing success, a book release, perhaps a competition win,
please send the information to me at: swwtas@gmail.com ...Ed
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hand up for one of these positions!

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NEW COMMITTEE

Hi all,
Well, I seem to be constantly tripping about the country lately. Just President
been to Queensland for a three day cruise to nowhere (they call it a Position vacant at present

WDVWHUFUXLVHWRFHOHEUDWHP\QLHFHVth birthday. Vice Presidents (North):
%DFNDJDLQDQGWU\LQJWRFDWFKXSDJDLQRQZKDW,YHPLVVHGZLWK Elizabeth Russell-Arnot
Telephone: 0409 962 529
regard to SWWT. Regrettably, I missed the Christmas Luncheon at
Links Country Club on December 5th, but I am sure it was an Christina Booth
enjoyable get-together for those who attended. (It would have been 0438340575

QLFHWRKDYHUHFHLYHGVRPHSKRWRVIRU6W\OXV Vice President (South):
My next trip away will be in January, to Victoria, for my sister in Robyn Mathison
Telephone: 6234 4418
ODZVVHYHQWLHWK$IWHUWKDW,ZLOOEHVHWWOLng down to a staid, ordered (afternoons only)
life (hahaha). The good news for 2017 will be that I will be able to
Treasurer & Public Officer:
attend SWW meetings, and be more cognizant of events, exciting Jane Waite
SWW news and whatever our members are writing. 3 Hawley Street, Newstead, 7250
I am looking forward to meeting in our new premises at the Telephone: 63342842

Launceston Library. We are booked in between 9.45 a.m. and 12.45 Minutes Secretary:
p.m. upstairs in the Ida Burchill Room. Mary Farr

Have a great Christmas full of excitement and many blessings, Competitions Secretary:
Regards, Wendy Laing
Marilyn Arnold


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Stylus Editor
It is an easy book to read, with clear headings, inspiring quotes by Marilyn Arnold
established writers, and lots of exercises for you to do. I love this sort of pedla@hotkey.net.au

book. I had such fun working through it. I found it especially useful for Contact SWWT Email:
writing poetry and accessing memories for memoir writing. However, I did swwtas@gmail.com
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on, I am about to read this book again.
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 Remembering how SWW in Tasmania started:

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were expected to join the Victorian Branch, sending our sub direct to Victoria; I suspect some of us did, some of us
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across in newspapers, through friends etc, asking them to become involved in the group. I added another two
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know who it was that phoned me from the mainland suggesting I attend the National Conference, but I do know that
Katherine Purnell of Queensland was supportive of our small Tasmanian group of women becoming a State Branch of
the Society.

In 1988 11th 16th September, the Sixth Society of Women Writers (Australia) Conference took place in Brisbane. It
was the most exciting Conference I have ever attended. At the same time, the World Expo was taking place on South
Bank, Brisbane, an extraordinary and exciting event in itself, which many of us attended.

The Conference was held at the Banyo Seminary. It was five days long. We arrived on a Sunday, and took an evening
cruise along the Brisbane River, passing the Expo sites on the way. It was very exciting to be there, along with fellow
Tasmanian, Noreen Badcock.

On the Monday, we took part in the Sixth Biennial Conference AGM and General Business sessions, an event which
took from 9 a.m. Monday morning until 3 p.m. the next day! The Presentation of the Alice Award took place during a
Dinner on the Monday night. Sometime during Monday, poor Noreen slipped on the shiny floors of the Banyo Seminary,
was carted off for medical attention as she had broken either her arm or leg/ankle ,FDQWUHPHPEHUWKHGHWDLOVEXWLW
certainly hampered her involvement and left me pretty much on my own.

State Competition Awards were presented at the Tuesday night dinner. These included the Katherine Purnell Poetry
Award, a competition I had entered. I can still remember holding my breath as Katherine read out the winners from
Highly Commended upwards, and my excitement to be the winner of the competition that year. The only fly in the
ointment was a still prominent NSW member, who objected to my winning and was muttering loudly that she had seen
the poem before (yes she had, it had been entered in a previous competition she judged, but I had not gained any
award).

Also on the Tuesday evening the official Federal Executive Handover to another State took place. Every State was
expected to take a turn at this, running the Conference (as vice-Federal executive for two years) as well as being the
Federal Executive for a period of two years .

On Wednesday a bus tour was arranged to cover the hinterland of Queensland - from Maleny, past the Glasshouse
Mountains, to Montville and lunch at the Buderim Ginger Factory. Because Noreen had stayed behind, I was the only
Tasmanian on the tour. What would you expect to happen? Most members did a tour of the Ginger Factory; I stayed
where we had lunch writing postcards. Eventually, just prior to the time requested to board the bus, I arrived in the
FDUSDUNWRILQGQREXV,WKDGJRQHZLWKRXWPH,KDGQRLGHDJHRJUDSKLFDOO\ZKHUH,ZDVI found out later that the
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KHUEVWRXUZLWKDEXQFKRIelderly pensioners. The owner of the bus company provided a taxi to take me back to Banyo,
but it was a very long day, and I arrived back there about 7.30 p.m., halfway through dinner. No-one had missed me!

On Thursday a trip was arranged to the World Expo, which was amazing! So many countries represented with their own
buildings and displays, so many people. So many public art exhibits, endless food stalls, continuous entertainment,
cleaners constantly at work, it was brilliant. I wanted to stay there for days.

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 Then on Friday we left. I was charged with the responsibility of turning our group of wonderful Tasmanian women writers
into a State Branch. I would have to call everyone together across the State for a special meeting to see if they would
agree. Which I did.

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 FORTHCOMING POETRY EVENTS FORTHCOMING EVENTS

Republic Poetry Readings - presented by FAW Society of Women Writers Tasmania
and supported by the Republic Bar & Caf and the meeting MONDAY February 6th
Tasmanian Writers Centre. Held 3 p.m. 5 p.m.
on first Sunday of the month at the Republic Bar & 10am 1pm. @ Launceston LINC building, 2nd
Caf in North Hobart. Entry FREE. Each month floor.
there are two invited readers and an open mic
If you are first there, pick up the key at the front
section in which anyone can read for up to five
minutes.
desk on the meeting day. There are
kitchenette facilities, tables and chairs
LAUNCESTON POETRY PEDLARS: provided.
/DXQFHVWRQVORQJHVWUXQQLQJRSHQPLFSRHWU\ All women writers welcome! Would love to
readings see you there!!!
Our venue is changing in January, just to try a new There is a general meeting from 12 noon and
venue out. We will be meeting upstairs at The all are welcome to stay.
Plough Inn, in Brisbane Street, Launceston, on Some of us go for lunch nearby afterwards, and
January the 16th, at 7 p.m. for a 7.30 reading start. you are welcome to join us.
There are always two brackets of reading, one of
which is the competition bracket. A book or wine

prize is given, plus a certificate, for the winning
poem. Phone Marilyn to find out what the current
competition topic is, or check out our facebook BOOK LAUNCH 21 January:
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Each reader has five minutes in which to read in the To the Sea.
first bracket, and no more than this.
Tasmanian author Christine Dibley
Marilyn Arnold,
0417145537 launches her debut novel at Fullers
pedla@hotkey.net.au Bookshop, Hobart, 2pm.

Reading must be Five minutes and under. Wine,
coffee, tea available for donation. $5 entry. Contat
Marilyn 0417145537 for further information.
COMPETITIONS
31 December PoetryReading at the Forth
the Mondeto Hotel: Monday 14
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as Guest Reader. Read your own or your favourite
15 January poem. Counter meals available.
The Tom Collins Poetry Prize, an annual competition inaugurated by FAW Western Australia in 1975
See advertisement above. For further information
in memory of Australian author Joseph Furphy (1843 1912) who wrote under the name Tom Collins. Maximum 60 lines per
poem. contact either Karen 64244054 or Fay 64282877
Prizes: $1000 first, second $400. 4 Highly Commendeds $150 each; 4 Commended (recognition only). Full details:
www.wapoets.net.au

6 February 2017 Newcastle Short Story Award now calling for entries to 2000 words. Open to all Australian
residents. First prize $3000 2nd $1500 + 3 Highly Commended awards of $200. $16.50 entry fee. For full details:
www.hunterwriterscentre.org

27 January 2017 - The Nature Conservancy Australia Nature Writing Prize The Nature Conservancy
Australia is delighted to open the fourth biennial Nature Writing Prize. $5000 will be awarded to an essay of between 3000 and
5000 words LQWKHJHQUHRI:ULWLQJRI3ODFH. The winning entry will be published in Griffith Review online as a multimedia
essay. The prize has been made possible thanks to the generous donation from the McLean Foundation, which promotes and
celebrates the art of nature writing in Australia. Visit natureaustralia.org.au/nwp to learn more about the prize and review the
terms and conditions of entry. See www.natureaustralia.org.au/nwp

31 January: Nakata Brophy Prize for Indigenous Writers. The Overland award will go to the best short
story (up to 3000 words in length) by an Indigenous writer who is 30 years or younger. $5000 first prize and a three-month
writers residency at Trinity College. See online for more details.


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3 February 2017 - Birdcatcher Books Stories For Children Competition - The competition will run from
3rd October 2016 till 3rd February 2017. Entrants must be residents of Australia or New Zealand aged 18 or over.
Stories should be suitable for children aged between 5 and 8 years.
Prize: $AU150 plus publication in an anthology (subject to there being sufficient suitable entries.) All entrants will receive a free
digital (.epub, .mobi or .pdf) copy of the anthology. See Online for more details.

5 February: Stringybark Short Story Award. A story of 1500 words or fewer, written for an adult audience in mind
with an open theme that has some link, no matter how minor to Australia. See online for details, or Tas Writers Centre

6 February: The Newcastle Short Story Award is now open for entries to all Australians living here or abroad.
Over $6000 prize pool, and the top 35 works will be published in the annual anthology. See online for details or Tas Writers
Centre.

13 February 2017 - The Tasmanian Writers Prize 2017 - 7KH7DVPDQLDQ:ULWHUV3UL]HLVRSHQWR$XVWUDOLDQ
and New Zealand writers. The competition is run by Forty Degrees South Publishing and is for short stories up to 3000 words
with an island resonant theme. The winner receives a cash prize of $500 and publication in Tasmania 40 Degrees South.

28 February 2017 - Central Coast Poets Incorporated (NSW) will be calling for entries to the Henry Kendall
Poetry Award (HKPA) on January 20th 2017, closing on 28th February 2017.
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Three cash prizes will be awarded and 50 short-listed poems will be included LQWKH&HQWUDO&RDVW3RHWVDQWKRORJ\
published in the latter half of the year in both hard-copy and electronic form.
The competition attracts entries from both established writers and emerging poets alike, Australia wide.
The entry form can be submitted on-line from 20th January 2017 via the HKPA 2017 portal on the CCPi website;
http://centralcoastpoets.com.au/
7HUPVDQG&RQGLWLRQVRIHQWU\DVZHOODV)$4VFDQEHYLHZHGRQ-line from Monday 5th December 2016.
General enquiries can be made to hkpa@centralcoastpoets.com.au

28 February 2017 - FAW Mudgee Valley Writers 2017 Youth Literary Award sponsored by Norman
McVicker Estate for a short story to 2000 words and/or poetry to 100 lines of young writers up to eighteen years. Has to be own
original, unpublished work that has not won a monetary prize. Prizes: Short story and Poetry 1st - $700; 2nd $200; 3rd $100.
Entry fee of $5 per entry. Full conditions are on the entry form available with SSAE from Mudgee Valley Writers FAW, PO Box
356, Mudgee, NSW, 2850, or https://mudgeevalleywriters.wordpress.com

OPEN FOR SUBMISSION:

ABC Open 500 words is a monthly writing challenge for non-fiction stories. There is a new theme each month. Choose the
perfect image to go with the story and your work could be published on the ABC website. Details at
http//abc.net.au/open500words 10

ABC Tales is a website giving writing tips and feedback from editors, and which publishes short stories and poems online. Go
to www.abctales.com

About Kids Books: Dianne (Di) Bates has started up a new children's book imprint About Kids Books specialising in junior
fiction. Check out the website http://www.aboutkidsbooks.com for information about how and what to submit. They publish:
Junior Fiction : For beginner readers, aged 6-8, word length 5,000-10,000, For confident readers, aged 7-10, word length
10,000-30,000, For middle readers, aged 11-12, word length 30,000-45,000. They do not publish picture books.

Azuria, *HHORQJVLQGHSHQGHQWOLWHUDU\PDJD]LQHVHHNVVXEPLVVLRQVRIHVVD\V, poetry (especially in languages other than

English, with their translations) and short prose. Further details from editor, Dr E. Reilly, at geelongwriters@gmail.com

Eucalypt: A Tanka Journal - submission dates are March 31st and September 30th. Subscription of $30 within Australia for
two issues a year, in May and November. Send subscriptions (cheques made out to B.M.George), or submissions to Beverley
George, PO Box 3274, Umina Beach, NSW 2257. More information: www.eucalypt.info

Furia Short Story Magazine publishes stories up to 10,000 words. Submit work with SSAE to The Editor, FURIA, GPO Box
1421, Melbourne, Victoria. 3001.

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Margaret River Press seeks fiction and creative non-fiction that explores ecological, intercultural or gender themes. Details:
Caroline Wood, PO Box 47, Witchcliffe, WA. 6286, or www.margaretriverpress.com

Poetry Matters (3 issues per year) is edited and published by Cheryl Howard. Submit up to five poems, prose writing on the
topic of poetry, drawings and cartoons. All work must be original, unpublished, and not on offer elsewhere. Send work, with
SSAE to Cheryl Howard, 61 Palmer Crescent, Newham, Vic. 3442 Payment is one copy of the issue in which the work
appears.

Right Now Magazine is a magazine focusin on Human Rights in Australia. It publishes poetry, fiction and non-fiction. It cannot
pay contributors. See rightnow.org.au or email cara@rightnow.org.au

Small Packages is seeking poetry submissions. Send with SSAE to Rob Morris, 88 Watson Street, Camp Hill, Qld. 4152

Wish Upon a Southern Star is calling for submissions from residents of Australia, New Zealand, or a South Pacific Island for
an anthology of radically retold fairy tales. Stories or poems should retell a fairy tale (including non-European). Enquiries:
www.shelleychappell.com

Uneven Floor is a poetry blogzine that publishes poems in text, audio, video and image format. Work from unpublished and
published writers is welcome. Previously published poems are welcome. Read the editorial, poems and submission guidelines
at unevenfloorpoetry.blogspot.com, @unevenfloor-po on Twitter, or facebook.com/unevenfloor

Studio Journal explores creative ideas and spiritual perspectives, publishes work of literary merit, offers a venue for new
writers, and develops a sense of community among members and friends. Studio seeks poetry to 100 lines, short stories,
letters, reviews and literary articles to 3000 words. Studio is happy to consider new or previously published work. Payment is a
copy of the magazine. Send submissions with SSAE to Studio, 727 Peel Street, Albury, NSW. 2640. Subscription is $40
within Australia for three issues (post free).


OPPORTUNITIES:
Australian Poetry Magazine/online organisation
Next year Australian Poetry is launching a super exciting mentorship program, Poetry Lab. Poetry Lab provides critical
feedback on up to 120 lines of your poetry, delivered by a poetry professional. The service includes a detailed one page
appraisal of your work including development, reading and publishing suggestions, catered especially to your needs. The
service will be valued at $120 for non-subscribers, however we will be providing massive discounts on this service for our
subscribers
AP has over 11,000 plus FB and Twitter at more than 6,600 members. They also run a superb social media program and
calendar - promoting poetry across the nation! - so joining up is a great way to hear more about what's happening in the
Australian and wider international poetry communities. Join online at:
twitter.com/AusPoetry
facebook.com/AusPoetry

Overland publishes emerging poets, printing their work alongside more established writers. Minimum payment is $100 for
poems in the print journal. Payment for poems published online may be different. Send to The Poetry Editor, Overland,
VU-Footscray Park Campus, PO Box 14428, Melbourne, Vic. 8001.

Summer Holiday Workshops for Kids on 16-27 January: Creative Writing Magic. Summer holiday workshops for
kids aged 9-15 with award-winning fantasy writer Tansy Rayner Roberts. She is also offering a summer special - sign up to her
mailing list and you'll receive a free downloadable copy of her book Musketeer Space.

Useful websites:

www.writingwa.org/articles/category/4
www.swwvic.net.au
www.firstwriter.com/competitions/
www.competitionsforwriters.com
https://sawriters.org.au/develop/competitions/
http://www.stephiesmith.com/contests.html
ONE WORD can help you overcome
writers block. Go to www.oneword.com

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 Meetings: Want to get together?

If you would like to meet up, to confirm the next meeting date please telephone one of the numbers given
below

HOBART:
In Hobart, there is an opportunity to meet a small group of writers, on the first Wednesday of each month,
(Feb - Dec) at Hobart Women's Health Centre, 25 Lefroy Street, North Hobart. For further details, contact
Robyn Mathison telephone 6234 4418 (after 1.00 p.m only)

LAUNCESTON:
Our usual meetings are held on the first Monday of each month (Feb Dec)
(Nov. meeting is the 2nd Monday due to a public holiday)
NB: we now meet at the Launceston Library (LINC), 2nd floor, at 10.00 a.m - 1.00 p.m.

Gold coin donation. Tea and coffee available
Always check our website for current news of meetings or guests:
http://www.swwtas.org

Writing Theme for Stylus for F ebruary: Invocation to a New Year

The Society of Women Writers, Tasmania, Incorporated

SWWT encourages
urban and rural writers
to be a part of our
statewide roster of
postal magazines that
circulate throughout the
year. A critique with
positive advice for
improvements is given
to your submitted work.
Do you write poetry? Short
Incorporation No IA 08090 ABN 91 079 957 602 Stories? Articles? Other?
Tell us when you send in
APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP your membership application,
Membership application forms can also be
with payment, to:
downloaded from our web page: swwt.org.au Treasurer, SWWT, Inc.
3 Hawley St., Newstead.
7250
Please note that member resubscription always falls
due annually, on June 30th.
Membership: $20.00
(under 16 years $15.00)

NAME: ____________________________________________________________________

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EMAIL: _______________________________________________

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critiqued, include the following details:

Please forward a small sample of your writing (500 words or less) for allocation to a magazine
when you submit your application. Send by email if possible.


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For further information, contacts, or downloads, view: http://www.swwt.org.au