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2012 Shoalhaven Literary Award: Poetry

The Shoalhaven branch of the Federation of Australian Writers has launched the 2012 Shoalhaven Literary Award: Poetry. This year’s judge of the prestigious award is Australian poet Judith Beveridge, poetry editor of Meanjin and currently teaching postgraduate poetry at Sydney University. First prize is $1000 combined with a two-week residency at Arthur Boyd’s Bundanon artist complex on the Shoalhaven [...]

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ALL POETRY 2012 closing date extended

Closing date is now July 13 2012 Australia-wide, No entry form required Entries can be post-marked up to and including the above date A competition for all genres of original, unpublished poetry, 14–40 lines written in English.and not to have won a cash prize in any other competition. Send two copies of each poem. First Prize: $200. Second Prize:$80, [...]

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All Poetry Competition Results 2011

First: ‘Killing Time’, David Campbell, Beaumaris Vic Second: ‘The Coast-guard’s House’, John Egan Ashfield NSW Third: ‘Fifty Cents’, Cynthia Rowe, Woollahra NSW HC: ‘Floating With Chagall’, William Zappa, Earlwood NSW HC: ‘Under The Stairs’, Maureen O’Shaughnessy, [...]

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Sarkcloth – wearing in the landscape

A collaboration between artisan dress maker Theresa Jackson from Sark and textile designer Julie Paterson from cloth. A land of sombre, silent hills, where mountain cattle go By twisted tracks, on sidelings deep, where giant gum trees grow And the wind replies, in the river oaks, to the song of the stream below. From Australian Scenery by Banjo Paterson The early [...]

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Basil Sellers Art Prize 2012

The third $100,000 Basil Sellers Art Prize will be awarded in August 2012, in conjunction with an exhibition of the finalists’ work at the Potter that will run until November 2012. Entries are invited from artists who are Australian citizens (primarily resident in Australia) or permanent residents. Previous entrants and finalists are eligible to re-enter in 2012. Entrants shortlisted for the finalists’ exhibition [...]

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Gail Jones to give a public reading in Wollongong

Award-winning novelist Gail Jones will give a public reading from her new novel Five Bells at the University of Wollongong. Don’t miss this opportunity to see one of Australia’s very finest writers read from her work. “In the midst of pandemonium, traffic and tourist hordes gazing at icons, Jones gives us individuals who are achingly alive, [...]

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Art House Co-op Launches 2012 Sketchbook Project and Plans First Visit to Australia

The Sketchbook Project is an annual travelling exhibition of sketchbooks submitted by artists from all over the world. With thousands of contributions from more than 90 countries in 2011, Art House Co-op expects the 2012 Project to be the largest and most diverse in its five-year history. Due to the overwhelming response to this year’s Tour, [...]

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Machteld Hali – Printmaker

“What I love about printmaking is the concept of multiple originals. There’s something magic about it, like making a stamp, 1–2–3. You have them all sitting in a row, and I enjoy that sense of childlike delight in the multiples.” Machteld Hali’s passion for printmaking can trace its origins back to potato printing as a child [...]

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• A PHILOSOPHY OF KINDNESS. This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.” - His Holiness the Dalai Lama #