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State Newsletter: Print Post Number PP 733781/00010

The Fellowship of Australian Writers Tasmania Inc

PO Box 234 NORTH HOBART TAS 7002

.au

ISSUE No. 2 MARCH/APRIL 2012

Patron: Wal Eastman OAM

2012 Committee

Karen Armstrong, President; Robyn Mathison Secretary/Public Officer; Jen Gibson, Treasurer; Yvonne Stadler, Committee Member

Forthcoming Meetings

Friends Meeting House, 395 Argyle Street, North Hobart. All welcome

Wednesday, March 14th at 7.30 pm: Members’ readings. When you list your name to read, please note the reading time of your piece. Here’s a writing trigger:

Enemies and thieves don’t lay off as you weaken. – Harold Brodkey

Saturday, April 14th at 2 pm: Members’ essay competition. You are invited to write an essay (maximum 2000 words) on any topic, come to the meeting, and the first ten writers to register on the day will get to read their work. There will be a $2 entry fee to provide a modest prize for the best essay. The judge will be our intrepid anthology editor, Megan Schaffner, who points out that any work read at the meeting can still be submitted for the prose non-fiction anthology, provided the guidelines given on page 6 are followed.

Meeting Reports

Wednesday, February 8th: After the reading of Minutes of the 2011 AGM and the presentation of the President’s and Treasurer’s annual reports, the committee as listed above was re-elected unopposed and Lawrie Collis was reappointed as Auditor. We thank Andrea McMahon for continuing ex officio as web page keeper and Fiona Duncan for volunteering to take over from Margaret Wilmot the task of folding and mailing Tascribe every two months. We also thank Solveig Hamilton and John Biggs for volunteering to be co-opted on to the 2012 committee. They will attend meetings whenever possible.

At the ordinary meeting that followed the AGM, Mike Cooper entertained us with the wordplay in his poem ‘The S & P 100’ (from his book Gazza Goes a Gutser, released on February 3rd). Solveig Hamilton read the opening pages of her current project, a memoir of her father. Diarmid Ross showed us a handwritten diary dating from the very early years of the 20th century, author unknown. He read us the introduction, written in 1917 by an un-named psychiatrist. Jim Paterson circulated the cover design and spoke about Hey – Square Eyes, another volume of his memoirs, covering boyhood years in 1930s Sydney. John Biggs spoke about his latest book Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen’s Land? [40º South, 2011], launched on February 4th, and he read excerpts about his religious phase from chapter 34. John also showed us a copy of his short-story collection Towards Forgiveness, just published by Ginninderra Press, but yet to be launched. Margaret Wilmot read a short poem inspired by spying Wal Eastman inspecting a large red motorbike. Synchronicity was at work, for Wal read a poem about the bed at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, where in his youth, he spent seven months following a motorbike accident.

Note that some members’ subs are overdue. They’ll receive a reminder with this newsletter.

News & Views

Warm welcome to new members Robert Curtis, Pamela Scott, Anne Stephenson and Theresia Van Den Berg and welcome back Teodino Ottavi.

FAW Website: Some of you will have noticed that the FAW website has changed to a more contemporary design. Our old site had become increasingly difficult to maintain so we are now using to host our website. Our address hasn’t changed: it’s still .au.

If you have a look at the site you will see that a lot of the information in the Members’ Publications and Biographies sections is out of date and many members’ details don’t appear at all. I am asking all members to please review their entries on these pages to ensure details are current. I am also keen for members to review entries for members, both past and present, who are no longer able to do this for themselves.

If you like, I can add a thumbnail photo and one sample of your writing (previously published) to your biography. If you’re not sure what I mean, check out the entry under my name. Please send the writing sample as a Word document or PDF and the photo as a jpeg.

Also, under our Links page I have added a section for members’ websites. Please let me know if you’d like your site added.

Due to time constraints, all updates and additions will need to be forwarded to me by email. Please refer to existing entries for guidance on length and format. I won’t be checking material before I add it, so please make sure it has been proofread!

I hope you like our new site. Wordpress is a free, ‘off the shelf’ product so there were some limitations on design options. It’s a work in progress so if you have any comments or suggestions please let me know.

Please send your updated biography and publications list to andreamcmahon@.au. I look forward to hearing from you!

Andrea McMahon

Congratulations to Ben Walter! Not only has the printrun of 500 copies of I Sleep in Haysheds and Corners [Inscrutable Press, 2011] almost sold out, but this book has also won the Print Industry Craftsmanship Design Award, sponsored by Express Media, the peak organisation for young Australian Writers. Ben and graphic artist/ designer Kelly Eijenberg organised the collaboration between young writers and craftspeople that resulted in this beautifully produced book. The anthology showcases work by 20 young writers and artists.

Fran Graham invites you and your friends to Hobart Bookshop at 5.30 pm on Friday, March 23rd, when Karen Knight will launch Fran’s poetry collection On a Hook Behind the Door [Ginninderra Press].

The President of King Island Dramatic Society & Regional Arts has notified FAW that the King Island Literary Award will not be held in 2012. However, your committee has decided to conduct The FAW Tasmania 2012 Poetry Prize in its stead, For full details see Competitions listing on page 6.

Peter Macrow’s Blue Giraffe Press announces a new small print publication Windfall: Australian Haiku, which will be edited by Beverley George and designed and printed for Blue Giraffe Press by Picaro Press. The subscription of $10 for two issues can be paid in stamps or by a cheque made out to Peter Macrow. Send subscriptions to Peter Macrow, 6/16 Osborne St Sandy Bay TAS 7005. Enquiries to Peter Macrow at this address or by email to bluegiraffepress@. Submissions need to be sent direct to the editor, Beverley George. For submission guidelines see Opportunities, Page 8.

Peter has also announced that the winner of the Blue Giraffe Press first Haiku Competition was Judith E. P. Johnson. Her small book Alone at the Window: haiku & senryu [Ginninderra Press, 2012] is available now from Hobart Bookshop.

John Biggs’ report on Michael Rowland Writing Seminar: Wrest Point, February 9th, 2012

It is said that creativity is 90% perspiration and 10% inspiration. Not according to Michael Rowland, who asserted the opposite, that creativity is 10% perspiration and 90% inspiration. The perspiration involves getting in touch with your ‘superconscious’ and then ‘receiving and transcribing’ what your superconscious downloads for you. This way you will get in touch with your ‘essence’, your subpersonalities will become the subcharacters in your story and thus you will progress to your goal, your protagonist’s goal – and your readers’ goal, for by this time you have drawn your reader into the Journey. Your story is unputdownable – and you ‘earn large sums of money up front for your work and … collect royalties for the rest of your life.’ (sic). Michael then offered to those present his $550 course for getting superconscious downloads for $330, thus saving $220. For my part, I saved $330 by heading for the door at that point.

Rowland had approached writers’ groups, which is how Robyn Mathison had heard of the ‘free seminar’, which Rowland had described as being about ‘writing screenplays’, and she passed on the information to FAW members. As I have a novel Tin Dragons that I thought would make a cracker of a film, I was keen to attend – only to be a tad disappointed. However, if anyone feels I have been a little harsh, see Rowland’s take on what he is doing at .

John Biggs

Yvonne Stadler also attended this seminar and she will give her brief report at the March meeting.

Obituaries

June Mary Fazackerley née Saunders (July 2, 1924 – January 24, 2012)

As a young woman, June worked in Hobart for Kodak, but when she turned 18 during World War Two, she joined the AWAS, received training in driving and maintenance, and served as an ambulance driver. Later she married and had three sons, two of whom survive her.

June was a talented artist and, as well as exhibiting and selling her work, she passed on her knowledge and skill for over twenty years as an Adult Education tutor. As well, she was a writer of short stories and witty verse. For many years she was an active member of both the Society of Women Writers Tasmania and FAW, was a founding member of the Eight Pens Writing Group – all FAW members – and she contributed to their anthologies Short ‘n Curly and Short ‘n Curly Seasons. Many of her stories were also read on ABC radio and in 1999 her book Two Springs & Two Summers: Childhood in Tasmania was published. Based on June’s own life, it tells the story of one family’s fortunes before, during, and after the Depression. It also reveals June’s resilient character and great sense of humour, which endeared her to all who knew her.

Doris Mona Beith née Moore (October 2, 1926 – February 6, 2012)

Doris was born at Peel, Isle of Man, but grew up in inner-city Liverpool, surviving bombing raids and being evacuated from the city with her school during World War Two. As soon as she was old enough, she joined the Women’s Land Army, relishing the hard physical work outdoors in the English countryside. Doris married after the war and in 1955 she and her husband and two young daughters came to Tasmania as ‘ten-pound Poms’, living at first in a picker’s hut in the Channel area.

Doris was resilient, enthusiastic and energetic. She bought and renovated houses and restored bargain furniture. She was also gregarious, a witty conversationalist, a great storyteller and a gifted writer of stories, radio scripts and poems. Over the years, while working as a teacher and studying at the University of Tasmania, she was also honing her craft as a writer and having her work published in newspapers and journals.

At the suggestion of Barbara Manning, then with the Tasmanian Theatre in Education Company, Doris founded the Salamanca Script Centre, which she managed and continued to develop up until her retirement. Doris was active in FAW for over 40 years, served several terms on the committee and was awarded Life Membership in recognition of her contribution to the Fellowship. She is survived by her daughters Caroline and Jennifer and two grandsons.

Robyn Mathison

Members’ Credits

Susan Austin: Reader, Republic Bar & Café, February. John Biggs: Tasmania Over Five Generations: Return to Van Diemen’s Land? [40º South, 2011] launched, Hobart Bookshop; Towards Forgiveness [Ginninderra Press, 2012] published, both February. Mike Cooper: Gazza Goes a Gutser released; reader Republic Bar & Café, both February. Sarah Day: Poem, Penguin Book of Australian Poetry Ed. John Kinsella [Penguin, 2011]; poem The Age, October 8th. Graeme Hetherington: 3 poems, Jan/ Feb Quadrant; poem The Age, January 7th; 2 poems, Poetry Matters 14; 2 poems, Studio. Allan Jamieson: 3rd Prize, FAW NW Kath Doherty Historical Article Competition. Judith McCauley: 3rd Prize, FAW NW Jean Roberts Memorial Children’s Story. Liz McQuilkin: 3 poems read on radio 7RPH. Peter Macrow: 5 Haiku, Third Australian Haiku Anthology. Robyn Mathison: Tanka, Food for Thought, Ed Amelia Fielden [Ginninderra Press, 2011]. Marilyn Quirk: 1st Prize, FAW NW Kath Doherty Historical Article Competition. Sheila Spargo: 1st prize FAW NW Jean Roberts Memorial Children’s Story Competition. Edith Speers: Poem, Arena 115. Marion Thomson: 2nd Prize, FAW NW 2011 Kath Doherty Historical Article Competition. Jane Williams: Story, Griffith Review 34: The Annual Fiction Edition.

FAW Library

We sincerely thank donors for the following publications that have been added to the library recently:

Beverley George & David Terelinck (Eds): Grevillea & Wonga Vine: Australian Tanka of Place [Eucalypt Publication, 2011].

John Reynolds & Margaret Giordano: Countries of the Mind: The Biographical Journey of Edmund Morris Miller (1881 – 1964).

See Robyn Mathison at meetings or phone her on 6234 4418 (after 2 pm) about borrowing material.

FAW Tasmania NW Branch

The Branch has announced results of their two 2011 competitions as follows:

Jean Roberts Memorial Children’s Story: 1st Place: ‘Jeffrey and the Pterodactyl’ by Sheila Spargo; 2nd Place: ‘The Story of Little Rain Drop’ by Catherine Fair; 3rd Place: ‘Ben’s Boots’ by Judith McCauley.

Kath Doherty Historical Article: 1st Place: ‘The Curious Transportation of the U S Patriots 1839’ by Marilyn Quirk; 2nd Place: ‘The Trilogy’ by Marion Thomson; 3rd Place: ‘A History Lesson for Goldfish’ by Allan Jamieson.

The Branch meets at the Catholic Church meeting room, Alexandra Rd, Ulverstone on the second Wednesday of each month, at 2 pm in winter and at 7.30 pm in the months of daylight saving. Meetings are open to anyone interested in writing in any form. Enquiries: The Secretary. PO Box 538, Ulverstone 7315, email fawtas@ or visit

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Competitions

Please note that Normal Competition Conditions are listed on our website .au

Always make out cheques or postal orders exactly as shown in competition guidelines.

March 20th: ABR Copyright Agency Fellowship, worth $5000, is for an article or profile with an Asian theme. Full details on ABR website .au

March 31st: FAW Tasmania Nairda Lyne Award, open to all Australian writers, for an open-theme short story of no more than 1000 words, suitable for children 8 – 12 years of age. 1st Prize: $100 and author’s name engraved on a plaque in the Launceston Branch of the State Library. Hobart Bookshop Prize (voucher) for the best Tasmanian entry. Stories must be original, unpublished and must not have won any other prize. Type entries, double-spaced, in plain font, on one side only of white A4 paper, with pages numbered and stapled in top left-hand corner. Only the story title to appear on the manuscript. On a separate sheet, give author’s name and address and story title/s. Keep a copy of work. Entries will not be returned. Results will be announced at FAW Tasmania May meeting and prizewinners not present will be notified by mail. Entry fee: $5 per story. Please make cheques or money orders payable to FAW Tasmania Inc. Send entries to FAW Tasmania Inc, PO Box 234 North Hobart Tas 7002.

March 31st: Eve Masterman Peace Poetry Prize for an original, unpublished poem up to 60 lines that hasn’t won any other prize and that deals with aspects of peace and human rights. Work must be typed in plain font on one side of white A4 paper, pages of longer poems stapled in top left-hand corner. Only title to appear on poem. Enclose a separate sheet giving entrant’s name, phone number and postal address, title/s of poem/s and category entered. Prizes: Open Section $250 and $100; Student Section (years 11, 12 & tertiary) $100 and $50: Entry fees open section: $5 per poem. Students’ entries free. Normal conditions apply. Make cheques/money orders payable to WILPF Tasmanian Branch and send to Eve Masterman Prize C/- Mrs R. Martin, Hon Secretary WILPF Tasmania, 3 McTavish Avenue, North Hobart TAS 7000.

April 26th: The Novella Project is a collaboration between Griffith Review and Copyright Agency Limited. It will publish up to three novellas in The Griffith Review as well as individually in electronic format. Successful authors will share a prize pool of $30,000. Details: the-novella-project

April 30th: FAW Tasmania Members’ anthology of prose non-fiction. Submissions can be essays, articles, memoirs or lively travel narratives of any length up to 3000 words. Only the title should appear on manuscripts. Enclose a separate sheet giving title/s of work submitted and author’s name and contact details. Send to the Secretary, FAW Tasmania Inc, PO Box 234, North Hobart TAS 7002.

May 25th: Bundaberg Poets’ Society Inc 2012 Bush Lantern Award for bush verse of no more than 100 lines, on an Australian theme, with good rhyme and rhythm. 1st Prize Trophy + $200; 2nd Certificate + $100; 3rd Certificate + $75. Entry Fee: $8 per poem or $20 for 3 poems. Full conditions are on the entry form, which is essential and available (with SSAE) from Bundaberg Poets’ Society Inc, PO Box 4281, Bundaberg South Qld 4670 or by email from leesjdsl@.au or blanata@.au

June 30th: FAW Tasmania Iris Milutinovic Award for an original, unpublished short story between 1500 and 3000 words, depicting an event with realism and good characterisation. 1st Prize $200; 2nd $100; 3rd $50. Normal conditions apply. Entry fee: $5 per story. Please make cheques or money orders payable to FAW Tasmania Inc. Send entries to FAW Tasmania Inc, PO Box 234, North Hobart TAS 7002.

June 30th: FAW Tasmania 2012 Poetry Prize, open to all Australian writers, is for a poem of up to 60 lines. 1st Prize: $150; Runner-up: $50. Work must be original, unpublished and must not have won a prize in any other competition. Please type work in 12 point plain font, single-spaced on white A4 paper. Only the title is to appear on the poem, On a separate sheet give author’s name and address and title/s of work entered. Entry fee is $5 per poem. Please make cheques or money orders payable to FAW Tasmania Inc and send to FAW Tasmania Inc, PO Box 234, North Hobart TAS 7002.

November 11th, 2012: 100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project Competition for new poems by female poets based on the proposition that: Behind every war there are good women.

November 11th, 2013: 100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project Prize for new poems written between Remembrance Days Friday, November 11th, 2011 and Monday, November 11th, 2013. Entry form is essential; entry fee is $20 per poem. Total prizemoney is $5000 and prize-winning poems will be published in the Project’s publication. Full details for both the competition and prize are on website or available with SSAE from Co-ordinating Editor, 100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project, PO Box 170, Deloraine TAS 7304.

Opportunities

100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project aims to use new poetry by today’s poets to illustrate the diversity of current views about Australia’s and New Zealand’s commemorations of military history. A publication of 200 poems – 100 newly written, unpublished poems and 100 older poems – will be produced. In addition a competition, 100 Years from Gallipoli Poetry Project Prize will be conducted. Full details are on the website or are available with SSAE from the Co-ordinating Editor, PO Box 170, Deloraine TAS 7304. Ph 6362 4390.

ABR Copyright Agency Fellowship, worth $5000, is for an article or profile with an Asian theme. Details are on the ABR website .au, Note that applications close March 20th.

Bedtime Stories: Australian Women online seek short stories for children to be published – four each month – on the website, for free download to be read to children, or for children to read. They will pay $100 for each story used. Details on

Cedric’s Wall online magazine seeks previously unpublished poetry, fiction, essays or graphics by Tasmanian writers aged 12 – 25. They should send a short biography, saying where in Tasmania they live. Copyright remains with authors or artists for work published. There will be no payment. Send submissions to Ralph Wessman at cedricswall@.au

Creative Print Publishing offers a no-fee competition for unpublished fiction authors. Each month there is a different novel genre, with one winner each month. Winners will be offered a contract, and will receive full promotion, marketing strategies and royalties. Closing dates are as follows: March 31st; Westerns: April 30th; Horror/ the Supernatural. Details at publishing/competitions

Dark Prints Press is a small WA publisher ‘shining a light on dark fiction’ in the form of short stories, novellas and novels and aiming to publish 4 – 6 books a year, initially as e-books, with print to follow. Go to .au or email info@.au for full details.

Eucalypt: a tanka journal: Submissions of up to 6 tanka close on March 31st and September 30th each year. Include a statement that your work is original, unpublished, not broadcast and not under consideration elsewhere. Send with ssae to Beverley George PO Box 37 Pearl Beach NSW 2256 or email to editor@.

Even Before Publishing is seeking Australian and New Zealand writers of Christian fiction. Guidelines on , by email from info@ or with ssae from Wombat Books, PO Box 1519, Capalaba BC QLD 4147. Phone enquiries: 07 3245 1938.

FAW Tasmanian Inc seeks financial members’ work for an anthology of prose non-fiction. Submissions of essays, articles, memoirs and lively travel narratives can be of any length up to 3000 words. Work will be chosen on the merit of the writing. Give only the title on the manuscript. On a separate sheet give title/s of work and your name and contact details. Send to The Secretary, FAW TAS Inc, PO Box 234, North Hobart TAS 7002 by April 30th, 2012.

History Magazine, the quarterly journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, accepts and pays for freelance articles, fillers, interviews, reviews and cartoons. Contact first by phone (02) 9247 8001 or email history@.au. Information on .au

Islet quarterly online journal accepts poetry to 25 lines, prose fiction to 600 words and reviews to 400 words. Send to the editor Rachel Edwards at islet.online@utas.edu.au. Submission guidelines and payment details: .au/submissions

Magabala Books Indigenous publishing house seeks manuscripts and art works from Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander writers, storytellers, artists and graphic designers. Magabala publishes a range of genres, traditional and contemporary, particularly memoirs, social history, young adult fiction and children’s stories. Submission guidelines from or Jacqui Wright on 08 9192 1991.

.Positive Words Magazine offers monthly challenges. Prize is publication + a six-month subscription. Poetry & prose submissions on any theme are also welcome at any time. Send (with ssae) to the Editor Sandra James PO Box 798, Heathcote VIC 3523. Send $2.40 in unused stamps for a sample copy.

Studio welcomes unsolicited submissions of poetry up to 100 lines; short stories, literary articles and other prose up to 3,000 words; letters and reviews. Payment is a complimentary copy of the issue in which work appears. Send with ssae to Studio, 727 Peel Street, Albury NSW 2640.

Windfall: Australian Haiku Contribution is restricted to Australian poets. The submission period is restricted to June 30th – July 31st each year. Acceptance will be notified by August 31st. Please head all submissions with your name, postal address and date of submission, together with a statement that the submitted haiku are original, unpublished and not under consideration elsewhere. You may submit up to 10 haiku per issue, but only 2 – 3 haiku by an individual poet will be selected for any given issue. The editor and publisher are seeking haiku that are relevant to the experience of urban and rural life in Australia and that celebrate landform, seasons and/or Australia’s unique flora and fauna. Submit unpublished haiku to Beverley George, PO Box 37, Pearl Beach NSW 2256 or email to beverleygeorge@ with Windfall and your name in the subject line.

Events

* Sunday, March 4th: 3 – 5 pm Republic Bar & Café Reading

* Tuesday, March 6th: 7 – 9 pm Bellerive Community Arts Centre, Eastern Shore Writers

* Friday, March 9th: 2.30 – 5 pm Devonport Library meeting room, Mersey Writers’ Group

* Wednesday, March 14th: 7.30 pm Friends Meeting House, FAW Hobart Branch meeting

: 7.30 pm Catholic Church meeting room, Ulverstone: FAW NW Branch meeting

* Thursday, March 15th: 5.30 pm Salamanca Inn: Robert Dessaix speaking. Free Hobart Bookshop event.

* Sunday, March 18th 2 pm Ulverstone Community House, Sunday Scribblers

* Friday, March 23rd: 2.30 – 5 pm Devonport Library meeting room, Mersey Writers’ Group

5.30 pm Hobart Bookshop launch of Fran Graham’s poetry collection.

* Sunday, April 1st: 3 – 5 pm Republic Bar & Café reading.

* Tuesday, April 3rd: 7 – 9 pm Bellerive Community Arts Centre, Eastern Shore Writers

* Friday April 6th: 2.30 – 5 pm Devonport Library meeting room, Mersey Writers’ Group

* Wednesday, April 11th: 2 pm Catholic Church meeting room, Ulverstone: FAW NW Branch meeting

* Saturday, April 14th: 2 pm Friends Meeting House: FAW Hobart Branch meeting

* Sunday, April 15th: 2 pm Ulverstone Community House, Sunday Scribblers

* Friday, April 20th: 2.30 – 5 pm Devonport Library meeting room, Mersey Writers’ Group

Hobart Bookshop

22 Salamanca Square, Hobart offers FAW members 10% discount on all purchases.

Email hobooks@.au to be placed on their list for regular notices of events.

Tascribe deadline for the May/June issue is Friday, April 20th. Send news and writing credits to The Editor, FAW Tasmania Inc, PO Box 234, North Hobart TAS 7002.

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