Judge for ZineWest 2008

We are delighted to announce that Dr Mridula Chakraborty, who has recently joined the Writing and Society Research Group at the College of Arts, University of Western Sydney as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, will judge the prizes for ZineWest 2008. The prizes will be announced at the launch Saturday 22nd November at Mars Hill Cafe, 331 Church St Parramatta. See Mridula's bio below.

Meanwhile....

Just to remind you how it works:
ZineWest editors are selecting a publishing list from 110 entries. The list will be posted online 3rd October and all entrants notified by email or snail mail as soon as possible.

The writers on the publishing list will have one of their entries included in ZineWest 08. These entries will be sent to Dr Chakraborty who will nominate prizes and awards. Like last year, the overall standard of entry shows skill, passion and experience.



Mridula Nath Chakraborty’s twenty-years’ old association with literature and publishing has found a new home in the Writing and Society Research Group, which she has joined as a postdoctoral fellow. She recently completed her doctoral work at the University of Alberta, Canada, on five postcolonial feminists. Trained in a classical English literary canon at Delhi University, India, Mridula's research interests include postcolonial and diasporic literatures, studies in nationalism and feminism, translation theory, culinary cultures, public intellectuals, global English and Bombay cinema. She has worked at the intersection of English and regional language publishing in India with Penguin Books and Katha. In 1997, she won the A K Ramanujan Award for translation from two Indian languages and has translated and co-edited, with Rani Ray, A Treasury of Bangla Stories (Srishti 1999). In 2006, she curated an exhibition on Alberta Women Making History and produced a catalogue for it, The Blue Sky Their Horizon, as also a digital, oral narrative history of academic women at the University of Alberta as part of a special project on Institutionalising Feminism.