ZineWest

ZineWest '11 Results

2011-10-16T15:03:00.001+11:00

ZineWest '11 Launch opened by the Hon. Nathan Rees, NSW shadow minister for the Arts and attended by special guest, Zelda Baravykas, Expression Sessions.

First Place and Best Poem - George Toseski: $400 (NWG Inc & Writing and Society Research Group)
Second Place - Liz Rule: Books from Giramondo Publishing (Writing and Society Research Group)
Third Place and Best Prose - Arna Radovich: Book from Giramondo Publishing (Writing and Society Research Group)
Commendation certificates: Bronwyn Lovell, Neil Murphy, Maryam Tayyaba
Editor’s Award- Jason Gray: Book - Small Indiscretions by Felicity Castagna (NWG Inc & Expression Sessions)
Encouragement certificate - Siham Youssef

ZineWest WORD (Evening Spoken Word/Western Fringe Music at Mars Hill Café)
Book awards (NWG Inc and Expressions Sessions)
ZW entrants Spoken Word was won by Lara Taylor
Open Mic was also won by Lara Taylor!
Runner-up was Gavin Hawke.

Date: Saturday, 15th October, Venue: Parramatta Heritage Centre

More details on NWG Inc's blog

We'll have some pics up on picasa soon!

ZineWest 11 October update

2011-10-15T08:23:00.003+11:00

UPDATE: ZineWest WORD Spoken Word and Music night:Jim Shipstone on piano will be joining Stewart Peters and Desley Taylor on guitar at Mars Hill Cafe!HOPE TO SEE YOU AT THE ZW LAUNCH AND OR ZW WORD FOLKS

ZineWest 11 September News

2011-09-14T20:32:00.000+10:00

ZW11 LAUNCH
The Hon. Nathan Rees, NSW MP, member for Toongabbie and Shadow Minister for the Arts will open the ZineWest Launch on Saturday, 15th October at the Parramatta Heritage Centre.

ZW WORDWestern Fringe musicians will be singer/songwriters:Stewart Peters and Desley Taylor at Mars Hill Cafe

Event details:
SATURDAY 15TH OCTOBER

ZineWest 11 PrintZine -

Launched by Nathan Rees MP

12:30 pm food/drink

1:15 - 3:15 pm

Readings, Prizes, Judge’s comments

Parramatta Heritage Centre

346 Church Street, Parramatta

Followed in the evening by
ZW WORD Spoken Word/Music Night

Two Spoken Word Comps – book prizes

· ZW11 entrants

· OPEN MIC – register at 8:00 pm

Music by
Western Fringe Songwriters’ Network - Stewart Peters and Desley Taylor

Mars Hill Cafe,
331 Church St Parramatta (upstairs)

ZineWest 11 August Update

2011-08-30T12:55:00.001+10:00

Editing: all selected entries may receive minor editing for house style, punctuation, spelling, and sometimes paragraphing. Anything which might need clarification, we'll contact you first! Thanks to those writers who were able to attend the workshop and who've come back with their edits.
Reading at the Launch on 15th October. We have a list now for people wanting to read. Have we heard from you???
Illustrations Are due in now folks!
ZW WORD If you didn't have an entry selected for the print zine, you've probably received an invite to present your work at ZW WORD in the evening of the launch day, Saturday, 15th October at Mars Hill Cafe. Please let us know if you haven't received your invite...

ZineWest Publishing List

2011-07-17T11:24:00.004+10:00

The four editors (Sue Crawford, Glenn Anderson, Felicity Castagna and Lyn Leerson) have drawn up a publication list of thirty-two entries with the usual struggle:) These anonymous entries are passed to our judge Fiona Wright (Giramondo Pubishing)while we continue with the work of editing and preparing the zine for printing.

The following writers had an entry accepted for publication in the print zine:
S. Baghei, G. Barbagallo, E. Bartulovich, A. Benjamin, C. Broadribb, B. Collis, M. Cristescu, N. Fairbairn, J. Gray, L. Herrmann, M.W. Jackson, M. Jeans, M. Koparan, B. Lovell, R. Le' Vano, A. Marsden, P. Masonwells, N. Murphy, P. O'Loughlin, E. Pope, A. Radovich, E. Rule, L. Rule, A. Smithers, J. Spain, V. Stokes, M. Sutton, M. Tayyaba, G. Toseski, P. Weerakoon, S. Youssef, L. Zhang

ZineWest News: Felicity Castagna, WestWords...

2011-07-08T18:12:00.002+10:00

1. First up, expect to see the publication list for ZineWest 2011 on this blog and NWG Inc's home page by Sunday 17th July. If your name isn't there, don't despair, an invitation to present your work at ZW WORD could be on its way...

2. Our friends at WestWords - the Western Sydney Young People's Literature Project are inviting writers aged between 14 and 18 to submit work in order to be selected to attend four masterclass workshops with award-winning author James Roy. The workshops will take place at Mars Hill Cafe on weekend dates to be determined in the second half of 2011. It is open to young people resident in, or attending school in greater Western Sydney. For details download the Entry Form Due 22nd July!

3. Felicity Castagna, one of our ZineWest editors (who won ZW09) invites ZineWesters to the launch by Ivor Indyk of her new book
Small Indiscretions - Stories of Travel in Asia published by Transit Lounge.

SATURDAY 6 AUGUST, 3.30pm for 4pm
The Wine Bar, Berkelouw Books
70 Norton St, Leichhardt, Sydney NSW 2040
RSVP: info@transitlounge.com.au or Berkelouw Books
(02) 9560 3200 leichhardt@berkelouw.com.au

Invitation to Launch
Information at Transit Lounge

ZineWest 2011 Due Date 25th June

2011-06-11T12:45:00.004+10:00

Due date for your entries to ZineWest 2011 is fast approaching!
25th June, 2011

ZineWest is a great place to publish your shorter works/extracts - poetry, prose, drama, cartoon - any word-based art we can reproduce in our annual print zine. First Prize is $400 plus other book awards and certificates. There’s also a second chance to present your work at an open mic/music event following the ZW11 print zine launch.Entry is free and to be eligible you don’t have to live in Western Sydney if you work or study in WS, or attend a WS writers’ group.

Invitation and
Entry Form

Image by Kirtika Kain from ZW10

ZineWest 11 - spread the word

2011-05-12T17:11:00.000+10:00

Do you know a writer or a writers' group who'd be interested in ZineWest 11? The more writers who get involved with this project the better! Remember it's free entry, and we're looking for short works in a range of genre and style. Prizes and opportunities for publication and Spoken Word

Information Form
Entry Form
Editor's Advice!
Image by Leonie Le' Vano - one of many from ZineWest 10

ZW WORD and Western Fringe

2011-04-30T16:10:00.005+10:00

WESTERN FRINGE song writing network will be part of ZW WORD this year! (ZW WORD is the spoken word comp that follows the main ZW11 launch.)
Stewart Peters and Snez will perform plus two other music acts from Western Fringe. We will have two spoken word competitions same as last year with a little more time to deliver a great event at our home of homes, Mars Hill Cafe. Up to ten entrants from ZineWest 11 will be asked to present one of their entries to a live evening audience and in a second competition we'll hear from the first 10 writers to register on the night. Judging will NOT be by the editors/judge of the print zine and there will be one modest prize for the winner of each comp. Presentation will count but because it's NEW Writers' Group inc running it, content will count even more.

DATE FOR BOTH PRINT ZINE LAUNCH AND SPOKEN WORD COMP
Saturday 15th October
ZW11 Launch 12:30pm for 1:15-3:15 Readings/Prizes
Parramatta Heritage Centre 346 Church Street Parramatta
ZW WORD 8:00pm for 8:30-10:30
Mars Hill Cafe, 331 Church Street Parramatta

SEE previous post for more info and entry forms

ZineWest 11 Information and Entry Form

2011-04-01T18:11:00.005+11:00

Hello Western Sydney Writers! ZineWest is on again.

We want to publish your short original (wonderful) works: poetry, prose, cartoon, drama, whatever we can reasonably reproduce in our print zine. Lots of prizes including overall winner $400. Plus a second chance open mic comp called ZineWest Word. FREE Entry! don't forget to send in your entries with a completed subform.

Information Form
Entry Form
Editor's Advice!

More news soon.....

ZineWest 2011

2011-01-18T13:54:00.003+11:00

ZineWest 2011 entries can be forwarded to our editors between 1st April and 25th June. 2011 entry forms and guidelines will be posted here soon.

ZW10 Results

2010-10-16T16:15:00.002+11:00

Pics on NWG Inc Picasa At the ZineWest 10 Launch on Saturday, 9th October, Ms Julie Owens, Federal MP for Parramatta opened the event and Fiona Wright of Giramondo Publishing announced the awards. The readers demonstrated the depth and diversity of writers’ voices from around Western Sydney. Pictured is winner Luke Carman and judge Fiona Wright. Luke received a certificate and cheque for $400, co-sponsored by the Writing and Society Research Group and NWG Inc. The prize list is as follows:
Luke Carman: 1st Prize and Best Story – My Time
George Toseski: 2nd Prize and Best Poem – Survivor
Mihaela Cristescu: 3rd Prize – Sacred

Commendations:
Morag Sutton – Who are these people?
Paul O’Loughlin – Reconfigured
J. Helmsley – Saturday 2:45 am

Editor’s Awards: Jenny Trimboli for four years excellent contribution to ZW and Luke Rule for excellent submissions over three years

ZW WORD was subsequently held at Mars Hill Cafe. ZW entrants and the Open Mic entrants gave us great entertainment: the standard of work was strong and presentation good. ZW winner was Melda Korporan and Open Mic winner was Adam Marsden who both received $25 book vouchers.

ZineWest 10 Launch

2010-09-14T18:12:00.004+10:00

ZineWest 2010 Launch (and ZW Word)- Saturday 9th October
Opened by Ms Julie Owens, MP

Venue:
Studio 2, Connect Studios, Connection Arcade
Cr. Darcy and Church St Parramatta
Time:
12:30 pm, Refreshments
1:15 – 3:15 pm, Readings and Awards
Entry: $5 to cover venue hire.
Zine: $8 each (Writers published this year may collect one free copy)

ZW WORD/Open Mic – Saturday 9th October following ZW Launch Free entry
Wonderful poems and stories from more ZW10 entrants.
Two prizes on offer - one for ZW writers and one for open mic entrants.
NB Open mic entrants please register (free) upstairs at Mars Hill Cafe by 3:40pm to wow us with your depth or humour or pathos or plain speaking. Your original work only please. No props. 16 years and over.
Venue: Mars Hill Cafe, 331 Church St Parramatta (upstairs)
Time: 3:50- 5:30 pm, 331 Church St Parramatta

Directions and parking info see more details on the NWG Inc Blog/ZW

ZineWest 10 Publishing List

2010-07-31T16:14:00.006+10:00

The writers listed below all have one entry selected to appear in the print zine ZineWest 10. (Comments from this years editors: PDF Download ZW10 Editors Comments
Other entrants have been invited to present their work live at ZW Word which follows the official launch on Saturday 9th October. We will soon post details of the ZW10 launch at Connect Studios Parramatta (12:30 for 1pm) and the following event ZW Word (3:50pm) at Mars Hill Cafe.

G.J. Barbagallo E. Bartulovich A. Benjamin
L. Carman L. Carswell E. Craggs
M. Cristescu K. Davis S. Duffy
N. Fairbairn F. Farid T. Farrugia
M.W. Jackson J. Hemsley L. Herrmann
I. Krueger P. O’Loughlin J. Patterson
P. Porteous E. Rule Liz Rule
Luke Rule K. Steele M. Sutton
D. Toohey G. Toseski E. Trimboli
P. Weerakoon W. Wiebelitz J. Wrightson

The ZineWest title was created for the NEW Writers’ Group Anthology in 2006. The following year we divided our publishing energy into two zines: our in-house anthology for NWG Inc members and a second zine for all new Western Sydney writers (which took over the title ZineWest).

Since the first ZW competition in 2006, many writers have entered over several years but we’ve found only one writer, E. (Jenny) Trimboli, who has been published in all editions including this year. The Editor has nominated Mrs Trimboli for an editors’ award. An additional editors’ award may also be announced at the launch on 9th October in addition to the awards and prizes nominated by the judge.

ZW News update

2010-06-25T07:05:00.001+10:00

ONE: We are almost sure that our launch date will be Saturday 9th October - just a few loose ends - somewhere in Parramatta...
TWO: Last year's overall winner, Glenn Anderson, will have his winning story "Moroney" published in the 2010 edition of AWAW (Award Winning Australian Writing. Congratulations Glenn! (Our 2008 winner, Felicity Castagna appeared in the inaugural edition of AWAW with her story "DEV")

ZineWest 2010 is open for entries

2010-03-30T18:39:00.006+11:00

Welcome back to ZineWest for 2010! Once again we are asking new writers who live, study or work in Western Sydney to send us short works for this year's zine and competition. You are also eligible if you attend a Western Sydney writers group. You need to be 16 years or over.

We are interested in any word-based genre we can publish in print: poetry, lyrics, stories, memoir, drama, comics, cartoons.

First prize is $400. Co-sponsor is the Writing and Society Research Group, UWS
Our Judge (pictured) is poet and editor Fiona Wright (HEAT Magazine, Giramondo)

Entry is Free

For more details see the Invitation and Submission Form:
Invitation ZW 10
Submission Form ZW 10

Queries? Email the editors!

ZineWest 09 Results

2009-10-07T17:31:00.005+11:00

Ms Julie Owens MP, Helen Dalrymple (NWG Inc member) Lyn Leerson (Guest Editor ZW)

Ms Julie Owens, Federal MP for Parramatta opened the ZW Launch on 26th September 09 at the Parramatta Heritage Centre with a vibrant commentary on the development of writing in the community. She drew an interesting parallel between debate on the community’s economic foundations and the value of solid foundations in the community for writers. Collaborations like ZineWest help new writers develop and enjoy their work, and can be a step on the path to bigger readership.

Our judge, Fiona Wright of Giramondo Publishing, warmly praised the collection by 33 writers and gave some interesting detail on her appreciation of the winning entries and commendations. She also answered some burning questions from guest editors Felicity Castagna and Lyn Leerson on what exactly are the failings of works that don’t ‘quite make the cut’ at Giramondo Publishing.

Fiona Wright announced the following results for ZW 09:

First: Glenn Anderson for his story “Moroney” (Cash Prize:$400)
Second: Peter Porteous for his poem “Confessional” (A year’s subscription to HEAT)
Third: Luke Rule for his story “The Insomniac Uprising” (Book from Giramondo Publishing)

Commendations:
Denise Patricia Aldridge for her poem “Sestina for my Grandmother”
Brian Yatman for his poem “Wrong Place”
George Toseski for his poem “Homes”
Diana Tjoeng for her story “From Different Lands”

Diana Tjoeng and George Toseski received the NWG Inc Editor’s award for their contribution to present and past ZW editions. Diana was given a copy of Award Winning Australian Writers 09 and George received David Malouf’s latest work “Ransom”.

The works by the three prize-winners will be posted on NWG Inc’s Ezine later this month.

ZineWest 09 Launch

2009-08-15T16:20:00.001+10:00

ZineWest 09 will be launched on
SATURDAY 26th SEPTEMBER, 2009

Parramatta Heritage Centre (Seminar Room, downstairs)
346A Church Street Parramatta
1:00 - 1:30 pm - drinks/light snacks
1:30 - 3:30 pm - readings, awards, judge's comments

Entry: $5
Zines: $5 (NB published ZW writers are given one free copy)

and afterwards at 4:00 pm
Mars Hill Cafe, 331 Church St Parramatta (upstairs)
for coffee and more readings from ZW09 entrants

ZineWest 09 Publishing List

2009-08-15T16:01:00.002+10:00

ZineWest editors have selected about a third of the entries sent in to publish in ZineWest 09. Here are the names of the writers:

D. P. Aldridge; G. Anderson; S. Baghaei; G. Barbagallo; L. Bartolo; E. Bartulovich; D. Bofinger; N. Collis; I. Cosar; K. Davis; C. Dockmagian; J. Douglas; Y. Eckhardt; M. Finlayson; J. Gray; A. Healy; M.K.Kyaw; R. L’ Vano; P. O’Loughlin; R. Pham; P. Porteous; L. Rule; K. Steele; E. Steer; D. Tjoeng; X. Toby; D. Toohey; G. Toseski; E. Trimboli; T. White; S.G. Williams; B. Yatman; D.S. Zappone.

Other entrants have been invited to read one of their entered works at the Open Mic session following the Launch on Saturday 26th September, 2009.

ZineWest 09 Competition Judge

2009-06-17T16:31:00.004+10:00

New Writers' Group Inc is happy to announce that Fiona Wright has agreed to act as judge for ZineWest 09. Fiona works as an editor for Giramondo publishing and is deputy editor of HEAT Magazine. Her works have been published in journals and anthologies in Australia, Asia and the USA. Her poems feature in Best Australian Poems 2008 (Black Ink) and the Toilet Doors Project (2004). In 2007 she was awarded a residency at the Tasmania Writers' Centre.

There's not much time left to submit entries! See bottom of post below for downloads of the information sheet and the guidelines/submission form.

ZineWest 09 entries due 20th June, 2009

2009-04-26T13:57:00.015+10:00

"We are looking forward to your exciting entries for ZineWest 2009. Send us your original, previously unpublished, short works in any word-based genre we can reproduce in a print zine: stories, poems, song lyrics, memoir, drama, cartoons and comics. "

Editor of ZineWest Sue Crawford

You need to live, work or study in Western Sydney, and be 16 years or over. We will publish around 30 short pieces in ZineWest 09 from the entries submitted and these selected entries are in the running for prizes:

First: $400 cash.
Second: A year's subscription to HEAT Magazine.
Third: A book from the Giramondo imprint.
Plus there are nominations including best story and best poem.

Entries are selected for the publication list by ZW editor Sue Crawford (president New Writers' Group Inc) and guest editors Lyn Leerson (president FAW Parramatta) and Felicity Castagna (ZW08 winner). These entries are then forwarded to the Writing and Society Research Group of the University of Western Sydney for judging. Please read the information sheet and guidelines carefully before sending us up to 3 pieces with completed entry form to NWG Inc at
Editors' Email (subject ZW09) or post to:
ZineWest c/- NWG Inc, PO Box 1339 Parramatta 2124
Please don't hand in at a gathering. Your entries should bear a title but not your name.

Information Sheet ZW09
Guidelines/Entry Form ZW09

ZineWest Winners 2008

2008-11-24T09:25:00.008+11:00

Thank you to all ZW writers who attended the launch - almost everyone made it except writers who were obliged to be out of Sydney on the day. That was a wonderful show of support for the project and gave the eighteen readers an audience right til 5:00 pm. Many thanks also to their friends and family and to other entrants who helped celebrate our second ZineWest.

The photo above is of the first prize winner, Felicity Castagna, having a quick chat to the judge, Dr Mridula Chakraborty, during the coffee break at Mars Hill Cafe. Felicity won with her prose piece "DEV" - an intimate exploration of just what might be the story behind a couple you see sharing the weekend paper at a coffee shop... Felicity's prize was $400 - provided by New Writers Group Inc and the Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney.

Writers who volunteered to read at the launch had their place on the reading list decided by a draw. First up was Kathleen Steele with her poem "Mourning Conversation "- an intense, one-sided "exchange" with someone reading the headlines and ignoring the pain. Kathleen won second prize, a year's subscription to HEAT Magazine provided by the Writing and Society Research Group, University of Western Sydney.

Luke Rule was awarded third Prize ($25 Book voucher from NWG Inc) for his story "The Theory of Gravity" - Luke got plenty of laughs when he read his piece, however one member of the audience on congratulating Luke added - "Now you've given me one more thing to worry about!"

Dr Chakraborty also added four nominations to the awards list - all of equal merit:

David Bofinger "Of Mice and Men and Goldfish"
Barbara Fern "Birth of the Bagpipe on Brignall Banks"
Lauren Alison Maher "Shoebox"
Diana Tjoeng "Few and Far Between"

In addition to her merit nomination, Lauren Maher won the door prize - $25 Book Voucher from NWG Inc

CONGRATULATIONS to all on the award list and also to all the Western Sydney writers who gave us the privilege of reading their work. Hope to see you back in 2009...

Launch - 22nd November, 3pm Mars Hill Cafe

2008-10-28T10:35:00.009+11:00

Professor Ivor Indyk, Whitlam Chair, Writing and Society Research Group (College of Arts, UWS Bankstown Campus) will speak about writing and publishing at the ZineWest 2008 Launch.

The launch will open with readings from the zine followed by Prof Indyk's talk and announcement of the prizewinners by our judge, Dr Mridula Chakraborty (see earlier post).

Our venue hosts are Kevin and Lisa Crouse at Mars Hill Cafe, 331 Church St Parramatta.

There'll be time for coffee and socialising plus more readings.

NWG Inc members and ZW entrants are invited to bring any self-published works to display (or offer for sale) at our publication table.

Copies of ZineWest will be on sale at $5 each.

Prof Ivor Indyk's current research projects include the history of Australian literary publishing, and the expression of awkwardness and embarrassment in Australian literature. He is the founding editor of Heat Magazine and publisher of the Giramondo book imprint, now housed within the Writing and Society Research Group. The most recent publications of Giramondo include Alexis Wright's Miles Franklin Award winner Carpentaria (2006), Brian Castro's The Garden Book (2005), and Jennifer Maiden's poetry collection, Friendly Fire (2005). A critic, essayist and reviewer, he has written a monograph on David Malouf, and essays on many aspects of Australian literature.

Ivor's areas of postgraduate supervision include Australian literature and literary publishing.

Judge for ZineWest 2008

2008-09-05T17:00:00.005+10:00

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.

ZW 08 Countdown

2008-07-29T15:25:00.004+10:00

After a slow start, the entries are piling up. We're seeing many new names which means a big thank you to all of our friends who've passed the word on. Carol Amos (NWG Inc President) has the task of anonymising (I can never pronounce this non-word) all the entries and then it's over to myself, Lil Scully (former NWG Inc President) and Lyn Leerson (FAW Parramatta President) to select up to thirty pieces for publication in ZineWest 2008.

As soon as that's done we'll put up a list and invite those writers to attend editing workshops if they can. (It is a painless procedure aimed at giving writers a chance to fix up any little mistakes themselves rather than have the editors doing it.) Meanwhile we'll forward the entries (unedited, unnamed) to our judges at the Writing and Society Research Group at University of Western Sydney.

Good luck
Sue Crawford
Editor ZineWest

ZineWest 2008 Entry Form

2008-05-14T20:57:00.003+10:00

ZineWest 2008 is now open! Closing date for entries is 31st July, 2008. Free Entry

Poetry, prose, lyrics, short stories, memoir, cartoon...

See Invitation to writers and writing groups

See Entry form

News Update

2008-03-25T20:18:00.004+11:00

Professor Ivor Indyk (Whitlam Chair, University of Western Sydney) has agreed to support the second edition of ZineWest as co-sponsor through the Writing and Society Research Group.

This will be a great help to the New Writers Group Inc in organising and funding ZineWest 2008!

ZineWest 2008

2008-02-28T16:49:00.003+11:00

Good News. The New Writers' Group Inc committee has voted to host another ZineWest competition and publication in 2008. This year the publication will be printed (rather than photocopied) and wirebound. At $5 we calculate it will pay for itself based on our most recent Anthology zine. Editor will be Sue Crawford, with two other editors yet to be nominated. We plan to open the competition in May/June have it judged in August and published/launched/performed in October. We hope all our supporters from last year will send us some great entries. More news soon.

Parramatta Sun article by Isabell Petrinic

2007-07-10T16:11:00.001+10:00

Isabell Petrinic's interview of Jane Goodall was published after the launch, but was good publicity for ZineWest. Here's the link, while it lasts! Parramatta Sun article

Winners work to be published on NWG Inc E-Zine

2007-07-04T17:14:00.000+10:00

The wining pieces from Grace Culshaw, Chris Hale and Steven Cavanagh will soon appear in the E-zine pages of the NWG Inc site.

Prize Winners!

2007-06-12T20:09:00.000+10:00

Parramatta poet Grace Culshaw took first prize at the ZineWest Launch with her elegant and evocative "Some Poems for Chris". Chris Hale followed with his sharply funny comic "Revolution 9" and Steven Cavanagh secured third place with a rivetting piece of flash fiction "World of Hurt".
Mentions went to Lyn Leerson - "A Life Regained", Carol Amos - "Death by Deception", Leila Walshaw for her cartoon "Dedicated to.... Sleeping" and Patty Jansen for her flash fiction "Straight through the Heart". Congratulations to you all for a brilliant effort and to all the other finalists who gave you loads of competition. And thanks also to the editors Sue Crawford, Ellie Ellie and Lil Scully plus all the organisers of the HomeWord Festival. Special mentions to Parramatta City Council for supporting HomeWord through the Community Grants Scheme and Jane Goodall our judge and Ivor Indyk head of the Writing and Society Research Group of University of Western Sydney for generously increasing the prize value.

Lastly another special mention for the artists whose images enriched our zine cover: Joanne Grieve, Federico Mendoza, Nazanin Marashian and Stan Florek.

Zines are respectable now

2007-05-19T20:24:00.000+10:00

The wonderfully enlightened experts at the Sydney Writers Festival have come out with a definition of a zine. Describes NWG Inc publications efforts to a 'T'. Suddenly we are respectable (sort of). Amateur is okay. Photocopying the sign of being genuine. Minimum profits perfectly acceptable.

"What are zines? Zines come in all different shapes and sizes. Generally they are handmade, non-professional, non-commercial photocopied publications. Some commonly found types of zines are personal zines (perzines), art zines, zines about music and politics, or fanzines about a person, place or thing." (SWF PDF doc.)

So have you a self-published book of verse, stapled pages of private ranting? Go sell at the Sydney Festival! Check out the SWF site for details(Can't go sell ZineWest 07 though - have to wait for the launch Sunday 10th June 2:15-4:15!!

The Writing and Society Research Group -

2007-05-08T09:34:00.000+10:00

Great news for ZineWest:

Ivor Indyk and Jane Goodall of the Writing and Society Research Group of University of Western Sydney have arranged for the Group to become co-sponsors of the ZineWest 07 competition prizes. Ivor is the Group's leader and Jane is our esteemed competition Judge.

1st - doubled to $400
2nd - A subscription to HEAT magazine (worth $60) added to our $25 book voucher
3rd - remains at $25 but the NWG Inc committee is thinking of adding a book by the great Australian novelist, David Malouf, who is the key author of the HomeWord Festival 07 - Writing Western Sydney.

The launch details are now confirmed - All Welcome!

Date: Sunday 10th June
Time: 2:15-4:15 pm
Venue: Riverside Theatres, Church St, Parramatta

Around eight of our zine finalists will read their work at the Launch. Jane Goodall will present the prizes and Fida Haq will present his videowork The Road Home - a collaboration with NWG Inc writers.

The launch will be followed by a forum with David Malouf at 4:45-5:45, same date, same venue.

ZineWest entries now closed for 2007

2007-03-14T18:01:00.000+11:00

Congratulation to all who entered the ZineWest competition. The overall standard of entries has given the editing team a tough job to make selections for ZineWest. We had 70 writers in Western Sydney submit a total of 140 entries.

The final short list will be judged by Prof Jane Goodall and prizes will be announced at the zine launch during the HomeWord Festival late May/early June. More details soon.

Sue Crawford
Editor
ZineWest

ZineWest 2007 - Contributions open til 3rd March 07

2007-01-19T16:47:00.000+11:00

New Writers’ Group Inc is looking for contributions to their new magazine, “ZineWest”.

"We want high quality, original work that has not previously been published or won an award," says editor Sue Crawford.

“We’re interested in poetry, short stories, drama, memoir, lyrics and cartoons (with some text). Original illustrations of the written pieces are also welcome."

“It’s important to encourage local talent,” says New Writers’ Group President, Elizabeth Scully, 25, from Parramatta. "ZineWest is a good opportunity for new writers to see their work in print and win great prizes.”

Our judge is thriller writer, Professor Jane Goodall from the University of Western Sydney.

Entry is free and up to thirty writers will be included in the zine. The winners and some of the other writers published in ZineWest will be invited to present their work at the launch of the HomeWord: Writing Western Sydney Festival in mid 2007.

HomeWord is supported by a Parramatta City Council Community Grant.

For submission guidelines and form

visit www.nwg-inc.com or

email admin@nwg-inc.com or

write to the Editor, NWG Inc, PO Box 1339, Parramatta 2124.

But hurry, deadline is 3^rd March, 2007!