Friendly Street Poets

North Eastern Writers Inc and Tea Tree Gully Library Poetry and Short Story Competition.

Entries close 29th September.

Entry fee is $5 per adult entry. Youth and children’s sections are free.

Download entry form and conditions below:

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The submission guidelines for the 2008 New Poets, and Single Poet can be downloaded below:

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6^th Australian Poetry Festival

5, 6, 7 September 2008

Sydney Mechanics School of Arts

280 Pitt Street, Sydney

Reserve these dates! Serious Fun!

• Opening Night Party and Performance
• Poets from around Australia and overseas
• Panels on the State of Play in Contemporary Oz Poetry
• Performance Night
• The Judith Wright Lecture (to be delivered by Bruce Dawe)
• The $3000 Poets Union Poetry Prize (entry form on site)
• The Scanlon Prize for Indigenous Verse
• Launch of the Poets Union Anthology
• Pre-Festival Events (Monster Open Reading; Reading Seminar)

All to be recorded in a special double edition of Five Bells which will be a significant contribution to thinking about the craft of contemporary Australian poetry

And Much More

Full Program, Ticket Prices, Early Bird Booking Coming Soon.

If you have scheduled an event around this time, or you would like to do so, and you’d like it advertised in the program as an Umbrella Event, please contact Brook at the address below. All inquiries, offers to help, requests, etc appreciated.

brookemery@gmail.com

Supported by the Australia Council, Arts NSW, City of Sydney, Sydney Mechanics School of Arts, University of NSW, University of Sydney. Australian Society of Authors, Giramondo Publishing.

Presented by

The Poets Union Inc

PO Box 755, Potts Point 1335;
(02) 9357 6602;
info@poetsunion.com;
www.poetsunion.com

The Poets Union Inc. Prize (formerly the Broadway Poetry Prize) is one of Australia’s most prestigious competitions for poetry.

The prize for the winning poem is $3000.

The winning poem will be announced at the Australian Poetry Festival, Sydney, on 7 September 2008. The winning poem will be published in the Poets Union journal Five Bells, and on the Poets Union website at www.poetsunion.com. The winning entry, together with the shortlisted poems, will be published by Picaro Press in booklet form and be available from Picaro Press for $7.

For full details download the flyer below:

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Friendly Street visits Port Augusta
Friday 11 July at 7pm
Port Augusta Institute Theatre

Come and meet the Friendly Street Poets, Adelaide’s first and Australia’s longest running, regular, open-to-all poetry reading group.

Join in and read your own poems or come and listen to the open mike session where a special guest reader is sure to surprise.

Friendly Street was started in 1975, and has since achieved local and national recognition for its dedication to the nurturing, support and promotion of poetry.

GET INVOLVED

Emerging or established poets are welcome to submit poems to read on the night for possible inclusion in the Annual Friendly street Anthology. Two copies of the poem(s) need to be submitted with your name, address and phone number written on the back.

Come along for a good night, stay the weekend and attend other great Port Augusta Writers Weekend events.

Check out the www.re-imagines.com.au.