Category Archives: Writing about Place – Competitions and Opportunities

Review – A Place on Earth

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

As I take my first steps into trying to understand the place of place writing in Australia I find there is a lot of discussion out there about what constitutes this relatively new genre in Australian literature. Although the tradition … Continue reading →

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Home Truths- Identity

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

What Lies Behind a Sense of Home and Identity? As part of Ten Days on The Island the Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is presenting a weekend literary festival where the idea of Place features strongly. A panel of distinguished writers discusses … Continue reading →

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Home Truths – Writing Small Islands

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Imagined Spaces of Possibility: Second on the literary program, Home Truths, is a session featuring Tasmanian and Prince Edward Island writers Godfrey Baldacchino, Laurie Brinklow and Pete Hay discussing ‘the cultural history of small islands and the sanctuary they can … Continue reading →

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Home Truths -Ideas of Islandness

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Phillip Adams will launch Island magazine and its online journal, Islet. Essays, short fiction, poems, conversations and images explore ideas of islandness from literal, philosophical and metaphorical perspectives. Sunday 3 April 12.30 – 1.00pm. For the full literary program and … Continue reading →

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Annamaria Weldon speaks about nature writing

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Annamaria Weldon has won the inaugural Nature Conservancy Nature Writing Prize of $5,000 for her essay Threshold Country. Judges Mark Tredinnick and Sally Blakeny described it as ‘a marvellously orchestrated, complex meditation on belonging. It is at once assured and … Continue reading →

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In Advance of Our Broken Wings

Posted on March 3, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Tonight at the Hobart Bookshop in Salamanca Square, poet Anne Kellas will launch Stuart Solman’s new poetry collection, In Advance of Our Broken Wings. Philip Mead says of this collection: These poems are haunted by figures from a previous generation … Continue reading →

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Watermark Literary Muster 2011

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

The Nature and Place of The Backyard At this fifth Muster, writers and readers will celebrate the literature of THE BACKYARD, its nature and natural history and its sense of place. Perhaps your backyard is a quarter acre block, a … Continue reading →

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WILDCARE Tasmania Nature Writing Prize

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Submissions for this biennial writing prize close today, but I thought it worth posting information about it so that you can start on something to send to the next round in 2013. ‘The WILDCARE Tasmania Nature Writing Prize is an … Continue reading →

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Atlas Poetica: A journal of Poetry of Place in Contemporary Tanka

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

“Tanka poetry of place embodies the community and environment, both human and natural, through which the poet travels. Groups and places are profoundly important, forming the affective and effective boundaries of the poet’s psyche. Whether contemplating subjects as diverse as … Continue reading →

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Spirit of Place: Australia – a proposed anthology of Australian tanka

Posted on February 21, 2011 by Lyn Reeves

Submissions close February 27, 2010 All Australian tanka poets are welcome to submit up to ten original tanka of which a maximum of three poems per poet may be selected. Poems should address country and suburban living, the inland and … Continue reading →

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