2015 Winners of the Tim Winton Awards

2015 Winners of the Tim Winton Awards

Great to see so many young writers entering this competition. 1800 young writers submitted stories in the 2015 Tim Winton Award for Young Writers. All finalists' stories are available to be read online. 

• 2015 award winners  
• Read the 2015 winning stories
• Judging and prizes
• Publications
• About Tim Winton

http://www.subiaco.wa.gov.au/Your-council/Awards/Tim-Winton-Award

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Video: Wild in the Dry Grass by Helen Hagemann

Wild in the Dry Grass by Helen Hagemann from H2 Design on Vimeo.

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Writing "free indirect speech" with Helen Hagemann, FAC 18th September

Prose Workshop with Helen Hagemann, Friday 18th September. Class to read three extracts of  "Free Indirect Speech" from James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Virginia Woolf's short story Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street, and Ian McEwan's Atonement. Writing exercises and discussion will revolve around "free indirect speech" and other narrative modes.

1.00pm - 3.00pm: Room 3, Upstairs, FAC North Wing
OOTA $20 - NON-OOTA $25

Free indirect speech is a style of third-person narration which uses some of the characteristics of third-person along with the essence of first-person direct speech. (It is also referred to as free indirect discourse, free indirect style, or discours indirect libre in French.) Randall Stevenson suggests, however, that the term free indirect discourse "is perhaps best reserved for instances where words have actually been spoken aloud" and that cases "where a character's voice is probably the silent inward one of thought" should be described as free indirect style.

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Journalism, Fiction, Poetry Opportunity for Women, UK

I have just sent four of my Miniscule poems to Mslexia on the theme of birds. There are other opportunities for publication and you  can subscribe for 1 year's journals in print or have an online subscription which gives you a backlog of Mslexia journals as well - all to view online or download. I have also sent my novel The Ozone Cafe to their novel competition which requires an entry fee of 25 pounds, but the prize winner receives 5,000 pounds, plus publication. It is open to all international women who have never been previously published as a novelist.  There will also be a short-list of six writers, enough kudos if one might win a place, especially in the UK, then take it to an Australian publisher. Great judges also: Marina Lewycka (novelist), Juliet Mushens (literary agent), Di Speirs (Books Editor, BBC Radio & Music Production). I caught Lewycka's panel one year at the Perth Writers Festival when her award-winning novel The Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian had just been  released and featured on the ABC's Radio National.
https://mslexia.co.uk/themed-writing/

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