Northern Notes Writers Festival

The Northern Notes Writers Festival (City of Darebin) will take place in and around Northcote Town Hall, 19-22 November 2009.

Clouds of Magellan and Trojan Press present:

‘Northern Stories’ Writing Competition

Writers and photographers are invited to submit:

• short stories (fiction, memoir, graphic fiction, chapters from novels in development)
• poetry
• cover image (photograph)

for an anthology of stories about the northern suburbs of Melbourne.

All winning entries will be published in a book to be launched during the Northern Notes Writers Festival (Thursday evening, 19 November 2009). Those to be published will be invited to a publishing and editing workshop focusing on the anthology in September. The title will be distributed in Australia through Dennis Jones and Associates, Bulldog Books, and available online.

• No word limit
• One item only per entrant, but poets may send in a sequence of poems that are on-theme
• pictures - maximum of five
• There is no genre limitation. The subject can be contemporary, or historical, but needs to communicate a sense of the locality
• Send entries via email to info@cloudsofmagellan.net
• Subject line: 'Northern Stories, Your Name, Title
• Photos must be high-resolution, but send as your entry a small jpg only 300 px wide, or a specific link to an image sharing site
• Material must be previously unpublished (internet excepted)
• Stories will be selected by an editorial panel from Clouds of Magellan and all decisions by the panel will be final
• In your email submission, please include all relevant contact details
• All entrants published will receive 10 free copies of the book on the night of the launch (19 November) - you have to pick them up then or during the festival (interstate entrants excepted)
• Closing date for entries: 10 July 2009.
• Winners advised via email on 10 August.

www.cloudsofmagellan.net

Proudly sponsored by Trojan Press, Book Printers, Thomastown and Darebin:
www.trojanpressbp.com.au

Events during the Festival:

Thornbury-based Clouds of Magellan will host some book launches during the festival, in addition to the Northern Stories Writing Competition. Watch this space.

In 2008, Clouds of Magellan ran a novel/story competition as part of the Festival - the winning published work was Georgina Scillio's A Dandelion on the Roof & Other Stories.