Welcome to our new EZine
Fida Haq provided our first ezine page with his work "Time's Up" and since then we have (slowly!) started to collect some works from other writers
to feature on these pages. In 2008, we plan to add some more e-zine pages from our NWG Inc Anthology and ZineWest 2008 (Entries will open in May)
ZineWest 08
ZineWest 2008 will be launched in Oct/Nov this year. Winning entries will be posted to our e-zine. This year we have invited FAW Parramatta President
Lyn Leerson to join the editing team and we plan to select around 30 pieces from the entries for our second ZineWest. The zine will be an A5 booklet with a
colour cover like last year, but with additonal plastic covers and wire-binding. Pages will be professionally printed rather than copied. This was the style we
adopted for our NWG Inc Anthology late last year and found that the publication was not only more user-friendly and durable but sales still covered costs!
Any enquiries about ZineWest should be made to the Editors. Invitation/conditions form and the submission form are available
from NWG Inc's home page. Closing date for entries is 31 July, 2008. The pieces selected for publication will be eligible
for prizes - 1st=$400. Our co-sponsors the Writing and Society Research Group, College of Arts, University of Western Sydney, headed by Prof Ivor Indyk will
perform the judging.
ZineWest 07
We liked the zine format and decided to open ZineWest 07 to writers from across Western Sydney.
We received 140 entries from 70 entrants and published 34 writers in this 2007 print zine. The three winning entries in the associated competition
by G. Culshaw, C. Hale, and S. Cavanagh, can be read in these e-pages.
ZineWest 07 - Launch and Prizes: The winners were announced and writers presented their works at a multi-media event during the
HomeWord Festival 2007 on 10th June at Riverside Theatres, Parramatta. Our Judge was crime author Professor Jane Goodall (UWS Writing & Society Research
Group). The HomeWord Festival 07 is hosted by New Writers' Group Incorporated and is supported by Parramatta City Council's 2006 Community Grants Scheme.
Please note that all writers and artists published in these pages retain copyright of their work. New Writers' Group Incorporated does not necessarily
share the opinions expressed by our EZine contributors.
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