Prose poem: Black Pottery

Black Pottery Pottery is charm a shape nicely a vase, an urn, a holdall for ash and plant. Earthenware may not be strange in colour if cooked in dirt and fire, there need not be distress if the clay cools to black; black pottery not painted, not strange if change is taking place in the kiln. Colour is cunning in nature. So then, the order is round, pear-shaped or statue;...

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Prose poem: Hut

Hut A hut suggests nothing except it is old and a measure of length and height and made of stone. It appears lost and alone sitting beside a field on a gravelly road, yet the right reason is utility and certainly it is not negative which means it has a purpose. There’s a strong panting when the wheelbarrow is offloaded and a winter’s fuel is stacked delicately, delicately...

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Great News! Dorothy Hewett Poetry Award name dropped!

VARUNA RESIDENTIAL FELLOWSHIPS Flagship Fellowships are offered to writers whose work shows a striking and original voice in fiction, short stories, narrative non-fiction, environmental writing and/or poetry. The Flagship Fellowships are: Eleanor Dark Fellowship - Fiction: Established in memory of Blue Mountains writer Eleanor Dark, this writing fellowship...

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OOTA Spilt Ink Competition 2018

OOTA's (Out of the Asylum) Spilt Ink Competition 2018 is open to all financial members of writing organisations affiliated with Writers United WA. Categories Poetry (max 30 lines) and Short Fiction (max 2000 words) - Separate judge for each category Writers may submit up to three entries in each category Entry Fees Poetry - $10 for one poem; $15 for two or $20 for...

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