Calling all budding Oscar Wildes and Shakespeares!

Submissions are open now for playwrights to enter their new one act plays for Garrick Theatre’s inaugural Playwright Competition.

Coordinators Bruce Denny and Melanie DeCull who are both experienced theatre practitioners with a background of over 30 years respectfully in all aspects of theatre, have worked intensively together with the Garrick Theatre in producing a fair process for the competition’s debut.

Denny says “it’s an exceptional opportunity to highlight new Australian works”.

“The Independent Theatre Association encourages new one act plays every year for their festival. With the Garrick Playwright Competition we expect to see an impressive array of submissions from the wealth of talent this country beholds.”

DeCull says “Playwrights will be thrilled with this news, they are always looking for outlets and directors for their work. Here they have the perfect opportunity to have their plays produced along with an experienced director allocated who will bring their vision to reality”.

“The theatre community is always looking for new and challenging plays to sink their teeth into, and patrons enjoy fresh and exciting seasons”.

A one act play is entirely that, a short play with no interval. If desired it may contain a few scenes however requires minimalistic scene changes. It must also contain two or more interacting characters.

The plays need to have an approximate running time between 20 and 45 minutes as per state one act festival rules.  All submissions are required to be new works which have never been performed.

A reading panel will assess each production entered and ultimately choosing three winning entries of which will be produced for the Garrick One Act Season in August 2009. Some or all of the selected plays may be entered into the ITA State Drama Festival in Perth and Bunbury’s South West One Act Festival.

Submissions are open to all playwrights, including international with entries closing on Wednesday 3 June 2009. The three winning entries will be announced on Friday 3 July, with the formal celebrations and presentations taking place at the Garrick Theatre in Guildford on Saturday 11 July.

Interested playwrights will need to register by contacting Melanie DeCull ph (08) 9255 3336 or via email to receive their information pack.

New Songwriters Night - Tunesmith's Cafe

There is a new weekly songwriter’s forum. The aim of the night is to give songwriters the opportunity to perform their tunes; play with other musicians and attend short seminars/info sessions from both known and unknown songwriters, performers and other music industry groups about all aspects of music and performance.

These groups are great for anyone who loves writing and wants to meet people of their own age who do too. You’ll be inspired, challenged and motivated, and all this in a safe, fun environment at our wonderful writers centre.

Grease Writing Group: U-11 years 4-5pm
Genius-ish Writers Group : 11-18 years 5pm-6pm
Cost - $4 KSP members/$7 non members per session
For more info, please contact KSP Writers Centre 9294 1872

8-week school-time series with Kathleen Dzubiel begins. Kathleen has prepared a fantastic course aimed at 13 – 15 year old home-schoolers, but it’s also open to any other teenagers who're able to be released from their normal school schedules to attend. The workshops will be held at the KSP Writers Centre from 10.30am - 12.30pm on Thursdays, starting 12 February, and are suitable for all levels, from beginners to the more experienced. Participants will have their work published in an anthology at the end of the series, and will receive a complementary copy.
The series costs only $55 for members and $65 for non-members.

1st Saturday of the Month
10am - 12 noon

Cost: $3.00 members
$5.00 Non members

Non-Fiction Writing Group

Non-fiction writing covers a broad range of subjects spanning from biographies, newspaper articles, ghostwriting, letters, anecdotes; speeches and historical writing. The new group will explore skills to tackle non-fiction writing projects, such as developing your ideas, writing commercially, writing for the internet, the children and youth's market, research and interviews, selling your work, editing, polishing promoting and marketing your writing, copyright and plagiarism, critiquing and creative non-fiction.

3rd Saturday of the Month
10am

Cost: Members $3.00
Non Members $5.00

Script Writing Group

The Scriptwriting Group or, as we sometimes call ourselves, the 'Playgroup', meets every third Saturday in the month from 10am to 12 noon.  We will be concentrating on small plays for theatre of from 15-30 minutes (good competition size) and will hold our own mini workshop for ideas on characters and story lines. Everybody welcome, come along and surprise us with your scripts.

Every 2nd Saturday at 10am

Cost: $3.00 members
$5.00 Non members

The group for people wishing to write the history of their families, their localities, or special events. The monthly session is facilitated by Mardi May who has written several books on the people and children of the Swan Valley.

Aims of Past Tense

To create a focal point for persons interested in history writing
To provide ongoing support for those members working on history projects
To create an environment of security and trust for feedback on projects
To prepare a resource file of related information. eg Genealogy Organisations
To engage the skills of persons for ongoing assistance. eg co-editing
To offer access to computer training for layout etc. eg Pagemaker
To locate appropriate publishing and printing agents

Bring along your work. Get and give help with style, ideas, editing, and publishing.

Everyone is welcome. The group meets every 2nd Saturday at 10am for about two hours or as long as you wish.

3rd Sunday of the Month
10am

Cost: Members $3.00
Non Members $5.00

Science Fiction and Speculative Fiction Writers

If you to love to read good SF and/or fantasy, and you'd like to write, this is for you. No writing experience required, but you have to have a sense of wonder, a hankering for the heroic, and a sense that Earth is not room enough. So, if you can't watch the shuttle launch without feeling that dampness about the eyes and that tightness in the throat; if you wonder what meeting an alien would be like; if strange landscapes and stranger folk give you joy, then come and learn how to give those feelings to others. This group runs a closed listserv to which members send new work for peer critiquing, and discuss ideas and publishing opportunities.

Thursday nights at 7.30pm

Cost: Members $3.00
Non Members $5.00

Thursday Night Group

Bring your work, read it, or just listen. Whether your writing is free-form poetry or bush verse, a short story, or a chapter from your autobiography or novel, the group can give help with constructive comment or assist with editing and publishing. The group believes that writing should be fun and that everyone should enjoy the evening.

The group self-publishes an anthology each year of work submitted by its members.

Everyone is welcome. The group meets every Thursday night at 7.30pm for about two hours and provides a light supper.

Wednesdays at 9.30am

Cost: Members $3.00
Non Members $5.00

Writefree Women's Writing Group

The highly motivated Writefree Women's Writing Group has been meeting regularly at Katharine's Place for seven years. The enthusiasm and humour the group members bring to the weekly meetings is contagious. It provides encouragement and inspiration to keep writing. The group has self-published an anthology of their writing every year for the past nine years.

Mondays - 2nd & 4th of each month
Time: 12.45pm - 2.45pm

Cost: Members $3.00
Non Members $5.00

Poetry Group
(Poets @ KSP)

Thursdays - 1st and 3rd of each month
Time: 9.30am

Cost: Members $3.00
Non Members $5.00

Tall Tales

The Tall Tales Writing Group focuses on short stories of fact and fiction and anywhere in between, with peer critiquing and writing exercises. New members are welcome.

Cost: Members $3.00
Non Members $5.00

Swan City Council Committee Room
upstairs at Midland Town Hall
Midland
KSP:
Tel/Fax 08 9294 1872
http://kspf.iinet.net.au

A women's writing group that meets in the Council Chambers in Helena Street, Midland. It writes for fun and for competitions and to get published, with visiting authors, even snatches of voluntary homework, for beginners and the already-successful of all ages from teens to centenarians. It provides encouragement and inspiration to keep writing. Like other KSP writing groups it publishes an anthology each year of its members' best stories and poems.
The venue is within easy walking distance of the Midland rail and bus station. There is free parking in the Centrepoint car park across the road.

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