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Queensland Poetry Festival, QLD Writers Centre & Riverbend Books are proud to present their 3rd and final event in this years Riverbend Books Readings. Join us on the Riverbend deck and enjoy the sounds and imagery of award winning poet Nathan Shepherdson, poetics explorer Dr. Jayne Fenton Keane, 2007 Woodford SLAM winner, Robin 'Archie' Archbold and special guest, Kurt Heinzelman (USA).

Date: Tuesday 24 June
Location: Riverbend Books, 193 Oxford St. Bulimba
Time: Doors open for the event at 6pm for a 6:30pm start
Tickets are available through Riverbend Books, for $10 and include sushi and complimentary wine.

To purchase tickets, call Riverbend Books on (07) 3899 8555 or book online.

Seating for the event is limited to 90 people, so get in quick to avoid disappointment!

Full information can be found on the Riverbend page.

Entries have opened for the 2008 Arts Queensland Poetry Awards, administered by Queensland Writers Centre in conjunction with Queensland Poetry Festival.

The Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry

Named in honour of a distinguished Queensland poet, The Arts Queensland Val Vallis Award for Unpublished Poetry is committed to encouraging emerging poets throughout Australia. Celebrating its 10th year, this prestigious prize for an unpublished poem (or suite of poems) of 100 lines or less comes with a first prize of $3,000. Second and third prizes are $750 and $250 respectively, and winners will be announced at the opening of the Queensland Poetry Festival on 22 August. Entries close Monday 7 July, 2008.

The Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize

The Arts Queensland Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, now in its 6th year, is committed to encouraging emerging Queensland poets. This prestigious prize for an unpublished poetry manuscript awards $3,000 plus a publishing contract with UQP. The winner will be announced at the opening of the Queensland Poetry Festival on 22 August. Entries close Monday 14 July, 2008.

For more details or entry forms go to the awards page.

Calling All Filmmakers!

Entries are open for the QPF Filmmakers Challenge, 2008!

The Queensland Poetry Festival challenges Australian filmmakers, video artists and other multimedia practitioners to produce a short work (5 minutes max) which explores the possibilities of poetic expression via audio visual technology.

Poetry is defined broadly as memorable language. Your work might be a record of a poetry performance, a video text manipulation or something entirely different. We are looking for work that displays creativity, originality and an understanding of possibilities of language.

A prize of $500 is up for grabs and the winner will be announced at the 2008 Queensland Poetry Festival (22-24 August, 2008). A selection of entries will be screened at the Poetry on the Big Screen session at QPF 2008.

The deadline for entries is Friday 20 June 2008. The entry form is now available for download.

Queensland Poetry Festival, QLD Writers Centre & Riverbend Books are proud to present the first event of the Riverbend Books Poetry Series for 2008, featuring the 2007 Arts QLD Thomas Shapcott Award Winner, Sarah Holland-Batt, the prolific & exquisite MTC Cronin, the legendary Billy Jones & one of Brisbane's freshest new voices, Pascalle Burton.

Date: Tuesday 26 February
Location: Riverbend Books, 193 Oxford St. Bulimba
Time: Doors open for the event at 6pm for a 6:30pm start

Tickets are available through Riverbend Books, for $10 and include sushi and complimentary wine. To purchase tickets, call Riverbend Books on (07) 3899 8555 or book online at www.riverbendbooks.com.au/events

Seating for the event is limited to 90 people, so get in quick to avoid disappointment!

Poem of the Week 2008: a virtual anthology on Brisbane's Citycats
After its success in 2007, the Poem of the Week Project is now calling for submissions for 2008. Submissions are invited from Queensland poets and should be original, well-crafted poems, which express something fresh about the City of Brisbane and/or its river.
Each accepted poem will be developed by 4UTV into a 30-second program to run for one week on the digital screen inside each of the ten Brisbane City Cat Ferries to a potential audience of 120,000 City Cat passengers. The project will run for a period of 6-months, starting in late March/early April 2008.
Click on the outreach page then the Poem of the Week tab for all the details.

Poetry UnEARTHED

After a hugely successful first year, Poetry UnEARTHED is back and wants you to get involved! Poetry UnEARTHED is an exciting initiative of Queensland Poetry Festival: spoken in one strange word, in partnership with Brisbane City Council and Queensland Writers Centre, designed to seek out and develop the talents of emerging poets, through a series of workshops and performances held in Brisbane City Council Libraries and the Queensland Writers Centre.

Click on the outreach page and then the Poetry UnEARTHED tab for full details.

The 2008 Queensland Poetry Festival invites proposals from poets and other performers and artists interested in being part of the 12th Annual Queensland Poetry Festival. Simply download the guidelines and an application form. Applications close on Friday Februrary 8, 2008. Please direct any queries to Julie Beveridge by emailing julesbev@yahoo.com.au.