Friday, June 17, 2011
Changes on Alternative Publishing Website
Alternative Publishing at Voices on the Coast
Judy Barrass taught a series of workshops for primary and secondary students at the recent youth literature festival Voices on the Coast. The festival is held at Sunshine Coast University (Australia) each year.
This year the students in each of Judy's workshops produced an on-line digital book from writing they did in the workshop.You can see all the books on Calameo HERE.
And here's a sample:
This year the students in each of Judy's workshops produced an on-line digital book from writing they did in the workshop.You can see all the books on Calameo HERE.
And here's a sample:
New Sydney Zine Distributor
The Paper Mill is now accepting zines for their Sydney store. This is a pretty cool looking gallery so might be interesting to stock with them. Link :http://thepapermill.org.au/
Friday, April 8, 2011
Community Digital Engagement
'Community Digital Engagement'
Judith Wright Centre for Contemorary Art
Arts Queensland Lo Fi Forum 11th April 2011
Judith Wright Centre for Contemorary Art
Arts Queensland Lo Fi Forum 11th April 2011
Friday, January 14, 2011
Some Things to Keep Us Busy
Dawdlr is a cool postcard project asking the same question as social media sites. They want an update, what you are doing right now, but the catch is they don't want you to post it on a social media website they want you to write or draw a postcard and send it to them by snail mail. THEN they'll put it up on their blog. It seems a long way round, but hey, at Alternative Publishing we love anything zany and anything that gets our words out there, so why don't you join in. Find the address to send your postcard HERE.
The Penny Black Project is also asking you to particiapte in an on-line project.
You can register for ROUND 2 of the PENNY BLACK PROJECT. Six projects, six weeks apart. Create a series of postage stamps as art. They will send you the details when you register.
Submissions will be published at PENNYBLACKPROJECT.BLOGSPOT.COM and be compiled into a zine at project end. ROUND 1 also turned into an exhibition. Closes February 11.
The Penny Black Project is also asking you to particiapte in an on-line project.
You can register for ROUND 2 of the PENNY BLACK PROJECT. Six projects, six weeks apart. Create a series of postage stamps as art. They will send you the details when you register.
Submissions will be published at PENNYBLACKPROJECT.BLOGSPOT.COM and be compiled into a zine at project end. ROUND 1 also turned into an exhibition. Closes February 11.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
CHESS- Call for very Short Stories
OPEN CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
CHESSSTORY playing cards.
Stories of fifty (50) words or less for inclusion in
CHESSSTORY, a limited edition set of cards designed and
printed by Louffa Press. Each card will have a chess piece on
one side, and a very, very short story on the other. The cards
are meant to function in sets of playable chess pieces for a
standard chess board. Preference will be given to tight, lucid
stories that paint a vivid picture with brevity and punch,
something like an injection of hyper-Calvino. The stories
don’t have to be about chess - they could use chess as an
unseen influence: a character who strategizes like a pawn; a
bus that pauses briefly by a streetcorner game of dominoes.
Also welcome are stories that relate to the game of chess
itself, or even games and strategy in a more general, social,
anthropological or imaginary sense - opposites, race issues,
adversity, etc. There is no limit, but quality is a must.
Thirty-two stories will be accepted, exactly one story per
chess piece, so send your best work. The art for the pieces
will be silkscreened and the stories letterpressed on artisan
paper. Card sets will be numbered and signed.
THE DEADLINE is January 31st, 2011. SUBMIT UP
TO THREE STORIES. Best of luck! Send your stories
to david@louffapress.com. In the subject line, write
CHESSSTORY, and the word count.
CHESSSTORY playing cards.
Stories of fifty (50) words or less for inclusion in
CHESSSTORY, a limited edition set of cards designed and
printed by Louffa Press. Each card will have a chess piece on
one side, and a very, very short story on the other. The cards
are meant to function in sets of playable chess pieces for a
standard chess board. Preference will be given to tight, lucid
stories that paint a vivid picture with brevity and punch,
something like an injection of hyper-Calvino. The stories
don’t have to be about chess - they could use chess as an
unseen influence: a character who strategizes like a pawn; a
bus that pauses briefly by a streetcorner game of dominoes.
Also welcome are stories that relate to the game of chess
itself, or even games and strategy in a more general, social,
anthropological or imaginary sense - opposites, race issues,
adversity, etc. There is no limit, but quality is a must.
Thirty-two stories will be accepted, exactly one story per
chess piece, so send your best work. The art for the pieces
will be silkscreened and the stories letterpressed on artisan
paper. Card sets will be numbered and signed.
THE DEADLINE is January 31st, 2011. SUBMIT UP
TO THREE STORIES. Best of luck! Send your stories
to david@louffapress.com. In the subject line, write
CHESSSTORY, and the word count.
Calling all Writers
Calling all authors, 'zine makers, comic-book writers, diarists, poets and storytellers: The Brooklyn Art Library wants your words!
The Fiction Project is an opportunity to tell stories in a different way by fusing text and visual art. After traveling across the country, the Fiction Project will enter into the Brooklyn Art Library's narrative collection, archiving your stories to share them with the public.
Anyone – from anywhere in the world – can be a part of the project. To participate and receive a journal that will travel with the 2011 tour, start by choosing a theme and ordering a book on the website http://arthousecoop.com/projects/fiction/features
Books will tour the following cities:
Brooklyn, NY Austin, TX San Francisco, CA Portland, ME Atlanta, GA Chicago, IL Seattle, WA Winter Park, FL
Sign up by:
March 31st, 2011
Return book by:
March 1st, 2011
to go on entire tour
June 1st, 2011
to go on second leg of tour
Tour starts:
March, 2011
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