ACT Fringe Fest axed; Corinbank to Support Canberra Artists and Musicians

If you’re a Canberra local, you may have heard by now about John Hargreaves’ plans to axe the Canberra Fringe Festival. He also plans to redirect the $30,000 of funding to the National Folk Festival to “do something Fringey”. Now, we at lip love the Folkie, but given the nature and accessibility of the two [...]

Traverse Poetry Workshop

Traverse Poetry is giving young Canberra poets a chance to learn the art of performance poetry from professionals at the free, one-day Works in your face workshop.
Running from 10am – 3pm on Sunday 2 August, the workshop will include the techniques professionals use to wow audiences and win national and international poetry competitions.
The workshop is [...]

lip’s first fiction anthology: call out for submissions!

Calling all writers!
lip magazine, your resident indie mag for young women invites YOU to submit to their first ever, highly exciting fiction anthology, ‘Harvest’!
And to make it even more fun, we’ve themed it with the appropriately ambiguous topic of ‘One’.
Whether it’s a poem to your one true love, an attempt at capturing your one favourite [...]

‘The Poetic Revolution’: A call for poets!

‘The Poetic Revolution’: An exposé of contemporary, underground poetry that explores the current renaissance of poetic expression in Australia, revealing how modern poets measure against the classics.
I’m asking why the poetry sections of bookstores are primarily filled with classical poetry and why we tend to reach for the classics first.
This comparative anthology aims to act [...]

And just to prove that women are objectified in ways that men arent….

Check out this: http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/feature/
2009/03/02/apatow_nude/index.html
I posted to the lip blog when the original Vanity Fair cover came out. You can find a picture of it at http://stereogum.com/img/scarlett_johannson_nude.jpg. This also shows how unoriginal women’s sexuality is these days; would you have known that was Scarlett Johansen?

Prize for writing comp Kate Garey Bag! sweet!

Hello! this is an update an a thanks for all the stories so far! Below is a picture of the Kate Garey Hand bag you could win if your story winner! Every one should check out miss Kate Garey’s site for more of her adorable bags and accessories!
These beautiful handcrafted bags are all fully lined [...]

Give me some Lip!

Hello every one!
This is Miss Amy long time reader first time staff blogger! Have been Fashion Editor here at Lip from issue 16 and I love it! It’s fun rewarding and I get to see some pretty cool stuff.
Now it is time for me to give back a little and share some of that cool [...]

Feature Article for November newsletter

Hey guys,
We are again on the call-out for a feature article for the November newsletter! It can be on any topic you want and needs to be between 700 – 2000 words. Email all submissions to kimberly@lipmag.com by 24th October.
Get cracking lip-sters!

feature article needed for october newsletter!

hey lip-sters!
we’re looking for a feature article to go into next month’s newsletter. so if you have something to say get writing! your article would be featured in the newsletter and be posted to the lip blog.
articles should be no longer than 2000 words in length and can be on any topic you like. so [...]

More Opportunities at lip

Sex(uality) Column
lip is currently seeking a new columnist to write on sex and sexuality for an audience of young women aged 14-26 years. Requirement is four columns per year (we go to print 3-4 monthly). This is a voluntary position, but all columnists receive a copy of the magazines in which their writing appears.
Criteria
Strong oral [...]


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