Two Flat Whites- promoting Aussie talent
Here at lip, we’re all in favour of giving creative types the chance to share their talent with the world. Two Flat Whites is an Australian website with a similar goal. It describes itself as a “network for Fashion, Design, Music, Film, Food, Lifestyle, Community, Writing and Small Business.” The site showcases the talents of [...]
Babysitting
Hi everyone! Following your dreams costs money. Throughout the years you may have to work some interesting and not so interesting jobs to earn some good and not so good pay. Babysitting is a job many young people, particularly women, have had some experience of. I once got told that it is because boys just [...]
the death mook
Vignette Press has a killer collection in production and is now calling for artwork and creative contributions. They’ve got your non-fiction, now they want your creative stuff. And they want it all, including: … short fiction, flash fiction, fragments, sketches, songs, sonnets, haiku, hieroglyphics, graffiti, illustrations, poetry, prints, photos, comics, couplets, verse, villanelle, vignettes, ballads, [...]
call for submissions! OPPORTUNITY
mook mo?k m?k ~noun1. A bound, hybrid publication issued in series.2. Not quite magazine, not quite book3. A collection of surprising, unconventional new writing. Having just launched our first edition The Sex Mook: What is our Sex?, indie publishing house Vignette Press is seeking ideas for their next collection of creative non-fiction: The Death Mook: [...]
Canberra Readers and Writers Festival – this weekend
The theme is Icy Worlds: Cool Words and features over 40 International and Australian Authors. It will be held alongside the Lifeline BookFair at Exhibition Park in Canberra from 21-23 September. Highlights include appearances by the 2007 NSW Premier’s Award winning authors Ursula Dubosarsky and Gideon Haigh as well as Canadian mystery writers Louise Penny [...]
phone interviews
I just finished a phone interview with a film director for an article I’m writing for next issue (don’t ask who, or which film, you’ll just have to wait for the mag to come out). Phone interviews are stressful: you don’t know when the batteries in your tape recorder are going to go flat, or [...]
Getting Published Workshop
Getting PublishedWorkshop for Young Writers Writing articles for magazines is a great place to start for novice writers. The ACT Writers Centre and lip magazine are running a workshop for aspiring young writers (aged 15 to 23) who are interested in advice about how to get articles published in magazines. The workshop presenter is Rachel [...]
essay writing workshops for High School students in Years 8-10.
Learn the secrets to improve your essay writing skills. Impress your teachers and get great grades. The ACT Writers Centre is conducting more of their extremely popular essay writing workshops for High School students in Years 8-10. Participants will be taught to use a scaffold that can be adapted to a range of writing. It [...]
letters page.
Does anyone have any ideas of how to get readers to write in to the letters page. Issue 14, I believe we have no letters and if this continues it will be closed. Last year I asked Michelle to do a survey of sorts on the lip website to find out if readers actually want [...]
Tips for young writers, and so many questions.
Paul raises some excellent points about what employers look for in new recruits in the journalism/publishing arena. You need to be young, tech-savvy, self-taught and ambitious. (You still, of course, need to be able to write too.) However, his statement “That’s why I tell students that the only clips I want to see are the [...]
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