Entries are now open for this year’s annual Banjo Paterson Writing Awards.
The contest is sponsored by Orange City Library, the Central Western Daily and ABC Central West.
Established in 1991, these awards aim to honour Banjo Paterson, a great Australian writer and favourite son of Orange, with a competition to encourage short story or poetry writing with Australian content.
INSPIRED BY BANJO: Mayor Reg Kidd catches up on some of Banjo Paterson’s poetry ahead of the Banjo Paterson Writing Awards.
A major change this year is that entrants will be able to email their entries, as well as post, by the due date, Friday 23 April 2021.
The Collective Mentorship project will introduce a new model of mentorship and scholarship, enlisting postdoctoral fellows and graduate research assistants as mentors to stress the importance of relationships and reciprocity and create academic structures to honor knowledge production of Indigenous peoples.
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Dorothy Chan is a poet and assistant professor of English at UW-Eau Claire.
The Arts + Literature Laboratory kicks off the poetry year 2021 with an online reading by Dorothy Chan, Ernest O. Ãgúnyẹmà and Kirwyn Sutherland streamed live on its YouTube and Facebook pages. Chan is the author of
Revenge of the Asian Woman as well as
Attack of the Fifty-Foot Centerfold and the chapbook
Chinatown Sonnets. Sutherland has been published in
American Poetry Review and elsewhere and has a chapbook,
Jump Ship. Ãgúnyẹmà has also published widely and is the editor of