Author: Lisette Ogg Created: 27/11/2008 12:06 PM
The Empty Page is an opportunity; a place of creation, where new ideas germinate, messages are conveyed, and characters begin to grow. The Empty Page Blog is one of the TOop 50 writing blogs in Australia. As the offical blog of the Queensland Writers Centre, this blog offers opportunity, latest news, opinions and resources on the writing and publishing industry.

"Interest in art classes is expected to rise -- along with church attendance and sales of comfort food and hard alcohol -- as people seek ways to cope with the losses and uncertainties rippling throughout the depressed economy."

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I know AWM's Speakeasy blog has covered parallel importation. Since then, I've come across a new website that supports preventing changes to Australia's parallel importation laws. It's the official site for the campaign to prevent the surrendering of Australian copyright. Such a decision by the Productivity Commission and the Australian Government would destroy a vibrant industry and place hundreds of Australians out of work – all for not even a single benefit!

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Today, Ronnie Scott from The Lifted Brow will be heading up a live forum via The Australian Writers' Marketplace (AWM) Online, at 11am Eastern Standard time. AWM regularly hosts forums as an opportunity for AWM subscribers to speak directly to industry professionals.

Ronnie's a great guy, and also the Co-Director of the National Young Writers Festival this year. QWC recently had him in for lunch and we yarned up bigabout youth engagement, independent publishing/distribution, ongoing sustainability, the role of gigs in promoting literature and upcoming writing trends. We heart TLB!

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Today I was inspired by Writing Queensland's editor, Jodi DeVantier. She's been busy confirming the themes of the magazine for the rest of the year, aligned with our handsome redesign happening in a few months time... 

One of her proposed themes is place: the role of place in literature, how it influences writers; literary devices that align place in association with character development and narrative. 

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Join us on facebook! QWC now has a facebook fan page, so find us and keep in touch. I admit to a less than healthy facebook addiction in the past, but it's great to have QWC across a range of platforms to encourage networking and discussion.

We're also on twitter, so you can follow us in the big-scale minutiae of life.

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QWC is stoked that our The Australian Writers' Marketplace coordinator, Meg Vann, has had her manuscript accepted by the CAL Cultural Fund, Queensland Editors and Writers Development Project. The Empty Page spoke to Meg about her experience of writing her first novel.   

 

 

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Using words well on the page is something that takes a few drafts. But when I want to win arguments words usually fail me. Or at least they fail me in the instant that I need them, instead showing up to the party after everyone's gone home.

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The recent Presidential inauguration has pushed poetry into the limelight and the reading by Elizabeth Alexander has received praise and criticism

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"nothing of me is original" quote

Today, The Empty Page speaks to Angela Murphy. She facilitates our Introduction to Creative Writing  course in Cairns which starts on March 4.

She writes for newspapers, magazines, Education Queensland, James Cook University and other corporate businesses and has won awards for short stories, developed short film and radio scripts. Her play The Boathouse was produced by JUTE and Darwin Theatre Companies in 2006.

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