Category: News

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About Writers on Rafts

Writers on Rafts is an initiative of Queensland Writers Centre and author Rebecca Sparrow to raise money for the Queensland Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal. More than 150 Australian authors have pledged prizes.

• To enter Writers on Rafts go to http://www.writersonrafts.com
• Purchase as many tickets as you like in as many categories as you want!
• Every ticket is one chance to win for a lucky person in every state and territory.
• Every dollar goes directly to the Queensland Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal to help victims of the Queensland floods.
• QWC’s goal is to raise $10,000 through Writers On Rafts.
• We will be conducting the draw on Friday, 25 February.

The initiative is being coordinated by Queensland Writers Centre, but because their own building (the State Library of Queensland) has been affected by flood, they are currently not able to access their offices to answer the phone, so please them email for now.

Am currently dividing my time between Queensland Community Flood Relief and keeping the Angel Arias on track. Please, if you are thinking of making a donation, bring in the things listed on the Facebook page, not general junk from your back room. It wastes the volunteers’ time sorting through half used bottles and empty flowerpots.

In booky news … pleased to say that Genre Flash #5 is available from this link: Genre Flash 5. This is a catalogue of many of the recent genre releases in Australia and is put together by Lindy Cameron. Half way through the document is my article on Writing Across Genres.

Also, a bit of fun for me this week (and you know how I love a bit of fun!). Thanks to Bruce Moyle and (Cool) Shite on the Tube, I’ll be going to the press day on the set of Iron Sky at Warner Brothers on the Gold Coast. I’ll be reporting back on the experience and the movie (which looks awesome – see trailer below) for both MDPWeb and Cool Shite.

My stars must in movie land this week because I also got an invite to the preview screening of producer, Joanne Weatherstone’s new short thriller, Peekaboo. Unfortunately this one’s in Sydney and I can’t get there. However, I’m going to some lengths to secure you insider info. Stand by for a feature on Joanne and a blog about the movie from a MDPWeb representative.

Fantastic effort from volunteers all over Queensland and Victoria helping out on the clean up. Need to stay with it though, because it’s going to take weeks. I’m going to work out a routine of helping and working, because I still have a February deadline for Angel Arias. So far have only been able to help out with the Redlands Council effort.

Was planning to go to one of the mustering points tomorrow but think I’ll go out to Goodna instead. I did an author visit to a primary school out there once and would very much like to help them.

There are some great writing-related fundraisers going on: Writers on Rafts and one being put together by Fleur MacDonald and Kate Gordon.

And on a happier note (for me at least), many thanks to Garth Pendergrast for sending this awesome picture from Borders in Perth.