Scribe Publications: News

The Christchurch Writers Festival has been cancelled

2010-09-07T09:01:27Z

The Press Christchurch Writers’ Festival, scheduled to be held this weekend at the Christchurch Town Hall (9-12 September 2010) has been cancelled.

The biennial event was due to bring hundreds of international and New Zealand writers and book lovers to Christchurch this weekend.

Christchurch Book Festival Trust, Chair, Brian Phillips said that trustees felt they had no option but to cancel the event given the impact of the earthquake on the people of Christchurch, the damage sustained in the central city and the aftershocks which were continuing to affect the city’s infrastructure.

“We’ve received a number of messages of support from writers, publishers and other international festivals, together with all our funders, sponsors and volunteers. Our thanks in particular to major sponsor, The Press, for all their fantastic support in the lead up to the festival. We hope to be able to stage the festival in some shape or form next year so keep an eye on our website for an update.” Brian said.

All tickets will be refunded. This may take a couple of weeks, as the Festival office is out of bounds, and we ask people to be patient.

Refunds

Refunds will be made on all tickets purchased for The Press Christchurch Writers Festival 2010.

For all ticket refunds, please post your tickets and include a note stating the method you used to pay for the tickets.

For credit cards – please list your card number, and name on the card. Your refund will be credited to this account.

For cheques – we will post a refund cheque. We would appreciate a stamped self addressed envelope included with the tickets

For eftpos transactions - we will post a refund cheque. We would appreciate a stamped self addressed envelope included with the tickets

Please post the tickets to:

Christchurch Writers Festival
P O Box 845
Christchurch 8140

If you have any further queries, you can email: admin@chchwritersfest.co.nz

Or ring Marianne on 027 2298741

Ian Brown at the Wheeler Centre

2010-08-25T17:22:16Z

Ian Brown’s son, Walker, was born with a genetic mutation so rare that doctors call it an orphan syndrome: perhaps one hundred people around the world live with it. In his moving account, The Boy in the Moon: A Father’s Search for His Disabled Son, Brown describes Walker’s life and how his family help him live it.

The Canadian author and journalist will be in conversation with ABC 774 Melbourne's Hilary Harper.

Free, but bookings are required: http://wheelercentre.com/calendar/event/the-boy-in-the-moon-ian-brown/

Date: 10 September 2010

11.00am-12.00pm

Canberra launch of Judy Horacek's new cartoon collection

2010-08-23T13:55:57Z

Scribe is delighted to invite you to the launch of

If you can't stand the heat

a new cartoon collection by
JUDY HORACEK

to be launched by
HELEN MAXWELL

Date: 6.00 for 6.30 pm, Thursday 21 October 2010
Venue: Electric Shadows Bookshop, Shop 2, 40 Mort Street, Braddon ACT
RSVP: by Friday 15 October on 02 6248 8352 or esb@electricshadowsbookshop.com.au

Date: 21 October 2010

6.00 for 6.30 pm, Electric Shadows Bookshop

Vivienne Ulman at the Brunswick Library

2010-08-17T12:12:19Z

Vivienne Ulman will discuss her book Alzheimer’s: A Love Story at the Brunswick Library.

Brunswick Library
233 Sydney Rd
Brunswick VIC 3056

Free, but please book by calling 03 9389 8600

Date: 28 October 2010

7.30pm

Book Club with Jason Steger and Cate Kennedy

2010-08-17T11:59:43Z

Write Around the Murray Festival Finale – Book Club with Jason Steger and Cate Kennedy

You’ve read the Book of the Festival, now talk about it! Join the author of The World Beneath, Cate Kennedy, as Jason Steger of ABC’s First Tuesday Book Club and The Age literary editor leads the discussion in exploring the themes of the novel and how the story came together. This is an interactive discussion with audience and author. Come and share your thoughts; join the discussion.

Copies of The World Beneath are available for loan from the LibraryMuseum and Lavington Library and for purchase from the Festival Bookseller, Dymocks Booksellers Albury (10% discount if you mention the festival).

For more information click here.

Date: 12 September 2010

3.00 pm

Cate Kennedy at Write around The Murray Festival

2010-08-17T11:56:59Z

The New World of Publishing Panel Session

Whether you want to go down the traditional route of finding a publisher, or you want to explore the many new and exciting options opening up through blogging and zines, then this is the session for you. Hear from experienced bloggers, zine makers, traditional publishers, people who’ve self published, and those who’ve published in a number of genres. Panel includes award winning short story writer and novelist, Cate Kennedy.

Date: 1.30pm Saturday 11 September
Venue: Albury Entertainment Centre Theatrette
Cost: gold coin donation
RSVP: 02 6023 8333
For more information click here.

Date: 11 September 2010

1.30 pm

The Science of Successful Children

2010-08-17T11:51:38Z

Forum: The Science of Successful Children

The noughties have become the era of a new baby boom. As economic and social pressures increase, families and new parents are stretching to ensure the best for their children. So can science help make a successful child?

Educators, psychologists, nutritionists, developmental biologists and child raising experts will combine forces to provide the truths behind the do and do nots of helping your children to be the best they can be.

Perfect for new and future parents and grand parents entering a seemingly new world of parenting.

Chaired by Theresa Miller, author of Making Babies.

When: Sunday 29 August: 2pm – 4pm
Where: Powerhouse Museum , 500 Harris St, Ultimo
Cost: $20. Booking essential. Call (02) 9217 0222 or book online
For more information click here

Attention parents and carers:
What would you ask a paediatrician, a developmental psychologist, a nutritionist or a gifted and talented educator?

Email your question to adultlearning@phm.gov.au The best questions will be put to the panel of experts at the forum.

Date: 29 August 2010

2.00–4.00 pm

Indelible Ink, Readings Australian Book Club

2010-08-16T13:54:58Z

Discuss Fiona McGregor's Indelible Ink at Readings Australian Book Club.

Date: 6.30 pm, Wednesday 1 September
Venue: Readings office, 314–318 Drummond Street, Carlton
Click here for more information.

Date: 1 September 2010

6.30 pm

Launch of Judy Horacek's new cartoon collection

2010-08-06T10:04:58Z

Scribe is delighted to invite you to the launch of

If you can't stand the heat

a new cartoon collection by
JUDY HORACEK

to be launched by
SIAN PRIOR

Date: 6.00 for 6.30 pm, Wednesday 29 September 2010
Venue: Bella Union, Level 1, Trades Hall, Cnr Victoria and Lygon Streets, Carlton South
RSVP: by Friday 24 September on 03 9349 5955 or shornbeck@scribepub.com.au

Date: 29 September 2010

6.00 for 6.30 pm, Bella Union

Rudd's Way event at Gleebooks

2010-08-04T16:46:15Z

Nicholas Stuart will be in conversation with Alison Broinowski about his book Rudd's Way: November 2007-June 2010 and the outcome of the 2010 election.

Venue: Upstairs, Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe

Nicholas Stuart's latest book is Rudd's Way: November 2007–June 2010.

bookings and more information: http://www.gleebooks.com.au/

Date: 26 August 2010

6.00pm for 6.30pm

S.D. Harvey Short Story Award 2010 shortlist announced

2010-08-03T12:29:47Z

Scribe Publications in association with the Ned Kelly Awards is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2010 S.D. Harvey Short Story Award:

Robert Goodman THE TRAVERTINE FOUNTAIN
Zane Lovitt LEAVING THE FOUNTAINHEAD
Lucy Sussex THE FOUNTAIN OF JUSTICE

The winner will be announced at the Ned Kelly Awards at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival on 3 September at 7 p.m. at the Festival Club, ACMI. The winning story will be published in Scribe’s anthology New Australian Stories 2.0.

The S.D. Harvey Short Story Award was established in 2009 to honour the memory of the fearless investigative journalist Sandra Harvey, who died in 2008. Each year the judges choose a particular word that must be included in the story’s title and represented in the story. This year the word was: Fountain.

Cate Kennedy shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year

2010-08-02T10:40:02Z

Cate Kennedy's debut novel, The World Beneath has been shortlisted for The Age Book of the Year. Congratulations Cate!

Authors and Victoria's Doctors-in-Training Panel Discussion

2010-07-30T10:32:17Z

Authors and Victoria's Doctors-in-Training Panel Discussion

Come along for a discussion about what it means to be a doctor and a writer, and the relationship between these two identities.

Jacinta Halloran is a Melbourne GP and writer. She has written on medical topics for a wide variety of publications, including the Sunday Age and Inside Story. Her 2007 novel, Dissection, was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize for an Unpublished Manuscript, and was published by Scribe Publications in 2008.

Leah Kaminsky was the Eleanor Dark Flagship Fellow for Fiction in 2007 and is the author of three books. She is a practicing family physician.

Serge Liberman works as a medical practitioner. His literary work has been widely published. He is also the author of six collections of short stories, including Where I Stand, three of which received the Alan Marshall Award in their manuscript form.

Date: Tuesday 17 August 2010 at 6:30pm
Venue: Readings Carlton: 309 Lygon St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053
Free, no need to book.

Date: 17 August 2010

6.30 pm, Readings Carlton

The Future of Fertility with Theresa Miller

2010-07-29T12:13:33Z

Forum: The Future of Fertility

Fertility has become a new issue for couples who have delayed their choice to indulge in that age old biological pursuit – The Family. As both the expectations of older want-to-be parents and improvements to technology diverge and converge well provide some scientific clarity on the questions of reproductive biology and sociology.

How late is too late? What are your choices? Sooner or later?

Reproductive scientists, assisted fertility specialists and parents going through or coming out of the process will give their opinions and insights into this important and difficult topic.

Hosted by Theresa Miller, author of Making Babies: personal IVF stories.

When: Sunday 22 August: 2pm – 4pm
Where: Powerhouse Museum , 500 Harris St, Ultimo
Cost: $20. Booking essential. Call (02) 9217 0222 or book online

Attention potential parents:
Do you want to learn more about fertility? What would you ask a reproductive health expert, an infertility expert, a geneticist or a family with experience of IVF and other fertility treatments?

Email your question to adultlearning@phm.gov.au The best questions will be put to the panel of experts at the forum.

For more information click here

Date: 22 August 2010

2.00 pm, Powerhouse Museum

Joe Bageant at Gleebooks

2010-07-28T14:16:04Z

Scribe is delighted to invite you to celebrate the publication of

RAINBOW PIE
a redneck memoir

by JOE BAGEANT
author of Deer Hunting with Jesus

Join author and gonzo journalist, JOE BAGEANT, and Chaser’s US correspondent, CHARLES FIRTH, as they explore the world of the gun-owning, God fearing, uninsured, underemployed American ‘redneck’.

Date: Wednesday 8 September, 6.00 for 6.30 pm
Venue: Gleebooks, 49 Glebe Point Road, Glebe
Tickets: $10/7
To book: email events@gleebooks.com.au or phone 02 9660 2333

Date: 8 September 2010

6.00 for 6.30 pm

The Writer's Mix Tape: Max Barry

2010-07-28T12:05:18Z

What music inspires the much-loved author of Syrup, Jennifer Government and Company? Was Max Barry listening to Kraftwerk or Men at Work when he wrote his cult online novel Machine Man? Writer’s Mix Tape doesn’t just get into an author’s mind but into their ears as it explores Max Barry’s soundtrack.

Max Barry will be in conversation with Rob Jan, host of Zero G 3RRR’s science fiction, fantasy and historical radio show.

Date: 6:15PM - 7:15PM, Monday 09 August 2010
Venue: The Wheeler Centre, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne
For more information click here.

Date: 9 August 2010

6.15–7.15 pm, The Wheeler Centre

Norman Doidge gives Closing Address at BWF

2010-07-26T14:28:43Z

Brisbane Writers Festival Closing Address

In a very special and exclusive Closing Address, Norman Doidge shares recent film footage of people undergoing neuroplastic change (shown just this once at the Festival) and brings us the updated stories of people benefitting from the neuroplasticity revolution. Norman links science, literature and the celebration of optimism, providing a fitting close to a week of bringing together readers, writers and thinkers from around the world.

Date: 6.00 pm, Sunday 5 September
Venue: slq Auditorium 1
For more information click here

Date: 5 September 2010

6.00–7.30 pm, Brisbane Writers Festival

Jon Bauer at Brisbane Writers Festival

2010-07-26T14:27:32Z

Not So Happy Families

Jon Bauer, Benjamin Law and Hamish McDonald debate the family-as-fodder dilemma that faces a writer. Are the foibles of kin and family feuds — even when they’re unrelated — fair game when writers look for inspiration.
Chair: Susan Maushart

Dates: 2.30 pm, Sunday 5 September
Venue: Qld Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
For more information click here

Date: 5 September 2010

2.30–3.30 pm, Brisbane Writers Festival

Ian Brown & Ramona Koval discuss food writing

2010-07-26T14:26:18Z

This Thing with Food

Ian Brown is about to commence a journey blogging and eating his way across Canada; while Ramona Koval taces the history of Jewish cuisine as one religion but many food styles. Jaspreet Singh uses an apprentice chef to tell the story of the India–Pakistan conflict, and Jake Smith peeks inside the kitchens of the world’s leaders. What is this obsession with food and food-writing?
Chair: Paul Barclay

Date: 2.30 pm, Sunday 5 September
Venue: The Studio, slq
For more information click here

Date: 5 September 2010

2.30–3.30 pm, Brisbane Writers Festival

Cate Kennedy at BWF

2010-07-26T14:25:02Z

It’s Time: Slow Time

Alex Miller, Cate Kennedy, and Susan Johnson on why good writing doesn’t play by the rules of new technology. Blogging, tweeting and facebooking are not the necessary tools for producing your next book. Time is.
Chair: Mark Roeder

Date: 2.30 pm, Sunday 5 September
Venue: slq Auditorium 1
For more information click here

Date: 5 September 2010

2.30–3.30 pm, Brisbane Writers Festival