COMING EVENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES! This week-end at Trades Hall: Saturday 12 February 2pm Carole Ferrier and Verity Burgmann launch the new biography of the legendary writer and militant Jean Devanny. Sunday 13 February Frank Hardy festival. Papers on Frank Hardy, Ruth Park, Katharine Susannah Prichard, Jean Devanny, Dorothy Hewett and Monica Clare. For more details see http://dingo.vu.edu.au/~arts/cals/overland/hardy.html Announcing the News from Nowhere Short Story Competition An opportunity for writers of short (less than 1500 words) political fiction, presented by the New International Bookshop & Socialist Alternative magazine. Winning story to receive $250. Three best stories to be published in Socialist Alternative. We are looking for fiction that convinces its reader that change (broadly defined) is possible, that political alternatives do exist. Science fiction, dirty realism, satire -- the genre doesn't matter, so long as your story suggests the world can be other than it is. Avoid rhetoric, bombast and sloganeering. Make it short. Make it snappy. Make it political. Deadline May 1. Entry fee $5 (two entries for $8). Entry forms available from NIB (send SSAE to PO Box 18, Carlton Sth, Vic 3053) and from Socialist Alternative (send SSAE to News from Nowhere Short Story Competition, PO Box 4202 Richmond East, Victoria 3121 ). LL.VB -- Leftlink - Australia's Broad Left Mailing List mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.alexia.net.au/~www/mhutton/index.html Sponsored by Melbourne's New International Bookshop Subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=subscribe%20leftlink Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20leftlink
