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The Adelaide University Creative Writing Program Poets invite you to their first forum for 2008, ‘Harming your career? Controversial Poetry'. It will be held at 11:00 am, Friday 18th April, in Room 140, Napier Building, North Tce, Adelaide. This is an occasional forum organised by Adelaide University poets designed to raise awareness of poetry’s relationship to other forms of writing, and is a discussion for all writers.

The Lee Marvin Readings are back for 2008. Click here for the program of readers for April.

Friendly Street Poets will launch their New Poets 13 volume on Friday 4th April, 5.30 - 8pm, at the Atrium of the SA Writers Centre. All are welcome to drop in for a drink and a snack, and to hear a few readings from the three poets: Janine Baker, Roger Higgins and Courtney Black. For more information, follow this link.

Submissions invited for Wakefield Press anthology

Writers are invited to submit short stories and poems for a Wakefield Press anthology, Small City Tales of Strangeness and Beauty, planned to be launched in late 2008. Pieces should be unpublished, and have an Adelaide setting, reflecting the city's unique qualities.

Please send poetry to Stephen Lawrence at stephen.lawrence@adelaide.edu.au, and fiction to Gillian Britton at gillian.britton@adelaide.edu.au. Submit no more than 3000 words of fiction, or up to three poems. Submissions must be unpublished. Author payment is subject to funding. Closing date for submissions is 31 March 2008.

PoeticA

ABC Radio National's PoeticA, presented by Mike Ladd, airs on Saturday at 3:05 pm, and repeats at 3:05 pm on Thursday.

For further details contact the producers of Poetica: Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928, Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271. Or visit their website at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/.

Overload Poetry Festival

The 2007 Overload Poetry Festival was held in Melbourne. Information about the festival is available at http://www.overloadpoetry.com.

Gawler Poetry Readings

Prince Albert Hotel, 109 Murray Street, Gawler.
Last Sunday of each month (except December).
2 pm start. Free entry.
Enquiries: Martin or Cathy on 8522 4268

Friendly Street Poets

SA Writers' Centre, 2nd Floor, 187 Rundle Street, Adelaide.
First Tuesday of each month (except January).
7 pm until 10:30 pm.
Entry is $4. Wine and fruit juice is provided.
Enquiries: poetry@friendlystreetpoets.org.au
http://www.friendlystreetpoets.org.au