Announcements

Viral Lines: your pandemic life in poetry and pictures – Session 2

Sunday, 30th October, 2022
10:00am – 4:00pm

Stirling Library
63 Mount Barker Road, Stirling

$30 / $25 concession includes morning tea.

Discover how to capture love, loss and life during COVID, combining poetic life writing and drawings / photos. 

Satura Poetry Prize Winner, Maria Vouis and Artist / Poet, Julia Wakefield will inspire your inner storyteller with engaging exercises aimed to distill your pandemic memories. 

You will take home a creative work that expresses YOUR COVID experience.

Suitable for teachers’ PD & certificates provided.

Contact: Maria at 0407 354 784.

Supported by SPIN, FSP and the Government of South Australia: SA Health.

Viral Lines: your pandemic life in poetry and pictures

Saturday, 17th Sept, 2022
10:00am – 4:00pm

The OpenDoor Uniting Church
1 Collingwood Street, Goolwa

$30 / $25 concession includes morning tea.

Discover how to capture love, loss and life during COVID, combining poetic life writing and drawings / photos.

Satura Poetry Prize Winner, Maria Vouis and Artist / Poet, Julia Wakefield will inspire your inner storyteller with engaging exercises aimed to distill your pandemic memories.

You will take home a creative work that expresses YOUR COVID experience.

Suitable for teachers’ PD & Certificates provided.

Contact: Maria at 0407 354 784.

Supported by SPIN, FSP and the Government of South Australia: SA Health.

FSP August City Meeting: Anthology 46 launch and open mic

Monday, 1st August, 2022
from 6:00pm

The Box Factory
59 Regent St, Adelaide, SA 5000

We will be very pleased to launch the FSP Anthology 46, edited by Louise Nicholas and Judy Dally. Judge Jude Aquilina will announce the winners of the Nova and Satura Prizes.

FSP members with poems in the Anthology will be invited to read their selection.

Following the launch, there will be an Open Mic as usual for those who have not read already. Add your name to the reading list on the night if you want a turn at the mic. Bring two printed copies of your poems with your name and contact details if you want them considered for next year’s anthology, or submit them electronically via the form below after the session.… Click for more

New Poets 23 winners announced!

We are delighted to announce that the winning submissions for New Poets 23 have been selected. 

Congratulations to winners:
• Stephy Kate Dewan for Little Closed Openings;
• Shaine Melrose for Shooting Words From My Soul;
• Heather Nimmo for The Sun Came Up.

Highly commended submissions were received from Stef Rozitis for Goon of Fortune and Claire Watson for A Glimpse of Light.

Congratulations to our winning and highly commended poets as well as all the poets who put in the time and effort to make a submission.

We look forward to launching New Poets 23 at a date to be announced.

New Poets 23 submissions open on 1 April 2022

FSP is pleased to announce that submissions for New Poets 23 will open on 1st April 2022, and close on 31st May 2022. Each volume in the New Poets series publishes short collections of poems from three poets who have not yet published a collection of poetry.

Before submitting your manuscript, please read the rules and formatting requirements carefully. Failure to comply with the requirements will result in your submission being disqualified. The rules can be downloaded as a PDF document below.

Submissions will only be accepted via an on-line form that will become available on 1st April.

Order our latest FSP publications on-line

You can now order the latest publications from FSP on-line using the form below. Please note that we do not have the capability for on-line payments so you need to do an electronic funds transfer (EFT).

Using this form you can order:
• Q: FSP Anthology 46
• Lament by Michele St. Yves
• New Poets 22 by Veronica Cookson, Rob Ferris & Susan O’Brien.

All books are $20 each plus postage.

If there are other specific titles you are after, please make a request in the “Special Instructions” section of the form. We will set-up links for some other titles still in stock soon.… Click for more

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