June 2012
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Nine-year-old eats school lunches; blogs about it →
wordweeds asked: Pretty much the best Tumblr ever. Hooray Visible Ink!
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Only 3 days to go ...
… have you submitted yet ? Fiction, creative non-fiction, art, photography - we want it all. Peas and thank you.
Zadie Smith reads Frank O'Hara as an answering... →
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Words you can read, and words you can say
superlinguo:
This post is inspired by a Twitter conversation earlier in the week. Twitter buddy Leena (@grassisleena) got the ball rolling by asking:
Is there a word for where you mispronounce words because you’ve never heard them spoken, only seen them written down?
We’ve never heard a specific word for this, but it’s a problem common to well read geeky types.
Kane Citizen...
One week until visible ink submissions close!
Surround it!
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We've got a carload of books, jam and baked...
…and we’re headed into Fed Square, where we’ll be hanging out at Page Parlour between 1 and 5 this afternoon as part of the Emerging Writers’ Festival! See you there!
May 2012
38 posts
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In the criminal justice system, the People are represented by two separate, yet...
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
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What are y'all doing this Sunday?
If you’re in Melbourne town this weekend and hanging out at the Emerging Writers’ Festival, come and visit us! visible ink will be manning a fort (read: a table) at Page Parlour, with a horde of other literary journals, indie books and zines.
We’ll be in The Atrium at Fed Square between 12 and 5pm to talk to you about our little book. Better yet, we’ll also be selling...
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Something for your Thursday-morning commute:... →
Wednesday is meeting day
More design talk tonight! And CHEERS BIG EARS to friends who came along to the film last night, hung out with us and bought books and jam. A good night all round, we’d say.
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Tonight is our very first visible ink fundraising event! We’ve roped in family, friends and all kinds of good people to come along to our film night at Carlton’s Nova cinemas for a screening of Australian psychological thriller Wish You Were Here.
There are a handful of tickets still available for $20 at the door, so if you’re up for a wintry Tuesday movie night, head on in at...
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fringecuts asked: Hi Visible Ink! Just to clarify, when it says submissions are limited to 3 entries per person, does that mean, for example, three pieces not exceeding the 2500 words limit in total, for $6? Or each submission is $6, so 3 entries will be $18? Sorry, little confused!
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Tuesday morning goody bag: over at the visible ink blog, Cory’s curated another tour of online writing & design resources!
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The 411...
Alri-i-i-i-ght, here’s the d-l on submitting to visible ink…
We are looking for anything you can get on a printed page - short stories, non-fiction, poetry, visual art and photography.
We’re open to all Australian writers, artists and photographers. Submissions will be judged anonymously; you don’t have to have had work published before. In fact, we’re keen as...
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Exciting news for a grey day!
It’s official…2012 submissions are now open!
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Talking e-books at tonight’s VI meeting! Specifically, can WE-book. SEE WHAT I DID THERE…
…but 4 rlz guise. So far, what’s been surprising is how easy and (relatively) inexpensive it is to turn your bound book into a virtual one. There’s so much software out there! God bless the internet and people who know how to use it to do things.
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April 2012
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6-word short stories
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. -Ernest Hemingway
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -Alan Moore
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -RichardPowers
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. -Orson Scott Card
Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -Vernor Vinge
Has anyone ever tried one of these? The...
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, filed under 'Ideas'
nevver:
Family breaks up. It leaves marks on three children, two of whom ruin themselves keeping a family together and a third who doesn’t.
A young woman bill collector undertakes to collect a ruined man’s debts. They prove to be moral as well as financial.
Story of a man trying to live down his crazy past and encountering it everywhere.
Father teaches son to gamble on fixed machine; later...