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TOMORROW’S VISION ISSUE 270 Anna Whateley – Debut in a Pandemic Sep 2020 – Nov 2020 Philip Neilsen – QWC Chair 1992–94
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Contents
Editorial and Production
Sandra Makaresz
Editor
Jandamarra Cadd
Guest Artist
3 Philip Neilsen Green Fox Studio
Design
4 Debuting During a Pandemic CPX Printing & Logistics
Printing
By Anna Whateley
Submissions
Members can submit Milestones or details of
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Life Story Writing Events or Competitions and Opportunities,
By Robin Storey or pitch articles for WQ, by emailing us at
editor@qldwriters.org.au
QWC reserves the right to edit all
8 Ways to Save Money on an Editor submissions with regard to content and
By Callum McDonald word length.
Advertising
9 QWC Quills Member Robyn Sheahan-Bright Advertising rates, deadlines and dimensions
and other information on how to advertise
remembers Sue Pechey in WQ is available at qldwriters.org.au/
advertise. For advertising enquiries please
contact editor@qldwriters.org.au
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Gone Girls in Children’s Fictions rate. Before booking an advertisement
potential advertisers should read QWC’s
By Shannon Horsfall Advertising Terms and Conditions at
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How to Impress Competition Judges Staff
Lori-Jay Ellis
15 Announcing the Flinthart Chief Executive Officer
Charlie Hester
Our New Writing Residency and Online Writing Course.
Social Media Officer
Craig Cauchi
16 Memoir through Poetry Livestream Officer
Meredith Taylor
By Anna Jacobson
Financial Officer
Callum McDonald
17 Chasing The Wild Pineapple Aleisha Yu
Aimee Cheung
Project Officers
18 The Geography of Love Management Committee
By Patty Beecham Kym Hausmann
Chair
Ann Wilson
20 Writing Competitions Vice Chair
Vacant
24 Publisher Update Treasurer
Carleton Chinner
Secretary
26 Events Sandra Makaresz
Andrea Brosnan
Sarah Thornton
28 Member Milestones Angela Samut
Judy Gregory
29 QWC Membership Benefits Ordinary Members
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ISSN 1444-2922
ISSUE 270
PUBLISHED BY
GUEST ARTIST Editorial
Jandamarra Cadd
Sandra Makaresz
Cover Illustration: Editor
Ancient Dreaming;
Tomorrows Vision
Biography:
Jandamarra Cadd – a Yorta Yorta
and Dja Dja Warung descendent, Welcome to our second ‘created in isolation’ edition of WQ. Once again,
is an inspirational man with many it’s been a challenge. But it’s definitely been worth the effort!
stories to tell. With his vibrant
and expressive portraitures, The title Tomorrow’s Vision comes from our beautiful cover image by
Jandamarra’s artwork is emotive Jandamarra Cadd, Ancient Dreaming: Tomorrows Vision. I think you’ll agree that
and insightful – and is a powerful it’s a stunning image and I’m so happy to feature his work both on the cover
medium to bridge the story telling and the writing competitions page. Please take a moment to visit Jandamarra’s
divide between Aboriginal and website and explore his work.
mainstream Australia.
Each of this month’s articles holds something of our vision for tomorrow.
Painting has been a way of life Whether it’s Philip Neilsen drawing on the past to advise emerging writers
that has enabled him to express about the future, Anna Whateley and Shannon Horsfall speaking to new
his creativity and story telling. In representations in fiction or our articles aimed to grow your skills as a writer,
many of his paintings of the human they are all filled with a positivity about the future of writing that is inspiring.
condition he seeks to be a peaceful I hope you will take that inspiration and use it to motivate whatever creative
voice for unity. Jandamarra uses project you’re working on or would like to be working on.
a variety of styles and mediums;
By the time you read this our newest competition, Scriptable, will have
with his unique blend of traditional
opened. If you dream of seeing your words come to life on a screen of any
aboriginal art techniques along with
size, now is the time to finish those manuscripts and send them in. This is
his own signature contemporary
an excellent opportunity with up to 15 winners receiving mentoring from
portraiture.
industry professionals. We’ve also arranged for a special meet and greet with
our industry partner Screen Queensland, so our winners can start making
valuable connections!
The Queensland Writers Centre, Management Committee and staff present WQ
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arising from any misinformation. The views expressed by contributors or
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of the Management Committee or staff.
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Philip Neilsen
QWC Chair 1992-1994
Philip Neilsen is an award winning poet whose latest book which often engage critically and in depth with social,
Wildlife of Berlin was shortlisted for the Kenneth Slessor Prize in environmental, gender, race and health issues.
2019. He has written or edited 16 books, received an Australian
Notable Book Award, and an Australia Council fellowship. He The continued existence of QWC is critical to develop
founded the creative writing program of degrees at QUT where and sustain writing in Queensland. From the beginning
he was a professor in Creative Industries and now teaches
we were concerned to include regional writers, and the
poetry writing at the University of Queensland.
recent development of online workshops helps serve
that purpose.
Helen Horton, Craig Munro and I headed a team that
worked for years to establish Queensland Writers Centre. My advice to emerging writers always includes joining
A lot of paperwork and lobbying followed. Craig became QWC, entering the competitions listed in the newsletter,
the first chair and I the second, from 1992 to 1994. It as well as submitting work to literary magazines. And to
was an exciting time to be a writer in Queensland, as it attend readings and book launches by the many world-
coincided with a buoyant feeling of self-confidence here. standard writers who live here.
Writers who had fled ‘south’ during the Bjelke-Petersen
years started to return, and there was a Labor government Study creative writing if possible and read widely. (Too
with a more supportive attitude towards the arts. many beginning writers have read too little). You are
either born with talent or not, but a great deal can be
It’s not widely known that the National Party premier Mike learned to develop your talent and craft. And the maxim
Ahern had supported the new QWC being incorporated ‘writing is rewriting’ is true.
into South Bank. There followed years of battling to gain
a permanent location − but with hard work QWC thrived, Writers may need to be flexible to succeed as professionals.
becoming the largest centre in Australia. And we finally Though I began exclusively as a poet in my 20s, I have
gained the ‘promised land’ by the river with our leased also had quite a few short stories anthologised, written
space at the State Library of Queensland. five fiction books for young adults and children, and ABC
radio scripts. I’m working on an adult time-slip novel as
It has always been harder for literature to receive funding well as a new poetry collection. Find ‘critical friends’ who
than art forms providing ‘colour and movement’, despite will tell you constructively when you are writing badly and
writing being the most practised art form in this country. celebrate your successes.
While I was QWC chair I was a member of the Literature You have to be mentally tough to be a writer, but it is
Board of the Australia Council. It was exhilarating to be endlessly rewarding.
able to argue for grants to emerging Queensland writers
like Andrew McGahan. It is a disgrace that the Literature
Board has been disbanded – and difficult not to conclude
that governments are uncomfortable with art forms
such as novels, creative non-fiction, plays and poetry
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Debuting
During a
Pandemic
By Anna Whateley
Releasing your debut novel during safe haven. As the restrictions lift in and kept saying yes, I’d keep calling
a global pandemic is an intense Queensland, we are now faced with them. I had that feeling of connection,
experience. My life is an intense a world that feels too large, too busy, and something to hyper focus on
experience at the best of times, and too loud. while the world shifted under my feet.
so in many ways it felt natural that Video editing is much like manuscript
every booking would be cancelled, Just before the coronavirus spread, I editing. Details relax me, and the
and my three children would start started a vlog. I wanted to get used soundwaves of a chuckle or a laugh
to my face on screen and relinquish
home schooling the month before are unique to each guest. Nova
my previously strict privacy. I like
Peta Lyre’s Rating Normal would hit Weetman had long sections of spikes
processing outwardly – talking my
the shelves. Peta goes on the school with a deep undertone. Wendy Orr’s
way to what I really think. I’ve heard
ski trip and falls in love with the new laugh trickled up and then down.
many ADHDers say the same. I make
girl. Peta is also autistic, has ADHD,
excuses for my wriggles in nearly The details were also confronting. I
sensory processing disorder, and
every video, only realising that it’s deleted awkward silences, or the parts
she’s gifted. We share our alphabet
perhaps not those reasons when I where I was so lost in their words I
soup. Intensity is something I crave
edit. forgot to respond. I learnt the sounds
and endure in equal measure.
I make when I really want to hang up,
On the day I realised Australia was
Our family would normally be camping and that I can’t look at someone when
closing down I recorded a plea to
at Woodford for The Planting Festival I ask a question. Overcoming this
the writing community. I wanted
in May. The sun changes to Autumn would hinder my thinking process,
to stay in contact. Writing events,
gold, and we enjoy Byron Bay donuts festivals and workshops have been and so I figure everyone will just get
for more meals than is strictly healthy. a structured social space where used to my ways. They can choose
In winter, we’d visit Stanthorpe and I could feel accepted and valued. whether to watch or not, and in this
tread on frosty grass. Even when going out is hard, I knew way, I accepted my letters once again.
I’d be glad I went. I refused to have
I’ve hardly seen the sun this year. Our Since my diagnosis as autistic last
that connection to my people taken
living room became the classroom, year, a direct result of writing Peta
away. The next weekend I started
office and relaxation area for five Lyre, I’ve faced my own internalised
#AusChat; a YouTube series of
people. My partner has the office, ableism head on. I was overjoyed
zoom calls between myself and book
and I have the better internet industry folk. when I could talk to my children and
connection. The details and bargains say, ‘we often think this way,’ or ‘it’s
seem insignificant, but they aren’t. I rang Kay Kerr, my fellow autistic own alright that we need headphones in
These trivialities have become the voices, young adult fiction writer and the airport’. We. Not they or them.
topic of conversation for everyone friend. We chatted. It was lovely. Then The pronouns changed and they
since lockdown began, and again I called another person, and another. were no longer Other to their mum.
now, in Melbourne. This home is our So long as people were interested, On the flip side, I was faced with
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accepting that my masking had been bookstores. I’ve met more people many more send messages that
a destructive force throughout my life, than I did in the previous six months they’ve finally realised they aren’t
and that I hadn’t been as good at it as and attended more book events than alone in how they think; that the
I thought. Masking is the process by I dreamed possible. I’ve interviewed tears won’t stop flowing, and they
which neurodivergent people behave and been interviewed for the Sydney have bought copies for their family
in ways that appear neurotypical. We Writers’ Festival, and I’ve pitched for and friends. I’m never quite sure
play you. It’s exhausting. Adaptable. I can have my feet in a
what to say. Congratulations? Thank
massager, wring my hands or play
you? Sorry? There are no rules for
Peta Lyre faces a similar struggle, with a fidget toy, wear my favourite
this. Mostly, I say welcome. This is
and she’s helped me understand comfortable clothes, and all while
I’ve judged myself harshly for ‘getting not the end of our story, it’s just the
promoting my own voices novel. I
things wrong’ all my life. No one beginning.
hope this accessibility remains in
showed me an alternative. I hope my some way when we resume physical
novel offers a space for readers to events. That said, I’d rather it had
Anna Whateley, author of Peta Lyre’s
search for that alternative. come about without so many people Rating Normal (Allen & Unwin) lives in
being ill, or losing their lives or Brisbane, and holds a PhD in young
My launch events were virtual, and livelihoods to Covid-19. adult fiction. Anna is an ‘own voices’
I loved them all. We launched an author, proudly autistic, with ADHD and
online platform, @ozauthorsonline, Since Peta Lyre came into the world, sensory processing disorder. She founded
under the leadership of Wai I’ve had two friends seek and gain #AusChat, and is an active member of the
Chim and it directs sales to local diagnoses as autistic or ADHD, and #LoveOzYA community.
WWW.QLDWRITERS.ORG.AU.MAGAZINE 5
Life Story
Writing
By Robin Storey
Sometimes when people ask me what Over a series of recorded interviews Sometimes the client has been
my occupation is, I’ll tell them I’m a with my client I collected as much wanting to tell their story for years
ghostwriter. Many non-writers don’t information as he could remember, and hasn’t had the opportunity until
know what that is, and it sounds rather and wrote his story. The family were you come along. This happened to
mysterious and exotic. But if I’m not thrilled and published it themselves, me with a client, Bob, who had been
in the mood for lengthy explanations, instrumental in the transformation of
using an online publishing program.
I’ll say I’m a life story writer. It covers all the Queensland Ambulance Service,
bases – autobiographies, biographies I was hooked, and from there it and had been wanting to tell his story
and memoirs. for over 20 years.
snowballed. My next client was a man
who lived in the same retirement That he was able to do so and publish
Life story writing is a niche profession,
but steadily growing because people village as my previous client, and I’ve his book at the age of 96 was life
are realising the importance of telling gained subsequent clients by word changing for him, and for me, that
their stories, whether as a legacy of mouth and referrals from friends was the greatest reward. Holding
for their family, publishing for the and associates. the published book you’ve written,
wider community or becoming a part even if your name’s not on it, is also
of history. Baby boomers coming a tremendous source of satisfaction.
Rewards and Challenges
into retirement are eager to write
about their lifetime of rapid and There are challenges as well. While
One of the most rewarding aspects you should make sure before you
extraordinary change, and are also
of being a life story writer is the start that you and the client agree on
persuading their parents, of a more
relationship you develop with your the structure, content and tone of the
modest, self-effacing generation, that
their stories are worth telling. client. Writing is by nature a solitary story, the client has the final say. They
profession – we often feel as if we’re might insist on including something
writing in a vacuum, especially if we you think is irrelevant or changing
How I got started something else you don’t agree with,
only get limited responses or feedback
from consumers of our work. but apart from politely expressing
I’ve been a professional writer for your opinion, there’s nothing you can
over 25 years, first as a freelance do except respect their wishes.
Talking to your client about the
writer then a fiction novelist, but I
events in their life and their struggles
fell into life story writing by accident. You also need to be flexible in other
and successes forges a strong bond
I had a part-time job as a social areas. My usual process is to email
support worker for a man in the between you. During the process the the finished first draft to my client for
early stages of dementia. His family, client often gains new perspectives on them to read and suggest changes.
knowing I was a writer, asked me if I their life - for example, their strengths However this wasn’t going to work
would write his life story before his and their value to the community - for Bob, due to his poor vision and
memory faded completely. and you’re a witness to that. minimal computer skills. So we
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devised a system whereby after the same principles apply for life
How to start as a
every couple of chapters I wrote, I’d story writing. Hook readers in the
life story writer
print them out and read them out first couple of pages, show character
loud to him, so he could correct any development, build up to a climax Like any business, you need a website,
factual errors. This worked well and and finish with a sense of resolution. an ABN and whatever social media
was easier for us both to do it as we sites you want to be active on. (I just
went along, rather than wait until I’d Interviewing is a skill developed with do Facebook and LinkedIn).
finished the manuscript. practice, but you can’t go wrong if you
There are lots of free apps you can
remember the classic advice of asking
download on your phone or tablet for
Required skills open-ended questions. I think of it voice recording. I use Smart Recorder.
more as having a conversation. Even If you don’t want to do your own
The two most important skills are self- though I have a list of topics I want to transcribing, which is time consuming
evident – writing and interviewing. If and laborious unless you’re a speed
discuss at each session, I also go with
you don’t have a portfolio to show typist, there are a myriad transcription
the flow and if a client is particularly
potential clients, you could try writing services available.
keen to talk about a certain part of
a short memoir for a friend or family
member – or your own! their lives, I usually let them. For support and advice I recommend
joining Life Stories Australia, an
I found my lessons learned from You can always put it all in chronological organisation for professional life
writing fiction invaluable, because order later. story writers.
Robin Storey is a life story writer and
also offers a mentoring service for those
wishing to write their own. She has
published eight of her own books, including
her own memoir Making The Breast Of It.
You can find her at Storey-Lines, https://
storey-lines.com or on Facebook https://
www.facebook.com/RobinStoreywriter
or LinkedIn. https://www.linkedin.com/
in/robinstoreyauthor.
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Ways to
Save Money
on an Editor
By Callum McDonald
Unless you’re an A-list author with a Hollywood movie only because I have not had the time to make it shorter”.
deal, writers aren’t known to have deep pockets. So, it In other words, anyone can ramble on for 100K words;
might seem unfair that, as a yet-to-be-published author, it takes talent and time to cut that down to 70K without
you’re expected to spend your own money on an editor losing its message. Not only will tightening your prose
at some stage. This is the case whether or not you intend improve your writing, but if your editor charges per
to publish traditionally or independently. Yes, once you word, presenting them with a manuscript of 70K words
get a book deal, your publisher will provide you with a will be (wait for it) cheaper than presenting them one
very fancy in-house editor free-of-charge, but you need with 100K. Likewise, if your editor charges per hour, 70K
to submit a pretty brilliant manuscript to get there. And won’t take them as many hours to get through. That is,
to get your work to that stage, you’ll need to pay an unless there is something else that’s slowing them down:
editor that plays on your side of those big pearly-white the standard of the writing itself.
publisher gates.
If your manuscript is riddled with simple errors, it
But what if you’re just a humble student/barista? What if will take your editor more time to go through your
you’re retired? Perhaps you have a big family with limited manuscript, and that means more dollars paid by you.
funds? Everyone has their reasons why money might That is why it’s worth brushing up on the technical rules
be an issue, and why that editor’s estimated cost after of the English language so you can present your editor
reading your sample chapter might have left you rocking with the best possible version of your manuscript. Of
in the foetal position as your dreams grow even more course, you might be thinking: “But I’m a writer. An artist,
unattainable. Luckily, there are a number of ways you if you will. The technical aspects of writing are beneath
can save a few hundred dollars on an editor. And you me. That’s the editor’s job.” That’s where you’re wrong,
can do most of them before you even talk to one. humble writer. As a writer, words are your tools, as is
proper punctuation and syntax. You don’t need to be
The first step is understanding how an editor’s rates work.
a master (that’s what the professional editors are for),
Some charge per word, others per hour. Depending on
but you should familiarise yourself with the basics and
the type of editing, some will have a flat rate, but that cost
hold yourself to a certain standard. Poor attention to
will depend on the state of each individual manuscript.
the technical aspects of writing is the easiest way to
Regardless of how one particular editor charges, here
are some ways you can take advantage of this. undermine yourself as a writer, so a grammatically
clean manuscript (regardless of any plot holes or two-
A habit many novice writers have is to overwrite. This dimensional characters you might have) will show your
is because some still think good writing is measured by editor that you take the craft of writing seriously. Most
a work’s length. After all, isn’t the Iliad more impressive importantly, the time it takes your editor to polish up
than The Very Hungry Caterpillar? But there’s a famous those simple, easy-to-fix-up-yourself mistakes might be
and apologetic quote by Blaise Pascal that suggests the difference between a $400 estimate and a far more
otherwise: “I have made this letter longer than usual, expensive one.
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Robyn Sheahan-Bright
remembers…
…editor, writer and oral historian,
Sue Pechey (1941–2019).
‘Sue edited and desktop published my literary
history of the Gladstone region Kookaburra Shells
Port Curtis Literature and the year we spent working
largely remotely on this was a huge pleasure to me.
My abiding memories of Sue are of her humour
and wit, her passion for local history and the
Finally, a new draft is only as good as the feedback you importance of individual memories in that history,
received on the draft before it. And while editors may be her commitment to social justice, and of her deep
the professionals, they aren’t the only people who can connection to the area of Pechey, where her family
give you advice on your manuscript. You can also reach had lived for generations.’ Robyn Sheahan-Bright.
out to other writers through writers’ groups, online
During the 1990s, Sue shared office space for a time
forums, or Queensland Writers Centre to get new eyes
with QWC when it was located on Wickham Terrace.
on your manuscript and some decent feedback. Even
She conducted many workshops for QWC and other
well-read family and friends can be good value as well. organisations in Brisbane and regional centres. She
Feedback from other writers and readers can not only was invited by the Gladstone Regional Art Gallery
smooth out any glaring technical errors, but also bring to and Museum, in the early 2000s, to conduct the
light potential logical holes in your story, or where your Waves of Settlement project.
narrative feels too slow or falls flat entirely. Of course,
an editor will do this as well, but by exhausting other
avenues for feedback first, you can save your editor time
and yourself money in the long run.
You might still be asking, “But isn’t cutting down words,
perfecting grammar, and giving feedback an editor’s job?”
Yes. And, honestly, we would gladly take all your money if
you had it. But renovating a fixer upper manuscript into
a mansion takes time and money; money you can save
by doing your own structural work beforehand. In all, if
you want to save money on an editor, learn to think like
an editor. This will also make you a better writer.
Callum McDonald organises the set-up and delivery of the
events program at Queensland Writers Centre. He is also
a freelance editor with a Bachelor of English Literature and
Writing. He is currently undergoing a Masters in Writing,
Editing, and Publishing.
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Gone Girls in Children’s Fictions
By Shannon Horsfall
Statistically, girls are less often the aspect of helping those on
diagnosed with AS. Scientists in the spectrum to ‘understand their
recent years have uncovered several difference’ and to encourage learned
explanations for this skewed gender ways in which to ‘control’ the condition
ratio, with studies finding females as per societal expectations of
manifest AS differently, by masking ‘normative’ behaviour. It is important
or compensating for the symptoms for narratives to conduct alternative
more effectively than males. As a readings of AS. They must challenge
result, a gendered bias in diagnoses the assumptions and tropes of so-
is exposed. Mirroring these reduced called normative characteristics as an
rates in diagnoses is this absence of exercise in exploring estrangement.
representation in media, which fails Narratives need to examine the
to reflect reality, and impacts females positives stemming from the
Fiction is empowering, beautiful, with the condition substantively. An conventions of the syndrome, and
and provocative. It has the potential increased representation of girls on illustrate differences as enhancement
to dispel myths and improve public the spectrum in fictional media will rather than hindrance – where the
understanding of the experiences of enable individuals to see themselves idea of ‘normal’ is questioned.
under-represented groups within our reflected in those narratives and will
assist in destigmatising the condition Stereotypical representations of AS
society. Fictional representation of a
through developing awareness of AS abounds across children’s and adult
diverse population allows individuals
across the broader community. media. Previously in popular culture,
to feel included, connected with, and
predominantly male portrayals
understood. Inclusion literature has
Literature about disabilities, or have been seen to overemphasise
become popular with publishers,
‘inclusion literature’, is of great certain symptoms, such as social
authors and readers in recent years
importance. It allows young readers to awkwardness and restricted interests.
across all age ranges, and yet there
progress from a distanced awareness Some characters were depicted
remains a glaring absence in female to a place of understanding, empathy, with savant-like abilities, when in
representation of neurodiversity. and acceptance of diversity. However, reality, savantism is rare among
Look to children’s and young adult it is common that when AS is written individuals on the spectrum. This
media and you will find a plethora in fiction it is from a perspective of tendency to exaggerate quirks and
of male characters with autism or alienation – explored and interpreted omit subtler features of autism
Asperger Syndrome (AS), yet an as something that a character paints a cartoonish picture of the
absence of female protagonists , struggles with, gives in to, or seeks to condition instead of the intricate
particularly in middle grade fictions. understand. Literature that speaks portrait it warrants. A close study
There are a number of speculations directly to the issue of neurodiversity of narratives on both screen and in
as to why this is the case. tends to approach the subject from books reveals myriad male characters
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condition. Glorified, hyperbolic of view, Haddon argues through need to be sentimentalised. It is not
renderings, of AS being alienated Christopher’s eyes that disability an opportunistic metaphoric device.
again and again. Society reflects this is a social construct. Disability is Instead, give readers a portrayal of a
fictional portrayal. It alienates and not central to Christopher’s own real girl with a complicated identity –
‘others’ people on the spectrum, experience of the world, and Haddon complex and motivated by a variety
perceives them to be measured emphasises the value of personal of forces.
within a socially constructed scale of experience as opposed to expert
intelligence, potential and capability. authority in accessing ‘truth.’
Shannon Horsfall is undertaking her
Honours degree in Creative Writing at
So, I come to the seminal fictional There is a definite need for narratives
USC. She is the award winning author-
novel on autism, Mark Haddon’s The that work against this tendency illustrator of Was Not Me and Nomax
Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night- popular culture has to portray (both HarperCollins), and the illustrator
time, in which the male protagonist AS as male-gendered, hyperbolic of Dear Santa (Scholastic) and My Unicorn
Christopher is presented as having and stereotypical. There is a need Farts Glitter (Hachette). She has published
short stories, poetry and flash fiction in
a condition that makes him a social for complex, nuanced female
the USC anthologies 2018 and 2019. In
outcast, ‘other’, ‘special needs’. In protagonists on the spectrum, rather 2017-2018 she illustrated Issue 259 of
many ways he is not what is thought than just characters who fill the WQ Magazine for QWC.
of as ‘normal’ particularly in terms role of the alienated ‘other.’ All too
of how his mind works. However, often, characters on the spectrum
in questioning the idea of normal, are a symbol of contamination or
the narrative in effect challenges tragedy, exotic in their difference
ableism. Christopher does not see or spectacle – a phenomenon in
himself as having a disability; in fact, literature described as a kind of
in response to being categorised as narrative prosthesis. It happens
‘special needs’, he sees everyone as when a character is used only to
having some sort of need, whether it hold together the text’s narrative.
be the need to wear glasses, or, in the These characters never speak for
case of his father, the need to carry themselves, but they fulfil a narrative
artificial sweetener around with him. function by resolving plots or repairing
Christopher aligns his limitations to societally deemed deviances. Readers
those of any person, suggesting that it need to see female, AS empowered
is the need that defines disability, not characters presented with agential
the person. By challenging readers to identity, away from the symptomatic,
see Christopher as normal, the novel gendered and stereotypical. AS does
questions the very idea of normalcy. not need to be written as exotic,
WWW.QLDWRITERS.ORG.AU.MAGAZINE 11How to Impress
Competition Judges
Short fiction is in demand. For
emerging writers, it’s a swift path to
publication—swifter than that first
novel, for sure. Submission calls
The Technical Nuts & Bolts:
While I can’t guarantee you a
5.
5. E
nsure that your characters have
differing voices/personalities. You
should be able to strip away your
speech tags (i.e., Kitty said), read
are global, and a few publications in first place—that’s up to you, your your story out loud, and have
your portfolio will light up the pitch imagination, and your original writing your audience know who said
for your first book. Listing with a skills—I can guarantee that without what. If they can’t, draw more
competition conveys to publishers these essential criteria covered, character nuances.
6.
that you can follow guidelines, substantial writing prizes will stay out
work with editors, and gather an of reach. 6. W
ork on your story’s structure
1.
audience—the star qualities they and pace. Your story must have
1. S
how Not Tell. Use the five senses a beginning that grabs, inciting
seek in their authors.
to place the reader in the story. incidents that build tension, a
When we enter competitions, we’re Good writers spend their entire climax, and a resolution. Longer
pitting ourselves against a legion of careers improving this tool. It’s sentences slow the pace. Curate
other writers who are largely just as easy to read Anton Chekhov’s shorter sentences to show tension.
7.
talented and passionate about their famous quote, ‘Don’t tell me the
7. E
nsure your main character is
subject as we are. Competitions are moon is shining, show me the glint
an instigator of action. Passive
filled with good to great writers. The of light on broken glass,’ and think
bystanders reacting to events are
difference between winners and the you’ve ‘got it’. Dig deeper. There’s
boring.
well-populated layer of the field that much to learn on this topic. Your
8.
score around the 8/10 mark for their ‘show’ needs to transcend cliché. 8. If you need an adverb/verb
2.
work, is that winners have mastered combination to say what one
the technical aspects of writing, 2. E
nter the story as late as you can, strong verb can say, you’ve
and resonance. and leave as early as you can. This chosen the wrong verb. One well-
minimises the risk of a slow start placed verb can often replace half
As a judge, it’s stunning to read and that doesn’t grab your reader, and a sentence.
9.
judge entry after entry, thinking, killing the ending with too much
‘Many of these are quite good; how description. 9. R
emove redundant words. We
3.
am I ever going to choose one single all litter our first drafts with
entry as the winner?’ Good art is not 3. C
reate credible, three dimensional overwritten text. For example,
just evocative; it is also collective. A characters—flaws that align their ‘Sawyer began to giggle’. No, just
story’s resonance ventures into the humanity with the audience. no. ‘Sawyer giggled’ has more
4.
transcendent territory of the arts, dramatic impact. Learn all you can
but most readers know what I mean. 4. W
rite authentic dialogue. Real about the many redundant words
When a story leaves its fingerprints people rarely talk in well-rounded, and filters and slash them from
on us, it’s unmistakable. We feel it. fully formed, perfect sentences. your drafts.
12 WQ10.
10.
Errors are amateurish in a short
story competition. Ensure correct
spelling, grammar, punctuation
and formatting. Read the
I appreciate the work on a wider
scale. Even an urban fantasy
about vampires can leave readers
questioning their perceptions. That’s
earned space towards publication.
Writers leave an impression, an
echo—a touch of perfume or
scratches on the wall. What’s your
competition guidelines and theme the good stuff. echo like?
requirements and abide by them.
• Resonance – has the work left an
echo within me?
Higher Level Elements That
Separate the Winner from
Your Writing Community:
the Pack:
Choose your support community
• Structure & Focus – the best
thoughtfully. Being a member of
stories have an escalating sense
a writing or critique group offers
of drama.
tremendous opportunities to test-
• Scenes & Transitions – a good drive stories before submitting to
story shows its events more than competitions. Often, we learn in equal
tells them. measure by aiding another with their
story’s structure, as we do by receiving
• Characterisation – authenticity
critiques on our own work. Your
beats cliché every time.
loved ones’ ‘wow, that’s great’ is no
• Style – Elmore Leonard wrote, ‘If comparison to considered analysis by
it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.’ other writers. This article is based on excerpts from
That belongs on a sticky note at our the writing guide, ‘Winning Short Story
While there is no doubt that a win is Competitions’ by competition judges
writing desks.
a serious thrill, short- or long-listing L. E. Daniels & Cate Sawyer. Re-printed
• Message – like many readers, if I in writing competitions can be just with permission of Hawkeye Publishing.
‘Winning Short Story Competitions’ is
am challenged and left wondering as valuable to your writing career.
available at hawkeyebooks.com.au.
about the world and my beliefs, All competition credits support your
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14 WQAnnouncing
mentoring, for one lucky writer each year. The writer will
work on site at Queensland Writers Centre in our Fishbowl
writing space. We expect to open applications for The
the Flinthart Flinthart in early 2021.
Our New Writing
The Blackbelt in Writing course will be based on a series of
22 articles written by Aiki this year and published on her
Residency and Online Warrior Woman Words blog. In our online course, Aiki’s
articles will inspire a series of writing activities and additional
Writing Course. readings. The course is currently under development and
is expected to be launched by the end of 2020.
Aiki Flinthart is a well-known and well-loved genre
writer. She has published 13 novels including the Kalima
We are deeply indebted to Aiki Flinthart, whose generosity Chronicles, the Ruadhan Sidhe Urban Fantasy series, and
is making it possible for Queensland Writers Centre the 80AD series. She’s also written two non-fiction books
to establish a new writing residency and online writing and several short stories. Her workshops and tutorials are
course in 2021. firm favourites with Queensland Writers Centre members.
Aiki has donated her Blackbelt in Writing series of articles In her Blackbelt in Writing, Aiki shares her life lessons and
to Queensland Writers Centre, for us to adapt into online
passions. She explains how things she’s learned from
training. We’ll use the income from the training to fund the
martial arts training are applicable to writing. She writes
new writing residency.
about determination, strength, respect, collaboration,
The residency – aptly called The Flinthart – will provide adaptability, and facing the inner darkness. Her writing tips
10 weeks of dedicated writing time, plus a stipend and and motivation will help all writers develop their craft.
WWW.QLDWRITERS.ORG.AU.MAGAZINE 15Memoir through Poetry
Poetry finds you
By Anna Jacobson
In 2011, I woke up in hospital, after an drive, or something more immediate Write a memory that is wedged
episode of psychosis and emergency that you remember; how the sun tracks in reality, then let it take you on
ECT treatments, with no memory. I across the wall at 3pm in the afternoon adventures and swerve. See where it
had to reassemble the pieces. When and how it reminds you of another takes you.
I was discharged from hospital, I sat memory from years ago.
Memories are malleable and can also
at my computer and started writing
Have you all picked a snapshot? be evoked from dreams. Recurring
fragments and vignettes that I later
dreams are particularly interesting
realised was poetry. Can you see it and hold it like a
for their unusual imagery and
hologram—glimpse just to the left
unconscious undercurrents.
Nine years later, while I still cannot and right or beyond? What’s the
access memories from my hospital lighting like? What’s the texture of your In preparation for my three hour
stay prior to this ‘waking up’, my photograph? Is it faded and old, or workshop, I did a practice run-
memories have mostly returned. I am glossy? Pick one, hold it in your mind. through with my Mum. Seated down
now writing my memoir of this time This is your poem. Write it. the corridor from each other and
as part of my PhD project at QUT. linked together through Zoom, she
While this is a long-form creative In July I ran a Zoom workshop through diligently wrote and experimented
non-fiction work, poetry is how these Avid Reader on ‘memoir through with each exercise. When it came
ideas, thoughts and understandings poetry’. I was excited to share my time to sharing work, I asked which
first found their expression. knowledge—this was one aspect of piece she would like to read. She read
poetry I felt at home in, and designed it to me and I felt teary realising she
My first collection of poetry Amnesia exercises to guide the participants had written the most moving poem I
Findings (UQP, 2019), is a time capsule through each idea. I use storytelling, had ever heard expressed.
of poems with stories and memories memory, and gaps in memory, as a
of family, my Jewish culture, and Simple language and vivid imagery
springboard for writing poetry.
dreams, as well as poems I wrote to in poetry evokes strong emotional
understand a period of unwellness. responses. By letting the reader see
I have learned that poetry is the
and feel for themselves, this is one
perfect form to express these short
Poetry and writing is how I make of the most powerful things you can
vignettes. Poetry provides a different
sense of my life. I come at poetry do as a writer. Poetry reveals hidden
writing experience to long-form truths when you let it work itself out
from a sideways angle.
works. Poetry is filled with disruptions, on the page. Images and sequences
Close your eyes and think of your life as silences and gaps, much like that at first seem unconnected, find
a series of photographs. memory(loss). Memory and poetry new meanings juxtaposed against
are deeply connected; both are each other. I had talked about this
That time at the beach when you found episodic, fragmented and condense throughout the three hours, but
a rockpool, the day you first learned to experiences in powerful ways. hearing this poem from my Mum
16 WQChasing the
Wild Pineapple
Herb Wharton, Wharton’s
significant service.
Chasing the Wild Pineapple pays tribute to Thea Astley,
author of Hunting the Wild Pineapple and founding
member of the Queensland Writers Centre.
made me realise that my workshop guest in QWC’s early years, I’m
could help empower others, just one of many who rang him with
as much as poetry had found and congratulations.
empowered me.
We talked about the weather – ‘bloody
Sometimes the best poems are cold at nights but not a cloud in the
written to work through ideas. I sky in the days’ – and how he’d been
often feel I am reclaiming a sense on a trip to take photos of some of the
of agency for my story and self old droving tracks out past Windora
through poetry. But writing can also way where ‘the waterholes were full
bring up strong emotions so if it’s but we hardly saw a kangaroo or an
not the right time to be exploring Photo of Herb Wharton by Lesley Synge. emu, and there were no birds in the
it, it’s important to take care of trees, only feral cats.’
yourself and have a break.
Herb Wharton from Cunnamulla,
I had to press him about what sort of
elder of Kooma people, is a recipient
These are the things I have learned celebrating he did when informed of
over the decade: cooking a meal is of 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
the award, but all he said was that he
poetry, walking is poetry, brewing a sat on his front veranda and watched
Uncle Herb, born in 1936, was a
pot of tea is poetry. Writing poetry everything go by, just as he always did.
stockman and drover in his early life,
doesn’t just begin— you have been
and a much-loved and respected
gathering observations all along.
Your life is a poem, with so much
member of the Queensland writing ...bloody cold at nights
material and specific experiences
community. He is recognised for but not a cloud in the
that it is bursting to be written. ‘significant service to the literary arts,
sky in the days’...
Weave these observations and to poetry, and to the Indigenous
your unique way of looking at the community.’ The award of Member Three other writing elders from
world into your poems, and you’ll of the Order of Australia (AM) is the Queensland were also honoured:
connect with readers in meaningful latest in a string of honours, including historian Dr Denver Beanland,
ways. Poetry is not just a piece of an Australia Council Award for journalist Sean Dorney and Professor
writing on the page. It’s a way of Lifetime Achievement in Literature Marcia Langton a descendant of
living and observing. This is what and his naming as a ‘Queensland Yiman nation in Central Queensland.
poetry is to me. Great.’ Naturally, his portrait hangs in
the National Portrait Gallery. The official presentation of the
awards is planned for September.
Having had the privilege of calling I’ll be on my veranda, revisiting their
Herb a ‘good mate’ for around 30 works and contemplating their
years, ever since he was a regular diverse contributions to the nation.
WWW.QLDWRITERS.ORG.AU.MAGAZINE 17The Geography
of Love
(life, grief, loss)
The Professor Bruce Dawe, AO, Patronal Prize.
#Prism43 © Patty Beecham
By Patty Beecham
…And I hug my son so deeply that I press him into my chest When you lose a child, you lose everything.
Until his bones are squeezed between my ribs You lose the future. You lose the life you would have had
Until his skin and his pores become my flesh, and our together.
bones calcify. You lose hope. You lose love.
I wrap both of my arms around him, and hold him. Breathe There is only blackness and stillness and deep, dark waters
him in. that make you dog-paddle in oceans of grief;
until your arms flail with tiredness and your legs have no kick.
When your son leaves you, it’s like a part of your heart
breaks off, There is no other option but to sink to the bottom of the
And carves into the ocean, and you know you can never world without a sound.
stick it back. ***
He becomes an island, and your heart becomes a broken
jigsaw of isthmuses When you lose a friend, you leave the door open for
loneliness to come in and make itself at home. You lose your
And estuaries, and jaggedness
laugh, and it’s replaced by the sound of a wine bottle being
Where once was smooth. twisted open and poured; and it’s a desert.
*** It’s the Nullarbor of our lives; flat and featureless, without
rhythm, or bumps.
When your parent dies, gravity ceases to exist, and you float,
Every day is an effort to step one foot in front of the other,
Weightlessly without direction, and walk that dryness and not fall over the cliffs, to find
Like that party balloon drifting across the roofs and houses what’s around the corner, when there are no corners, just
of strangers; straight lines, leading to the dusty horizon.
No one to hold you: the weight of all those memories
binding you together That damn horizon, and the setting sun.
And ungrounded, your heart becomes a sinkhole, with
No one to pull you back to earth.
***
When you find that person who loves you, it crushes
Vale QWC
everything, like the weight of a thousand volcanoes erupting, Founding Patron
to the point where you can’t breathe: to the point where
you can’t think. and Quills Member
You explore the broad brown paddocks and wild plains of Bruce Dawe
his shoulders,
His granite arms. 15 Feb 1930 – 1 Apr 2020
His breath becomes your breath, his thoughts become your
Bruce had hoped to attend last year’s Christmas
thoughts, and you both move like glaciers, as time stands
still. The weight of mountainous love is too much to bear. party but was kept away by ill health. Described
as outspoken and a voice of the people, QWC will
Such alps and valleys of life. remember him always.
***
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