2011 New Mardi Gras Short Story
Competition
All the winners and highly commended entries.
This competition was part of the 2011
Sydney Mardi Gras festival. Theme: 750 words on 'Home'. Winners include
Brent Beadle, Madeline Shaw, Hayley Katzen and Alex Dunkin. Highly
commended entries from Jamila Shah, Nat Newman and Matthew Huxtable.
More information | Free download
pdf file <1 MB, mixed g&l
content, released Feb 2011
Produced by GAY-EBOOKS for New
Mardi Gras Festival
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2010 Feast Writing
Competition
All this years' winners and highly commended entries
Part of the 2010 Adelaide Feast
festival, this collection highlights writing from around Australia.
Prose to 1 500 words, poetry to 20 lines. Prize winners were: 1st
Jonathon Elsom, 2nd Karen Lethlean, 3rd Jenni Nixon. Highly commendeds:
Alex Duncan, Jannali Jones, Alistair Sutton.
More information | Free download
pdf file <1MB, 20 pages,
released December 2010
Produced by GAY-EBOOKS for
Feast Festival
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3 flaunt
Issue 3 - our latest collection
Editor: Sue Webb
Our latest collection of prose and
poetry expands our series of great Australian lesbian writing.
Featuring: Amy McDonald, Debrah Meeham, Bettina Brentano, Rhea Das,
Rebecca Langham, Jenni Nixon, J.L. Shenstone, Fiona Thurn, Siobhan
Colman, and Ray Tyndale.
More information | Free download
pdf file <2.5MB, release: Nov
2010
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Three Seasons
A new novel from Mij Tanith
Set in the mid eighties, before the
advent of mobile phones and the internet, Three Seasons
explores the relationship between ESL teacher Gloria and real estate
agent Jane, and between these women and their children.
More information | Free download
pdf file <3MB, released 12 August 2010
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2 flaunt
Issue 2 - a very popular download.
Editor: Kate O'Brien
2flaunt: 1. verb
to parade or display one's lesbian poetry or prose conspicuously. 2.
proper noun the 2009 follow up volume to
lesbian-ebooks.com.au 2008 collection, Flaunt. 3. title
a pdf containing new work by Adrien Abbott, Mary Blackwood, Jacqueline
Buswell, Siobhan Colman, Jacqueline Craigie, Jenni Nixon, Mij Tanith,
Fiona Thurn, Louise Wakeling, Amelia Walker and Bronwyn Winter.
More information | Free download
pdf file <2MB, released Feb 2009
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Flaunt
Australia's first lesbian anthology for years.
Editor: Kate O'Brien
Featuring twelve authors in a sixty page
collection of prose and poetry, Flaunt is exciting reading, combining a
mix of established and new writers including Adrien Abbott, Mary
Blackwood, Jacqueline Buswell, Kim Carey, Siobhan Colman, Tricia
Dearborn, Jenni Nixon, Kate O'Brien, Gina Schien, Jacqueline St. Jude,
Clement Wood and Diane Wood.
More information | Free download
pdf file <2MB, released November 2008
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New
Mardi Gras Short Story Competiton winner collections
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2011 New Mardi Gras short
story competition winners
more info
download
[pdf file <1MB]
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2010 New Mardi Gras short story
competition winners
more info
download
[pdf file <1MB]
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2009 New Mardi Gras short
story competition winners
more info
download
[pdf file <1MB]
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2008 New Mardi Gras short
story competition winners
more info
download
[pdf file <1MB]
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2007 New Mardi Gras short
story competition winners
more info
download
[pdf file <1MB]
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lesbian and gay content. The annual Mardi Gras short story
competitions present the winners and highly recommended entries. 2010
entries sre 750 words on the theme of 'Making History'. Previously 500
word stories; 2009 theme was 'War and Peace', in 2008 the theme was
'One Small Step'; the 2007 theme of 'Love or money'. |
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Feast
Festival Writing Competition winners
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Poetry
collections
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2010 Feast Writing
competition winners
more info
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[pdf file <1MB]
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2009 Feast Writing
competition winners
more info
download
[pdf file <1MB]
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2008 Feast Writing
competition winners
more info
download
[pdf file <1.5MB]
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Perverse Verse 2007
more info
download
[pdf file <1.2MB]
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Perverse Verse 2006
more info
download
[pdf file <2.2MB]
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- Note mixed
lesbian and gay content. All the winners and the highly
commended entries from the Feast Writing Competitions and Perverse
Verse, the annual poetry reading was a Mardi Gras institution for many
years; we've got pdfs for the 2006 and 2007 events featuring some of
the poetry read on the day.
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Welcome to lesbian-ebooks
Content Warning
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literary references to homosexual activities including sex and home
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Poetry, prose. M/s due mid April.
Editor Kate O'Brien. Contact:
editor@lesbian-ebooks.com.au
more info
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2012 Mardi Gras Short Story
Competition
Competition closed
7 Jan 2012, winners will be announced 25 Feb 2012 at Queer
Thinkers and published here soon after.
Email: festival@mardigras.org.au
Or enquiries@gay-ebooks.com.au
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New lesbian fiction
Read These Lips
download from:
www.readtheselips.com
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