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DeScribe
DeScribe is Deakin University Burwood's
writing group, where you can contact, meet, talk, swap, workshop
and publish.
Visit the
Forum or
our MySpace page.
Last year,
Jo Scicluna from Deakin and Gary Smith from Holmesglen hosted an
open mic night at the Great Britain Hotel in Richmond. About
thirty students from both campuses read their own flash fiction.
It was a good night, and most everyone there told us they
enjoyed it.
We asked ourselves, so why can't we do this on a more permanent
basis? Long story short, here we are. We plan to host a couple
of these open mic sessions a semester.
But it goes deeper than that. Writing is overwhelmingly a
solitary task, but the business of writing benefits from group
contact. You need people to workshop your writing, to inform you
of competitions and opportunities and let you in on the toolbox
of little secrets any writer develops. Deakin doesn't seem to
have much cohesion in this regard. Beyond the little cliques at
Einstein's, not much interaction seems to take place.
DeScribe is a place where people interested in writing can
discuss writing. We want people who are willing to step up and
post interesting, relevant material (and perhaps become
moderators and administrators down the line). It's you first and
second year students who'll be dealing with this mess next year.
I'll be sipping Mojitos in a sanitorium in Tijuana, thank you
for asking.
The people forming DeScribe are students just like you, but we
are also responsible for Deakin's literary journal,
Verandah, which means
later this semester we're going to be busier than a longtailed
cat in a room full of rocking chairs. If you want your hand
held, it's probably a good time to let you know we don't have
time to hold it for you. If, on the other hand (ahem) you want
to get involved in Deakin's newest club, form workshop groups,
improve your writing, make contacts in the industry or even help
run the damn thing, then cheers.
We'll be
working mostly out of our forum. The MySpace page is for
networking purposes only.
Now go click
the above link and register already. |
