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New fiction podcast | microlit award closing soon
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New crime fiction podcast lifts the lid on Osho cult
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‘Zorba The Buddha’ is a novella written by Katerina Cosgrove, an author of Greek heritage and regular writer for SBS. It charts the demise of Bhagwan Rajneesh/Osho and his sanyassins in his brief exile in Crete in the 80s. The novella has been adapted into an audio-drama by Elizabeth Nabben (Belvoir 25A, Red Stitch) who directs actors Nicholas Brown as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and 2019 Helpmann Award-winner, Vaishnavi Suryaprakash (‘Counting and Cracking’) as Ma Anand Sharabo, Anita Hegh (A Room of One’s Own, Janet King) as Ma Yoga Mukunda, the Greek shipping heiress and Josh McConville as Shakti, the Oregon farm-boy.
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Sound engineer, Jeff Zhang. Production by Spineless Wonders Audio.
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Available now on Spotify https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/spineless-wonders-audio
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For this year’s NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award, we invite submissions which respond to the theme of ricochet. Award judges, Cassandra Atherton and Paul Hetherington (pictured below) will look for ricochets or instances of sudden redirection which function to skew the reader’s sense of a work and take them toward unexpected places. They will look for writing which challenges the idea of linear connection. Writing which involves deflected ideas, redirected themes, or the skewing effects of simile and metaphor.
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We particularly invite ekphrastic submissions which ‘bounce off’ artistic works. The choice of artwork can take any form—from paintings, sculptures, photos, posters, comics, graffiti to digital images of all kinds. Even some presentations of food, architecture, music and dance performances might be art that inspires your piece. Please include the reference to the relevant artwork(s) in your submission.
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Finalists selected from this award, along with invited contributors, will be published by Spineless Wonders in Ricochet, a Microlit anthology which will be launched at the 2025 Newcastle Writers Festival.
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The deadline for submissions to both the National and Hunter categories has been extended until Sunday August 4.
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Dates for Your Diary
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Sun, 4 Aug – NWF/joanne burns Microlit Award closes 12 midnight
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