Joanne Newbery Archives

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize 2019

Verity La November 22, 2019 Discoursing Diaspora, Poetry

Ballina Region for Refugees Poetry Prize (supported by Southern Cross University) is for poems of up to fifty lines that respond to the theme ‘seeking asylum’. The prize celebrates the …

Hiding within the Diaspora with a Sharky Pen Name <br>(CB Mako)May 7, 2019
Edited by Ivy Alvarez When I first wrote fanfiction in 2013, then transitioned to nonfiction in 2016, I knew I would continue writing using a pen name. My grandfather had ... Read More
Prize Winning Poems from our Black Cockatoo Editors Brenda Saunders & Yvette Henry HoltNovember 30, 2018
Verity La are proud of the achievements of all our fantastic editors. Recently, poems from two of our Black Cockatoo editors, Brenda Saunders and Yvette Henry Holt, placed as Winner & Highly ... Read More
These Things I Know (K W George)April 17, 2018
I know things about this man. I first met him seventeen years ago when he removed a BCC from the right side of my forehead. That time I had staples ... Read More