The State Library is a sponsor at this inaugural festival of ideas, innovation and invention. With seminars by leading thinkers including Germaine Greer, Lord Professor Robert Winston, Nobel Laureate Peter Doherty and James Randi. The competition is open to Queensland residents aged 18-25 who submit a tory of up to 2,500 words. The winner will be announced at the Brisbane Writers festival in October.
Entry forms available from the State Library of Queensland Website .
Their images, captured in stunning black and white photographs by Suzanna Clarke and accompanying statements on reconciliation gathered by curator Wayne Coolwell, will generate healing debate. We seek poetry, short prose, microfiction, creative nonfiction, hypertext and multimedia works, as well as reviews. O Soul O Spirit O Fire will include 40 works in all media, selected from more than 3000 works which have been included in the annual exhibitions over the past five decades. Works in the survey exhibition will signal many of the noteworthy art historical and theological changes which have occurred during this time. Deadline for receipt of manuscripts is December 31, 2001.