Come and join the BLOCK team for a festive evening celebrating the launch of Issue 8! Issue 8 is a pleasingly plump little journal, replete with the latest poetry and prose from Canberra and further afield. It'll be a night of poetry, food and wine as we send it out into the world in style.
Date: June 4
Time: 6pm
Location: Smith's Alternative Bookshop, 76 Alinga St Civic, Canberra.
We've extended the submission deadline for BLOCK 8 to April 10!
Come along to Gorman House on Saturday 7 February from 10am to check out BLOCK at the Canberra Zine Fair. Copies of the latest issue as well as back issues will be for sale and our editors will be there to have a chat.
The Zine Fair is part of the Scribble: Young Readers, Young Writers Festival from February 6-7 2009. The Fair will be held between 10.00-17.00 at Gorman House, Q2 Foyer, Ainslie Avenue, Braddon.
Block 8 is now open for submissions! Send us your best fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photos, comics and art, on any theme, by March 20 2009! For further details, please refer to our submission guidelines.
BLOCK 7 is now available at Electric Shadows Bookshop, Smith's Bookshop, the Co-op Bookshop (ANU) and Impact Comics, with more to follow. Stay tuned for our online shop...
Well, we've managed to do it again... BLOCK will be launching its 7th issue on October 23 and you're all invited! To help us celebrate, acclaimed Australian author Frank Moorhouse will be kicking the night off, followed by readings from the journal. There will, of course, be wine.
Time: 6pm, October 23 2008.
Location: Smith's Alternative Bookshop, 76 Alinga St, Canberra City.
We're excited to annouce that BLOCK will be making an appearance at Newcastle's This Is Not Art festival. We will be selling copies of BLOCK, past and present, at the Independant Press and Zine fair.
The crowd gathers at Smiths Alternative Bookshop.
Book launches and the like are fun, there’s no questioning that. For the lucky guest, the only drawback could be the predictability of the whole affair. Too frequently, these kinds of events lack the tension and delicious uncertainty which make life spicier. When I signed on as one of BLOCK’s editors earlier this year, I didn’t realise that emotional investment could generate such excitement. In fact, as a virtual stranger to BLOCK and the zine and self-publishing world in general, I knew little about the sense of accomplishment which rewards every do-it-yourself effort. And it is worth it.
Submissions closed Friday, September 12 2008. We received a high number of submissions and are hard at work compiling the best for BLOCK 7. A huge thank you to everyone who took the time and effort to send us your work. We will be in touch soon with details of the launch for the new issue of BLOCK.
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