springing fourth

Hola harvesters

We’ve been ploughing through the tremendous amount of amazing submissions (again, you astound us!) for issue four. As usual, this means the harvest team are working diligently to both produce the beautiful new Summer issue and also provide you with feedback. In the middle of it all we’ve had TINA, and markets and holidays…So, please be patient with us as we try to get this juggling act in order.

There’s one change on the harvest front as from issue four, we’d like to heartily welcome Josephine Rowe to the team. She’s taking over the helm as Poetry Editor, keeping your words in order. 

We’d like to say a huge thank you to Geoff Lemon (THANKS Geoff) for so splendidly steering the poetry pages from Winter 2008-Spring 2009. We’ve really loved having such a dynamic, enthusiastic and super sweet WordPlayer as part of the harvest team. Geoff’s given up the poetry reins to traverse the highways and byways of South America in search of the answer to the Headless Chickens’s tune, Dónde está la pollo? Buena suerte, Geoffrey Lemon!

Spring harvest 2009

Thanks for coming to help us celebrate the launch of issue three!

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

listen up

The harvest editors are guests of Textual Fantasies on SYN FM this Saturday 5th September.

We’re joining co-hosts  Maddie Crofts and Estelle Tang, as well as the editors of stop,drop and roll, to chat about all things magazines.

If you’re in Melbourne and itching for some textual tunes, switch to 90.7FM between 1-2pm.

Textual Fantasies is a new show on SYN about reading and writing in all its forms. The show delves into the experiences of emerging and established practitioners and the resources available for literary creatives.

harvest presents issue three

Springtime has come early with our beautiful new issue of harvest magazine. Our Spring 2009 magazine will be launched on Wednesday 19th August from 6:30pm.

If you’re in Melbourne, come and celebrate with us at Eurotrash, level 2 Gallery, 18 Corrs Lane, Melbourne. 

We’ve got readings from Jessica Au, Patrick O’Neil and Maxine Clarke. Love to see you there!

 

Spring harvest 2009

 

 

If you can’t make it, email us with ‘copy please’ in the subject header and we’ll commence commercial conversations.

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the best laid plans…

…of  harvesters can unfortunately go array at the teeniest touch. Our keenly awaited issue three is still being coordinated by the team, with the release date now expected in early August. 

But be assured,  the harvest  train is coming back… it’s just been pulled slightly off-line by some filibusterous factors that are beyond our control.

Don’t forget if you haven’t yet had the chance to purchase our other issues from one of our sweet stockists,  email us direct at writetoharvest@gmail.com and we can organise some copies.

And please keep sending us your pieces! We’re aiming to have issue four on the boil very soon so if you have any fiction, non-fiction, poetry or art you’d like to submit, check out the guidelines and send it through.

winter wonderland

Rather than dance around a mini-Stonehenge made of dominoes, the harvest team marked the winter solstice with a lavish high tea and then continued the assembling of issue three. We’re taking time to prune pieces and get-together good-looking art for those creamy, thick harvest pages. We hope to have a copy on your bookshelves towards the end of July…

A huge thank you to everyone that braved an icy cold Melbourne night and came along to support our fundraising efforts at Cinema Nova on 4th June. The snippets of conversations later overheard in Carlton’s bars and cafes indicated that the comedy about the film industry, WHAT JUST HAPPENED, generated some interesting chat from the harvest crowd. 

Thanks also to all the lovely fine literary folk who came and said hello to us at our stall at the Emerging Writer’s Festival Page Parlour on 31 May. We loved meeting you and hope you’ll come back and see us again soon.

words, words and more words

Hello harvesters

The wee team behind your favourite independent literary magazine have been kept incredibly busy reading the mountain of submissions for issue three. Thank you so much for sending your wonderful tales, art, poems and pitches our way. We love seeing our post box (and inbox) brimming with your work. 

We’re excited about bringing together another issue of harvest and hope to have it on your shelves mid-2009. The next few weeks is all about working our way through all of your pieces and we’ll get back to you as soon as we can. We promise. 

bushfire assistance

All of us at harvest have been deeply saddened by the tragedy, loss and sorrow of the Black Saturday bushfires. Our thoughts and hearts are with you all.

Victoria’s arts sector has mobilised in support of the bushfire relief efforts with a number of fundraising events and activities already underway. Visit the Arts Victoria site for a list of upcoming events.

Donations

Many arts venues are accepting donations for the Red Cross’ Victorian Bushfire Appeal. Venues include: the Arts Centre,National Gallery of Victoria, State Library Victoria, Geelong Performing Arts Centre, Melbourne Recital Centre and the Australian Centre for the Moving Image.

Assistance for businesses

The Victorian Government has announced assistance for businesses and primary producers directly impacted by the 2009 bushfires, whether through loss of property or tools of trade.

ABN registered artists are eligible to apply to this fund.

The assistance package comprises:

• A one-off grant of up to $5,000 for immediate repair and restoration costs, with additional funds available up to a total of $25,000 for eligible businesses with significant damage
•  Free access to professional business advice and counselling services
•  A low-cost loan scheme through the Rural Finance Corporation.

Further information is available from Business Victoria.

Should you become aware of any authors affected by the Victorian bushfires and requiring some emergency assistance, the Australian Society of Authors Benevolent Fund has limited funds that may be of use.The fund has been able to distribute limited grants to author applicants finding themselves in financial difficulties as a result of a sudden illness, accident, disability, nursing home costs, wheelchair expenses and/or assistance with funeral expenses.

ASA members requesting assistance need to complete an application form advising full details of their financial situation and reasons for seeking help.

Application forms can be obtained from the Administrator, or downloaded in Word or PDF. The author does not have to apply for these funds him/herself. A third party can do so using the form available at: ASA Benevolent Fund.

what deadline?

Hello you

We’ve had a flurry of late submissions for issue three so have decided to open up the inbox and extend the deadline. The poetry coffer is currently full, but if you’ve got a fiction or non-fiction piece you’d like to share, send it along to us before 15 March 2009. 

We’re also looking for any interested artists to get in touch. Art, illustrations, graphics, collage, photography – anything really. Submissions can be emailed to our art director at harvest.artwork@gmail.com

Take some time to read our guidelines or check out issues one and two. 

We can’t wait to hear from you.

summer harvest

harvest is back for 2009. We’ve been busy reading, writing and window dressing.

One of our lovely local stockists, Kids in Berlin (472 Victoria Street, North Melbourne) currently has a window dedicated to harvest.

Put together by Cassandra Carroll and Imogen Stubbs, the window is up until the first week of February. Escape the Melbourne heatwave by stepping inside the store and browsing the pages of issue one and two.

 

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