Final Howitt Matters of the Year - Q4/2011!

Dear Camels,

Here's your last chance to leave your mark in Howitt Matters for 2011!

Howitt Matters is looking for contributions from... Peter Parkers, Andrew Bolt replacements, JK Rowlings, future National Geographic photographers, Lonely Planet editors, Rupert Murdoch substitutes, gig reviewers, movie critics, game enthusiasts, travel bloggers - i.e. YOU!

You can submit creative pieces such as:
- essays/short stories - opinion pieces - photos - comics/sketches - poetry - jokes/trivia - random Tweets/musings - travel blogs - TV/movie/gig reviews

* anything that is *fit to publish* (make sure it's not illegal, not defamatory, and keep it clean please!)
* please limit articles to about 500 words for brevity

Three easy steps away...
1. meet me during weekly RST/Society Suppers for more details, to ask questions, meet fellow authors, or get Marky Marc's autograph...
(If you’re busy, feel free to just drop me a phone call [x57386] or email [marc.cheong  at monash.edu])

2. write, and submit to me latest Wednesday 19/10 [Week 12].

3. watch as your very own Pulitzer/Nobel/McCaughey prize-winning piece gets published in the LAST Howitt Matters of 2011!

So if you're keen, get in touch!

xoxo
marc, your comms RA and Howitt Matters editor

Dear camels,

Howitt Matters 3 has officially been launched...

...and I am proud to say that because of your enthusiasm: this is possibly the thickest and most exciting issue of Howitt Matters in 45 years, since 1966, the year Howitt was founded. Congratulations to all contributors!

Grab a copy here (link below), read the hardcopies in the GFCR, or a copy in your floor kitchen.

Featuring work by... Tori, Vincent, Graham, Tom, Lynae, Vik, Erin, Adam, Noel, Jack, Jaclyn, and Jess.

Congratulations to the Editor's Choice Award winners, the lovely Tori Berquist, the dashing Noel Foo, and the charming Erin Baumgartel (best travel blog entry).

Editorially yours,

- marky marc =)

The moment you've all been waiting for - Howitt Matters 2 officially launched.

Grab a copy here (link below), or read the hardcopies in the GFCR, or a copy in your floor kitchen.

Featuring work by...

• Mel
• Tori
• Jake and Ben
• Vincent
• Frank "the Cravat"
• Tom
• Brittany

...and the winner of the Editor's Choice Award goes to: the lovely Tori Berquist!

So, what are ya waiting for mate? Read it - NOW!

Marky Marc in the house.

Just a gentle reminder for Howitt Matters contributors to please submit your work to me (either in person, on a USB stick, by email, by pigeon express...) no later than end of Thursday (21/4) before you go on break for Good Friday and the Easter holidays. This Wednesday, we'll have another Writer's Night meeting if you need some last minute clarifications.

This is so that we can publish it ASAP and have it ready for your reading pleasure after the midsem break.

Thanks guys,

-marc, your comms RA.

Writer's 'Bloc' - Howitt Matters, Q2/2011

Hey all! Marky Marc, your communications RA and Howitt Matters editor here. Remember that ultra-cool magazine you got for O'week? We are having another one for the second quarter of the year, and there's where you - yes, YOU - come in!

Howitt Matters is looking for amateur Peter Parkers, Andrew Bolt replacements, wannabe Tolkiens, future National Geographic photographers, aspiring Leunigs, and potential Tim Minchins for their contributions. You can submit creative pieces such as:

• - essays or short stories
• - opinion pieces
• - photos
• - comics, drawings, sketches
• - poetry
• - jokes and trivia
• - a collection of Tweets and random musings...

...basically anything that is *fit to publish* (please make sure it's not illegal, not defamatory, and keep it clean please!) If you're keen, and want to see yourself in print, you're only three easy steps away:

• 1. attend a quick informal Writer's Night meeting after weekly Suppers for more details, to ask questions, meet fellow authors, or get Marky Marc's autograph...
  • #1 Wed supper 6/4;
  • #2 Sunday supper 10/4;
  • #3 Sunday supper 17/4;
  • #4 Wed supper 20/4
• 2. write, and submit to me latest before the Good Friday and midsem break (latest by 21/4).

• 3. watch as your very own Pulitzer/Nobel/McCaughey prize-winning piece gets published for the whole of Howitt to see.

So if you're keen, get in touch, or simply pop in during Writer's Nights (after enjoying Supper)!
xoxo - marc.

Hey folks,

'Marky' Marc your Communications RA here. For those of you who have lost, did not receive, or just want an extra copy of Howitt Matters "O'week Survival Issue", here it is in PDF. (Hopefully a hundred years from now, it will fetch a high price on eBay as a collector's item :)

Anyway, stay tuned for announcements on how YOU can be a part of the exciting Howitt Matters editorial team.