Margie Lou Dyer Trio Tonight NYE!!!!

Gil Askey Session this weekend!!!

Thank-you! We hope you enjoyed writing for our competition..

Our third and final fable competition is now over... Thank-you to everyone that entered and we hope you enjoyed yourselves. We will be holding other literary competitions in the new year, if you would like to be informed about them, please email us- harriet@gilgameshconnections.net
The judges will be considering submissions over the next couple of months, Good Luck to all entrants!!

Extended Deadline!!

We have decided to extend our deadline for the last fable competition...
So the deadline is now November 26. 
If you didn't have time to enter- we hope you do now!
harriet@gilgameshconnections.net

Readings Books Music & Film

Readings St Kilda, Malvern, Carlton and State Library stores now have our book in their collection. Readings St Kilda also put it on the recommended reading list... available to buy now online or in stores. Go in and grab a copy!
Thanks to Readings for being such an enthusiast for community projects.

Fable Competition III is here!

Gilgamesh Connections Fable Competition III is now open for entries... if you haven't been able to enter the comps in the past, make sure you try to this time, it's our last fable comp for a long time!!
500 word limit 
First, second and third prize.. all $500!
Deadline 5pm Friday October 8, 2010. 
Announcement party Saturday October 30 12noon to 3pm at Claypots, St Kilda. For terms, entry forms and further details, contact harriet@gilgameshconnections.net

Fable Competition II winning entry readings

Here are the winning entries being read at the awards party and volume one book launch at Claypots St Kilda June 13, 2010 (click on the name).

First Prize, The Day the Cars Ran Over All the People

Second Prize, The Mother and the Happy Ending

Third Prize, The Circular Boooks of the Great Library of Om

Thank-you to the readers- Daryl, Felicity and Bo and to Wayne for filming.

Gertrude Street Projection Festival and Claypots Fitzroy

Here is the Shortlist from our Second Competition...

All of these authors will be offered publication into 

'Contemporary Fables Volume Two'.

Well Done to Everyone!!

The King’s Son by Thomas Haley, ACT

The Scent of Chocolate by Jody Horowitz, Vic

The Small Goose by Sue Parritt, Vic

The Swagman’s Desires by Barbara Fraser, SA

The Princess and the Fool by Jonathan Cook, Vic

Isle of Man by Kathy Riley, NSW

Why Celine? by Maggie Veness, NSW

King Frog’s Folly by Phillip English, WA

The Curse on Her Back by Lynette Williams, Vic

The Coffee that did not want Anyone to Drink It by Elizabeth Burns, NSW

Jurassic Years Ago there were Three Little Birds by Peter Gilchrist, SA

Love’s a Bitch by Jody Horowitz, Vic

Top Shelf Produce by Thuy Linh Nguyen, Vic

The Nest Egg by Lesley Truffle, Vic

Dinosaur by David Greagg, Vic

Gillly’s Treasures by Julie Murphy, Vic

Ephemera by Karen Berger, Vic

The blue horse by Julie Egan, Vic

To Please the Gods by Rick Burchall, Vic

The Eagle and the Flea by Ralph Lante, NT

The Gardener and the Ring by Penelope Cottier, ACT

The Pond by Marie Watt, Vic

Buffalo Thinking by John Hale, Tas

Two in the Bush by Diana Harley, NSW

The Chimney and the Peppercorn Tree by Frances Dudley, SA

To Die a Lion by Henry Wynter, NSW

The mePhone by Boris Glikman, Vic

The Birds and the Brush Turkey by Henry Wynter, NSW

Snow White’s Prince by Rachel Freebury, WA

Congratulations to our Winners!!!

The Day the Cars Ran Over all the People (first prize) by James Whyte, NSW

The Mother and the Happy Ending (second prize) by Brett Ludeman, Vic

The Circular Boooks of the Great Library of Om (third prize) by Jonathan Cook, Vic

Gilgamesh Connections Fable Competition Awards Party and Book Launch

Our Book Launch for Comp I and the Awards Party 

for Comp II is on 

Sunday June 13 (this Sunday!!)

We would love to see you down there celebrating with us and showing your support to 

establish a regular worldwide literary competition with it’s base in St Kilda!!!

Oysters, paella, readings & wine…

12noon-3pm @ Claypots St Kilda, 213 Barkly St, 
St Kilda.

Enquiries: harriet@gilgameshconnections.net
No booking or invite needed- just come on down!

Melways Link

short film screening...come along! (click below)

Until next time!

The competition is now closed. 

Thank-you to all our entrants….

 Well done & good luck everyone!

Awards Party & Launch of Contemporary Fables Volume I,

Sunday June 13 @ Claypots St Kilda.

12noon-3pm

If you were unable to enter or you want to enter again, there will be another comp opening in about three months.

Enquiries to harriet@gilgameshconnections.net

Gilgamesh Connections Fable Competition Two

Gilgamesh Connections Fable Competition ...

Open for entries now!

Deadline 5pm Friday May 7^th

Winners are announced Sunday June 13^th

First prize- $2000

Second prize- $1000

Third prize- $500

700 word limit!

10 Fables will be selected for publication

in a book of Contemporary Fables (II)

by Gilgamesh Connections Publishing.

Contact: harriet@gilgameshconnections.net for entry forms,

details, terms & conditions, etc.

For those who entered the last comp, there are a few

different things about this one so be sure to contact us before entering…

Happy Writing!!!

News from our first Fable Competition...

Congratulations to our winner…

Goldie Alexander (VIC)

for Love on Line!

Shortlisted entrants that will be offered publication…

The Short Life of Aurora Borealis by Olivia Davis (VIC)

Spider Woman by Louisa John-Krol (VIC)

Handsome Is by Danielle de Valera (NSW)

The Animal’s Parliament by Jacob King (VIC)

Old Man Coyote and the Salmon by Lynette Williams (VIC)

The Married Man by Rosemary Johns (VIC)

The Skylark and the Comet by Julie Ireland (SA)

The One that Got Away by Tania Yardley (NSW)

The King Parrot and the Apple by Barbara Fraser (SA)

A New Skin by Louise Mentor (VIC)

The Little Shoe by Vivien Encel (WA)

The Wailing Wall by Karen Berger (VIC)
A Modern Fable: The Developer and the Community by Don Gazzard (Vic)
The Wailing Wall by Karen Berger (VIC)
Dust by Bo Svoronos (Vic)

Well done!

We will be launching our book of Contemporary Fables Volume I on Sunday June 13, 2010.

Details on how to get a copy will be put up here soon.