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.

Claypots Tavern and Fair

Happenings in the Bar...

Mon   9pm     Writers Platform - envisaged as a space for
                       writers to discuss and perform their current work.
          11pm    Piano hour w Daniel

Tues   7.30pm Waz E James and his Band
           11pm    Piano hour w Simon

Wed   7.30pm  Ced Le Meledo
           11pm    Piano hour w Andrew

Thurs   7.30pm Boys from Lavent
              11pm   Piano hour w Danny

Fri      11pm    Piano hour w Michael

Sat      3pm     Shuffle Club    
           11pm   Piano hour w Michael

Sun     3pm     Gil Askey and his Band
          7.30pm  Vivienne Gay and Co.

What's in a name?

We are opening a new place at South Melbourne Market.
Basically it is a bar come kitchen, and people sit around it as if it were an amphitheatre.
It will be open in the day and late into the night.

Beth Courtney commented: "A place where you can have a glass of French Champagne and pinchos or an oyster anytime of day".

Now we need a name for it !

Can you help us?  Give us your suggestions and opinions...

So far, we have:
Claypots Bazaar (suggested by Warren Foster, Renan rejected)
Ishtar (in reference to the epic of Gilgamesh...Harriet liked but Renan rejected)
Renan's (rejected by Michael, Renan's Lawyer)
George's (for no particular reason except to please all the Greek boys out there)
Mustafa's
The Evening Star (in reference to Ishtar by the way of Venus)

What do you think?  Please let us know if you have any new ideas!
Make sure you check out the comments below for other suggestions.