The Bill Coppell Young Writers’ Award 2008 has begun. Anyone between 11 and 18yrs can enter with a poem or short story no longer than 750 words.

Go here for more info.

And here for a copy of the entry form and conditions of entry.

Deadline is 5pm, Friday 2nd May.

Thanks go to the following sponsors for their generous donations of thousands of dollars worth of prizes…

Joans’ Ridge Street Gallery - Alun Leach-Jones - Northside Courier - Abbey’s Bookshop - North Sydney Leagues Club - Ensemble Theatre - NSW Writers’ Centre - North Sydney Council.

Presented by Planet X…

In 1880 Margarete Seiff made a pincushion shaped like an elephant.

It was a hit with the kids and became the first stuffed toy. These days everyone’s making their own stuffed toys. And now we’re going to join in the felted revolution!

Call them plushies, or softies, or stuffies, or felties – call them whatever you like – just make them quirky and cute and weird. Softies can be of anything you like…a cupcake, a whale, a robot, a tooth, an alien, or a raw steak. 

Check out these for inspiration:

http://www.mypapercrane.com/

http://softiescentral.typepad.com/

www.shawnimals.com

http://www.herzensart.com/

Come along to our workshop, 23rd April, 2-4pm. Bookings essential. Phone 9936 8400. Strictly 10yrs and over. 

Oh, and here’s some we prepared earlier…

Munkeh!

and Squiddy!