7-ON PLAYWRIGHTS: Prime Minister's Literary Awards

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Wednesday, 23 November 2016

And Now For Something Somewhat Different...

Every now and then, in this mean old writing life, you get a little win...A poem of mine, Kangarilla, Summer, 2016, published earlier this year in the Australian Book Review, has been included in Black Inc Books, Best Australian Poems, 2016, edited this year by Sarah Holland-Batt, who is, incidentally the winner of the 2016 Prime Minister's Award for Poetry. As we say from time to time here at 7-ON, Woot! The particular poem means a lot to me and I am more than honoured to be in such company. (Verity)

Wednesday, 11 February 2015

PM's Literary Awards - Playwrights need not apply

Once again, the Prime Minister's Literary Awards have opened its call for entries. Once again, the gongs will go to fiction, non-fiction, history and poetry - but not to plays or screenplays. Yes, the debate over whether a play is literature is always ready for a run around the block. However, if a play exists as a published cultural artefact that one can buy and put on one's shelf beside a Richard Flanagan or a Henry Reynolds or a Chloe Hooper, and if it has similarly stirred consciences and imaginations, ought not plays also be eligible?

About 7-ON

7-ON Playwrights was established in 2005 by Donna Abela, Catherine Zimdahl, Ned Manning, Noëlle Janaczewska, Vanessa Bates, Verity Laughton and Hilary Bell. Seven minds that don’t think alike but are simpatico in this—our belief in the transformative properties of our artform and its place in Australian culture. With over 200 plays between us, our work has been produced on stages across Australia. Internationally, we have been produced in Botswana, the US, the UK, the Czech Republic, Sweden, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, Denmark, France, Canada, Vietnam, Korea and Japan. We have over 40 awards between us including: 14 Australian Writers’ Guild Awards, 4 Griffin Playwriting Awards, 3 Premiers’ Literary Awards, 4 Inscription Awards, an Adelaide Critics’ Circle Prize, a Phillip Parsons Young Playwright’s Award, a Wyndham Campbell Prize, a Centenary Medal, a Patrick White Playwrights’ Fellowship, and a Human Rights Award for Drama. As 7-ON we advocate for playwrights, initiate performance and publishing projects, and support and celebrate each other’s work. We create projects that are best served by a multitude of voices. These have included The Seven Needs (Griffin, 2007), Thus Spake Zarathustra (Wollongong University, 2008), Long Shadows (STC workshop, 2009), Platonic (Hothouse development, 2013), We Are The Ghosts Of The Future (Rocks Discovery Museum, 2015), and various works under the banner of Old Texts Revisited (ABC Radio, 2009), I Contain Multitudes (Novemberism Playwriting Festival, 2011) and No Nudity, Weapons or Naked Flames (MayDay! Playwrights’ Festival, 2013) which presented a selection of monologues from our anthology of the same name published by the Federation Press in 2012. We are also included in Currency Press’ anthology of short plays Short Circuit (2009).