Tasmanian Poet Reading and Digital Publishing Q&A

Come along to Orange City Library to meet poet Jane Williams followed by a Q & A session on digital publishing. Jane Williams was born in England 1964 and grew up in Victoria and now resides in Tasmania. Her poetry first started appearing in the early 1990's and has since been published widely nationally and internationally. City of Possibilities is her fourth poetry collection. Her first book Outside Temple Boundaries received the Anne Elder Award in 1998. Other awards include the D.J. O'Hearn Memorial Fellowship, the Bruce Dawe Poetry prize, writer residencies and grants from state and federal arts bodies. Her most recent book of poems is City of Possibilities (2011 Interactive Press) where she continues to test the boundaries of what poetry can be rather than what many people assume it is.

Readings by Tasmanian Poet Jane Williams Orange City Library, Byng Street, Orange, Monday 25 July, 5.30pm, RSVP 6393 8132.

Followed by

Retool and Remix: Get A Digital Life! with David Reiter

Come with burning questions you have about digital publishing for this Q & A session. David overviews digital projects that you can create and highlights key issues with electronic publishing.

Dr David Reiter is an award-winning author, cross-media artist and publisher with several digital works to his credit including his latest, the short film Nullarbor Song Cycle and the full length film Hemingway in Spain. He's also just released Your eBook Survival Kit, a eBook guide to finding your way around the digital space. As Director of IP, a Brisbane-based publisher, he set up the Digital Publishing Centre, which is at the cutting edge of digital publishing in Australia. IP was the first Australian publisher to send content to the Kindle and iPad and now routinely publishes eBook and print on demand versions of its major publications for global distribution.

Retool and Remix: Get A Digital Life! with David Reiter at Orange City Library, Byng Street, Orange, Monday 25 July, 5.30pm, RSVP 6393 8132. See you there!