Write About Art
In 2008 Write About Art piloted as a new competition for state and non-state school senior students from across Queensland. Students were selected by their teachers to participate based on the quality and creativity of their written work, which had to address an aspect of visual art, craft or design. Write About Art attracted many interesting and varied entries from Burleigh Waters to Biloela, and Townsville and Ingham in the Far North.
Students were then invited to participate in a face-to-face mentoring workshop with four professional writers at the Gallery of Modern Art 
where they further developed ideas and skills in an artistic environment. Conversations and mentoring continued online through the Learning Place .
The full-colour magazine Write About Art contains 14 essays by Queensland senior students involved in the program. It is available from 12 June 2009 through selected bookshops and direct from publishing partner Eyeline Publishing. Write About Art is published with assistance from the Gambling Community Benefit Fund and is a Year of Creativity project.
For more information email Write About Art @ Arts Queensland
Get involved in writing about art in 2009
Arts Queensland is searching for Queensland senior students who want to write about visual art, craft and design.
Write About Art is an exciting competition for Queensland state and non-state school senior students to submit essays, interviews or feature stories about a visual art, craft or design exhibition, artist or event you have seen.
If your students would love the opportunity to write for a high-quality art publication that is distributed throughout Queensland and nationally, it's time for them to get writing.
Up to 30 students will be selected to be mentored by professional arts writers in a full-day workshop in Brisbane on 12 September 2009 - coinciding with the Brisbane Writers Festival - followed by online mentoring through the Learning Place. Students' finished works will be published in a full-colour magazine by Eyeline Publishing, who produce Queensland's leading visual arts journal Eyeline.
Teachers can register interest through the Learning Place until 24 July 2009. For your students to be in the running for Write About Art submit one of their top-quality essays to the Write About Art project room through the Learning Place by Friday 31 July 2009.
To register and upload essays, head to the Learning Place website or send an email.
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