logo
  • Home
  • About
    • About Prana Writers
    • Posts about Prana Writers
  • Gold Coast Anthology – Undertow
    • About the Anthology
    • Launch
    • Spotlight on Authors
    • Submission Guidelines (Closed)
    • Undertow Photos
      • Beach
      • Events
      • Work
      • Forest
      • Kids
      • Action
      • Entertainment
      • Structures
      • Art
      • Animals
  • News
  • Prana Press
  • Books for Sale
    • Gold Coast Anthology: Undertow
    • Coral Sea Monster
  • Contact Us

Category Archives: About the Anthology

We made the Bulletin!

Posted on April 27, 2014 by Janis Hanley

Bullie Article1This week-end’s Gold Coast Bulletin (Sat 26th April 2014) ran a great piece on the anthology.  The article was written by Barbara Dyer and featured stories Three Wishes by David Stringer, War Bride by Kay Gibbs and Jumpinpin by Thoraiya Dyer (no relation). You’ll find the article on page 33.  Make sure you buy a copy.

‘Opening floodgate of talents’ is an excellent headline – and that’s really how the whole process of the anthology has felt.  Not only has it drawn on the great talents of writers through the stories, but we have discovered great talents within Prana Writers in putting the publication together, and drawn on many great talents of those supporting us through the process.  In all, a flood of talents.

Thank-you to all, and special thank-you to Nicola Tierney for organising the press release, and Barbara Dyer for putting it together.

 

Share with friends :

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest
  • Print
  • More
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Pocket
  • Google
  • Tumblr
Posted in About the Anthology, News | Tags: gold coast, Gold Coast Anthology | 7 Comments |

Here’s how the front cover looks ..

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Janis Hanley

Sure you want to venture outside the flags?

You might get caught …

screenshot213

Wanna look inside ?

Stunning artwork by Shauna O’Meara

Share with friends :

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest
  • Print
  • More
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Pocket
  • Google
  • Tumblr
Posted in About the Anthology, Gold Coast Anthology, News, Slider, Undertow | Tags: gold coast stories, Shauna O'Meara | 4 Comments |

Check out our cover art …

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Janis Hanley

Much has been happening behind the scenes since the anthology editing was completed.  Typesetters have typeset, proofers have proofed – authors have poured over their galleys.

We even have a brand new website – you’ll find us at PranaWriters.com.  All is ready to go.

So, we are pleased to announce the title of our wonderful volume –  a collection of 20 stories inspired by photos of the Gold Coast ….

Gold Coast Anthology:

Undertow

 

And to match this suspenseful title, we have the stunning cover art by the talented Shauna O’Meara

screenshot211

 

Want to see how it transforms into a book cover?

Share with friends :

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest
  • Print
  • More
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Pocket
  • Google
  • Tumblr
Posted in About the Anthology, News, Slider | Tags: Gold Coast Anthology, Undertow | Leave a comment |

What photos did authors choose?

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Janis Hanley

We are all beavering away on the submissions – and our editors a busy reading, and rereading. Only a few weeks away until the shortlist is done and authors are notified.

Being a numbers girl, I couldn’t resist the urge to delve into the statistics around the photos short story submitters selected (I’m a sad case,I know). I promise you this is not a completely boring blog, and there is only one graph.

When we set up the site, the photos were organised into 10 different categories. We aimed to offer authors 100 photos, to give a good range of topics and subjects. We uploaded 114 photos, and here’s how they were allocated out category wise.

Beach 32,    Events 10,   Forest 9,    Entertainment 14,   Structures 12,  Kids 4,  Action 13, Work 10,   Animals 5,  Art 5

By far the most popular category for authors was Beach. Not surprising given that it is the Gold Coast. There could also  be a chicken and egg thing going on here – there were more beach photos to choose from, so you would expect there would be more beach photos selected. But then beach is so firmly embedded in our culture, even if we aren’t all surfies. Our Forest category was the next best  represented with stories, followed by Events.

 

screenshot98Looking at the pie chart to the right (click on it for a closed look), you can see that 51% of the stories are about our natural environment – beach or forest. The natural landscape does define a lot about who we are.  If you did this in other Australian cities would that still be the case?  Or is that a feature of more Regional Cities – Darwin, Canberra and the like?  What would a Sydney,  Melbourne or Brisbane profile look like?  Is it simply about what we did as kids, and then what we do with our own kids?

 

 

 

screenshot100

The column graph left (click to enlarge)  compares the number of photos authors selected in each category (green) with the number in that category’s photo set (blue). Did I say only one graph? This one’s a bonus!

 

 

But most importantly, the photo blue ribbon for most popular shot  goes to Beach 15, the View from Rainbow bay looking across the Coral sea, a lone surfer in the ocean, with Surfers in the background, C. 1990. There’s that surfer theme! The photographer was Ray Sharpe – a well  known local and a  professional photographer. And, here it is!

Photo: Beach 15 View from Rainbow Bay, Coolangatta looking across the Coral Sea with lone surfer in the ocean, to the Surfers Paradise horizon, Queensland, circa 1990 [picture] / Ray Sharpe photographer. Asset name LS-LSP-CD312-IMG0012

Photo: Beach 15
View from Rainbow Bay, Coolangatta looking across the Coral Sea with lone surfer in the ocean, to the Surfers Paradise horizon, Queensland, circa 1990 [picture] / Ray Sharpe photographer.
Asset name LS-LSP-CD312-IMG0012

The second most popular photo is the image of kids and lorikeets at Currumbin, c.1980, photographer unknown.

Photo: Kids 2 Children feeding lorikeets at Currumbin Sanctuary, Queensland, circa 1980 [picture] / Photographer unknown. Asset name LS-LSP-CD408-IMG0001

Photo: Kids 2
Children feeding lorikeets at Currumbin Sanctuary, Queensland, circa 1980 [picture] / Photographer unknown.
Asset name LS-LSP-CD408-IMG0001

There you have it – still awake?  Many of the photos were selected by more than one author.  It’s so interesting to see the different stories one photo can inspire.

Overall, I feel we did pretty well with the selection.  We are very grateful to Kyla Stephan and the staff at Gold Coast council’s Local Studies library for there assistance on this.  My next mission is to look at the photo preference by genre – need to delve a bit further for that one!

So many questions come to mind as I look at the data.

  • How do you think we went with the photos we offered for authors?
  • In which categories would you liked to have seen more photos?
  • Did we miss any categories ?
  • Would you have liked to see more contemporary photos?
  • Was there a specific sort of photo you were looking for …. If only they had a photo of this?

Let  us know your thoughts as a comment – either on this blog, Facebook, or a Tweet!

Share with friends :

  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Email
  • Pinterest
  • Print
  • More
  • LinkedIn
  • Reddit
  • StumbleUpon
  • Pocket
  • Google
  • Tumblr
Posted in About the Anthology, News, Slider | Leave a comment |
My Tweets

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 317 other subscribers

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries RSS
  • Comments RSS
  • WordPress.org
  • Home
  • About
  • Gold Coast Anthology – Undertow
  • News
  • Prana Press
  • Books for Sale
  • Contact Us
Copyright © Prana Writers 2014. All Rights Reserved.
loading Cancel
Post was not sent - check your email addresses!
Email check failed, please try again
Sorry, your blog cannot share posts by email.