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Muse Anthologies

The Muse anthology has been published annually by UMPA since 2004. It has published many first-time writers, as well as published novelists and poets, and a few authors shortlisted for the Vogel Award. A number of authors published in Muse have gone on to win prestigious prizes and writing fellowships. Muse is not only a great opportunity for postgraduates to publish their stories or poetry— it is also an enthralling and surprising read.

Previous editions of Muse are available from UMPA Reception for $5.00.

“To paraphrase William Carlos Williams, the lifeblood of writing is contained in ‘little magazines'. In Muse, we feel a wildly throbbing pulse.” – Dan Disney, Broadway Poetry Prizewinner 2006 (Winner of 2004 and 2005 Muse Poetry Prize)

The Muse Anthology for 2005 features contributions from more than a dozen authors:

Sandy Martin – The Marlon Brando Dig; Paul Mitchell –The Devices We Are Left To; Kent MacCarter – Station Street as a Dark Nickelodeon; Christy Dena – Coma Clown; Melanie Joosten – Saturday Morning Cartoons; Dan Disney – Man with Missing Antithesis; Eddie Paterson – Christmas Instructions; Hoa Pham – Yolk – A Short Episode; Myra Thurner – Autumn Blood Letting; Abby Ulman – The Weather Within; Sebastian Fedden – Back to Back; Lou Smith – Quarry; Dan Disney – At the Aesthetics Conference; Miriam Zolin – I Hardly Ever Miss It; Kent MacCarter – Gestation Cycle in Richmond; Paul Mitchell – Screen Print Activist; Peter Van Der Merwe – Disaffect; Eddie Paterson – Cake; Melissa Petrakis – By Inches; Melanie Joosten – Under a Freeway Flyover; Dan Disney – Central Melbourne, Early 21C

The winners of the "UMPA Creative Writing Prize", as judged by Marion M. Campbell (Department of English) and Dr Dominique Hecq (School of Creative Arts) were -