The NT Writers' Centre has a well-stocked, up-to-date library for members. The main library collection is located in our Darwin office at the Frog Hollow Centre for the Arts, 56 McMinn St. A smaller library is being developed in our Central Australian office located in the Red Hot Arts Space, 67 Bath St. (cnr Stott Terrace) Alice Springs.
Materials can be perused during working hours and members may borrow items for up to three weeks. Resources include:
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Australian Society of Authors information sheets for writers
TERRA: A Bilingual Anthology from WordStorm, the NT Writers' Festival
...the powerful works in this collection speak to me with force and passion of matters of huge individual and political relevance to our region: freedom, belonging, fear, insecurity, identity. Kirsty Sword Gusmao, Timor-Leste
Edgy and vibrant, TERRA...gives us insigts into the multiple aspects of "Territory": possession, dispossession, racial, religious and environmental conflict, personal spaces, love, fear and hope. Mike Ladd, Australia
Proof that post-20th century world literature is a movement from margin to margin...not something that spreads out from the centre. Nirwan Dewanto, Indonesia
A part of the library, and also available for sale, is this recently launched anthology published by the NT Writers' Centre in association with Jakarta-based KataKita. TERRA: A Bilingual Anthology from WordStorm, the NT Writers' Festival is a publication in English and Bahasa Indonesia which brings together the best of prose and poetry from guest writers at WordStorm (2004 - 2006). The 40-plus-strong list of writers includes some of the leading literary lights from Australia, Indonesia, East Timor and Singapore. TERRA is a unique and timely publication for the Austronesian region. Edited by Sandra Thibodeaux and Sitok Srengenge, with Chief Translator Kadek Krishna Adidharma.
TERRA contributors include the illustrious, iconic and emerging (in alphabetic order): Kaye Aldenhoven, Nukila Amal, Peter Bakowski, BenEzra, Mark Bowling, Jane Camens, Ze�sopol Caminha, Linda Christanty, MTC Cronin, Gregory Day, Marian Devitt, Peter Docker, Nick Earls, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Melchior dias Fernandes, Kieran Finnane, Richard J. Frankland, Pru Gell, Dorothea Rosa Herliany, Alec Kruger & Gerard Waterford, Frank Moorhouse, Chris Mansell, Miles Merrill, Meg Mooney, Romaine Moreton, Leonie Norrington, Graham Nunn, Alvin Pang, Helen Pavlin, Dorothy Porter, Iswadi Pratama, Leni Shilton, Milena da Silva, Abe Barreto Soares, Sitok Srengenge, Jared Thomas, Triyanto Triwikromo, Ayu Utami, Alana Valentine, Zevonia Vieira, Sam Wagan Watson, Sean M Whelan, Terry Whitebeach, Jacquie Williams
The anthology retails for $30 and is available through the NT Writers' Centre, T - 8941 2651, E -
