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Monday, February 20, 2012

Author Contracts

After much community consultation, our author briefs are ready to be assigned to contracted writers. We are now in the process of contracting the authors for each of our identified stories and aim to have them assigned to the identified stories within the next two weeks.
If you're a writer and would like to apply, read on...

Below is a reference to each of the identified stories:
The information will be pitched to align with the expectations of an educated, environmentally aware target market, matching the profile of the Brand Australia ‘experience seeker‘
This project will produce succinct (5000 word maximum), high quality and authentic information packages suitable for ready adaption for unlimited usage across signage, printed material, international/national media releases and downloadable packages on the Australia‘s Coastal Wilderness and Sapphire Coast Tourism websites.

The project is lumped into 5 themes, each of which will addressed by an author under the oversight of a community reference group convened by the Heritage Committee:
Marine Heritage
Cetaceans of the Coastal Wilderness.
Marine Richness – mixing the currents

Historic Heritage
Old Tom and the History of Whaling
Life in the 19th Century

Geoheritage
The Geology and Landscapes of the Three Mountains
Gondwana Splits – the Geomorphology of the south east coast

Indigenous Heritage
Bundian Way – the ancient highway
Balawan, Mumbula and Gulaga, the Sacred Mountains

Cultural Heritage
Nature, Inspiration and Art
Music and the Coastal Wilderness

The authors will undertake research based on the available literature and, where relevant, through consultation with experts and the community holders of information related to the iconic stories in the Heritage Strategy.

If you are interested in writing for this exciting project please email your expression of interest with an outline of your experience and list of published work to: stories@sapphirecoast.com.au
Also, mention which particular story you are most interested in and why.
You can also download our strategy document that is available on this blog.
* We will also be engaging the services of an editor to oversee each story to present the whole project package with clarity and continuity to the target audience.


Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Arts Group Story Telling Time

Our Cultural Heritage Arts brief is now in circulation amongst the community!
We invite local arts people, visual, performance, film-makers, authors and poets to participate in building this brief that will be given to a contracted author.
Your stories could obviously be history based as outlined but in particular the story you have as an artist living in the region is vital in illustrating the regional arts.

Just a few questions that can shape the type of stories we are looking for:

Why/when did you come to live in the region?
What creative inspiration from the surrounding wilderness influences your work?
How much of the natural environment is reflected in your work?
Where do you exhibit/perform?
Have other local artists inspired your work?
How has living in the region changed you as an artist?
What emotion does the natural surroundings evoke in you?
Are you part of an arts organisation and how long has it been operating?
What sets this region apart from other places that you have worked?

We appreciate you are all busy, but if you could send us your stories/comments over the next week, we can then start the busy task of collating the information to finalise our authors brief. You can email to Andrew Gray: agray@sear.org.au.
We look forward to hearing your stories - the more the merrier!