Penny-A-Liners
pp. 75-76 · Read in the full issue
Assistance For Pacific
THOUGH Cacoethes Scribendi does not figure in handbooks on Islands entomolgy, it is nevertheless a “bug” that has bitten its way into popularity in the Pacific. Judging by the quantity of literary work received by the “P.1.M..” miners, planters, traders, missionaries, and a host of others spend many of their leisure hours in the throes of composition, trying to remember whether it should be who or whom, will or shall.
Penny-a-liners and budding Shakespeares will find much to interest, and, incidentally, help them in the 1937 edition of the “Australian Authors’ and Artists’ Handbook,” edited by W. E. Fitz Henry (of the “Bulletin”) and Richard Geraint.
Among its many useful sections are articles on how to submit a manuscript, paragraph and article writing, the novel, the short story, serial fiction, verse, etc. There is a complete list of Australian journals and magazines which offer some market for free-lance contributors, and the editorial requirements and rates of payment of over 250 papers are set out.
In that it not only tells Islands writers where to sell work, but also indicates how to go about providing material with the best chance of accept ance, the handbook is an indispensable guide for the aspiring as well as the experienced contri butor. It is published by Richard Geraint, Box 2455 MM, 0.P.0., Sydney. Price 3/-.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Drummond Thompson, of Numa Numa Plantation, in the Kieta District, New Guinea, arrived in Sydney on furlough by the Malaita early in December.
Mr. J. G. Fowler, A.R.M., who has been Acting R.M. at Cape Nelson, Papua, arrived in Australia in November by the Montoro on 10 months’ furlough. After his leave he will retire from the Public Service on superannuation.