Projects
Flashers
Here at Seizure, short-form work is living large. Our newest project is downsizing and we’re excited to launch Flashers – the new home of Australian flash fiction. Flashers is publishing work between 50 and 500 words that could be written in an hour or read in a minute. This is fiction on speed. But flash [...]
Viva la Novella
Seizure is on the hunt for invigorating fiction and are launching a new novella competition for Australian and New Zealand writers. If you sometimes think that novels are just obese novellas, then you’re on our wavelength. And since we are theme-lovers this time we are challenging all writers to tackle the theme: ‘Origin’. You can [...]
Magazine
A biannual magazine available in bookstores around Australia, online or as an iPad app, this is a lit mag which prizes great photography and innovative design. Privileging humour, experimentation and fine fiction and non-fiction writing, this magazine showcases some of Australia’s best emerging and emerged writers. The first issue, ‘Food’ was released in June 2011 [...]
Obstructions
The Obstructions are projects tailored to fit a specific writer. What we do is look over a young writer’s back catalogue of work, pinpoint areas of weakness and then set creative challenges designed to help them overcome their difficulties. This idea was inspired by the film The Five Obstructions (IMDB). It features two players: a [...]
Rufi Cole’s The Violin Face
Rufi Cole’s The Violin Face is the first complete manifestation of the Seizure project and is getting great reader reviews on Amazon. BLURB: With cruel realism and a spark of humor we are led through a contemporary human drama. Set in California, we follow Thora and her family as their lives are twisted by the unstoppable mingling of [...]
Crime and Beer tickets
Young Henry’s beer tasting platter = 4 ponies (or 2 schmiddies), a copy of the new magazine, and a fun afternoon of chatting and music.
