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The Magazine for Writers that Readers Enjoy
1. Because I said so.
2. Wait and see.
3. Ask your father.
4. No pudding unless you finish your dinner.
5. If someone asked you to jump off a cliff, would you?
6. I’ve told yo a thousand times.
7. Say “Pardon” not “What.”
Features: 8. What did your last slave die of?
9. You’ll have someone’s eye out with that.
• Poetry from Australia’s finest and 10. It’ll all end in tears.
international poets 11. I want, never gets.
12. Close the door — you weren’t born in a tent.
• Writing Techniques 13. Don’t sit too close to the telly — you’ll get square eyes.
14. There is no such word as can’t.
• Competitions 15. Who is “she”? The cat’s mother?
16. Carrots make you see in the dark.
• Publishing contacts 17. Take off your coat or you won’t feel the benefit when you go
outside.
All beautifully illustrated throughout. 18. Don’t make that face! If the wind changes you’ll stay like it.
19. Do as I say, not as I do.
Packed with information articles every serious 20. Back in my day.
writer needs to read 21. You Just wait ‘til your father gets home!
22. Put the wood over the hole.
Free XpresSion is now available as an interactive
on-line version for $12 per annum (i.e. 12 issues) Don’t you miss the days before political correctness killed such
wonderful phrases? They never hurt me back then. How about
Contact Peter Pike you? There’s lots more but senile delinquency has destroyed
editor@freexpression.com some brain cells and I can’t remember them. If there’s any you
can remember then . . . what was I going to say here?

OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG
WRITERS

Free XpresSion is a high quality, well presented, printed and on-
line magazine which publishes Australian and International sto-
ries, all types of poems and articles. It also includes ideas and
writing tips, competition listings, publication opportunities and
other facets of interest to writers.
The Editor, Peter Pike, does a wonderful job complementing sub-
missions with appropriate graphics and photographs including
full colour cover and centre page presentations. More informa-
tion regarding the magazine can be found on the website www. The Best Country Music has to offer
freexpression.com.au
I co-ordinate and organise the Young Xpressions pages of this Walk ups welcome
bi-monthly publication. My role is to seek out talented young Outstanding Guest artists
writers and to present their work as a means of sharing and en- In a hall filled with friends you may not have met yet
couragement.
As poets, writers, teachers, parents, grandparents, neighbours, Temporary closed due to the
etc. etc. if you know of any young person or persons up to the
age of 18 (at the time the work was written), whose writing could pandemic.
be considered for publication, please either pass my contact on
to their family or pass their details on to me so that I may get in
touch with them. Watch this space for details
This is a wonderful opportunity for deserving young writers to see
their stories, poems and even graphics in print and helps to fulfil of when we’ll be back
the aim of us all – to nurture a love of writing and creativity in the
generations who will take over from us. Contact Janice: Home 07 3408 8193
Thanking you in anticipation, Mobile 0403 481 943
Brenda Joy Email jantezza1@bigpond.com
Host Editor Young Xpressions
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10 eMuse August 2020