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Lot's Wife is your 100% student-produced newspaper

It's a great avenue to get your work in print, especially if you're interested in photography, writing, typesetting, design or investigative journalism. Anyone can submit articles, funky graphics, reviews or whatever else that will print. If you're happy just to read it, you'll find a new copy around campus every four weeks during semester.

Writers Meetings

Lot’s Wife holds weekly writers' meetings throughout semester on Mondays at 12pm in the Lot’s Wife lounge. It's a great way to get involved with the publication, meet new people and share ideas. Free tickets to plays and exhibitions will be given out to writers to review, as well as free CDs and books.

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Lot's Wife is the Monash Clayton Student Newspaper. Well established and respected, it is an ideal platform to reach the young and educated demographic.

For 2009 advertising rates please download the Lot's Wife Advertising Kit or please contact the Editors on 9905 8174 or email lotswife@adm.monash.edu.au

Edition Seven Dead Europe

This edition is based on the novel by Australian author Christos Tsiolkas, and is to do with all things relating to ethnicity and queer sexuality. We're looking for experiences of ethnic/foreign/multicultural/queer experience, be it as a second-generation Australian, news articles on areas of the world that don't get enough attention (bonus points for Central Africa and the Caucasus!), reviews of world music/movies and novels from NESB writers, queer sexual experience, and the like.

Tsiolkas' early work features a lot of self-reflexive, semi-autobiographical subject matter about his experience of being a Greek-Australian. His debut novel Loaded (which was later adapted into the film Head On, starring Alex Dimitriades), is a coming of age story about a boy from a Greek family living in Melbourne and a drug-fuelled, debauched evening out on the town. Dead Europe is the story of a Greek photographer living in Australia, commissioned to return to the land of his parents, only to find that the culture he's been taught to lionise is actually rather less impressive than he's been told.

You might also know Tsolikas from his new book The Slap, which focuses on suburban morality in a similar vein to Donald Horne's The Lucky Country (but with a lot more misogyny and anger), and which narrowly lost the Miles Franklin. There's a strong focus on multiculturalism as the story unfolds through the viewpoint of eight very different people, and centres on an incident in which a man slaps someone else's child for misbehaving at a Northcote barbeque.

Deadline for submissions is the 28th of August.