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Estelle Pinney Competition.
Get out your pens, pencils, paper or typewriters, computers or laptops, it is time to enter the Estelle Pinney Short Story Competition which closes on July 31st, 2019. For more details and to print out the details of the competition click on the link below. Estelle Pinney Short Story Comp
Guest Speaker – Karen Tyrrell
What a great meeting with Karen Tyrrell giving us so many ideas about marketing our books!! So much information which is of great value to our members. Thank you Karen, and lovely to meet Steve too. Women Writers at the March Meeting Karen is very busy these days promoting her books, doing workshops, and presenting […]
2019 New Year – New Start
New Year – New Start for Goals Do you start the new year with some goals? We used to call them “resolutions” but that terminology is fading. I am sure many of us start the new year with some key things to achieve. Writers do! Perhaps it is to write more words each week or […]
A Pearl Called Marj – by Toni Risson
A Pearl Called Marj ‘Always keep a pole handy.’ This from Marj Wilke, a woman who is to the Society of Women Writers of Queensland what Alan McGilvray was to cricket. ‘A light one,’ she adds, ‘but long enough to hang onto when you’re up a ladder.’ It turns out that grasping said pole secures […]
Survey Questions
This is for members – we have asked members who attended the last meeting and Bribie Island Retreat to complete this form, and give us feedback or ideas. If you could complete the form, and send it to secretary@womenwritersqld.org.au, it would be much appreciated. You should be able to click on the link below and […]
From Guest Blogger – Trudy Graham
My Journey with Writing My journey with writing began with reading. I had always felt comfortable with words and language and read voraciously from a very young age, working my way through most of the classics before I was a teenager. In my mid-teens, I knew I wanted to be a writer. If you are […]
Prime Minister’s Literary Awards 2017
Wouldn’t it be good to even be on the shortlist for the prestigious award – Prime Minister’s Literary Awards! Check Details Entries to the 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards are now open. The 2017 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards mark 10 years of celebrating great Australian literature. Here are the details from the website. Entries close on […]
Do You Remember Inchcolm?
On Wickham Terrace, in what used to be the specialist medical precinct of Brisbane, stands the historic Inchcolm building. These days there are medical practices in the precinct, but other businesses have replaces some of the older businesses. Medical Centre I remember going to my medical specialist way back in 1974. I remember the building […]
Guest Blogger – Lauren Elise Daniels
Our ‘Let’s Talk About Alice’ panel began with words from M.K. Hume’s King Arthur: Dragon’s Child. “Now, in the twenty-first century, Karl Marx’s grave in a London cemetery is no longer a rallying cry to the poisoned idea that the end justifies the means…’ Lauren Elise Daniels at Brisbane Square Library November 26th, 2016 Marilyn […]
The Alice Panel at Brisbane Square Library
The Alice Literary Award was the inspiration for a presentation at The End Room of the Brisbane Square Library. While a little late starting, the panel session was most interesting. Laurel Daniels set the tone with readings from the works of each of the panel members, followed by a details ‘bio’ of their achievements. As […]
A Woman Writer in Disguise – MK Hume
Marilyn Hume is one of the many women writers who has chosen to disguise their gender by changing their name, or in fact hiding it. By writing as M K Hume, she has received greater success than she believes she would have otherwise. I have not met Marilyn Hume – was hoping to meet her at […]
PNG welcomes Mary Mennis
SWWQ Member Mary Mennis left Brisbane yesterday (October 31st) on the Pacific Aria. with her husband Brian. They will go to PNG; Alotoau where there is a Canoe Festival and the opening of a Museum. Then they will go on to Kitaya, Trobriands, Rabaul, then to Kiriwina Island. They will then travel to Conflict Island […]
Dr Clare Wright – The Alice Winner
The 2016 Alice Award Winner announced in Launceston in August is Dr Clare Wright. Until this week I had not done any research on the winner, I feel sad that it has taken me so long to find out about her. Dr Clare Wright She is described in Wikipedia as an Australian author, historian and […]
Our Critiquing Projects
The Value of Critiquing Critiquing is an important benefit of being in a group of writers. One of the most popular benefits of membership with SWWQ is the Postal Magazines. There are several of these “magazines” under the guidance of our Postal Magazine Editor, Sue Wagner. The idea is that a group of members will participate […]
What is the Difference between Critiquing and Criticism?
Thanks to Dr Google, I found this explanation on the difference between Criticism and Critiquing on a website. Visit here for the full story. In writing, we speak of Critiquing. What is it? Critiquing versus Criticism One of the things that happens as a writer is you are subject to other people’s comments and opinions. […]