Joan Webster’s poem ‘Imperfect Pitch’, has been short-listed for the 2021 ACU Poetry Prize. Mary Jones’s crime novel, Troubled Waters has been shortlisted for the Sisters in Crime Davitt Award. Paula Wilson’s article ‘Chasing Parkruns’ has been published online in the Lalor Running Club news. Margaret… Continue Reading
The winners of the Kathryn Purnell Poetry prize were announced during the monthly meeting held 30 July 2021. This year, there were almost fifty submissions to the prize and the calibre of the entrants was high. Congratulations to the following members:… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Mary Jones. Her crime novel Troubled Waters has been long-listed in the Sisters in Crime Davitt Awards, in the Debut Novel category. In the same week Mary had a poem accepted for the anthology Milestones, which celebrates 25 years publishing in… Continue Reading
If you haven’t yet submitted your work for consideration for Sparx, the Society’s annual publication of members’ writing, you have two more days to do so. Please send your submissions to paulawilson1@optusnet.com.au For further information, please click HERE to be taken… Continue Reading
Consider the Canada Goose on the slough.She(definitely a she because females arrive first, pick the nesting site, and build the nest)travelled in the classic migration pattern, a lance thrown southin September, then north in March, then south again and north… Continue Reading
Congratulations to Society member, adventurer and writer Kate Leeming, who featured in an article in Triathlete magazine recently. To read the article, please click HERE.
Congratulations to Valerie Pybus who has signed a publishing agreement with Ark House Press for her historical novel, Beyond the Tamar. Valerie said “It has all happened so unexpectedly and quickly that I am slightly ‘gob smacked’.” Valerie had not thought… Continue Reading
Dear Members, It is a late weekly email from me this week – a whole day late in fact! I had a lot of information to include and so a short letter and straight to it… Until next week, happy… Continue Reading
Following ten years of research, Veronica Schwarz’s book, Busting The Myths Of Mars And Venus: Gender: Reality, Myth or Disaster, has been published. The book is available as an ebook for $4.99 or as a paperback to Amazon Prime subscribers for… Continue Reading
Di Morrissey-Websdale – a feature film is being made based on her book On a Wing and a Prayer. Lindsay Bamfield – has a story ‘Second Hand Rose’ published in Dress You Up edited by Brian Centrone published by New Lit Salon Press… Continue Reading