February Monthly Meeting (online) is 14 February 2025MORE
Tickets sales ending soon: For the Love of Writing Literary Festival 21st-23rd Feb 2025!MORE
Win a beautiful hand-made quilt - tickets will end 19 Feb!MORE
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize closes 5 May 2025MORE
February Monthly Meeting (online) is 14 February 2025MORE
Tickets sales ending soon: For the Love of Writing Literary Festival 21st-23rd Feb 2025!MORE
Win a beautiful hand-made quilt - tickets will end 19 Feb!MORE
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize closes 5 May 2025MORE
February Monthly Meeting (online) is 14 February 2025MORE
Tickets sales ending soon: For the Love of Writing Literary Festival 21st-23rd Feb 2025!MORE
Win a beautiful hand-made quilt - tickets will end 19 Feb!MORE
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize closes 5 May 2025MORE
February Monthly Meeting (online) is 14 February 2025MORE
Tickets sales ending soon: For the Love of Writing Literary Festival 21st-23rd Feb 2025!MORE
Win a beautiful hand-made quilt - tickets will end 19 Feb!MORE
The Kathryn Purnell Poetry Prize closes 5 May 2025MORE

Events

What's Going On?

From Book Chats to Workshops, Festivals to Writers' Groups , our events offerings keep the Society relevant for women writers.

When the pandemic prohibited our ability to gather, we pivoted (yes, that proverbial word) and took our events online. Our virtual events have become a welcome addition to our program that resulted in a boost in our membership.

Whether you’re a Zoom native or not, keep an eye out for the next writing update on this page. We’d love to see you at our next event – virtually or in person.

February Monthly Meeting (online)

Date: Friday 14 February 2025
Time: 11:00 am
Price: $15.00

Join us for our first monthly meeting of the year. It is earlier than usual owing to the following week being the launch of Write On! as part of our For the Love of Writing festival which as you know is a ticketed event.

Traditionally this first monthly meeting of the year has been a chance for members to catch up and tell us about their writing projects with some brief readings, and this year is no exception but we will start with a talk from one of our newer members, Dr Robyn Floyd.

Robyn will be telling us about the research for her book Great, Great, Great Aunt Matilda, written initially for her ten-year-old granddaughter, about her great, great, great aunt.

When she was undertaking family research (as many of do) she found documentation “Matilda, 10, nurs’maid.’ Her granddaughter was ten years old at the time and this sparked an idea!

Following Robyn’s talk and questions, we will open up the session to the audience with a focus on family research projects.

great great great aunt matilda

For the Love of Writing Festival - Friday (in person)

Date: Friday 21 February 2025
Time: 11:00 am
Price: $60.00
  • 21st-23rd February 2025
  • Friday 21st is in person in Melbourne CBD - Tickets for this event close 14 Feb.
  • Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd is online, see the program schedule here and our hosts and presenters here. You may also want to print a copy of the program and presenters, you can do that here - Tickets for this event close 20 Feb.

Each of the two components is ticketed separately and this page is where you purchase the Friday in person event.

Our festival opens on Friday February 21st at 11.00am when our patron Hazel Edwards will launch the society’s forthcoming book Write On! charting the first fifty years of our history. Researched and written by a group of our members and including photographs from our archives, some of the writers will be present to tell us about their chapters with brief readings.

The launch takes place in the Jenny Florence Room at Ross House, 247-251 Flinders Lane, Melbourne 3000.

Tickets for the launch are $60.00 per person to include a copy of the book and light refreshments. The tickets can be purchased by clicking the button at the bottom of the page.

Additional books may be ordered (to be collected at the launch) for the special price of $40.00 per book here.

Location: Ross House Association, Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC, Australia

For the Love of Writing Literary Festival - Tickets for Sat/Sun (online)

Date: Saturday 22 February 2025
Time: 8:00 am
Price: $70
  • 21st-23rd February 2025
  • Friday 21st is in person in Melbourne CBD, find tickets here.
  • Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd is online - tickets will end 20 Feb.

Each of the two components is ticketed separately, this page is the ticket for the online event (Saturday 22nd and Sunday 23rd February)

The online event includes a short story writing workshop from Cate Kennedy, a writing history workshop from Dr Wendy J. Dunn, and exploring Ekphrastic poetry with poets Angela Costi and Anne M. Carson. Author talks include Vikki Petraitis, Kylie Orr and Trish Bolton. We also have sessions for writing from prompts and an Open Mic. The full programme may be found here and the hosts and presenters can be found here. You may also want to print a copy of the program and presenters, you can do that here.

Tickets: $55.00 for SWWV members and $70.00 for non-members to cover the whole two days enabling you to join just the sessions that appeal to you or every single one. Remember to log in if you are a member to get your special price.

 

Join a Writers’ Group

Members who would like to join a writers’ group or need further information, please contact Writers’ Groups Coordinator, Lindsay Bamfield.

Check out the different writing groups at the Society.
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