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April Monthly Meeting (in person) is 19 April 2024MORE
The Margaret Hazzard Short Story Award closes 30 April 2024MORE
April Monthly Meeting (in person) is 19 April 2024MORE
The Margaret Hazzard Short Story Award closes 30 April 2024MORE
April Monthly Meeting (in person) is 19 April 2024MORE
The Margaret Hazzard Short Story Award closes 30 April 2024MORE

Paula Wilson

As a child in England Paula Wilson dreamed of living a gypsy life. As an adult she is pretty close to living that dream spending much of the year coddiwompling in her caravan. In these trips she finds ideas for short stories and discovers unheralded women to write about.

Paula joined the Society of Women Writers Victoria in the mid 1990’s while studying Professional Writing and Editing at RMIT and has been an active member ever since.

While still studying she attended a gathering of 400 women for the magazine Karios. The former Premier of Victoria Joan Kirner was a guest speaker and said, ‘For a claim on the future there must be an understanding of our achievements in the past, the names of men live on, and women become lost.’ These words had a profound impact on Paula and from that day on she set out to discover the lost stories of Australian women in history. These stories have been published in magazines and online. At present she is working on a book featuring the women she has discovered, and some she has yet to find.

Paula worked for over 20 years with adults who have intellectual disabilities, teaching literacy and computers. Those she worked with did not judge a person’s ability which gave her the confidence to start conducting writing workshops which has now transferred over to online groups.

In recent years Paula has taken up distance running, and a lot of her story ideas come and are developed while she is plodding along tracks around Melbourne. One day she will write about her running journey.

PUBLICATIONS:

Short stories in the following anthologies:
Sparx, Fault Lines, What an Adventure, Gift of a Casserole and Other Deadly Sins, Climb the Mountain, Readers Paradise, Short and Twisted, The Umbrella’s Shade, Danger, Swag of Tales, The Envelope Please, Random Writers, Unruly Writers, Bitter Black & Sweet.

Short Stories and articles in the following magazines:
The Dawn, Grass Roots, The NSW’s Schools Magazines Orbit and Touchdown, Readers World, Kairos, Swag of Yarns, Shortzi

COMPETITIONS:

Winner, the Margaret Hazzard Award
Commended, the Mary Grant Bruce Award (twice)
Won and placed in a number of Society of Women Writers Victoria Awards

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