by admin | Apr 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Mar 13, 2019 | Uncategorized
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. Karen is very busy these days promoting her books, doing workshops,...
by admin | Feb 5, 2019 | Guest Blogger
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...
by admin | Mar 15, 2018 | Guest Blogger, Women Writers
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...
by admin | Oct 25, 2017 | Uncategorized
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@sww.perrydigitalmarketing.com.au, it would be much...
by admin | Jun 12, 2017 | Guest Blogger, Women Writers
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...
by admin | May 31, 2017 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | May 27, 2017 | Women Writers
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...
by admin | Nov 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
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…’...
by admin | Nov 27, 2016 | Women Writers
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...
