Fellowship of Australian Writers NSW Inc.Following the decision to CANCEL the Writers Unleashed Festival for this year, the popular Publishing Consultations will go ahead as an online virtual component, utilising Zoom/Skype/telephone between 27 July and 1 August.
Pitch a sample of your manuscript and one of these professional editors/agents could be beaming into your home to offer advice on it.
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Note from the Hon. Secretary
Given the current situation regarding the COVID 19 pandemic, with consequent bans on group gatherings and closure of the Sydney venue, the scheduled Annual General Meeting set down for May 2, 2020 has been postponed until the first Saturday in November:
Saturday November 7,…
Short Story submissions for the 2020 Seniors Card competition have now CLOSED.
Thank you to the many NSW Seniors Card holders who submitted their entry. The judging process is underway and authors of the 100 selected stories and their partners will be invited to the launch event of Seniors Stories Volume 6 at Parliament House,
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Presented by The American University of Paris
Closing date 01 March 2020
The Creative Writing Institute, part of The American University of Paris, offers participants the opportunity to write and share poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction in a workshop-style format working with its accomplished faculty members.
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FAW Secretary Maureen Kelly announced two new state life
memberships at the 2019 FAW Awards Luncheon held in Sydney on Saturday 3rd
November.
“Together with my fellow committee members—Cate Plink, Kay Bakon, Vince Hatton, Narelle Noppert and Pam Ferrari—I am thrilled to honour State Executive committee member Colleen Parker and president Trevar Langlands with State Life Member badges and certificates recognising their dedication to the FAW,”
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Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA) has three talks coming up in History Week and Adult Education Week. This is the Sydney venue of the FAW NSW Bi-Annual Delegates Meetings and AGM.
The 2019 Carmichael Lecture on Education: Jo Karaolis AM on ‘What are Schools for?”
Former Teacher of the Year Jo Karaolis AM draws on a life time in education as a teacher and school principal to consider a fundamental question she believes doesn’t get asked enough: “What are schools for?” The Carmichael Lecture on Education honours the pioneering work of the Reverend Henry Carmichael in not only taking the leading role in the establishment of our organisation in 1833,
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Saturday 2 November 2019
11.30 am for 12 noon.
‘York Events’, Club York
95–99 York Street, Sydney
Back by popular demand, our special guest this year is Australian writer, entertainer, broadcaster, humourist, songwriter and historian, Jim Haynes OAM. In 2016 Jim received a Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the performing arts.
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Emotional Inheritance, a new imprint of Global Independent Publisher, Exisle Publishing, has published a new book Finding True Connections: How to Learn and Write About a Family Member’s History (RRP$ 39.99).
The publisher offers FAW NSW members a 15% discount when you
purchase Finding True Connections from exislepublishing.com,
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Saturday August 17 at Gymea Tradies (Sydney).
This year’s tenth anniversary Writers Unleashed
festival—hosted by the Sutherland Shire branch of the Fellowship of
Australian Writers—will feature a variety of author talks running throughout
the day, in three rooms. From authors who write for adults,
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London-based Commonwealth Writers, organisers of the 2019 Commonwealth Short Story Prize, have announced their shortlisted entrants.
Congratulations to Emma Ashmere of New South Wales, the only
Australian writer selected in the Pacific Region of the competition, for her story ‘Nightfall’.
To see the full shortlist and to read about the selected authors and their submissions,
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16th – 31st October 2019
The Paris Memoir Workshop, taught by award-winning writer (and FAW patron), Patti Miller, is taking enrolments as of January 2019. It offers a 9-day workshop to develop the creative skills of memoir writing during your 14 days stay. Afternoons are free for exploring Paris.
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The 2018 publication Seniors’ Stories Volume 4 is available on the NSW Government Seniors Card website:
www.seniorscard.nsw.gov.au/news-activities/items/seniors-stories-volume-4-launch
A copy can be found at all local libraries across New South Wales, or a PDF version can be downloaded from the above blog page.
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Join us for our annual get-together, enjoy a delicious lunch, hear our Guest Speaker and applaud this year’s winners of the prestigious FAW NSW writing competitions:
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Sydney Mechanics’ School of Arts (SMSA) has several talks this month, two of which are listed below…
Emma Harcourt in conversation with Meg Keneally
Wednesday, 12 September, 2018. 12:30–1:30pm
Emma Harcourt talks to Meg Keneally about her new novel, The Shanghai Wife,
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Seeking submissions
Strong & Bold Publishing is seeking new submissions in all genres for e-publication.
Strong & Bold Publishing – a carbon neutral business – is an independent e-publisher based in Macclesfield, South Australia specialising in Australian writers of all genres and Australian history and poetry.
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18 October–3 November 2018
PARIS, FRANCE
The Paris Memoir Writing workshop, taught by FAW NSW Patron Patti Miller, is the ultimate writing retreat. 17 days in Paris, with a 9 day workshop and individual consultations with Patti on your own writing.
It is run by Better Read Tours from the wonderful bookshop in Newtown,
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