CALENDAR OF EVENTS 2011
CONDUCTED BY THE SWWV
Last updated 21/05/2013
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At
the end of each year the President along with her committee members work hard to
prepare a program
of interesting and motivational speakers, readings and workshops for the benefit of
SWWV members.
We hope that 2012 is just as exciting and full of opportunities for all members.
Remember, everyone is welcome to contribute ideas. You don’t have to be on the committee, you just have to be interested!
MEETING DATES and EVENTS FOR 2013
Meetings
are held at Ross House,
247 Flinders Lane, Melbourne
Check the noticeboard at the entrance for the room number.
See
dates of meetings below. Note, meetings are held
on the last Friday of the month but there are some exceptions
so check the dates below.
DATES FOR 2013
31 MAY
We will be celebrating the announcement of the
Nance Donkin Award.
This award honours the work of an Australian woman writer for children.
We will have the pleasure of members of Nance Donkin’s family with us.
The Society gives this award every two years as Nance Donkin wished, to
encourage a good writer of children’s books.
This will be the third time we present the award. The first two were
Doctor Ruth Starke of South Australia and Isabelle Carmody who lives in
between
Melbourne and Prague.
Our judge this year is the children’s librarian at Fitzroy, Ms Jill
Allan.
After lunch, Lynne Murphy will instruct us about how to write radio
scripts.
Some of us will get a chance to read/act in a script.
28 JUNE
Janet Howie will speak about her book Footprint,
a collection of memoir, poetry and haiku.
She will discuss the choice of title, the selection of material and the format.
Afterwards she will conduct a workshop on exploring and writing haiku.
JANET
HOWIE
26 JULY
Patrick White is one Australia’s iconic 20th century writers. He has a wide European experience that colours his characters. In July, we will be studying "The Tree of Life" with Sue Braint. It be beneficial if we had read the novel beforehand. Sue Braint warns us that "’The Tree of Man’ is uncomfortable reading experience, telling the epic story of ‘living and dying.’"
