Postal Workshops
Last updated 27/07/2011
The
Society of Women Writers Victoria provides an extension service to members
isolated by ill-health, distance, family or work commitments, in the form of
postal workshops. An extra levy of
$10 per year is charged to defray some of the expenses connected with the
administration of this service.
Postal
Workshop Members’ Duties:
Try to contribute to every issue.
Make suitable criticism on every member's work.
Meet set deadlines for receipt of work at the editor's address.
Post each issue on within the four-day time frame.
Advise the editor of anticipated absences to allow for reorganisation of mailing list.
If for some reason, a member is unable to make comments, indicate this and pass the magazine to the next member on the list.
Keep the editor and the membership secretary informed of any change of address.
Limitations:
Short
stories and articles, or part thereof to 3000 words.
Please double or one and a half space prose and type on one side only of
A4 paper, leaving a margin of 3cm. Poetry, two pages.
This may be one poem or two poems on separate pages.
Where
possible, comments should be typed.
Workshops
are not a mutual admiration society. Their
purpose is to offer constructive and positive criticism, with helpful
suggestions for improvement. Consider
title, theme, plot, characterization, dialogue, action and vocabulary.
Is it suited to the genre? Look
at sentence and paragraph structure in prose; rhythm and rhyme in poetry. Did
the work affect you? If not, why
not? If so, why?
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