Last updated: 23 April, 2013
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there is very little information about her, it probably means she has not
given her information to the web weaver.
This does not reflect the quantity or quality of her writing.
Members you may see at meetings or read about in our newsletter
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Judy Bartosy
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Jenny Hearn |
Veronica Schwarz
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Meryl BrownTobin
MERYL BROWN TOBIN Meryl is a writer of short and long fiction for adults
and children, non-fiction, especially travel, poetry and educational
puzzles. She has had 18 books published, including a haiku
collection with four other poets from the SWWV, and two more books
about to be published. Hundreds of her poems and puzzles, scores
of her short stories and travel and other articles, and some cartoons
have appeared in more than 100 magazines and newspapers in Australia
and overseas. She was President of The Society of Women Writers
Victoria Inc 2004-5. See http://sites.google.com/site/merylbrowntobin
for more details.
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Paula Wilson
Paula Wilson is 50 something going on 10. She seeks out pirate
treasure and searches for dragons with her two grandsons at her side.
Then writes down her adventures for other ten year olds to share.
When she's not doing that she's writing about Australian women in history. She's also a prize winner extraordinaire and writer of short stories and children's stories. Visit Paula's website at http://www.paulawilsonwriter.com/
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Veronica Schwarz
Our Web Weaver She has written and published books, articles and short stories over many years and has won several awards. You can see details of these on her website. Veronica's interests include travel, history, social comment, fairness and science fiction/spec fiction. She has lived and worked in Australia, Germany, Britain and Canada and is passionate about travel. Her writing covers all and any of those interests. Her website is www.veronicaschwarz.net |
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Judy has been our Memmbership Secretary for many years
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Shirley
Whiteway
Shirley
Whiteway is currently President of the
Society of Women Writers Victoria Inc.
She is also a member of the Bayside Branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers.
Shirley
has completed at Holmesglen TAFE - Professional Writing &
Editing Skills, Short Story 1, Novel 1, Novel 2, and
Scriptwriting. She has written an historical novel which she
hopes to publish. She has also written some modern plays.
Shirley is also the Minute Taker
at Lantern - a monthly meeting for Carers of the Mentally Ill
in Cheltenham. Mental illness is of special interest to her.
For the last year of her working life she was a Carer of the Frail
Aged in the Bayside area.
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Her awards include: Mary Grant Bruce Award (Australia), 1990, for children's short story; West Australian Premier's Children's Book Award, 1992, for Dear Mr. Sprouts; Australian Children's Book of the Year Award Honour Book for Younger Readers designation, Children's Book Council of Australia (CBCA), 2001, for Away with the Birds; CBCA Notable Book designation, 2004, for The Judas Donkey and Gracie and the Emperor. You'll find much more about Errol at
www.errolbroome.com.au
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Alice's book Snippets from my family album : Csepel Island to Caulfield tells of her experience of the Jewish Holocaust. Alice says "I have enjoyed writing most of my life. .In retirement to write is my major activity.Belonging to the SWWV is a joy."
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Sandra Topp I am very new to writing,
putting off the urge as a time waster for so many years. With pressure from family I
started writing my family history and memoirs about eighteen months ago.
I then decided to use some of my
life experiences as genre fiction short stories. I have had no formal
education in writing and after attending a couple of creative writing
sessions I realise there is a lot to learn. I am unpublished and
unambitious, I look forward to a long association with you all.
To read Sandra's full bio click here.
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Janet
Howie
A past President, prize winning poet and Read some of Janet's
Haiku at
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Dulcie May Stone, Born Dulcie May White in Melbourne 1924, has won acclaim as an Author, Educator and Campaigner for people with Disabilities. MBE 1981 for service to the handicapped. Dulcie has written many books. visit her website for lots more information. http://www.dulciestone.com.au/
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.Maree has been writing poetry for
several years and has had poems published in the anthologies My
Brother, My Sister, My Country,
and Earth Works
and in the coffee table book Reflecting
on Melbourne. She has had poems selected for inclusion in the anthology New Beginnings published mid 2010 and has had two poems Bay of Fires and Tracks and Trails chosen by the judge for inclusion in Everyday Splendour in 2010. She has recently had poems selected for inclusion
in the anthology Horizons to be published 2011. Her poem Corner
Country was Highly Commended in the
SWWV Biennial Competition 2011.
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Poet, Writer of Short Stories and radio presenter You'll find out all about it at Tune in to Bayside and Peninsular Radio - 98.7 & 98.3 FM or if you’re not lucky enough to live on the Peninsular, go to www.3rpp.asn.au to ‘stream’ the show over the internet. Listen to Del and guests, every Monday between 9 and 10 am on 3RPP Del Nightingale - 98.7 and 98.3 FM
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Nenia Tavrou
Nenia has two Diplomas in creative writing and has worked as an editor for CCE (Creative Christian Enterprises). She has had two self published books of poetry 'Bottled tears' 2001 and 'Scarred by life, repaired through love' 2004. She has worked in Israel, Rwanda, Congo, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya, India and China. She says all her writings are inspired from personal experience. She is in the process of having a book published through India Devtech P/L titled ‘A moment with God’ Her website is http://www.pen2print.com/about.html
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Blaise van Hecke
Blaise is the founding editor of untitled an anthology of short stories and poems. For more information, visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Untitled_Pocketbook
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Learn more about Lorraine at http://www.ipoz.biz/Titles/WSB.htm
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There's
more about Rebecca at
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Betty Caldwell
A
writer with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour.
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Tricia Veale
Immediate Past President of the Society, poet and prize winning writer. Tricia
is keenly interested in Parasitology; she was working in Agriculture
laboratories and later started her own business, doing testing for
farmers, veterinarians and research companies. She
has finally sold the laboratory and retired after 46 years of work. Tricia
has achieved more than 470 publications comprising scientific books /
research papers, articles in rural newspapers plus book reviews and
poetry in both sumus
semper in excretum sed alter variat!! She has just totalled 557 publications. Now that's prolific!
Congratulations Tricia.
Lin is a prolific and talented writer with many prizes to her name. Lin Van Hek (born 1944) (aka Lin Van Hecke) is the co-founder of a literary-music group called Difficult Women.She was born in Melbourne but lived in Europe and India for some years. She is an advocate of hand-made houses and lived in a stone house on the Brass Knocker Creek near the Wadbilliga River and state forest in the south eastern corner of New South Wales. She is a singer, songwriter and poet and co-wrote and sang the song Intimacy which was part of The Terminator film. She recorded a solo CD River of Life featuring songs of New Zealand writer, Kath Tait. Lin Van Hek worked with a group of women in North Vietnam designing, manufacturing and trading in ethical, non-exploitative hand-embroidered silk garments and textiles. Check out the entry in Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lin_Van_Hek
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Janise Williams is a retired optometrist,
living happily on a rural block near the Grampians with husband and
dog. Her family and friends
are now used to starring in her poetry and short fiction (especially at
church – they are forgiving!) Three
small grandsons save a fortune in fitness classes. She is a member of Spring postal workshop, which has given
her a
group of dear friends whom she would not know if she passed them in the
street. (Janice adds:
"After seeing this
photo, they would not know me either!") Literature has been a passion
since she was five, and discovered that the nice people at the library
actually let you take the books home.
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Marguerite Kisvardai
Marguerite's latest book Watershed Years is a novella based on the lives of people on the famous Snowy Mountains Scheme. It's anecdotal, vivid and moving and directs attention to an important place and time in Australia's history. There's also a sinister stranger and a murder mystery.
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Nalini is an author, artist and publisher. Her latest book of poems and short stories is entitled Wild Poppies. She is currently president of Authors Australia.
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Dorothy (b 5 Aug 1921) enjoys writing poetry, articles, short stories and recipes. Her poetry anthology Painting with Words combines her two artistic passions: writing and painting. She
has contributed to some 42 anthologies including
A long time member and writer.
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Dr Virginia Lowe
Children's book writer You will find her website at |
Joan is a
psychologist with experience in
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Elizabeth Thompson began her writing career as a
journalist and worked with two regional newspapers. She now writes as a
freelance journalist and columnist with internet |
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