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.

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/

Our Web Weaver 
& non-fiction author. Her book Ride the Wind. Choose the Fire, A Journey with Joan of Arc, has just been published by Bookpal.

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

Judy Bartosy

Judy Bartosy was born in Budapest.  Poet, literary reviewer and translator.

Judy has been our Memmbership Secretary for many years and Secretary for many years prior to that.

She has been published in Australian and overseas magazines and anthologies.  Her book of poetry 'Pebbles' a bilingual edition, Hungarian/English,
was published by the Society of Women Writers.  

She also published an autobiographical poetry anthology 'From Silver Pines to Blue Gums'.

Currently she is working on her memoirs.

Errol Broome

 Our Literary Patron & writer of many wonderful children's books. 

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

Alice Landau

Memoirist

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."

Sandra Topp

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.

A past President, prize winning poet and 
Haiku Artiste.

Read some of Janet's Haiku at 
http://walleahpress.com.au/HaikuHowie.html

Dulcie Stone

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/

Maree Silver

.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.

Del Nightingale

Poet, Writer of Short Stories and radio presenter

You'll find out all about it at
http://www.writersatwork.vpweb.com.au/

Monday morning between 9 and 10 Del hosts Writers At Work, a programme about writing and writers, including information, current events and special guests from the writing world.

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

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

Agnes Chatfield

Writer, singer and great entertainer

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

Lorraine McGuigan

An extraordinary poet. Her second collection of poems Wings of the Same Bird was recently published.

Learn more about Lorraine at http://www.ipoz.biz/Titles/WSB.htm

Jean McLean

Long time member and writer.

Rebecca Maxwell

 

A Past President of the Society
and talented poet

There's more about Rebecca at
http://www.visionaustralia.org/info.aspx?page
=823&news=1354

Betty Caldwell

A writer with a tongue-in-cheek sense of humour.
To see Betty's full profile click here.

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 England and Australia .
As the worms have now taken over her brain there is now more time for scientific and literary writings! At present she is working on her 5th book of poetry and the family history.  

sumus semper in excretum sed alter variat!!  

She  has just totalled 557 publications. Now that's prolific! Congratulations Tricia.
She's currently working on a book of poems and a family history.

Lin Van Hek

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
and her website at http://www.linvanhek.com/

Janice Williams
 

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.  

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.

Nalini de Sielvie

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.

http://nalinidesielvie.com/

Jenny Hearn

Jenny is a poet and a novelist. She is currently working on a story set in Tasmania. It tells the story of a relationship between a sealer and an Aboriginal woman.

Dorothy Bransgrove

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 Melbourne hospital anthologies edited by Dorothy Omerod and SWW's, Climb the Mountain, and has been published in Age Epicure & Epicure Chocolate (2001). She is an entrant in the 2010 Victorian Veteran Affairs Short Story Competition, Love and War.

Judy Keighran

A long time member and writer.

Children's book writer

You will find her website at 
http://home.alphalink.com.au/~vlowe/

Joan Beckwith

Joan is a psychologist with experience in 
academic writing. .She has moved to writing fiction as an alternative means of exploring psychological ideas.

Elizabeth Thompson

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
writing sites, self sufficiency and gardening magazines and literary anthologies.

She has been published in an Australian poetry anthology "Fire In The
Heart" and has had a number of short stories published in Australia and U.S.A

Following the 2003 bushfires, she wrote a children?s Christmas story which was included in an anthology.

Her short stories are broadcast regularly on the Queensland Story Teller programme radio station 4RPH hosted by Kim Dodsworth and she writes and records regular humorous prose for radio 3RPP for the Writer's At Work segment hosted by Del Nightingale. She is a regular columnist for Open Writing. U.K.  with the series, Letters From The Other Side. and Kiwiboomers in New Zealand .

Elizabeth established the Myrtleford Word Weavers writing group and often read examples of their work on local community radio 

She has won an award in the prestigious Margaret Hazzard writing competition held biennially by the Society Of Women Writers (Vic). The award was judged by Susan Dabbs from Harper Collins Publishing. She
has recently won the 2009 biennial prize for an article with the SWWW (Vic).

Others awards include the Newspaper Fifty-Plus writing competition,
Raspberry & Vine, Ballarat Writers awards, Australian Community Writers Awards, as well as various freelance  articles published in
Grass Roots Magazine and inclusions in the anthologies of the Geelong Writers.
One of her articles was reprinted as an information and educational
guide at the Healthy Ageing Expo 2008.

Elizabeth is currently working on the collection of humorous writings 'Letters From The Other Side', from Cynthia .before collating them
into a book. She is also tempted after many years of marriage to write a small guide with the title "How to Live With An Inventor Without Jumping Off A Cliff" and an article 'Nanna Technolgy' was printed in
the Earth Garden magazine.

Her blog is   http://elizabeththompsonmywrite.blogspot.com/   Here you will find a little of her writing and a few podcast stories.