Information about SWWV
SWWVic is:
· a non-profit organisation
SWWVic aims:
·
to draw together women engaged in
writing
SWWVic meets:
at 4th Floor, Ross House, 247-251
Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC 3000
on the last Friday of the month
February to November
10:30 a.m. Informal get together for a
cuppa.
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 Meeting
12:00 to 12:30 p.m. Lunch*
12:30 - 1:30 p.m. Workshop or guest
speaker
visitors and guests are always welcome. $5.00 entry fee.
*Please BYO lunch. Tea and coffee are available.
SWWV provides its members with:
The Alice Literary Award
The Alice literary award of the Society is a trophy presented biennially for a distinguished and long-term contribution to literature by an Australian woman.
Recipients of The Alice are:
1978 ..........Eleanor Dark
1980 ..........Dame Judith Wright
1982 ..........Dame Mary Durack
1984 ..........Kylie Tennant
1986 ..........Ruth Park
1988 ..........Nancy Cato
1990 ..........Nance Donkin
1992 ..........Elizabeth Jolley
1994 ..........Mem Fox
1996...........Patsy Adam Smith
1998...........Kathryn Purnell
2000...........Jill Shearer
2002...........Kate Grenville
2004...........Dr Margaret Scott
2006...........Rosemary Dobson
2008...........Brenda Niall
State Societies of Women Writers:
·
Victorian Society :
email: fbartosy@surfnetcity.com.au
Postal address: 73 Church Carrum, VIC 3197
·
The Society of Women Writers
NSW Inc
Box 1388, GPO. Sydney
NSW 2001
·
Queensland Society:
email: swwq@redland.net.au snailmail: PO Box 301,
Sandgate, QLD 4017
·
South Australian Society:
snailmail: 34 Bandon Terrace,
Marino, SA 5049
·
Tasmanian Society:
Secretary:
email: sgray@tassie.net.au
snailmail: PO Box 91,
St Helens, TAS 7216
·
West Australian Society:
email: swwwa@odyssey.apana.org.au
snailmail:PO Box 1224,
East Victoria Park, WA 6101
Annual
subscriptions: $30 due and payable by 30 June each year.
New members joining fee:
$10:00 = $40