Fellowship of Australian Writers Western Australia - Events

FAWWA runs an ongoing program of writing groups and workshops. See the Calendar for details

Writing Group for 12-17 year olds

WordWired
4:30 pm, Monday - Tom Collins House
$10 per session. Term 2 2010 will be $70 for a 7 week term beginning Monday 3rd May.

There will be no class on the Labour Day Holiday, March 1st.

Young writers! Scrabble under your bed for a pen and some paper and run down to Tom Collins House every Monday afternoon during school terms. Make like-minded friends while you develop your way with words and feed your creative genius. Discover ideas in strange places, build plots that twist and turn sideways, create characters that leap out of the page and settings that teleport your readers into other worlds. Challenge your imagination while you write short stories, poetry, songs, scripts for film, theatre and comics, and anything else that takes the group's fancy. Whatever you're into, WordWired is a young word artist's feast!

The content of each session evolves around the needs and desires of the group.

Presenter Profile:

Jacinta Rosielle is a graduate of Curtin University's Creative Writing program and has several years of experience teaching English in secondary schools. She has a deep interest in all artistic disciplines and coaches all she meets in their creative endeavours. She is now a part-time teacher and tutor, a singer, lyricist, and a composer of electronic music.

Contact FAWWA to register your interest.

Write

The course is suitable for beginners and experienced writers. It is a helpful introduction for those wishing to participate in the new courses and groups on offer at FAWWA in 2010.

Karen Dixon is an award winning writer of poetry and fiction. She teaches creative writing workshops for adults and high school students.

Where: Tom Collins House at 88 Wood St in Swanbourne (next to Allen Park). On Thursdays from 7 - 9 pm, For 6 weeks beginning June 10 to July 15

The cost is $30 for members, $45 for non members
Early bird special $150 for members, $250 for non members

Phone: 9384 4771 or Email: admin@fawwa.org.au for details.

Writing Marathon with Kevin Gillam

Saturday August 14th, 1.00 - 5.00pm
$22.00 cover charge

Based upon the ideas of Natalie Goldberg, Writing Marathons are extended slabs of writing time in which a group of writers (prose or poetry) write to a series of given stimuli. The FAWWA Marathons run for 4 hours (1 pm - 5pm with tea break), and writers compose to given lines, physical cues eg. leaf, shell, pieces of music, a specific theme, or a particular form. The sessions are a great way to discover freedom in creative writing, and also generate some new starting ideas for prose or poems. Suitable for writers of all skill and experience levels.

Write Around Rotto

Weekend July 31 - August 1st 2010

Write Around Rotto Details

There will be no tutors, instead it will be a weekend for individual writing during the day and sharing at night. The group may decide to produce an anthology from work begun during the weekend.

Make your bookings with Pat Johnson on 9384 4771 or email: admin@fawwa.org.au

Regular Writing Groups

Time to Write
7pm every Tuesday, Tom Collins House Cost: $5.00

Run a Workshop or Group

If you wish to run a workshop or regular group at Tom Collins House (of any type; it doesn’t have to be related to writing), the Fellowship would be interested under the following conditions:

FAWWA would promote the workshop/group in its brochure (when possible) and through other avenues such as the FAWWA web-site. We would expect the workshop presenter to undertake the principal promotion for the event.

FAWWA would take bookings but expect the presenter’s contact details to be available for bookings as well.

Fees for the workshop/group should be set after discussion with the administrator at FAWWA, and a discount allowed for FAWWA members. The presenter will retain all fees collected less payments due to FAWWA for room hire. The current rate for this is $15 per hour.

Presenters should also provide refreshments for the participants. For a full day workshop participants should be advised to bring their own lunch. Contact us to discuss your ideas.