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
10am, Saturdays
Tom Collins House, $5 per session

Young writers! Scrabble under your bed for a pen and some paper and run down to Tom Collins House every Saturday morning 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, but all sessions include:

warm-up/stimulus writing exercises
group writing activities/games
shared readings of work and sensitively guided critiques with a focus on praise
selected short readings from exemplar works for the session's activity.

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, even if they're trying hard to remain accountants and librarians. She is now a part-time teacher and tutor, a singer, lyricist, and a composer of electronic music.

Contact FAWWA to register your interest.

Regular Writing Groups

Time to Write
7pm every Tuesday, Tom Collins House

Creative Writing with Dr Andrew Burke
10am every Wednesday, Tom Collins House

Propose a Workshop or Group

If you would like to propose a workshop to run through FAWWA, please contact us. Program planning deadlines:

Late February for May to August program
Late June for August to November program
Late October for January to April program

Request a Workshop or Group

Our programming team are always open to suggestions. Let us know what you'd like us to offer.