Writing Groups

Writing Group for 12-17 year olds

WordWired
4:30 pm, Monday - Tom Collins House
$10 per session. Term 1 2010 will be $70 for a 7 week term beginning Monday 8 February.
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.

Sometimes it’s difficult to get ideas down on paper. A new course beginning at FAWWA’s Tom Collins house is about to change that. Perth writer Karen Dixon is offering a six session introductory exploration into the possibilities of creative writing. Using props, stimuli and a kitbag of writing tools and techniques, the course is designed to help the beginner or experienced writer unlock creativity. "By the end of the course, participants will have written a piece of fiction they can be proud of, and hopefully learned some tricks to avoid pitfalls like writer’s block," said Karen.

Called simply "write.", the course is a helpful introduction for those wishing to participate in the new courses and groups FAWWA is offering in 2010. Karen Dixon writes fiction, freelance commercial writing and teaches high school workshops. She insists, "Many of us learned at school that writing is boring and hard work. This course is about discovering that writing can be fun, an adventure."

"Write." runs at the Heritage Listed Tom Collins House at 88 Wood St in Swanbourne (next to Allen Park). On Mondays from 10 till 12 from 22 February to 29 March, 9384 4771 or Email: admin@fawwa.org.au for details.

Cost per session: $30 for members, $45 for non members.
Cost full course: Early bird special is $150 for members and $250 for non members.

Creative Writing with Dr Charmaine Saunders

Saturday March 13th 2.00 - 5.00pm
$30 members, $45 for non-members

This workshop will explore poetry, prose and drama styles, not in an academic way but more free-flowing, as samples to inspire one's own creative flow. There will be discussion, readings and of course, writing! It is not instructional but rather motivational and intends for the writing experience to be fun.

PRESENTER: Dr Charmaine Saunders is a therapist, media commentator, lecturer and professional writer with specific and extensive experience in the area of personal development, relationships, wellness, sexuality, positive aspect to life. She's had six books commercially published over 25 years and supplies content to a number of websites and print publications. Charmaine does a regular segment on 6PR and teaches personal development as well as writing courses.

Her website link: www.charmainesaunders.com

Write Around Rotto

30 July - 1 Aug

FAWWA has booked 2 cottages near the Lighthouse for two days of writing and relaxation.
There is room for 10 people, 12 at a squeeze.. with people sleeping on stretcher beds.

Accommodation cost will be $150 per person. As the FAWWA has already paid for this, preference will be given to members who can pay the full sum up front. Otherwise a deposit of $100 will be needed to include your name on the list, with the remainder payable by 1st June. Each participant will be responsible for his or her own travel expenses and catering arrangements will be announced closer to the time. We anticipate that food requirements will be divided among the group.

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.