YOUTH GROUP

Our first meeting for the Youth Group was held in Dec last year. Considering the Tafe's and Universities were on holidays, we were able to welcome Harry from Yeronga Tafe to the group.

It was a successful meeting, Harry was able to give us an insight to what students are doing in the area of writing.There is alot of talent out there and Fairfield Writers Group want to encourage and support that.

It was great to see that there is interest in the group and now that the new year is here we can move forward and get this group up and running.

Our ad for the group will be in Feb's "What's on" booklet. Our focus will be to talk to the Tafe's,Schools and Unversities in the area to encourage students to join the group in the hopes of developing their writing potential.

Looking forward to a great and exciting year ahead!

Anna

NEXT MEETING:

 8th of January 2011

12th of Febuary 2011

NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 2010

Newsletter – December 2010

Fairfield Writers Group

Website http://fairfieldwritersgroup-queensland.blogspot.com/



Working With Words

 In this issue:

Minutes of meeting

Writing Workshop
Christmas Party
Youth Group
January Meeting

Program for 2111

Meeting Dates
                                       December Issue 

Fairfield Writers Group Meeting Report -

11 December 2010

Present: Jennifer, Carol, Cecilia, Helga, Anna, Lorraine, Maarten, Martin, Karen, Lou and we welcomed three new members, Anne, Vera and Bob
Apologies: None

• What an excellent turn-up we had for our last meeting of the year. Our writing workshop morning was a success and as always was fun. A lot of interesting stories were read out and hopefully some of them will be starters for longer pieces throughout the year. We were also treated to morning tea by the library staff, which was most enjoyable and welcomed by all of us.

• The meeting closed at 12.30 pm and then it was off to the Coffee Shop for our Christmas Party. Jin provided us with delicious sandwiches, tea and coffee. We treated ourselves to the ‘sweet stuff’ members had brought along for afters. I think I can safely say we enjoyed ourselves. I took some photos at the writing workshop and Christmas party. Anna will post them to our blog as soon as she can.

• What a big day it was for us writers and made an excellent finish to the year. It was an especially big day for our Anthology Group and those who organised the first meeting of our Youth Group, as their meetings were held before our writing workshop. How’s that for a meeting marathon?

• Although attendance was a little disappointing at the first Youth Group meeting, we hope to have more interest shown in the New Year when schools and universities resume.

• There will be no set exercise for our January meeting. Just bring along a piece of your writing to share and be critiqued.

• We will be discussing a program to follow throughout the year so put your thinking caps on and bring your ideas to the meeting.

Happy writing in 2011. May you be creative and productive!

Carol

Next meetings:

8 January – BYO piece of writing

22 January – Novel/Short Stories



ANTHOLOGY 2011

NEXT MEETING: 
Jan 8 at 9.30am at the Fairfield Library

Action note: Please email your Precise and Letter to Lorraine.

 

  In this meeting the following will be discussed and actioned:

1.  Finalise the list of participants in our Anthology project and, from that, calculate the word count for each participant.

That means that if you haven't yet submitted a Precise and letter requesting inclusion of your proposed story,

you should do so on Jan. 8. You must also pay your deposit if you haven't yet done so.

2.  Review any new or revised Precise submissions.

3.  Discuss any issues members have with using the template and reach agreement on any issues of formatting etc.

4.  Discuss the logistics for future meetings and exchanging drafts with 'buddies' and editors. (e.g. Do we want to be bringing multiple copies of an entire story to meetings.

(It could be a lot of printing, as some stories might run to over 20 pages!!!). Discuss ideas for Anthology website/blog to hopefully help with issues of logistics.

5.  Allow anyone who needs help with their first draft to raise questions, ask for help, etc.

6.  Allow time for discussion of any other business that any group member might wish to introduce (including the cover design if Helga wishes to progress discussion at this time.)
 
 
Please find below the attachment for

FWG 2011 ANTHOLOGY: PROJECT PLAN

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HsTxMXBhCpHlt-Ln-faKUQVaRDdtdfwi_AEiY9XEIFc/edit?hl=en

CHRISTMAS PARTY

Once our last meeting for 2010 finished, it was off to the Coffee Shop
for our Christmas Party.

Jin provided us with delicious sandwiches, tea and coffee.

We treated ourselves to the ‘sweet stuff’ members had brought along for afters.

It was a great way to get together and celebrate all our achievements this year.


I think I can safely say we enjoyed ourselves!

WRITING WORKSHOP

What an excellent turn-up we had for our last meeting of the year. Our writing workshop morning was a success and as always was fun. A lot of interesting stories were read out and hopefully some of them will be starters for longer pieces throughout the year.

COMPETITIONS

The CALEB Prize

for faith-inspired writing
by Australasian writers
is now open!

1 Jan - 30 Jun, 2011

3 main sections:
fiction, non-fiction, poetry
(also unpublished manuscript)

Top Prize: $1000
+ other monetary prizes, vouchers and trophies +

+ reviews available on all books +
entry forms and full details at

http://www.omegawriters.com/
Omega Writers Inc - 'words with wings': Omega Writers Inc, PO Box 492, Corinda Qld 4075 Australia


www.brightoncow.co.uk

We will run four short story competitions in 2011. The deadlines will be the end of February, May, August and November. Our main writing competitions have an open theme with a 3,000 word limit. There are three prizes to the top three winning writers of £100, £50 and £25. There will also be the opportunity for the stories to be published on our website as well as being recorded for broadcast on Brighton’s Coastway Hospital Radio, which provides music and entertainment to a network of Brighton hospitals.

The competition is just four pounds to enter, via PayPal or cheque, and the competition is open to writers worldwide. Stories can be submitted online along with payment or by post with a cheque. We will notify all entrants of receipt of their story. Each entry will be judged impartially and be read at least twice in full before judging decisions are made.

We are planning some fun free to enter contests too. Our first is a flash fiction- 250 word limit. Deadline 31st January 2011. Five song titles are on the site as themes. Three ten pound prizes and publication on site.

Thank you
Andrew Campbell-Kearsey (BrightonCow)
(The COW part stands for Community of Writers)