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Writing Fellows and competition winners announced

Tuesday, 19 August 2014
On Writing
By: admin

The recipients of the annual Glenfern Fellowships and emerging writers’ competition have been announced. Glenfern Fellowships The 2014 Glenfern Fellowships for Mid-Career and Established Writers (supported by the Readings Foundation) were awarded to Jennifer Down, Lee Kofman and Christian Ryan. The 2014 Glenfern Fellowships for Emerging Writers (supported by the Grace Marion Wilson Trust) were […]

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25 Years of WV: Interview with Iola Mathews

Monday, 11 August 2014
News
By: admin

When retired journalist Iola Mathews was trying to get back into writing in 2003, she called the National Trust to see if they had a room somewhere that she could write in. “I started to think about a room outside the house,” Iola wrote in her 2009 memoir, ‘My Mother, My Writing and Me’. “Somewhere I

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Regional writing winners announced

Monday, 4 August 2014
Featured Writers
By: admin

We are excited to be publishing three pieces selected from the Regional Members’ Writing Competition in the August edition of ‘The Victorian Writer’. Lyn Chatham’s poem ‘Codrington’, which placed third, is published in this festival edition, along with highly commended members Mark Smith and Lucy Bowler. They are also rubbing shoulders with Kate Holden, Emily

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25 Years of WV: Interview with Bev Roberts

Monday, 14 July 2014
News
By: Writers Victoria

Bev Roberts was the very first Coordinator of the Victorian Writers Centre. In celebration of the organisation’s 25th anniversary, Bev tells how the exciting story, “filled with drama, blood, sweat and tears”, all began. Many of the members of Writers Victoria may be surprised to know that the organisation had quite radical beginnings in community

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The hitch to getting hitched

Friday, 11 July 2014
Featured Writers, Write-ability Archive
By: Robert O'Brien

Robert O’Brien was one of five writers with disability who received an inaugural Write-ability Fellowship in 2013. Robert and his wife Jean were the first couple with cerebal palsy to be married in Victoria. At a time when even romance was frowned on for people in their situation, their commitment and determination paved the way

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25 Years of WV: message from Judith Rodriguez

Thursday, 26 June 2014
News
By: Writers Victoria

Judith Rodriguez remembers the elegance of the Victorian Writers Centre’s first home in Tasma Terrace, which sat behind a high, iron fence in East Melbourne. Judith became Chair of the organisation in 1993 (a post she held until 1996), just after the Centre moved to its next home at the Broom Factory in Fitzroy. The

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It’s all fun and games

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Featured Writers, Write-ability Archive
By: Leisa Prowd

Leisa Prowd was one of six emerging writers who showcased their work at the Write-ability Salon at EWF on Sunday 1 June, 2014. It’s all fun and games until someone loses an eye! I don’t ever want anyone to think I was all sweetness and nice growing up. The mindfulness that is now mine in

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FUBAR

Tuesday, 10 June 2014
Featured Writers, Write-ability Archive
By: Michelle Roger

Michelle Roger was one of six emerging writers who showcased their work at the Writeability Salon at EWF on Sunday 1 June, 2014. Following a series of advocacy and life-writing workshops for writers with disability, the Writeability Salon unearthed the sort of unique and powerful stories that usually go untold. The Write-abilty Salon is supported

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25 Years of WV: message from Sue Penhall

Friday, 30 May 2014
News
By: admin

Sue Penhall was “not much of a joiner” when her eldest son twisted her arm into helping out at Writers Victoria (then called the Victorian Writers Centre). Newly arrived from Adelaide, Sue began volunteering at Writers Victoria in 1999. Celebrating her own 15th anniversary with the organisation in 2014, Sue is our longest-serving volunteer and

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25 Years of WV: message from Kevin Brophy

Thursday, 22 May 2014
News
By: admin

Kevin Brophy remembers visiting possible locations for Writers Victoria (then called the Victorian Writers’ Centre) along with founding Coordinator Bev Roberts when the idea to set up a state writers’ centre was first being discussed. A member since its inception, Kevin joined the Committee of Management in 1995 before taking on the role of Chair from

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