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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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Chris Thompson’s introduction to Writers Victoria (then called the Victorian Writers’ Centre) took place in late 1990 when the organisation was located in Tasma Terrace in Parliament Place, East Melbourne. As Artistic Director of St Martins Youth Arts Centre, Chris went to the National Trust building to meet with Agnes Nieuwenhuizen to talk about her
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WV interviewed award-winning writer, speaker and appearance activist Carly Findlay in the lead-up to her Writeability advocacy writing workshops at this year’s Emerging Writers’ Festival. When did you first start your blog and how has it developed you as a writer? I started this blog in 2009, while I was at university studying my masters
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