Welcome to the Bondi Writers website.
The Bondi Writers’ Group (Bondi Writers) began September
2004 in the Seagull Room at the Bondi Pavilion.
We formed under the banner of The Fellowship of Australian Writers
and are the official Eastern Suburbs group.
We are a group of local writers, both amateur and professional,
who have diverse interests in writing. We come together once a
month to be inspired by people who have travelled the writing
road. We are a support-base for each other as well as providing
an exchange of information and ideas.
Each month over the past year we have had a guest speaker, either
a published author, a person from inside the industry, or a writing teacher. We also have meetings on our own,
to share writing and stories and have a social time together.
We currently ask for a donation each meeting to go towards costs. For members we ask $2, and for non members $5.
We publish news about ourselves in the FAW quarterly newsletter
WRITER’S VOICE. We have had articles published about us
in local press.
The Committee
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President: |
Anne Skyvington |
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Vice President: |
Bill Widerberg |
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Secretary: |
Kristen McNaule |
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Treasurer: |
Sunny Wong |
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Assistant Committee Members: |
Carol Chandler,
Cynthia Rowe,
Dina Davis,
Gavin Austin,
Kay Dunne,
Pamela Trustrum,
Prim Moss. |
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 SUPPORTED BY
WAVERLEY COUNCIL
The Bondi Writers Group are indebted to Waverley Council for the support we receive and we heartily thank them.
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MONTHLY MEETING
WHERE:
The Theory Room at
Waverley Library,
32-48 Denison St.,
Bondi Junction
WHEN:
2 to 4pm on the third Sunday of the month
ENTRY:
$5 non members or
$2 FAW Members
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BECOME A MEMBER
Membership remains at $35.
As a member you receive the FAW magazine, a newsletter and discounted entry into monthly meetings. Also support for entering competitions, submitting to publications and any other projects with which the group is involved.
Download the application form.
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The next meeting of the Bondi Writers Group will be on Sunday, May 20, 2012 at the Waverley Library, 32-48 Denison Street, Bondi Junction.
We meet upstairs in the Theory Room 1st Floor, from 2pm to 4pm.
This will be a feedback session in which financial members are invited to bring along poetry or prose that they are working on for critical feedback from the rest of the members in their group. All are welcome to come along and participate in the session and to share afternoon tea with us afterwards.
Keep writing!
Anne
SHORT STORY COMPETITION
2011 RESULTS
Here are the results of the Bondi Writers' Short Story Competition 2011 convened by Gavin Austin:
First Prize:
Second Prize:
Highly Commended:
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"Mrs Maudsley’s Little Boy" by Keith Youman, Frenchs Forest, NSW
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"Spur of the Moment" by Kerry Lown Whalen, Varsity Lakes, Qld
Commended:
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"The Meeting Season" by Coral Hartley, Sunnybank Hills, Qld
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"Friday Evening at ‘The Car Yard’" by Frank Davidson, Paddington, NSW
The competition was judged by Margot Shugg of Bradbury, NSW.
87 submissions were received, with entries from NSW, Vic, WA, SA, Qld, Tas, the ACT and New Zealand.
The launch of ‘Bondi Tides’ took place in the Theatrette at the Waverley Library on Saturday March 17, 2012.
At the launch of Bondi Tides.
Susan Beinart reads The Cockroach Lair from Bondi Tides.
Bondi Tides is an anthology from the Bondi Writers’ Group which is the Eastern Suburbs branch of the Fellowship of Australian Writers. Our branch was founded 6 years ago by Christine Butler and by Sunny Wong, the latter being one of our current members. The Fellowship itself was formed in 1928 by a group including the poet, Mary Gilmore. Many of our members are award-winning, widely published writers who work across different genres - short stories, novels, memoir, poetry, haiku, haibun and tanka.
'Bondi Tides' editor, Carol Chandler. |
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