The lastest NVWG anthology will be launched on Saturday 4th November at the Bowraville Theatre at 3pm - Come for a bevy, a yarn, a roadhouse moresl and a tall tale or two.
Food for Thought launch
Join us for lunch and the launch of our recipe, writing and artwork anthology Food for Thought on Sunday 13th November. All the details are on our Events Page.
Non-Fiction Competition
Results of the 2011 Nambucca Valley Writers Group competition for non-fiction writing were announced at the AGM in May. Congratulations to all our winners.
Winners and photos are here.
Winners and photos are here.
Life Member: Roby Aiken
In May 2011, Roby Aiken was awarded Life Membership.
Retiring president Maggie Veness present Roby with her certificate.
Retiring president Maggie Veness present Roby with her certificate.
NVWG trumps trivia
A team from the Nambucca Valley Writers Group took on the trivia challenge at the Talarm Hall Trivia Night on Saturday 19 March and came out the victors.
An underhanded attempt at sabotage was made by another team who handed in a fake 'NVWG' answer sheet after one of the rounds with all of the answers wrong. The team of saboteurs was quickly uncovered when 2 answer sheets showed up for that round.
This only made the writers more determined to thrash the competition and a definite thrashing was had. At the end of the night, the other teams quickly declared that NVWG was banned from all future trivia nights. Sore losers!
An underhanded attempt at sabotage was made by another team who handed in a fake 'NVWG' answer sheet after one of the rounds with all of the answers wrong. The team of saboteurs was quickly uncovered when 2 answer sheets showed up for that round.
This only made the writers more determined to thrash the competition and a definite thrashing was had. At the end of the night, the other teams quickly declared that NVWG was banned from all future trivia nights. Sore losers!
'Dexter' author Jeff Lindsay
On a recent trip to Sydney, Diane and Jen attended a Q&A with Jeff Lindsay, author of the Dexter novels at Shearer's Bookshop, Leichhardt. It was a fascinating evening! A full description can be found on the Shearer's Bookshop blog.
Linda Jaivin Writing Workshop
On the weekend of 5 & 6 February, NVWG was fortunate to host a writing workshop with Linda Jaivin as tutor. This was organised through the fabulous Northern Rivers Writers Centre.
Linda took us through all aspects of writing fiction from idea to story structure to developing a character, show don't tell, dialogue and finally editing. She added to our writers' toolbox and gave us all an imaginary friend (our character) to take home with us.
It was a fun and totally inspiring weekend!
Linda took us through all aspects of writing fiction from idea to story structure to developing a character, show don't tell, dialogue and finally editing. She added to our writers' toolbox and gave us all an imaginary friend (our character) to take home with us.
It was a fun and totally inspiring weekend!
Life Stories at Camp Creative
Carrolline Rhodes launched her new book 'Life Stories at Camp Creative' in January 2011, at (you guessed it) Camp Creative, Bellingen. Carrolline has been teaching 'Writing Life Stories' at the annual creative gathering for a number of years, and has used this experience, her own writing knowledge and stories of some of her students to produce this guide to writing your own life story. If you are interested in writing memoir, buy this book.
Launch of 'Tribe'
Nambucca Valley Writers Group held a Writers Brunch on November 21 to launch their latest publication: 'Tribe'
'Tribe' includes short stories, flash fiction, poetry, collage poetry, and whimsical and original Denise Delaney cartoons.
At the brunch, several members read their stories or monologues to the audience along with musical interludes. The launch was very well-attended and everyone had a great time.
Photos below:
'Tribe' includes short stories, flash fiction, poetry, collage poetry, and whimsical and original Denise Delaney cartoons.
At the brunch, several members read their stories or monologues to the audience along with musical interludes. The launch was very well-attended and everyone had a great time.
Photos below:
The Empty Chair
Inspired by the annual 'empty chair' fundraising for PEN at Byron Bay Writers Festival, Gill Chapman came up with the idea of NVWG holding an ongoing fundraiser for contributions to Sydney PEN. We have a miniature chair to represent the Empty Chair and members are encouraged to donate loose change each month to the money box, which has been painted by Denise Delaney and includes the inscription 'Words Will Set Us Free". NVWG is throwing out the challenge to other writer's groups to fundraise in a similar way and assist writers around the world who have been persecuted for their work. For more information, visit Sydney PEN.
STALI Finalist
Diane Curran is a finalist in the Romance Writers of Australia STALI competition (Single Title and Loving It) and anxiously awaiting the Round 2 results. Stay tuned.
Update: Diane came 6th in the competition (out of 46 entries)
Update: Diane came 6th in the competition (out of 46 entries)
New Committee
Together at last: the new committee.
Back Row: Maggie, Lyn, Gill
Front Row: Diane, Lisa
Back Row: Maggie, Lyn, Gill
Front Row: Diane, Lisa
New Life Member
At the June meeting, NVWG members voted Life Membership for Diane Curran.
Poetry Competition &
AGM
The results of the 2010 NVWG Competition in Poetry were announced on May 22 at the AGM.
For a full list of results and photos, click here.
The Executive Committee of many years stepped down at the AGM, and a new committee was elected.
Thankyou to the previous committee: Carrolline, Roby, Sue, Diane, Nancy, Gill, Christine.
Welcome to the new committee: Maggie, Gill, Lisa, Lyn & Diane (hang on, how did that happen?)
Full list on the About NVWG page.
For a full list of results and photos, click here.
The Executive Committee of many years stepped down at the AGM, and a new committee was elected.
Thankyou to the previous committee: Carrolline, Roby, Sue, Diane, Nancy, Gill, Christine.
Welcome to the new committee: Maggie, Gill, Lisa, Lyn & Diane (hang on, how did that happen?)
Full list on the About NVWG page.
Radical Sydney
Lisa Milner has contributed a chapter to Radical Sydney.
Radical Sydney: Places, Portraits and Unruly Episodes will be launched by Lee Rhiannon MLC on 20 June at Gleebooks in Sydney, with a southern launch at the Wollongong University campus on 15 June by Arthur Rorris, Secretary of the South Coast Labour Council. There will also be a talk by the authors during History Week.
For more information, visit http://radicalsydney.blogspot.com/
Karly sells to A&U
Karly Blakemore-Mowle sold her rural romance novel 'Shimmer" to Allen & Unwin this week. The novel will be published under the pen name Karlene Lane.
27 March 2010
27 March 2010
Maggie's short stories
Maggie Veness had a short story accepted for publication in Wrong Tree Review (US), two short stories in Lame Goat Press Flash Fiction Anthology (US) and a story in This Mutant Life (Australia).
27 March 2010
27 March 2010
Radio Plays
Several members had work performed at an afternoon of radio theatre, which was recorded before a live audience at the heritage-listed Bowraville Theatre, for later broadcast by Radio 2NVR. These playwrights are: Noel Robertson, Robbie Baer, Roby Aiken and Elizabeth Arthur.
27 March 2010
27 March 2010
Rosemary & Ralph
Rosemary Nisted has a British publisher interested in the ms she is currently researching. It covers Ralph Lillford's two years as a conscripted soldier serving in the Suez Canal Zone during the early 1950s. Ralph is an artist who has a collection of some fifty drawings produced during that time and they are now archived in the National Army Museum in London. They will be reproduced in Rosemary's book.
27 March 2010
27 March 2010
Carrolline short-listed
Carrolline Rhodes was short listed for the Marjory Barnard Award (she has won this award in the past).
27 March 2010
27 March 2010
