by Jim Higgins | Jul 18, 2021 | Presidents Post
Congratulations to all our Literary Competition winners this year. The stories, poems and memoirs were all of a very high standard and the judges found ranking them a difficult task. Of course, the nature of competitions always means only some of the writers’ work is...
by Russell Perry | Jun 27, 2020 | Presidents Post
FAWQ – BeginningsIt was cloudy and cool in Brisbane on 13th July 1921, the day eighteen men and women gathered at the Town Hall in Queen Street to form the Queensland Authors and Artists Association. The meeting had been called after a deputation of writers and...
by Jim Higgins | Apr 17, 2020 | Presidents Post
Natalie Goldberg has a section in her book “Long Quiet Highway” about the role writing played in her journey to “waking up in America” as she put it.“Writing became the tool I used to digest my life and to understand, finally, the grace, the gratitude I could feel,...
by Jim Higgins | Apr 10, 2020 | Presidents Post
I feel uncertain, fearful, confused, and wondering if I should think about it or simply do something else to distract me. This is grief. Grief is the emotion we have when we have lost certainty, when everything is changing so quickly, we cannot comprehend it. That is...
by Jim Higgins | May 26, 2019 | Presidents Post
In life there are many opportunities that confront us. If we look forward to the openings those opportunities provide we can grow and encourage growth in others by sharing. This is why we write our stories and this is what connection in the writing community...
