Maureen Freer (FAWQ) Short Story Competition 2023
Announcement of Prizewinners & Award Ceremony
Sat. 21st October 2023, 2.00pm to 4.00pm
North Lakes Community Centre Meeting Room 2
All welcome
Available on Zoom Link:
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Topic: FAWQ Short Story Comp Award Ceremony
Meeting ID: 862 9432 1001
Passcode: 926008
Fellowship of Australian Writers (Queensland) Inc.
Special General Meeting
for all members and interested parties
Saturday 25th November 2023
1.30pm
North Lakes Community Centre (Room 2)
Agenda:
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The future of the FAWQ
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Aims & objectives
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Membership & structure
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Resources & activities
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Welcome Members and all interested parties to the FAWQ AGM.
Most would be aware that since our 2021 centenary festival the group, for varying reasons, has faced critical problems.
However, the good news is, we will build to a bigger and better servant to emerging and accomplished authors, commencing in 2024.
We have accomplished nominees for the rolls of President, Secretary and Treasurer, and a handful of members, willing to serve as Committee Members in 2024.
We could use all the hands on deck as committee Members to propel FAWQ to new heights going forward.
Please join us in our endeavors, see you at the meeting. Links to details and nomination forms are below.
If interested, please bring your signed nomination form to the meeting, or send with your proxy.
Local Authors will be speaking as well between events live-streamed from Sydney. Join us for the conversation and share the thoughts and ideas of the presenters live in Redcliffe Library’s newly refurbished Pavilion space.
All events free, registrations and details on the link above.
In addition to the Sydney Writers Festival Program, we have arranged the following local author talks
Thursday 23rd 11.15 Official Opening by Karl Winchester
Thursday 23rd 3.15pm Noel Mealey – writes Australian Historical Crime Fiction.
Thursday 23rd 5.15pm Jane Smith – Author, editor, and librarian – writes fiction and non-fiction for all ages.
Friday 24th 11.15am Indrani Ganguly – Historical Fiction.
Saturday 25th 11.15am Philip Bradbury – Author of 22 books and magazines – helps turn roadblocks in to starting blocks.
Saturday 25th 3.15pm Jodie Lane – Author of Science, fantasy, dark comedy, and time travel.
Saturday 25th 5.15 pm Vicki Thomas – Local author who wrote the successful book ‘The Brisbane Line’.
Sunday 26th 2.45pm – Wendy Saini – Local Author who writes humour.
There will be books from local authors available for purchase on the day also.
Literary people all, please join us for an informal networking opportunity at the Mon Komo bayside bar and restaurant on Saturday afternoon on the 20th July from 11.30am.
The Fellowship of Australian Writers – Queensland (FAWQ) is the oldest continually existing writers’ group in Australia, having held our centenary in 2021.
The Fellowship was set up to provide assistance to and nurture writers of all levels.
This is our first meeting of all interested parties for 2024. Please join us for an informal networking opportunity, for coffee / lunch and exciting conversation. (Food and beverages will be avilable from the bar)
We look forward to discussing how the Fellowship can better serve the literary community of Queensland.
You don’t have to be a member, but if you are inspired by what we do, you may wish to join.
All Writers, Editors, Publishers and Agents are welcome.
FAWQ Networking Meetup.
21st September 11.30am
Welcome writers, editors, publishers, readers, in fact bookish people all, to our second networking opportunity for 2024.
Take this chance to mingle with literary people from the Greater Brisbane and surounding area, take coffee or lunch, or both with old friends and meet knew ones.
Discuss books, writing, publishing and marketing opportunities with other like-minded people over a couple of hours in these relaxing surrounds.
There will be a short presentation by Sally Eberhardt and Russell Perry on marketing opportunities and FAWQ’s SCOPE magazines future direction and benefits to our literary community.
Welcome, all bookish people, to the FAWQ Christmas gathering.
There are many nouns to discribe a group of literary people, however I’m going to make up my own.
We shall be known as a “Scribe’ of literaries.
Anyway all are welcome to the Komo Hotel at 99 Marine Parade, Redcliffe at 5:30 on the 17th of December, for a drink and a mingle with the like-minded.
We are but poor writers, so you’ll have to buy your own.
Come for an hour or stay till closing. See you there.
PLEASE REGISTER BY THE 12TH OF DECEMBER
FAWQ Special Event—Featuring Troy Henderson
Troy was the winner of last year’s Australian Fiction Prize with his book ‘River City’.
His topic will be ‘Before and After the Prize: A Writer’s Journey’
Venue – Redcliffe Library at 2.00pm on Saturday 6th June – followed by lucky door prizes, afternoon tea and
networking.
Members:$10 Non-members:$15 – Book on the form below.
Troy Henderson is a fiction writer from Brisbane, Australia, where he has lived his whole life aside from a two-year stint in London.
He has a Bachelor of Popular Music and a Masters in Journalism.
Troy’s twenties and early thirties were spent playing in bands and immersed in music, and he turned to novel writing seriously in his mid-thirties.
His first book, Head Grenade, was shortlisted in the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize and the Queensland Writers Centre’s Adaptable and Publishable Programs, respectively.
Head Grenade was published through Hawkeye Publishing in October 2023.
His short stories have longlisted in the Australian Writers’ Centre Furious Fiction competition, and placed in the GenreCon Short Story competition, and FLEUR Flash Fiction Contest. In 2024, he was commissioned to contribute to the anthology Is This Working? and also appeared at the 2024 Brisbane Writers Festival.
The manuscript for his second novel, River City, won The Australian Fiction Prize in 2025, and is due to be published through HarperCollins Australia in early 2027.
He’s working on his next novels, right now.
BOOK ON THE FORM BELOW