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.
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