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Darebin Writers| Description: | Group aims to support, encourage and assist creative writers. Two meetings, newsletter each month. Speakers and details of competitions and publishing opportunities, plus writing classes. Poetry, fiction, publishing, teaching. | | Business Phone: | 9484 1722 |
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| | |  | Dots and Dashes - Reservoir creative writing group| Description: | A creative writing group focusing on short stories and poetry - new emerging writers are welcome to join its informal group for supportive writing feedback and writing exercises.
Meetings are held in Reservoir each Monday fortnight at 7pm.
If you are interested please email: kayeroberts@optusnet.com.au
| | Business Phone: | 0401 281 581 |
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| | | | Eddy Burger| Description: | I am a 46 year old Northcote writer of funny and experimental fiction, poetry, performance poetry, short plays and zines. I am chief of local writing group The Word Addicts. My writing has been published in Australian and overseas journals and my spoken-word has appeared on CD anthologies and websites. In 2007, the Melbourne Poets Union published a chapbook of my poetry entitled Funny & Strange, and in 2009, Small Change Press will be publishing my poetry collection Impressions of me. I have been a featured reader at many readings and literary festivals over the past 14 years, locally and interstate. A journalist for The Age once described my style as ‘erratic, operatic and completely mesmerising. Edward Burger can make a smoky bar feel like the Berlin opera’. I do like to combine art-forms, such as opera with spoken-word. Many of my stories are illustrated and I dabble in visual and concrete poetry. My writing is weird, humorous, satirical, postmodern, surreal and/or anti-realist. My style and subject vary but I am frequently concerned with subverting notions of normality and promoting difference, portraying the collision of modern-day concerns through confused visions of the world, and I have a human vs environment obsession. I am currently seeking a publisher for a novel, novella and a number of short story collections. | | Business Phone: | 0417 024 172 |
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| | | | INSCRIBE | Description: | The INSCRIBE newspaper is a community journal of writing by writers who live, work or study in the City of Darebin.
Editorial team members are volunteers from Darebin’s writing community.
Copies of the newspaper have been published and distributed around Darebin in cafes, libraries and other community hubs. | | Business Phone: | 8470 8458 |
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| |  | | Litsa Gogas| Description: | I am a primary school educated Greek migrant who came to Australia in 1956. I am married and have three children and ten grandchildren. In writing, I have found a friend and confidante. I enjoy writing about the universal themes of love, peace and freedom. I also like to take snapshots from life and write about those small, poignant, humorous or trivial matters which all combine to make up the human condition. I have published three books in Greek - No More Walls, My Father’s House, the Child is Looking at Us. | | Business Phone: | 9481 8718 |
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| | | | | | | | Papermakers of Victoria Inc| Description: | Not-for-profit group of hand papermakers and paper artists. Studio, including beater-room is located at the Stables Complex, Coopers Settlement, Bundoora Park. | | Business Phone: | N/A |
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| | | | Razmi Wahab| Description: | I came from Malaysia in 1973. I have been a teacher, librarian and public servant. I have been published in The Age and a couple of magazines. I am an educator on cross cultural issues, through cooking classes and through information sessions (on Islamic customs and culture) I write short stories, articles, poetry and currently working on 2 big projects I’d rather not elaborate on. I belong to the Society of Women Writers, FAW and Eve Fortune – the group that I have been with for 25 years. Recently came 2nd in the Melbourne Writers Festival “Next Great Australian Novel” Competition. | | Business Phone: | |
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| | | | Robert Dickins| Description: | Published children's book author and illustrator, cartoonist, freelance artist in schools, libraries and creative writing classes. From concept pencil roughs, character sketches to finished illustrations in black and white or full colour. I also design layout if necessary. I work in watercolour, gauche and mixed media. In workshops I tailor to the needs of the school, promoting literacy, creating characters and try to inspire creativity through reading, writing and drawing. I tailor these workshops to age groups. Also I work freelance and often design logos, characters, theatre posters and occasionally write for the press or quarterlies. | | Business Phone: | 9471 4332 |
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| | | | Susan Pepper| Description: | As a storyteller in the long tradition of oral storytelling, I tell stories to groups of people of all ages, from the 3 to 103. The stories I tell are chosen with the particular audience in mind, but are often folktales. For children, I tell stories with a great deal of audience participation; and more reflective tales for older listeners. I can find, or create, and tell stories on a particular theme or topic. I have had around 8 years experience telling stories in schools and kinders, as well as various community settings. I also run storytelling workshops. | | Business Phone: | |
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| | | | Zavtra Mir| Description: | Media Consultancy | | Business Phone: | 0402 628 680 |
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