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Bunbury: Tuesday Writers (Meets 9.30 - 11.30am)
Telephone: (08) 9721 8944
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Web: www.milligan.org.au
Dunsborough: The Dunsborough Writers
41 Marshall Street, Quindalup, WA 6281
Telephone: (08) 9755 3129
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Fremantle: Kids' Stuff Writer's Group (writing for children)
Meets 3rd Thursday of the month at 7:30pm, Fremantle Children's Literature Centre (Old Fremantle Prison), cnr Hampton Rd and Knutsford St, Fremantle.
Telephone: 9319 3130 Email:
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Fremantle: Writing from the Centre
Meets every Friday, 10am to 12 noon, at Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle.
Contact: Helen Hagemann
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Fremantle: Out of the Asylum group
Meets every Friday at 12noon after the Writing from the Centre class, at Fremantle Arts Centre, 1 Finnerty Street, Fremantle. A writing room is also available every Monday 9.30 - 12.30pm at the Arts Centre.
Contact: Josephine Clark
Telephone: 9339 0847 Email:
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Geraldton: Writers of Geraldton
Meets 2nd Sunday of the month at 2pm, The Residency, Marine Terrace, Geraldton, WA 6530.
Telephone: Stan: 9965 2873
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Gosnells: Pen-Arias Writing Group, meets fortnightly on Thursday mornings in Thornlie. Limited membership numbers.
Telephone: 9524 1971 or 0429 116395
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Kununurra: Kununurra Writers' Group
Telephone: (08) 9169 1227
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Mandurah: 'Scribblers': Mandurah-Murray Writers Group Inc
PO Box 580, Mandurah, WA 6210
Telephone: 9582 1966
Mandurah: Coastal Writers
Meet: Each Tuesday at 7pm
Contact: Dave or Rose
Phone: (08) 9535 5470
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Website: www.dbbooks.com.au
Melville: Melville Writers meet each Tuesday afternoon at the Ann Reid Room, Garden City.
Telephone: Marianne Grande, 9498 3437
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Mukinbudin: NEWROC Writers meet the second Wednesday of every month at 2pm at various venues.
Contact Peta Watson on (08) 9047 0070
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Perth: Stromatolights - Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy in Western Australia
Contact Heidi Kneale on (08) 9528 5860
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Web: http://members.iinet.net.au/~damian/heidikneale/stromat Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stromatolights
Pilbara: Pilbara Writers' Group
Telephone: Dee Pfaff
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Pemberton: Warren Literary Society
Telephone: (08) 9776 7104
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Two Rocks: Blue Dolphin Writers' Group
Meet at the Blue Dolphin Restaurant every second Wednesday of the month.
Contact Trish Cox:
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Yanchep: Anita McInnes, Sun City Writers' Group
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Yearling: Yearling Writing Group, meets monthly on 2nd Thursday week from 9.30am onwards.
Telephone: Olivia Dawes, (08) 9888 7017
Katharine Susannah Pritchard Writing Centre (Greenmount)
For enquiries on any of the writing groups please phone the KSP Office Manager on 08 9294 1872 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Grease Writing Under 13's Group
Contact: Collin O'Brien
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: Thursdays at 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
If you are between 10 to 13 years of age and love to write, come to 'Grease Writing' at Katharine's Place, every Thursday (during school term) and meet other young people interested in writing.
Just bring some writing material and your imagination - you'll get to do some cool writing!
Genius-ish Writer's Group
Contact: Collin O'Brien
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: Thursdays at 5.00pm - 6.00pm
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
Genius-ish Young Writer-Types for young writers 13-18 meets from 5.00 to 6.00 pm.
Karibu (Kuh-REE-boo) Women's Writing Group
Contact: Esme Park
Venue: Council Chambers, Helena St, Midland
Meets: 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month 9.30am - 11.30am
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
A women's writing group that meets in the Council Chambers in Helena Street Midland. It writes for fun and for competitions and to get published, with visiting authors, even snatches of voluntary homework, for beginners and the already-successful of all ages from teens to centenarians.
It provides encouragement and inspiration to keep writing. Like other KSP writing groups it publishes an anthology each year of its members' best stories and poems.
The venue is within easy walking distance of the Midland rail and bus station. There is free parking in the Centrepoint carpark across the road.
Non-Fiction Writing Group
Contact:Glad McGough and Salamah Pope
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: 1st Sat of the month 10am - 12noon
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
Non-fiction writing covers a broad range of subjects spanning from biographies, newspaper articles, ghostwriting, letters, anecdotes; speeches and historical writing. The new group will explore skills to tackle non-fiction writing projects, such as developing your ideas; writing commercially, writing for the internet, the children's and youth market; research and interviews, selling your work; editing, polishing promoting and marketing your writing; copyright and plagiarism, critiquing and creative non-fiction.
Past Tense (Social History) Group
Contact: Mardi May
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: 2nd Saturday of the month at 10am
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
The group for people wishing to write the history of their families, their localities, or special events. The monthly session is facilitated by Mardi May who has written several books on the people and children of the Swan Valley.
Aims of Past Tense
Bring along your work. Get and give help with style, ideas, editing, and publishing.
Everyone is welcome. The group meets 2nd Saturday of the month at 10am for about two hours or as long as you wish.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers
Contact: Helen Venn
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: 3rd Sun of the month 10.00am
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
If you to love to read good SF and/or fantasy, and you'd like to write, this is for you. No writing experience required, but you have to have a sense of wonder, a hankering for the heroic, and a sense that Earth is not room enough. So, if you can't watch the shuttle launch without feeling that dampness about the eyes and that tightness in the throat; if you wonder what meeting an alien would be like; if strange landscapes and stranger folk give you joy, then come and learn how to give those feelings to others.
This group runs a closed listserv to which members send new work for peer critiquing, and discuss ideas and publishing opportunities.
Thursday Night Group
Contact: Chris Oakeley
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: Thursdays at 7.30pm
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
Bring your work, read it, or just listen. Whether your writing is free-form poetry or bush verse, a short story, or a chapter from your autobiography or novel, the group can give help with constructive comment or assist with editing and publishing. The group believes that writing should be fun and that everyone should enjoy the evening.
The group self-publishes an anthology each year of work submitted by its members.
Everyone is welcome. The group meets every Thursday night at 7.30pm for about two hours and provides a light supper.
Writefree Women's Writing Group
Contact: Jill Southgate
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: Wednesdays at 9.30am - Starts back on Wednesday 6 February 2008!
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
The highly motivated Writefree Women's Writing Group has been meeting regularly at Katharine's Place for seven years. The enthusiasm and humour the group members bring to the weekly meetings is contagious. It provides encouragement and inspiration to keep writing. The group has self-published an anthology of their writing every year for the past nine years.
Tall Tales
Contact: Faye Dease
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: Alternate Thursdays at 9.30am
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
The Tall Tales Writing Group focuses on short stories of fact and fiction and anywhere in between, with peer critiquing and writing exercises. New members are welcome.
Script Writing Group
Contact: John Lewington
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: 3rd Sat of the month 10.00am
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
The Scriptwriting Group or, as we sometimes call ourselves, the 'Playgroup', meets every third Saturday in the month from 10am to 12 noon. To start 2006 we will be concentrating on small plays for theatre of from 15-30 minutes (good competition size) and will hold our own mini workshop for ideas on characters and story lines. Later we'll do some performance readings from our efforts. As an interesting exercise will will be looking to put some entries into Channel 10's short short series MARX and VENUS. This TV station is looking for public input of scripts for 26 5 minute episodes for later in the year. Everybody welcome, come along and surprise us with your scripts.
Poetry Group (Poets@KSP)
Contact: Mardi May
Venue: Katharine's Place
Meets: Alternate Wednesdays 12.45pm - 2.45pm
Cost: $3.00 members/$5.00 Non members
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