Christine Sykes - Vice-President
Christine Sykes has three published books. The Changing Room won the The Society of Women Writers NSW 2020 fiction award . Her debut novel, The Changing Room, was based…
Amanda Mark - Treasurer
Amanda is an aspiring writer with a background in financial markets. She is passionate about life, travel, food, women in business, sports, Olympics, rugby and equal rights for all…
Jan Conway - Secretary
Jan is the immediate Past President of The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc and has a background in office management. Jan found writing in retirement. In her memoir, Skimming…
Gwen Wilson - Membership Secretary
Gwen Wilson's debut memoir I Belong to No One was published by Hachette Australia in 2015, and later by Orion UK. While crafting that work, she discovered the last legitimate…
Rita Shaw - Website Administrator
Rita Shaw retired in 2009 after many years as a Bid Manager, writer, editor and proof reader in Sydney’s corporate arena, after starting her career at the University of NSW…
Ann Beaumont - Regional Coordinator
After a long career as a journalist, editor and producer in Europe and Australia, Ann has worked mainly in the field of history and biography for the last fifteen years.…
Pippa Kay - Workshop Coordinator
Pippa Kay has written three books. The most recent, Keeping it in the Family, published by Ginninderra Press, won the Society of Women Writers Fiction Award in 2018. Pippa has…
Julie Thorndyke - Committee Member
A graduate of the University of Sydney Master of Creative Writing program, Sydney writer Julie Thorndyke’s two collections of tanka poetry, Rick Rack and Carving Granite, were published by Ginninderra…
Maria McDougall - President & Centenary Planning Coordinator
Maria McDougall has written numerous educational programs, reports and procedures along with plays, skits and jingles for children’s performance items on the school stage. For many years she taught in…More