Please book for the Workshop and/or Literary Event by Monday 6 July.
Workshop
(in person only)
Time: 10:15 am to 12:00 pm
Place: Michael Crouch Room, State Library of NSW
Cost: Members $40, non-members $55
Zoe Gaetjens: TBA
Zoe Gaetjens is an Australian author writing for children and young adults. Her books include Drawing Nudes While Making Other Plans, a warm, funny, teen romance, a picture book Being Indy and a lift the flap board book, Little Angler. When Zoe is not writing, she works as a high school English teacher. She believes that the books you love as a teenager stay with you forever.
Zoe Gaetjens is a children’s author and high-school English teacher. She is a member of SCBWI and the CBCA, and has served as Vice President for the Illawarra South Coast CBCA sub branch. Zoe won the Creative Kid’s Tales Anthology Competition in 2016, placed second in the 2018 Just Write For Kid’s Pitch It and was pleased to receive an honourable mention from Jackie French in the 2018 Buzz Words Short Story Competition.
Literary Event
(in person and via Zoom)
Time: 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
Place: Michael Crouch Room, State Library of NSW
Cost: Members $25, non-members $40
Member Spotlight
Elizabeth Lancaster: Bounty: Friendship, Illness and Writing About Real People
For years, Elizabeth had carefully managed life with multiple sclerosis, keeping its impact largely hidden. But when lifelong friend Emma persuades her to adopt an exuberant rescue dog, the decision sets off a chain of events neither of them could have foreseen. When Emma reveals her own devastating diagnosis, their roles are reversed. Bounty is about friendship, illness and the unexpected ways we find our way back to life.
Elizabeth will discuss her circuitous path from private writing to publication, examining the ethical dilemmas of writing about real people, the pitfalls of creating composite characters, and the unexpected gifts of memoir.
Elizabeth began her working life as an occupational therapist but changed direction after attending a writing course in New York City while living there with her husband and two children. After a shock diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, writing would provide her with a lifeline.
Her debut memoir, Marzipan and Magnolias won the inaugural Finch Memoir Prize. Her second book, Bounty: A Memoir of Friendship, MS and the Dog That Changed Everything, takes her story in an unexpected direction, forcing her to rethink her own assumptions about disability and belonging.
Guest Speaker
Anita Jacoby AM: Stories happen to people who tell them
Anita Jacoby is a leading advocate for women in leadership and media. She is one of Australia’s most renowned television producers, along with being one of few women appointed Managing Director of the local operation for the British-based media conglomerate, ITV.
Prior to running ITV, Anita managed Zapruder’s other films alongside Andrew Denton, the company responsible for Enough Rope, The Gruen Transfer, Elders and Hungry Beast.
Her work has won numerous awards including Australian Film Institute awards, AACTA’s, a Logie, and the Asia Broadcasting Union Award. In 2019 she was recognised with a Member of the Order of Australia.
Anita has just finished her second term as Chair of the ABC Advisory Council, is executive chair of Women in Media and on the Boards of Chief Executive Women, Documentary Australia, the Public Interest Journalism Initiative, and the UK-based Duke of Edinburgh International Award Foundation.
In 2022, she published a memoir, Secrets Beyond the Screen.
Anita Jacoby is one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers, media executives, board directors and authors.
Anita’s gift for storytelling has seen her explore the lives of presidents and royalty, showbiz legends and broadcasting giants, including Sir David Attenborough, Jane Fonda, Dame Helen Mirren and Bill Clinton … to name just a few.
Now she uncovers one of the most extraordinary stories of all, long hidden deep within her own family. Secrets Beyond the Screen is a very Australian story. One of tragedy and rebirth, resilience, and change. It is about love, grief, and the sacrifices parents make for their children. It’s a story that proves that children, no matter how old or wise they become, never truly know their parents.
Book and pay:
Members, you can book for yourself and a friend at member pricing if purchased at the same time.
Workshop (in person only): Members $40, non-members $55
If you have a Workshop Voucher, please email Julie Thorndyke, Workshop Coordinator, to advise your intention to attend.
Literary Event (in person): Members $25, non-members $40
Discount for full program (Workshop and Literary Event) when booked together: Members $60, non-members $85
By Credit card: https://www.trybooking.com/DNCCN
or by Direct debit:
The Society of Women Writers NSW Inc
BSB: 062 018
Account: 00950433
Code: VM
Email Amanda and include
your name, receipt number and date of event
Literary Event via Zoom: Members $10, non-members $15 – please click here to book: https://www.trybooking.com/DNCGS