Graeme Bourke
This whetted his appetite for more writing. In 2006 he completed a writing course and his tutor recommended that he think seriously about writing full time. Since then he has published a second book on fishing in 2008 with the title of, If Only the World Would go Fishing. He has written articles for several magazines including the Sporting Shooter, On The Road and The Tasmanian Sportsfisher. In 2011 he published his first fiction book Hawkins' Grove. This book is also available as an Ebook (on Smashwords.com) Graeme has three more Ebooks Mountain Pride, The Ghost Ship and The Gates of Hell. There is a link on this website to the authors website. From this website there is a direct link to his Ebooks.
Echoes on the Mountain is her first book written with the help of a small Arts Tasmania grant and some help from ‘Hydro.’ Four Poles, two Italians, one Lithuanian, a Berliner, a Czech and English twins who arrived at the Central Highlands HEC construction sites 1949-1956 were interviewed. She decided to find out what happened to some of them.
Her second book,
Echoes from the Wild West Coast of Tasmania is her third book and will be launched in 2012. The stories have been taken from the Copeland family diaries and yarns by the Rev. F G Copeland who administered to the West Coast miners and their families from 1894-1901.
Pat has been a researcher of family history for many years and, after a career in teaching, began writing stories about her ancestors. In 1988 she co-authored a book about her mothers family who emigrated from Scotland in the 1850s.
About twelve years ago she started to write poetry and self published a book of verse in 1999. She has attended Adult Education Writers' Workshop courses for several years, participated in various workshops on the subject and had some of her work published in anthologies and journals. She has been an active member of FAW North West for about twelve years.
We all need our passions in life, and for Ivan Motor Sport has provided a rich and enduring arena in which he has been fortunate to express himself both as a competitor and writer. Rallying in Western Queensland, Britain and France, or simply enjoying the open road has been a lifelong pleasure, fostering an enthusiasm not only for the thrill and skill of competition, but an appreciation of the motivation and politics which frequently lie behind today's glossy facade.
Today, Ivan write about the pioneers and personalities of motor racing across the World, his articles appearing in specialist Australian and UK magazines, while his biography of Tasmanian Sports car Champion Paul Hawkins is available on four Continents.
His writing, like competitive driving, is charged with both energy and excitement.
I was born England before the 2nd W.W. and was just old enough to remember the horrors of it all. I had a wonderful teacher who had been bought out of retirement to fill the gap left by someone called up for active duty. He was stern but got the best out of his students. This was where I learnt joy of writing and reading too.
I always enjoyed writing and receiving letters and only started to write stories when I joined the F.A.W. in 1998. I now belong to another group as well. I enjoy writing and it keeps my mind ticking over, but I have no grand ideas of writing a best seller or even winning a competition. I ponder over the fact that young people no longer can write easily, fluidly and legibly by hand and hope that there are s few people out there, who cam encourage their grand children to take up a pen and write. What will the F.A.W. do without them?
Marjorie is a foundation member of North West FAW in 1964 with Barney Roberts and Kath Doherty. She has written short stories, children's stories, travel and historical articles and poetry and has been published in all of these fields. Her first effort at entering a competition was in the Darwin Centenary Competition. There were more than a thousand entries and she was amazed to be placed equal first. Entering competitions has always remained one of her favourite interests. She is still surprised when placed first in a national competition.
Her Stories have been published by Oxford University Press, the Association for the Teaching of English and various newspapers and magazines. She has held the positions of North West FAW President and State President and has edited the North West newsletter for about thirty years.
Marion's family lived in post-WW1 England. After her father returned from the war the family moved regularly which meant an interrupted education. The early seeds for writing had been planted as Marion escaped into a world of her personal characters.
Like all writers, she needed to know that she had an aptitude to achieve her goal. before leaving school at the age of fourteen she received praise for her essay. However, continual moving was not a sound basis for writing career.
The family moved to Australia and the freedom was the impetus to do some serious writing. Her long term ambition is to write the family history. She is involved in many local organisations and is a member of Amnesty International. Marion is vitally interested in social issues and is a vocal spokesperson. She is a long term member of FAW Tasmania.
In a weekend edition of The Advocate newspaper. Marion has more than nineteen children's stories and articles published.
Marion has been a prolific participant in FAW competitions with a record: Seven First Certificates, four Second Certificates, and twelve Third Certificates. Marion also has three stories in the anthology Keeping the Spirit Alive which can be seen in the Book Shelf section of this website.
Born in Tasmania Pauline G Wright has always had a keen interest in literature. Upon retiring, in 2007, from her position as a School Admin. Officer in the Tasmanian Public Service she has taken her writing more seriously. She is endeavouring to write a selection of poet prose. After a journey to North America in 2008 she gained inspiration from the nature and the environment in the wilderness of the majestic Canadian Rockies.
Her other passions include music, patchwork, card making, tapestry, sewing, candlewicking, travelling and although in the past has not been a sports person has just recently commenced playing croquet.
Since then she has had some success with children’s publications and
awards. Her children’s picture book, Dr. Quark, was published by Koala
Books in 2004.
Meg was born on the beautiful island of Trinidad in the Caribbean. She had a colourful and happy childhood. Over the years she travelled extensively and has now retired and has had the good fortune to live in Tasmania, a place, she says, of mystical inspiration. She loves composing stories and poems. With more time at her disposal she is now able to pursue her penchant for writing.
Allan Jamieson
Allan was born in Bendigo
but has lived a very peripatetic life. He lived in thirteen towns in
Victoria and NSW before he was seventeen years old and, when 23 years
of age, he migrated to
His work career was almost totally in the pulp and paper and forest industries and this took him for business reasons to twenty-one countries on all continents where trees are to be found. For the thirty-seven years of his working life, Allan averaged one plane flight every four days and the number of airports he has frequented now nudges 200.
Allan has always said writing is a hobby of his but it was not until his retirement from work in 1999 that he began to indulge himself in this pastime. So far, three books have been published. In 2011 Allan published the history of the pulp and paper mill at Burnie – embracing also a reasonably extensive history of the company that owned the mill, APPM.
Mary Kay (nee Webster) was born in
They then moved to Morecambe and Mary attended school for fifteen months. They eventually flew to
Mary’s writing genre comes under the history banner as she likes to write life stories, particularly about Circular Head. Mary runs a marine radio base looking after boats and assists police in search and rescue when required. Mary has won eight awards for community service to do with the base including the Pride of Australia Medal in 2009. She has also been included in Who’s who of Australian Women for the last three years. Mary lives in Smithton.
Her books: The J. S. Lee Story is the story of a local man J. S. Lee; Tin Can Heroes, is Max Grey’s account of his service on Australia in the Second World War and Lost the Spring in my Step, is a Fisherman’s story of sixty years in the fishing industry.
Winner of the Felllowship of Australian Writers, North West Branch open short story competition for 2011, Brenda has experience in many fields of writing, including short stories, poetry and plays. She is currently working on a historical romance novel. Brenda lives in Burnie.