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Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor’s Writing Awards Now Open

The 2022 Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor's Writing Award is now open for entries Aspiring, emerging and established writers of the Mornington Peninsula Shire are invited to submit short story entries to the Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor's Writing Awards. ...

‘If We Weren’t Bound for Life Before This…’ by Sarah Bacaller

The day long awaited had now arrived. The family gathering had a supplementary purpose to general sociality—the slaughter of an elderly, post-egg-laying chicken: a consumer of crumb, who gave no gift in return (apart from her poop fertilizing the earth). The time had...

‘A Dastardly Design’ by Sarah Bacaller

We’d zig-zagged our way across the Peninsula today – from Main Ridge to Balnarring, Mount Martha to Mornington. Time for our last job of the day. Only Wendy and I remained. Ordinarily there were four of us, but Gina was sick and Charlotte had left early. The sun was...

Announcing our 2022 Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor’s Writing Award judges

Introducing our 2022 judges for the Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor's Writing Award Last year's Mornington Peninsula Shire Mayor's Writing Awards was a resounding success and we are delighted to partner once again with Mornington Peninsula Shire again this...

‘People In My Corner – The Writing Process #2’ by Tessa Moriarty

You reach a signpost, “this way for the rest of your life,” and you know it’s the direction you must take. It is a deep conviction, in the marrow of bone. And it’s more than the fact that writing gives you words to speak, or a place to belong, or in story you find...

‘Threads’ by Tessa Moriarty

It’s all you want for them, isn’t it, as a mother, a parent? To be happy in what they do, healthy, good in their heart, and to outlive you. I only have two. Both boys. Actually, they’re young men, and the eldest a parent himself now. But I ‘ve always been more...

‘The Chops For Writing: Giving Ourselves Permission and Space to Write’ by Tessa Moriarty

We all come to writing along different paths. For some it’s a life journey, growing in the magic of words as little ones. Nurtured in a childhood of story-time, exploration and wonder, through the stretch of adolescence and early adulthood to develop the skill and...

“Caring: A Mutual and Collective Experience of Nurses” by Tessa Moriarty

I sit at my computer. With some hesitation, I begin. Trying not to hold my breath and all-the-while typing as fast as my fingers will carry the excitement and tension I start to feel in this moment, I stop to steady myself. Behind the document in which I type on my...

AGM recognises milestones and launches 2022 events

Thanks to our Peninsula Writers’ Club members and guests who joined us for our Annual General Meeting for 2020/21 at Seawinds Community Hub on Sunday 13 Feb, 2022. We were also joined by guests online as we Zoomed them in as well. A special thanks to our...

‘Becoming: Never Too Late To Start Writing’ by Tessa Moriarty

Six weeks ago, I embarked on Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way twelve-week course to uncover more of the writer within me. I literally picked the book up when I was looking for something else (or was that synchronicity?), while spending a gift voucher at Farrells in...