We are grateful to many of our members for sharing their work with our community through our events.
We share their talented writing their permission,
Enjoy these extracts from our A Woman’s Place collaborative oral reading:
“This is My Voice / Mornington Peninsula Woman”.
‘The Weeping Tree’ by Ann Roberts
‘Jacinta, I have something to tell you. Sarah had a heart attack … she died.’ 'What! But she’s only 39.’ Sarah is, was, my cousin – older by six months. Our mums are sisters. We grew up together, as cousins do. I never considered her a close friend, but it had...
‘Land Slide’ by Ann Roberts
LAND SLIDE It was a luxury home, with vaulted ceilings, marble benchtops, European appliances, floor to ceiling glass. There were many indoor plants for Ava to look after. She seemed to either water them too much or too little. She’d already needed to replace two of...
Submissions are open for our Mayor’s Short Story Writing Award
Submissions are now open to our Mayor's Short Story Writing Award Our Mayor's Short Story Award in partnership with Mornington Peninsula Shire is back for a 3rd year! Together with Mornington Peninsula Shire, we are proud to present the third year of the Mayor’s...
Announcing our 2023 funding
Announcing our 2023 funding partners We are delighted to announce our funding partners and supporters for 2023. Mornington Peninsula Shire / Mornington Peninsula Arts and Culture valued support of $9, 000 helps us to deliver a curated program of literary events...
Meet our 2023 Committee
Welcome to our 2023 Committee We are delighted to announce the unanimous and successful nominations of our 2023 Committee members. Our volunteer Committee look forward to working with our members and partners to deliver a wonderful year ahead of writing programs and...
AGM 2021/2022
, for JanuaryGThank you for joining us at our AGM 2021 / 2022 Thank you to all who joined us face-to-face and at home for our ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2021/22 today Seawinds Community Hub. We were so thrilled to have special guests Writers Victoria CEO Lucy Hamilton...
Our inaugural Story Slam was a superb success
Congratulations to our winners and all our story slammers If you joined us for our first ever Story Slam at The Pig & Whistle, we're sure you'll agree it was sensational! Congratulations to our Story Slam winner Sarah Bacaller and Highly Commended story slammer...
Story Slam comes to the Mornington Peninsula
Guest judges author Wendy Orr and Councillor Debr Mar join us for this evening of story telling and community gathering. Peninsula Writers' Club members are eligible to take part in the slamming, and we invite the public to come and meet our story telling...
‘Community Participation Tokens’ by Sarah Bacaller
To participate in society, please insert three tokens. Money. The commodity that shapes our lives. The key to full engagement in society (it seems) and the source of so much stress. We’re constantly told it’s getting harder and harder to make money, keep money and...
Character Studies (After the Fashion of Theophrastus) by Sarah Bacaller
There once was an ancient Greek philosopher – a student of Plato and a colleague of Aristotle – whose name was Theophrastus. According to Diogenes Laërtius (a third century biographer of Greek philosophers), Theophrastus authored 227 works. A prolific writer indeed!...
Women of the Peninsula, these are our voices.
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