2022
May - Three presentations: a book review of Writing Life Stories, information on Liana's book Stories From My Life published through Storyworth, and Stats from our Writers' meetings.
April - Anna Jacobs, an award winning novelist with a world-wide following shared her fascinating experiences as a successful writer.
March - Presentation by Ian Simon - Adding and Nnotating Maps in a Word Document
February - Presentation by Helen Jones - East Guildford Cemetery. Parish history, government red tape, and family stories are intertwined in the history of this cemetery. Helen's presentation shows us, as writers, another way of turning dry facts into fascinating accounts that readers will enjoy.
2021
December - Presentation by Linda Green - producing your own photobooks.
November - Have you thought of poetry as another form of writing your family history? Presentation by Jim Brown, bush poet and songwriter.
October - General discussion on ideas for future meetings and 'Ask a stupid question' time. What do members want to learn about or see discussed?
September - WA Artist and Poet Virginia O'Keeffe shared different ways (including quilts, poetry and picture books) to record our family history.
August - Graham Chapman spoke about using his Research Notes – Is a story always the way to go? Sandie Watts presented on GSV - Getting it Write notes.
July - Enrolled Pensioner Guard member, John Knowles has written eight books about different branches of his family. He will explain why and how he wrote and published the books that have been distributed to his extended family. All books are electronic and some have been printed.
Writers Group member, Jane DiGiuseppe will share some general rules on how to integrate scientific names smoothly into our family history writings (as opposed to formal scientific publications).
June - Presentation by Shannon Meyerkort
May - Presentation: Growing Your Stories. This session will be lead by Zoe Inman and examples will be given on how suggestions from Writers Group members have improved our stories.
April - Annual General Meeting and Topic: Your Questions