A little about these two highly accomplished writers:
Rose van Son’s poems, stories and articles have appeared in The West Australian, Westerly, Landscapes, Cordite, Australian Poetry, Indigo and more.
She has won places in the Tom Collins Poetry Awards, the W.H. Treanor Poetry Awards, the Peter Cowan Patron’s Prize, the Fremantle Press Tanka Prize, City of Perth National Haiku Awards, paper wasp haiku and The Heron’s Nest. She is Creatrix editor for Creatrix online.
She won first prize in the KSP Short Fiction Award, 2000.
She has read at the Margaret River Writers’ and Readers Festival and has judged the 2009 Julie Lewis Poetry Prize and the ECU Talus Prize.
Her poetry collection (Sandfire) was published by Sunline Press.
Felicity Young is Writer in Residence at the Fellowship of Writing WA in June. She has seven novels published and is working on another. I am currently reading her latest novel, The Scent of Murder, and finding it engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable. Look out for a review of the book here in the coming weeks.
With her permission I have copied her bio from her website:
Felicity was born in Germany and attended boarding school in the UK while her parents travelled the world with the British army. She thinks the long boring plane trips home played an important part in helping her to develop her creative imagination.
Felicity settled with her parents in Western Australia in 1976, became a nurse, married young and had three children. Not surprisingly, it took ten years to complete an Arts degree (English lit) at UWA.
In 1990 Felicity and her family moved to a small farm 40 kilometers NE of Perth where she established a Suffolk sheep stud, reared orphan kangaroos and embarked upon a life of crime writing.
Felicity will be holding two workshops on writing while she is at the Fellowship. What a great opportunity for the local writing community!
Felicity Young is Writer in Residence at the Fellowship of Writing WA in June. She has seven novels published and is working on another. I am currently reading her latest novel, The Scent of Murder, and finding it engrossing and thoroughly enjoyable. Look out for a review of the book here in the coming weeks.
With her permission I have copied her bio from her website:
Felicity was born in Germany and attended boarding school in the UK while her parents travelled the world with the British army. She thinks the long boring plane trips home played an important part in helping her to develop her creative imagination.
Felicity settled with her parents in Western Australia in 1976, became a nurse, married young and had three children. Not surprisingly, it took ten years to complete an Arts degree (English lit) at UWA.
In 1990 Felicity and her family moved to a small farm 40 kilometers NE of Perth where she established a Suffolk sheep stud, reared orphan kangaroos and embarked upon a life of crime writing.
Felicity will be holding two workshops on writing while she is at the Fellowship. What a great opportunity for the local writing community!
Hi Iris, I am looking forward to this Sunday for our group, Lyn
ReplyDeleteWill be good to see you there Lyn. Rose and Felicity are two talented writers. It will be interesting to see how the session evolves.
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