Society of Women Writers (Australia).

Also known as
Society of Women Writers (Australia). (1980-2000)
Function
Arts organisation
Libraries Australia
http://nla.gov.au/anbd.aut-an35907688
NLA Persistent Identifier
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-582406

Biographies

The Society of Women Writers (Australia), was formed in 1980 with the five existing state Societies (in New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Tasmania) becoming branches of this new national organisation. The Society's main aim was to draw together women writers (including poets, journalists, playwrights, fiction and non-fiction writers) to support each other in their writing endeavours. It is also aimed to maintain the status of the writing profession, promote a knowledge of literature, and strengthen ties between Australian and visiting writers. Australia's first Society of Women Writers had been founded in New South Wales in 1925. During the 1960's and 1970's branches were established in all Australian states. The new national body was intended to coordinate activities across the country. It organised numerous seminars, conferences and writing competitions. In 2000 the Society was disbanded, and its branches reformed as independent, incorporated societies (the New South Wales branch having already done this in 1987).

During its existence, each state for two years in turn had the responsibility of managing federal business. By 1999, it became clear that volunteers were no longer available to carry out this considerable task. It was agreed that the federal body be wound up, and that each branch would become an independent incorporated association, with similar aims and rules.

An enormous number of books have been published under the auspices of the Society and its state bodies. Only a few of these have been listed in this database.

View the full record at Australian Women's Register

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Resources for Society of Women Writers (Australia).

Selected resources (10)

Australian Women's Register

  1. Minutes of the ... biennial conference of the Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [1978-1988]
    Published: The Society
  2. Federal president's report / Society of Women Writers
    [1974-]
    Published: The Society
  3. Annual report / the Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [1925-]
    Published: The Society
  4. Woman Writer/Society of Women Writers (Aust.)
    [1975-200]
    Published: The Society
  5. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Joy Lindrum Gillan Papers (1977 - 1990)
    Three folders of papers covering the periods 1977-1987, 1987-1989 and 1989-1990 respectively, during the period of Joy Lindrum Gillan's presidency of The Society of Women Writers Australia. The papers are related to a dispute between The Society of Women Writers Australia and the New South Wales Branch.
    MS 5877
  6. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Society of Women Writers (Australia) Records (1925 - 1990)
    The collection includes the Sydney office's records, correspondence of the various state branches, constitutional details, newsletters, manuscripts from various literary competitions and workshops, publications of the Society, membership lists, accounts, applications for grants, conference papers and minutes of the Society's meetings. A large component of the collection is that concerning the Society's 1978 short story competition, for which there are many letters of application and numerous manuscripts.
    NLA MS 6777
  7. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales: Joy Lindrum Gillan - sound recordings, 1984 (1984)
    Recording of the Society of Women Writers (Australia), Fourth Biennial Conference, Perth, 1984.
    MLMSS 6603: Locn No.: MLOH 297/1-8
  8. Mitchell and Dixson Libraries Manuscripts Collection, State Library of New South Wales: Joy Lindrum Gillan Papers (1976 - 1992)
    The papers are Lindrum Gillan's records of the activities of, and her involvement in, the Society of Women Writers: 1986-1988; Society of Women Writers (Australia), Federal Executive and Federal Council minutes, audited statements (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/1) 1980-1986; Society of Women Writers (Australia) New South Wales Branch, financial statements (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/1) 1985-1988; Society of Women Writers (Australia), Federal Council, financial statements (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/1) 1986; Society of Women Writers (Australia), conference, statements, receipts, agendas, menus, federal election N.S.W. members (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/1) 1976-1984; Society of Women Writers (Australia), constitution and incorporation as national body (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/1) 1981-1988; Society of Women Writers (Australia) New South Wales Branch, newsletter (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/2) 1980-1992; Society of Women Writers (Australia), 'The Woman Writer' (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/2) 1986-1989; Society of Women Writers (Australia), correspondence between N.S.W. Federal Executive and Queensland Federal Executive (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/2) 1988-1990; Society of Women Writers (Australia), Federal Executive (Qld), minutes and financial statements (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/2) 1990; Society of Women Writers (Australia), information concerning Seventh Biennial Conference, Melbourne (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/2) 1978-1985; Society of Women Writers (Australia) New South Wales Branch, annual reports (Locn No.: MLMSS 6603/2)
    MLMSS 6603/1-2
  9. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Joy Lindrum Gillan Papers (1977 - 1990)
    Three folders of papers covering the periods 1977-1987, 1987-1989 and 1989-1990 respectively, during the period of Joy Lindrum Gillan's presidency of The Society of Women Writers Australia. The papers are related to a dispute between The Society of Women Writers Australia and the New South Wales Branch.
    MS 5877
  10. National Library of Australia Manuscript Collection: Society of Women Writers (Australia), Records (1925 - 1990)
    The collection includes the Sydney office's records, correspondence of the various state branches, constitutional details, newsletters, manuscripts from various literary competitions and workshops, publications of the Society, membership lists, accounts, applications for grants, conference papers and minutes of the Society's meetings. A large component of the collection is that concerning the Society's 1978 short story competition, for which there are many letters of application and numerous manuscripts.
    MS 6777

Resources by Society of Women Writers (Australia). (37)

  1. Newsletter (Society of Women Writers (Australia))
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-1975 ]
    At 3 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 100.92)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 100.92)

  2. Woman writer / Society of Women Writers (Aust.)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1975-2000 ]
    At 8 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 87.688)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 87.688)

  3. Federal president's report / The Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 75.748)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 75.748)

  4. Balance sheet as at ... / Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 75.747)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 75.747)

  5. Statement of receipts & payments for the year ended ... / Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 69.842)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 69.842)

  6. Handbook, the Society of Women Writers (Australia) / compiled by Hilarie Lindsay
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Book : 1980 ]
    At 8 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 47.333)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 47.333)

  7. Golden wattle poets / Society of Women Writers, Australia
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1983-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 45.431)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 45.431)

  8. Records of the Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Unpublished : 1925-1998 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 38.116)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 38.116)

  9. The Society of Women Writers (Australia) : constitution and rules
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Book : 1978 ]
    At State Library of NSW
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 33.674)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 33.674)

  10. Annual report / Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Article : 1900-2011 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.465)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 29.465)

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Resources about Society of Women Writers (Australia). (12)

  1. Newsletter (Society of Women Writers (Australia))
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-1975 ]
    At 3 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 98.296)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 98.296)

  2. Woman writer / Society of Women Writers (Aust.)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1975-2000 ]
    At 8 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 85.889)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 85.889)

  3. Federal president's report / The Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 73.015)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 73.015)

  4. Balance sheet as at ... / Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 73.014)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 73.014)

  5. Statement of receipts & payments for the year ended ... / Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Periodical : 1900-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 66.873)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 66.873)

  6. Handbook, the Society of Women Writers (Australia) / compiled by Hilarie Lindsay
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Book : 1980 ]
    At 8 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 47.214)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 47.214)

  7. Federal president's report / Society of Women Writers Biennial Conference
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). Conference
    [ Periodical : 1978-2011 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 44.47)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 44.47)

  8. Records of the Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Unpublished : 1925-1998 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 36.827)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 36.827)

  9. The Society of Women Writers (Australia) : constitution and rules
    Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    [ Book : 1978 ]
    At State Library of NSW
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 33.261)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 33.261)

  10. News (Society of Women Writers Australia. Queensland Division)
    [ Periodical : 1988-1990 ]
    At UQ Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 31.509)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 31.509)

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  2. Society of Women Writers (Australia) Victorian Branch
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  1. Records
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). W.A. Branch
    [ Unpublished : 1977-1981 ]
    At WA State Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.285)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 2.285)

  2. Records
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). Canberra Magazine Branch
    [ Unpublished : 1984-1987 ]
    At National Library
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.983)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.983)

  3. Morialta
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). Queensland Branch
    [ Unpublished : 1982 ]
    At UQ Library
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.813)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.813)

  1. Women by themselves, a scrapbook of personal writings by women in Australia since white settlement : with an index of people and places / collected by the Society of Women Writers (Australia), Victorian Branch
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). Victorian Branch
    [ Book : 1988 ]
    At 20 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.436)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.436)

  2. A Ream of writers / edited by Susan Yorke
    Yorke, Susan, 1915-
    [ Book : 1982 ]
    At 32 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.916)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.916)

  3. Walker on the top rail : poetry & prose / by members of the Society of Women Writers, W.A
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). W.A. Branch
    [ Book : 1984 ]
    At 8 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.84)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.84)

  4. Accolades and jelly beans : an anthology of stories, articles and poems / by members of the Society of Women Writers Australia (Victorian Branch) ; compiled and edited by Brigitte Lambert
    Lambert, Brigitte
    [ Book : 1992 ]
    At 12 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.822)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 1.822)

  1. Kim / by Rudyard Kipling
    Kipling, Rudyard, 1865-1936
    [ Book, Audio book : 1897-2011 ]
    Languages: English, German, Italian, [10 others]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 124 libraries
    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.132)

    This resource may be of limited relevance to your query (score: 0.132)

  1. Australian women writers : a bibliographic guide / Debra Adelaide
    Adelaide, Debra, 1958-
    [ Book, Audio book : 1988 ]
    Languages: Undetermined, English
    At 73 libraries
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 1.518)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 1.518)

  2. Lives obscurely great : historical essays on women of New South Wales / editors: Patricia Thompson, Susan Yorke
    Thompson, Patricia
    [ Book, Audio book : 1980-1983 ]
    At 38 libraries
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 1.294)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 1.294)

  3. For the term of his natural life / By Marcus Clarke
    Clarke, Marcus, 1846-1881
    [ Book, Audio book, Article, Sound : 1800-2009 ]
    Languages: English, German, Undetermined, [5 others]
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 163 libraries
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.981)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.981)

  4. The getting of wisdom / Henry Handel Richardson
    Richardson, Henry Handel, 1870-1946
    [ Book, Audio book, Article : 1900-2009 ]
    Languages: English, French, Swedish, eng
    read online at Open Library/Internet Archive
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    At 140 libraries
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.81)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.81)

  1. Website: Australian Women in War
    www.womenaustralia.info
    Matching pages:
    View 130 matching archived pages
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.186)

    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.186)

  2. Website: Culture.gov.au : Australia's culture portal : connecting Australian culture online
    www.culture.gov.au
    Matching pages:
    View 545 matching archived pages
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.152)

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  3. Website: Putting skirts on the sacred benches : women candidates for the New South Wales Parliament
    www.womenaustralia.info
    Matching pages:
    View 52 matching archived pages
    This resource is likely to be relevant to your query (score: 0.126)

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  1. LAWSON SOCIETY.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Saturday 26 August 1939 p 11 Article
    ... LAWSON SOCIETY Miss D[?]mphna Cusack will speak of "Some Early Women Writers In Australia" at the Henry Lawson Society on Thursday evening ... 22 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.074)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.074)

  2. Short story contest
    The Australian Women's Weekly (1933 - 1982) Wednesday 18 September 1974 p 49 Article
    ... Short story contest SOCIETY of Women Writers (Australia) is holding a short story competition, which is open to women writers resident in Australia. It is a Christmas story competition and first prize will be S100. There will be a S20 second prize. Entries should be not more than 3000 words. The ... 82 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.046)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.046)

  3. SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS.
    The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Thursday 11 May 1933 p 4 Article
    ... SOCIETY OF WOMEN WRITERS. At the luncheon of the Society of Women Writers held at David Jones' yesterday, Miss Annette Kellerman was the guest of honour and speaker. Miss Kellerman said she had seen ... enjoy" it. She thought most about the sunshine of Australia when she was suffering the Intense cold of ... 117 words
    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.041)

    This resource may have relevance to your query (score: 0.041)

  1. In touch (Clearview, S. Aust.)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). S.A. Branch
    [ Periodical : 1977-2011 ]
    At State Library S Aust
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 16.275)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 16.275)

  2. Newsletter (Society of Women Writers (Australia). Victorian Branch : 1975)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). Victorian Branch
    [ Periodical : 1900-1987 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.554)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 8.554)

  3. Victorian Branch newsletter (Society of Women Writers (Australia). Victorian Branch)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). Victorian Branch
    [ Periodical : 1981-1985 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.076)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 7.076)

  4. New South Wales newsletter / the Society of Women Writers (Australia)
    Society of Women Writers (Australia). New South Wales Branch
    [ Periodical : 1900-1987 ]
    At 2 libraries
    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.679)

    This resource is very relevant to your query (score: 6.679)