memoir

BRISBANE WRITERS FESTIVAL

/ Edwina Shaw / Leave a comment

I’m so excited about this year’s Brisbane Writers’ Festival – mainly because this year I’m in it!

On Sunday 6th September from 9 am I will be leading a combined yoga/writing class. Bring your own mat and writing materials. It’s being held in the big tent on Maiwar Green between the State Library and GOMA. I’m pretty sure this one is free. Will let you know more as I am informed. So if you’ve ever been interested in trying yoga and/or writing  this is your perfect opportunity 🙂

Later that day is a personal highlight – something I’ve dreamed about for over a decade – my best writing buddy Helena Pastor and I on the stage presenting at the festival together! From 1 pm, we’ll be at The River Terrace discussing the creation of Helena’s wonderful new book WILD BOYS – a memoir about parenting a difficult child. Click here to book

We really hope to see some smiling faces in the audience to share our joy and help us to celebrate this brilliant and courageous book. It would be great to see you there.

Lots of love to you all,

Edwina

 

FIRST STORY I EVER WROTE

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I’ve just started a new page “Stories” where I’ll post pieces of my writing. Hopefully an excerpt from Thrill Seekers in the near future.

The first is “Harry“. I wrote it in 2001, my first attempt at writing a full length piece of something. I didn’t know quite what. Like most of my writing it’s a mix of memoir and fiction, mostly memoir in this case. It was part of the original collection of stories that Thrill Seekers was born from.

I still haven’t found “Harry”. His real name was David Maher. If anyone has seen or heard from him please let me know.

Though I think that if he was still around he’d have turned up by now. Perhaps you can trust priests after all.

If all that seems a bit cryptic it will make more sense after reading the story. 

 I’ve tried to make it so you can click on the links above but if that doesn’t work just go to the menu on the left and click on STORIES.

Hope you like it.