Are you writing your family history or don't know where to start?

We welcome new members who want to get and give encouragement, support and help in writing about their families history.

Join our group of family historians who go beyond names and dates to flesh out the stories behind their ancestors.

Our stories and minutes of meetings are stored in the Writers Shared Drive. We are amassing a huge collection of resources which are available to members!

The Writers Group was established in September 2018 to facilitate, support, encourage and motivate each other to write our families history.

Writers Resource for MEMBERS ONLY

Writers' Group

image-20241218204207-1

Wed 4 December Meeting - Last one of 2024

Member Shirley Guy gave an informative presentation about her ukulele journey, one that started when she was just ten, after a neighbour in New Zealand gave her one to learn on. After moving to Perth in 2009, a friend took her to a concert at the Perth Concert Hall to see a performance of the UK Ukulele Orchestra. At the concert, the audience was asked to hold up their ukuleles and they all joined in with the Orchestra. This inspired Shirley to continue playing and ultimately teaching, writing and preparing music books. She wrote these during COVID for the RAAFA in Bull Creek, the Glyde St. Community Centre in East Fremantle and Earnshaw.

Shirley entertained us with some tunes and then played some Christmas Carols. Singing was a bit sporadic this year, but Sue did a fine job of accompanying Shirley. This was followed by lunch, and time for a final chat before we finished for the year.

image-20240217170214-1

The individual colour groups were revamped late last year and the Feb '24 meeting concluded with members breaking into these smaller groups, with discussions that continued well after the meeting had officially finished. This section of the meeting will be held most months when we meet at May Street (Apr, Jun, Aug, Oct & Dec). Below are some of the colour groups, who were discussing their stories and aims for their writing in 2024.

tmp-jf.upload tmp-jg.upload tmp-jh.upload

Orange Group - top; Blue Group - middle; Green Group - bottom

Meetings

We meet monthly at 10am on the first Wednesday of the month (except January). Meetings alternate between May Street and online via Google Meet. In May and September the meetings are held in the evening, at 7pm.

Meetings include presentations and discussions to aid our writing. Between meetings, we are encouraged to write a short article on a specific topic or a topic of our own choice. In small groups, we positively comment/critique our submitted stories.

The next month's suggested writing topics are

1. Valentine / Love Story

2. Own choice

Due Wednesday 29th January 2025; Comments/Critiques due Tuesday 4th February

Writers' Group

Items of interest to Writers Group and FHWA members.