Upcoming Projects

The Rose Scott Women Writers' Festival is a literary festival run, owned and operated by women for women writers. It showcases the rich diversity of contemporary Australian women writers across fiction and non-fiction, in print, performance and digital media which explore personal, social and political issues. It has recently been described as 'one of the most significant literary festivals on Sydney's cultural calendar' (stella.org.au). 

Australia’s international literary standing been elevated by the release of a raft of astounding debut authors and publications offering fresh perspectives from first nations communities and culturally and linguistically diverse peoples across the nation, with Australian women writers leading the charge on redefining representations of our culture on the national and international stage. 

RSWWF celebrates its 10th anniversary in this context of booming cultural strength and unprecedented complexity and nuance.

This year’s festival will draw on the legacy of Rose Scott’s famously vibrant salons, while keeping at its core the values of The Women’s Club founders who were driven by their vision of a more equitable and inclusive society for all Australians.

Dancing Dragons is the 8th anthology of Romanian/Australian poetry and prose initiated by poet and editor Mihaela Cristescu in partnership with NEW Writers’ Group Inc.

 Between wisdom, strength, hidden knowledge, fertility, great power, good luck and pure evil, we invite our inner dragons to dance with us in fairy tales and poetry, memories, journeys or life experiences: DANCING DRAGONS – a volume offering 40 distinct chronicles from each writer published in our eighth edition of the Anthology.

My contribution is a short piece called "The Reluctant Lover" Inspired by an 1898 children's story by Kenneth Grahame, called "The Reluctant Dragon."

To be Launched at State Library NSW.

English Editor: Sue Crawford
Illustrations: Luminita Lou Serbanescu Art
NWG President: Carol Amos