TTG Library Writers Group

Our history
In 1991, Tea Tree Gully Council set up a series of Creative Writing courses, one for children and the other for adults. As a direct consequence of this Council initiative, Blan MacDonagh, the Librarian who had administered the original project, encouraged the setting-up of a Creative Writing Group.
Blan MacDonagh assured the prospective Group of a room in the Library and as no rent would be required, this would be ideal for a group without funds.
Many years later, we are still going strong!

How the group works
Our members include aspiring and published writers of all genres, with the only requirements for membership an enthusiasm for the craft and a joy of writing.
We have no membership fee, but a gold coin donation each meeting enables basic supplies.
Meetings are held in the Community Learning Centre on the first and third Thursdays of each month, February through to December, from 2 to 4.15pm.

On first Thursdays we each read our works on the topic set four weeks earlier (a good, testing discipline).
On third Thursdays we hold 'in-house' writing-based workshops based on the craft and practice of writing; these focus not only on style, techniques and points of grammar, but also on current group interests including publishing, poetry, short story writing and persevering with that full-length book!

Other activities
Occasionally we invite a visiting speaker. In addition, members with a work in progress are encouraged to read sections at these sessions, to gain feedback.
During 2009 and 2010, with the aid of a generous grant from the City of Tea Tree Gully, we were able to organise a series of writing (and related) workshops and discussion groups led by prominent exponents of a variety of genre including popular local author Fiona McIntosh, to which other members of the local community were invited.

Links
The Tea Tree Gully Library Writers' Group has links to the South Australian Writers' Centre and enjoys a collaborative and friendly relationship with like-minded local and regional groups. We are a friendly, informal group of people who welcome all who like to write and want to write.

For further information about us, please contact Rick Coy, Secretary Tea Tree Gully Library Writers Group via email: ttgwritersgroup@hotmail.com.

Our works
Poetry styles are very much a personal choice, with many formulae to choose from.
Our members write in many styles and genres with some examples below; hilarious limericks by Jill Wherry and a delightful poem by Joanne Baker.

All blokes love a movie that's got,
A murder a car chase a plot.
A body dismembered
Will long be remembered
By men, they're a blood-thirsty lot.