March 2004

Telephone classes to link writers

Hawthorn Community Education Centre is inviting participants for its 2004 Telelink Writing Classes.

The next course, which includes fortnightly 45-minute telephone-linked group discussions, starts in April.

Up to eight writers can enrol for each course—there are five courses a year.

The group conversations allow students to discuss their thoughts about writing, receive instruction from the experienced tutor, read work aloud to fellow writers and listen to feedback.

Students receive course material before the telelinks.

Hawthorn Community Education Centre’s Telelink Writing Classes and Life Writing Correspondence Courses are designed for people who are isolated through age or illness.

Participants in the Life Writing Correspondence Courses are linked with a volunteer encourager/tutor.

The courses offer a range of imaginative topics and writers are encouraged to send one assignment a month to encourager/tutors who read their work and offer carefully-worded comments that may include hints on how to make the writing more effective.

Stories and poems are published in the annual Recollections compilation.

The Archival Section of the State Library includes the Recollections collection.

• For more information on the Telelink Writing Classes and Life Writing Correspondence Courses contact Coordinator Julia Ward at Hawthorn Community Education Centre, P.O. Box 2210, Hawthorn 3122, telephone 9819 5771, fax 9819 5102 or email hcepinc@internex.net.au.