Please note:  Due to the fact that there has been an influx of new members over the past few months the group has decided to suspend new membership until 2011.  We regret having to do this but unfortunately our facilities just can not cope with any further increase in membership.
  
Keep an eye on this website - we will post a notice when we are again accepting new members.
  

Information for New and Intending Members:

• Carindale Writers' Group meets on the second and fourth Thursday each month (from 9.am till 1.pm) in the Carindale Library Meeting Room. 
     
• Carindale Writers Group is a non profit organisation and exists for the sole purpose as a support group for writers. It does not provide a structured course for beginning writers. 
     
• Writers serious about gaining publication are invited to attend the meetings, which are held at the Carindale library meeting room on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. 
     
• The primary activity is a critique group, where writers are encouraged to share their writing skills by either reading out loud or by providing respectful feedback to other writers. 
     
• All critiques should be given in the spirit of support and encouragement and all writers are encouraged to accept critiques as such. 
     
• Critiques are not personal. They relate to the writing only. Any unfavourable critique is not intended to destroy confidence in your abilities; it is purely to help you identify weak points requiring attention. 
     
• The meetings are meant to be friendly, courteous and accepting of diverse cultures, religions and political persuasions. All discussions during the meeting should be conducted in a respectful manner and have literary relevance.

Costs of belonging to Carindale Writers' Group

Carindale Writers Group functions as a volunteer group with elections held in June for the positions of coordinator, treasurer and librarian. No-one is paid for their services and contributions are necessary to pay for membership fees to affiliate groups, website hosting, resource books and to help defray the costs of internet services, postal and miscellaneous costs associated with running the Group efficiently. 

Consequently, a $12 annual payment is collected at the beginning of each year, or at time of joining. There is also a collection taken at each meeting of $3 per person, for which you receive morning tea, consisting of coffee, tea and biscuits. 

When you join Carindale Writers' Group you are entitled to add your profile to our website and are accorded your personal page on our website, which can be used to promote your writing skills. 

You automatically become a member of the Queensland Writers Centre and the Fellowship of Writers Queensland, and are entitled to the benefit of their services and meetings. (Group discounts apply for seminars and workshops delivered by the Queensland Writer's Centre.) 

You will receive an e-copy of Queensland Writers Centre's monthly magazine "Writing Queensland", either to your email address, or accessed through our website. You will be able to borrow from our extensive library of self help books. You will be invited to submit your writing to any future anthologies.