Writers 2000 to host workshop and June meeting

The Writers 2000 will host a workshop on June 9 and writer Melissa Davidson will be the presenter on the day.

The event will be from 10am to 12.30pm at the Inyoni Creek Club House, Rand Aid Complex on corner of Modderfontein and Wordsworth roads.

Melissa recently attended the American Copy Editors Society conference in Chicago and has returned with some great material for writing for, and about, people with disabilities.

This includes some conscious language material, as well as techniques for writing to help people with disabilities access and understand online content. This will all form part of her workshop which includes writing without bias.

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The cost for the workshop will be R100 for members and R200 for non-members.

Bring pens and paper and if you’re staying on for the monthly meeting bring a light snack. The Writers 2000 monthly meeting will begin after the workshop at 1.30pm for 2pm.

The cost for the meeting will be R20 which also includes refreshments.

Arja Salafranca will be the speaker at the meeting. Arja has published three collections of poetry, A Life Stripped of Illusions, which received the Sanlam Award for poetry, The Fire in which we Burn and Beyond Touch which was a co-winner of the SALA Awards.

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Her fiction has been published online, in anthologies and journals and is collected in her debut collection, The Thin Line, longlisted for the Wole Soyinka Award.

She has participated in a number of writers conferences, edited two anthologies and has received awards for her poetry and fiction. Her next book is a collection of creative non-fiction essays, travel writing, personal essays and journal entries, to be published by Modjaji in 2019.

For more information about this event or W2000 contact chairperson Michael Cordes on 073 637 6105 or email agripres@mweb.co.za; membership co-ordinator, Antoinette Reis on 072 731 0855 or email mantoinette@discoverymail.co.za

You can also contact secretary Meggan Preuss on 079 508 3716 or email megganpreuss@gmail.com