Meetings:
Book Links meetings are held online via ZOOM, generally the Monday evening before the monthly Write Links meetings.
Email the secretary@booklinks.org.au for dates if you are interested in getting involved.
Write Links meetings are generally held on the first Saturday of the month at the State Library of Qld and online. Venues and dates can vary.
The meeting structure is generally:
● 1:00 pm – Networking
● 2:00 pm – Topic of interest or professional development
● 3.00-5.00 – Critique groups
Workshop meetings are also scattered throughout the year and on those days sessions can begin earlier.
Sometime there is a fee to attend to cover presenter fees.
The next Write Links meeting will be Saturday 7 December 2024 at SLQ.
The next Book Links meeting will be via ZOOM on Monday 27 January 2025 – Book Links meeting 6pm via zoom. If you wish to join in, please email info@booklinks.org.au for a link.
The December Write Links meeting will be held at State Library of Qld, in Meeting room 1B on Saturday 7 December starting at 1:00pm. This will be a hybrid meeting.
- 1:00 pm Topic: Christmas gathering – bring food to share, books to swap or sell and your ideas for a fabulous Write Links 2025. The afternoon will include an entertaining short performance of a play written for children by J M Wisbey and acted out by Write Links members.
- 2:00 pm Write Links Networking and Collective Wisdom – drawing of the four raffles. Do you have a ticket? Buy them here. https://www.trybooking.com/CXEIU
- 3:00 -5:00 Critiquing
BOOK HERE FOR THE MEETING (Free)
The February Write Links meeting will be held at State Library of Qld in Meeting Room 1B on Saturday 1 February 2025
This will be a hybrid meeting so at the point of booking select ‘in person meeting’ or ‘zoom session’.
If you book for in person then find you can’t come, you can still join via ZOOM with the link sent in the confirmation email.
This is also a special workshop meeting, so we charge a fee to cover costs of the guest presenter. It will be $20 or for Book Links members $15. To get the discount, add in your members discount code at the point of payment. It was sent to you in the Trybooking confirmation email when you joined. Not a member? JOIN HERE FIRST to get your booking code.
If you only wish to attend the Networking and critiquing part, then select that ticket option and there will be no cost.
● 12:30 pm Workshop with Richard Yaxley – Character-based approach to writing
● 2:10 pm Write Links Networking
● 3.00-5.00 Critiquing in person only
Richard Yaxley – Love, Fear and All That Other Stuff
In this interactive session, Richard will share his character-based approach to writing and model this approach via one of his short stories (provided to participants beforehand):
- Part 1: where it all begins; defining story
- Part 2: character and the quadrant of understanding
- Part 3: the short story; modelled decision-making
- Part 4: review and questions
About Richard Yaxley
Richard Yaxley is a Brisbane-based author. His novels include This Is My Song (winner of the 2018 Prime Minister’s Literary Award; winner of the 2019 ACU Book of the Year Award), The Happiness Quest (2019 CBCA Notable), A New Kind Of Everything (2020), Harmony (2021), Leonardo Forever (2023) and Something Somewhere (2024).
Richard is also a past winner of the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award (Drink the Air, 2010 and in 2022, the inaugural QWC-Varuna Fellowship for Established Writers. He is a regular presenter of writing workshops and has been a judge for the Prime Minister’s Literary Awards and the Queensland Literary Awards.
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Upcoming Events:
Special dates to mark in your diary for 2025 are:
Book Links organised meetings and events Term 1
Monday 27 January – Book Links meeting 6pm via zoom
Saturday 1 February – Write Links 12:30 – 5:00 SLQ/Hybrid with Richard Yaxley (paid workshop) BOOK HERE
Monday 3 March – Book Links meeting 6pm – ZOOM
Saturday 8 March – Write Links 1:00 – 5:00 ZOOM only
Wednesday 19 March – Book Links Romancing the Stars at Brisbane Boys College from 6pm.
Monday 31 March – Book Links meeting 6pm – ZOOM
Friday 4 April – StoryArt Exhibition launch and up late event TBC
Saturday 5 April – Write Links 11:00 – 4:00 @Garden’s Café Mt Coot-tha (Write Links Birthday) Entries for the short story comp CLOSE.
5 – 13 April – StoryArt Exhibition at the Richard Randall Studio Mt Coot-tha Gardes.
Other key dates to note for 2025
Tuesday 11 March – Night of the Notables – CBCA Qld
Friday 9 May – Graphic Novels Panel event with James Foley, Brent Wilson and more @ SLQ Meeting Room 1B. Book Links.
Wednesday 14 May –Book Links Narelle Oliver Lecture – St Aidan’s Anglican Girls School with Sally Rippin and Lara Cain Gray. Winner of the short story competition announced.
17 -18 May – Book Links Writers Retreat – Woodlands of Marburg
9-10 October – Wordplay as part of Brisbane Writers Festival at The Brisbane Powerhouse
Friday 31 October – Future Libraries Conference (QSLA) Book Links at their Trade Fair.
15 -16 November – Book Links Illustrators Retreat – Woodlands of Marburg TBC
Are you or your family a Book Links member yet? Members receive generous discounts to events!
Join via Trybooking for 2024.
