General Editor

Abstract

The Writing Life Australia series seeks to address a significant gap in our regional literary landscape by providing a creative non-fiction forum for mature-aged Australians to find and develop their writing voice, and ultimately publish it for their peers and broader community. Centred around enabling community members and organisations to connect with their history and to have an opportunity to express their family or association stories in an enduring published form, each volume adds to a growing archival collection of regional storytelling unique to the Australian experience. It is a project which aims to carry immense cultural value, sustained by the commitment and enthusiasm of the editors, writers, friends and supporters behind the first volume, Black Water Prawning: Drag Netting in the Swan River. Volume one will be launched in September 2011. Writers and associations interested in participating in the next edition of Writing Life Australia do not require any special literary experience but simply the passion to have their story published