TROPICAL
WRITERS
LAUNCH
latest anthology
Tropical Writers are inviting people who love reading to a
free public launch of their latest anthology at the Cairns City
Library meeting room on Saturday, 3 February at 11.00am.
Titled Free Fall and featuring fifty works by northern writers,
this is the seventh anthology produced since Tropical Writers
formed as an association to support local writers in 2004.
In the foreword to the collection, Adjunct Professor and
Patron of Tropical Writers, Stephen Torre, writes: “Many of
the greatest works of literature have been shaped by the
emotive and imaginative power of place . . . these regional
writings in turn have an influence in shaping the emotional
and intellectual perceptions of tropical communities and
those who visit them.”
The anthology entries are as diverse as the tropical
environment itself, a mix of styles and subjects in realism,
autobiography and memoir, science fiction and fantasy,
mystery, thriller and poetry.
“ It would be difficult to find a collection of recent writing so
charged with appeal, or so abounding with literary and stylistic
inventiveness,” says Stephen Torre, “with the added bonus, of
those of us who live in the tropics, of fascinating glimpses
here and there of our own world and our own culture.”
Tropical Writers are also the hosts of the biennial Cairns
Tropical Writers Festival, next due on 17-19 August 2018. An
exciting program of local and visiting writers and publishers
is currently being crafted. Mark calendars now.
Monthly meetings to support the craft of writing, and other
public events throughout the year, are signs of a growing
membership for Tropical Writers. Membership is open at
http://www.tropicalwriters.com.au/
One such event is the Stories of Saga Land and the Vikings
lunch in Cairns, with visiting author Kári Gíslason, on Friday
16 February 2018 at the Shangri-La Hotel on the waterfront.
This will be followed by a weekend writers retreat with Kári
on the Tablelands. More information and online bookings
are on Eventbrite.
Free Fall, the anthology by Tropical
Writers sponsored by the Cairns RSL
Community Benefit Fund, is available at
the launch, or at Collins Booksellers in
Smithfield All enquiries: 0437 366 651
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The anthology launch on Saturday 3 February will feature
readings by some of the local authors, followed by
refreshments. All welcome to this free event.
More information and online bookings are on Eventbrite:
https://goo.gl/JD1ovL