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Next meeting is Thursday 23rd May  2024 from 5.30 - 7.30 pm. Please arrive in time for a 5.30 pm start.

Cost: $10 includes a hot beverage.

Please join the Gold Coast Writers Association to attend.   https://goldcoastwriters.org/about/memberships/

The Gold Coast Writers Association Critique group aims to help its members improve the readability of their work. Giving and receiving feedback on our work can be scary so we will have a strict ‘Constructive Feedback Only’ rule.

After a short introduction, we will take a piece to read and provide written feedback. The final 30 minutes will be an opportunity for each person to give and receive feedback to each person in the group. We may break into two groups depending on numbers.

Learn to give and receive feedback to improve your work in a friendly, positive space. Each writer will bring the following:

1.      An open and caring attitude. All feedback should be constructive and informed. The rules of engagement will be posted in the Facebook group and at each meeting.

2.      At least one copy of ONE PIECE of written work for critique, up to 1000 words, printed on one side and stapled. Use 3cm margins, double spacing, an easily readable font, indent/new line for each line of dialogue and the working title and genre in the header. Ensure you have edited and proofread the piece to the best of your ability.

3.      A cover page stapled to the front with the following information.

·         Genre

·   Format (a short story or excerpt from a larger piece of work i.e. longer story, novella, novel.)

·         Three or four points you would like the critique group to focus on when critiquing your piece. i.e. Character development/arc, dialogue, story arc, setting and world building, genre-specific beats, conflict. Be as specific as you like or leave it up to the reader. Please provide the feedback requested unless directed to critique the entire piece.

‘Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.’–Winston Churchill