Grammar Gazette- Issue 1, 2000

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The The BGGS Seniorstudent\viners' first encounter \viniHeIen Garner was at the cockmil party held to welcome lier on Sunday 7 May. Her lively address on the subject ofwtiiing combined fukiales of encounters \vini editors \*ith the precarious Do ri s injure of tilelife of a writer. 11 soon

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begune apparent Inat the Gluming week of I HeIen Gamec one of Austinffa's for Postcards from Surfers. ' and the I snared tile Writers Camp was to be one of intense I mosth@hlyiega, dedcontempoiary Gold WalkleyAwaidforJoumalism I and hones I reflection and cream. Ity, and it I authors, was born in Gee/orig, in 7993

HeIen Gamer offered to each one of us a Ier'el of constructive reedback and criticism

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I Vidon6 andeducatedatMelboume of our work t\, litch helped 115 to set new I UruVersity She basalso worked as In 7995He/en Gamer wrote her first I sinndards and ideals for oar future wrtting I a h@h school teachec academic, book of nonfat^n, The First Stone, I On belulrof the oilier \witers. I\\. o1itdlike 110umalist, reviewer andsciipfwrtter which became an instantbestse//er I to nunk HeIen for girtding us on our quest andwonAustiafian Bookofthe Year I 10 find oar "voices" ill our \wining. dufuig I Over the years she has won (1996). She hasiecentlypubl^^hed I tilecaiiip. we\\Greprivileged towork\*1111 In umerous awards: the 7978 My Hard Heart, a powerful and I sucliareiio\vncd\witer. Thanksalsoto I National Book Council Award for I'm pressive collection of short I our advisor and gommeiclief; Airs Heren I Monkey Grip, ' the 7986 South fiction. Her screenplays include I Geraglity. andtolvfrs Robyn COINtu. whose marvellous organisational skills I Australian Premiers Festival Award The Last Days of Chez Nous and I enabled the Camp to be a great coccuss I for The ChildrenS Bach, ' the 7986 Two Friends I New South Wales Premiers Award L______________ J

Nineteen Sentor studentsjoi"ed HeIen amier on the week-long Camp aruieBGGS Memorial 0111doorEducaiioiiCenire at Innbil. TITe weanierwas glorious and conducive to boili outdoor acii\, ity and contemplatioiiottiie nattrraleii\ironmcni Many or ttie \\Titers took tile OPPorluiitty to relax winicanoeing andiakingin the scenery. on Lake Boniniba With reclJess abandon, we fuelv away. tile sometimes resincii\e academic gelires or I\filing for wrtiinginUiepurely creative style. Imagination became as important as a widevocabulan, and analviicalsldlls. We all worked hard at our wrttiiig and were impressed with the breadth of subject nuller and originality jilthe jests that were shared

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