Island workshop organisers judged to have the 'write stuff'
Published on 09 November, 2011
Organisers of a writers' workshop on North Keppel Island, Dr Liz Huf and Dr Lynda Hawryluk have won this year's CQUniversity Opal Award for Engaged Service. Their 'Idiom 23 Writer's Workshop' helps create material for the annual Idiom 23 magazine, which is due to be launched again this week, on Friday.
LINK to 'Idiom 23' turns 21, launch planned Friday for Uni literary magazine's latest edition
Liz Huf and Lynda Hawryluk on North Keppel Island
The workshop is a creative and cultural event which brings together local, interstate and international writers of all levels to share writing experiences and ideas annually.
Founded by Dr Liz Huf in the late 1990s, this workshop has since grown in popularity and respect. Dr Lynda Hawryluk now co-ordinates the workshop, program, travel and visiting writers under the guidance and support of Liz.
The activity has provided Lynda with valuable teaching experience, workshop coordination skills and grant writing and research outcomes experience.
This year, ‘A Weekend of Words' took place in May on North Keppel Island. Attendees of the writing workshops found encouragement and inspiration from staff and visiting writers. Many have chosen to continue their education and have since enrolled in undergraduate creative writing subjects at CQUniversity.
Other finalists in the category of Engaged Service included:
- Sea Dream Gladstone Festival of Creative Writers - Andrew Wallace and Helen Holden;
- International Engineering & Technology Education Conference (IERTEC'11) - Dr Arun Patil, Dr Patrick Keleher, Dr Amanullah Maung Than Oo, Assoc Professor Mushtak Al-Atabi, Assoc Professor Marlia Puteh and Professor Sid Nair; and
- Teachers Being Childwise led by Dr Rose-Marie Thrupp with the help of graduate students Dane Stevenson, Sarah-Jayne Watson and Tony Fraser.
LINK for more CQUni staff awards