Mansfield Readers & Writers Purpose, Vision, Mission and Values

Our Vision

To foster, mentor and encourage a love of and appreciation of Australian literature.

Our Mission: To show the diversity of interests in the Victorian High Country—we love sports, horses and the outdoors, and are also deeply invested in the arts. In particular, we explore creativity as it relates to the written word, and how people read and write about the intersections between urban, regional and rural living.

Our purposes are to:

  • celebrate storytelling
  • encourage reading for learning and pleasure
  • present literary events that support all forms of literacy
  • support Australian authors, publishers and booksellers
  • open accessibility to literary events to regional readers and writers as well as bringing readers and writers from urban and other regional areas to the High Country
  • highlight the importance of representation of regional areas like the High Country in Australian literature
  • celebrate the Victorian High country as a locus of creativity and the arts.

Our Values: Include. Inspire. Create. Sustain.

Our Committee

We are proud to introduce our team, elected at a committee meeting 23 April, 2024, and re-elected at our AGM 24 October, 2024, who are all involved in the literary world, and love reading and writing.

President: Dani Netherclift
Dani has submitted her PhD, and her first book, Vessel: The Shape of Absent Bodies, a lyric essay, is out November 2024.

Vice President: Andrea Barton.
Andrea writes the Jade Riley Mysteries: The Godfather of Dance is out now and A Killer Among Friends is out December 2024.

Secretary: Belinda Crawford.
Belinda writes science fiction and fantasy and now has over 20 books in print.

Treasurer: Charlotte Lindsay.
Charlotte owns the delightful Ink Bookshop in the heart of Mansfield.

History

On 10 July 2022, Mansfield Readers and Writers became an incorporated association: Mansfield Readers and Writers Inc.

The first Mansfield Readers and Writers Festival was held in 2023, an enormous effort backed by the committee, volunteers, sponsors, authors, facilitators and attendees. Here is our tribute to all those involved: 2023 Festival thank you. We had a wonderful program presenting these authors.

Mansfield Readers and Writers has also run two short story competitions. The shortlisted stories were presented in anthologies:

  • Heart – our 2023 short story anthology
  • Soul – our 2024 short story anthology

Privacy Policy

Mansfield Readers and Writers Inc is committed to providing quality services to you and our privacy policy outlines our ongoing obligations to you in respect of how we manage your Personal Information.

Access and Inclusion

We are committed to ensuring that everyone can enjoy the programs we offer. We work hard to remove barriers and increase access to our events. Read more about access and inclusion.

Rules of the Association

Our rules are based on the Model Rules. Download a copy of the association’s rules.