Mansfield Readers & Writers Purpose, Vision, Mission and Values
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 to bring readers and writers from urban and other regional areas to the High Country
- Encourage 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 Vision:
To foster, mentor and encourage a love of and appreciation of Australian literature.
Our Mission: To show to diversity of interests in the Victorian High Country—we love sports and all things horsey and outdoorsy, and are also deeply invested in the arts, and about how people read and write about the intersections between urban, regional and rural living.
Our Values: Include. Inspire. Create. Sustain.
Our Committee
We are proud to introduce our team, elected at committee meeting 23 April, 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:
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.