Penheads enter a new decade

Is there anybody out there?! Calling all Penheads! It's Ellise here...

Things have been quiet on the Penheads front as we agreed on a break over the Christmas and New Year period, but it's February already so I thought I would do a quick post to let you all know that the Wheeler Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas officially opens this month. Their calendar is now available online and I see that some events are selling out. If you haven't already, you may wish to peruse the calendar on their website: http://wheelercentre.com/calendar

I managed to get a ticket to the 'In Conversation with Jennifer Byrne: Helen Garner' event on Tuesday 16th February. Tickets are now sold out but let me know if you managed to get one too and I will keep my eyes peeled on the night.

Given it's the start of a new year, I also thought I would ask if anyone has any suggestions for Penheads this year? We had a chat at our end-of-year dinner about making it less structured so that we can try to weave our own projects into the sessions and reduce the amount of time it takes to prepare. I'm hoping Peta, Martina and Chris will refresh my memory on this discussion as my recollection of December is getting hazy!

I saw that some of the writing groups on the VWC website take turns to email (or hand out) some of their writing and spend the session "workshopping" it. Is that of interest? Our usual meeting time of 6pm every second Wednesday still works for me but how does everyone else feel about it? I wouldn't be too keen on going weekly, but meeting less frequently wouldn't be too bad if it meant we could get a regular group together. Look forward to hearing your thoughts and then meeting up sometime soon.