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Date(s)
- 1917-2006 (Creation)
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Collection
Extent and medium
17 boxes, 1 parcel.
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Administrative history
The Queensland Section of the Fellowship of Australian Writers had its genesis in the Queensland Authors and Artists' Association (QAAA), formed in Brisbane in 1921. Founding members included A.H. Davis (aka Steele Rudd), poet Constance Gittins and Dr Francis Cumbrae Stewart, later appointed Professor of Law at the University of Queensland. In 1928 Davis, Mary Gilmore, John le Gay Brereton and others met in Sydney to form a national body that would foster and promote Australian writing. The new group was launched as the Fellowship of Australian Writers and the QAAA became its Queensland branch, formally adopting the title Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland Section, in November 1958. Over the years the FAW(Q) attracted both established and aspiring writers and played a significant role in literary events such as the Warana Writers' Festival. It worked fraternally with other local organisations, most notably the Realist Writers' Group and the Brisbane Writers' Group which amalgamated with it in 1970. An affiliated writers' fellowship was formed in Redcliffe in February 1964.
Repository
Archival history
Collection previously titled as: Records, 1917-2006
Collection alternatively titled as: Fellowship of Australian Writers Queensland Section Collection.
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Scope and content
Minutes, reports, correspondence, financial and administrative records, newsletters and bulletins of the Fellowship of Australian Writers, Queensland Section (FAW(Q)), and some records of the Fellowship's Redcliffe branch and national and interstate bodies. Papers, typescripts, handwritten manuscripts, newspaper cuttings and personal ephemera of FAW(Q) founding member Constance Gittins. Copies of bulletins produced by the Realist Writers' Group Brisbane.
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Conditions of access and use area
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access, except access is restricted to some material in Boxes 10 and 17. Application for access to restricted material may be submitted to the Fryer Librarian for consideration.
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Language of material
- English
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Name access points
- Fellowship of Australian Writers. Queensland Section (Subject)
- Queensland Authors' and Artists' Association (Subject)
- Gittins, Constance (Subject)
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Status
Revised
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Dates of creation revision deletion
Revised, Linda Justo, 23-Apr-2020; Migrated from LMS: April 2019, P.A.