Location: Australia
Member Since:
Feb. 20, 2014
Frances Macaulay Forde
Biography
Frances is a screenwriter who has a diverse background as a poet, member of various community committees, children’s author, production and direction in both film and youth theatre stretching over 25 years. A past member of the Peer Assessment Panel for the Department of Culture and the Arts, a co-moderator of the AWG On-line Writers Group, judge for the WA Screen Awards, the AFI’s and the AWGIES. Frances hosted and organised Poets Corner @ Pages Cafe in the State Library, Perth for three years, between 2005 and 2008. Frances is a full member of the A.W.G. and the Australian Society of Authors, Australian Film Institute, Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators, as well as other writing associations in Australia and Ireland where she recently spent 14 months attending workshops and festivals.