Amra Pajalic

Yesterday’s workshop was a bit scattered. I had to organise three students who missed last week. Thankfully everyone has settled on an idea and did some writing. I collected their email addresses and set a deadline to have them email me either a complete draft or some writing.

I got in contact with David Williams who was the Project Manager for 1000 Pencils and he indicated that the students he worked with needed a lot of one on one time to develop their stories and then later to revise. So I’m going to give them an extra week after the deadline and then slowly start nudging. I’m planning on revising their stories on the computer and then booking them all for individual meetings, or maybe small group meetings, in order to give them support and really develop the stories. I’ll also be returning to the school the first four weeks of Term 4 to give the last workshop group support and help edit the anthology.

In other news I’m a busy bee cordinating the What a Muslim Woman Looks Like project. I need to write a media release for a Iftar dinner our group is hosting to celebrate Ramadan, requested a quote from a photographer that is going to work with us on photographing women for the project, put in a funding application with the help of Michelle at Brimbank Council. Now I need to focus on writing the profiles. One is down and another three to go. There is also one more woman to be interviewed, but we seem to be crossing wires when it comes to availability.