Writing from a distance

Waimarino Bulletin, Volume 6, Issue 259, 18 October 1988, Page 6

Writing from a distance

An ex-Ohakune District High School teacher has started a writing correspondence school in Wellington. Judith Holloway, nee Bryers, and Fancis Cherry have set up "Write by Writing" with the aim of helping people develop their literary skills. They say the best way to do this is to write regularly and to a deadline. The course follows a series o f short story assignments worked through over ten to twelve months. Judith Bryers wrote to the Bulletin about the courses and included a brief outline of her time here. "I was brought up around Ohakune/Raetihi and my mother, Mrs O.M. Bryers still lives in Raetihi," she writes. "I went to school in both towns and as a very young teacher taught at the Ohakune District High School. I taught Primer 2. "One of my pupils was Andrew Dalton. I dine out on the fact that I was Andy Dalton's first r u g b y •••••••••••••

coach!" writes Mrs Holloway. Referring to her course, she says it is especially suited to isolated districts that don't have the range of night classes that a city has to offer. The "Write by Writing" address is P.O.Box 26-116, Newlands, Wellington.