This year’s International Writers’ Week will have a special focus...
* FAIRY TALES, FABLES AND FANTASY
*Celebrating the Bicentenary of the Birth of Hans Christian Andersen (Born 2 April, 1805)

Message from the President of CPAW
"It is with the greatest of pleasure that I open this writer's week, and from the sandy shores of Central Florida in America , I await the myths and legends that will be created anew!" (view full text)
--- Gillian Sluti Eriksson, PH.D.

The original poem by Dr. Frances Hackney written for this year's "writer's week"
"An effigy in bronze he stands, his magic book within his hands,
creator of those fairy tales of which the freshness never fails..." (view full text)
In honour of the visit to Australia by Their Royal Highnesses, the Crown Prince and Crown Princess of Denmark
and the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of Hans Christian Andersen for the 2005 CPAW International Writers' Week.

Duration
Monday 7 March to Friday 18 March

Details
This program will be coordinated by a team of students from Queanbeyan High School in Australia, for the CPAW (Computer Pals Across the World) Global Educational Network.

It will
(a) showcase the writing of student and professional writers based on the theme of the project, while highlighting the works of Hans Christian Andersen;
(b) provide student writers with the opportunity to interview writers, face to face and online;

These activities will ensure a valuable program of international communication, sharing and learning.
A special website linked to the CPAW site will be completed after the event, to showcase the outcomes.

Invitation
How to Get Involved...

Any student or professional writer who would like to be involved is invited to contact the coordinating school at the following address:
IWW@mail.queanbeyan-h.schools.nsw.edu.au