The healing power of story with Edwina Shaw

Edwina Shaw is a Queensland writer and editor of fiction, memoir and screenplays. Her first novel, Thrill Seekers, based on her brother’s battle with schizophrenia, was shortlisted for the 2012 NSW Premier’s Awards.

Since 2002, over forty of her short pieces have been awarded and widely published in Australian and international journals, including Best Australian Stories, Griffith Review, Island, Grieve anthologies and Asia Literary Review.

Edwina has run Relax and Write Retreats, affordable retreats for women and non-binary folk, since 2017, and is passionate about helping people heal through getting their stories onto the page.

She lives on unceded Ugarapul Country (Ipswich), west of Brisbane, in a 160-year-old stone cottage full of secrets. She writes because she can’t stop.

Connect with Edwina Shaw:

Website: https://edwinashaw.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAac9JJ-B-5T7wZrte32KHsf99CUlJp5fWB5MX_9CmmWjfJa2sdGm5xJ3hgLykg_aem_vGcUDgxS1QRW2Ct8qimwSQ

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edwina.jean.2025/

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