Writers on Rafts

And the grand total is…

imogenjsmith — Mon, 30 May 2011 01:45:30 +0000

We’ve crunched the numbers and the official total raised by Writers on Rafts and the Ultimate Girly High Tea for disaster relief is $31,274.28. We smashed our target of $25,000 and it’s all thanks to you who participated, spread the word and donated. We just want to thank you again for your tremendous support!

Ultimate Girly High Tea photos on our Facebook page!

imogenjsmith — Wed, 11 May 2011 03:03:55 +0000

We’ve posted our Ultimate Girly High Tea photos on our Facebook page. Please drop by, leave a comment, and tell us what you think!

imogenjsmith — Tue, 03 May 2011 04:06:43 +0000

The Ultimate Girly High Tea was an enormous success! We couldn’t have done it without all the special people who supported us: all our special guests and ultimate girls of course, Bec Sparrow, partners Sofitel Brisbane and Westfield Chermside, the staff at QWC, and many, many others who donated their time and prizes to this special event.

Thanks to you, we’ve raised over our $25,000 target and we’re already fielding questions about running the event next year!

Stay tuned for photos and a final fundraising result.

Sold out!

imogenjsmith — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:54:28 +0000

All tickets are now completely sold out! We look forward to seeing all our ultimate girls (and some ultimate guys) at the high tea on Sunday!

Special ticket release 27 April, 10am!

imogenjsmith — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 23:34:49 +0000

Five Chances Left for Five Ultimate Girls!

QWC has found five individual tickets to The Ultimate Girly High Tea and we’re releasing them in a final free-for-all at 10am AEST on 27 April!
They’re going out to the first lucky five to visit our online shop.
They’ll be snapped up straight away so be ready!

Tickets sold out

imogenjsmith — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:06:41 +0000

The Ultimate Girly High Tea has sold out. Thanks to all who’ve supported us and we’re looking forward to a fabulous event.

We’ll let you know how our fundraising efforts go, and of course keep you posted about the high tea.

All proceeds go to the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal.

High Tea Tickets Sold Out (For Now)

writersonrafts — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 04:39:20 +0000

We have been overwhelmed with the fantastic response for the Ultimate Girly High Tea. Thanks to everyone who has booked.

Tickets to the event are now sold out, but if you have missed out, fear not! We are working hard behind the scenes to make more tickets available.

The final allocation of tickets will be available from this site on Monday 21st March.

Writers on rafts is now closed

imogenjsmith — Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:00:12 +0000

A huge thank you to all who entered, donated, and pledged prizes. Thank you also to The Oxygen Kiosk and Shopify for their generous donation of expertise in managing the website and ticket sales. This has been an enormous effort that has reached around the world and brought writers together to help people in need. We’re proud of you, our community, and what we’ve achieved together.

The winners will be posted here shortly after they have all been notified.

Together we raised almost $13,000 for the Queensland Premier’s Disaster Relief Appeal to support victims of the Queensland floods and tropical cyclone Yasi. These funds are to be immediately deposited to the Appeal and now we’re moving on to phase 2 of Writers on Rafts…

Tickets have just gone on sale for the Ultimate Girly High Tea, so don’t forget to purchase yours soon to avoid disappointment.

Hurry! Entries closing Friday 25 February!

imogenjsmith — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 02:45:20 +0000

Writers on Rafts has smashed through the $12,000 mark and just keeps going!
Entries close on Friday 25 February at 5pm so time is running short. We’re looking forward to seeing which prizes our lucky winners have selected and hearing about their experiences.

Look out for a big announcement about our huge fundraising event, The Ultimate Girly High Tea, which promises to be a whole lot of frilly fun for 200 lucky women at a fantastic location on 1 May. We’ll have more news in the next few days, so watch this site for our updates.

We’ve been overwhelmed with pledges of books and experiences from writers here and overseas, but sadly, with the deadline so close, we’re no longer able to accept donations. Thanks to all for your generosity and community spirit.

Enter Writers on Rafts to win

Simon Groth — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:00:11 +0000

Enter Writers on Rafts to win fabulous prizes donated by more than 150 Australian authors, including Kate Morton, Morris Gleitzman, Di Morrissey, Nick Earls, Tara Moss, Mem Fox, John Birmingham, Jessica Rudd, PM Newton and many more. You could win an author visit to your school or book club, or a manuscript assessment from a top literary
agent or publisher. You could be immortalised in print with a character named after you, or read your way through a stack of signed books.

Prizes are available in four categories. To enter, simply choose the categories you’d like to enter and follow the links to purchase a ticket.

Purchase as many tickets as you like, in as many categories as you want! If your entry is drawn as a winner, you can then select the prize you want.

Every ticket is one chance to win for a lucky person in every state and territory. (Want to know more about how it works? Click here)

Every dollar goes directly to the Queensland Premier’s Flood Relief Appeal to help victims of the Queensland floods.

QWC’s goal is to raise $20,000 through Writers On Rafts.