Desley Polmear

Desley Polmear

Desley was born in Brisbane, QLD. Growing up she always had an interest in writing and her teachers reported that she had a great imagination. She contributed to a local magazine on the Sunshine Coast, QLD and produced an inspirational verse book in the 1990s. She ran seminars in ‘mind, body and spirit’ on the Sunshine Coast and Brisbane.

Desley became involved in a writing group when she moved to South West Rocks, NSW in 2008 and began writing seriously. She published in anthologies in the mid-north coast area and then wrote her first trilogy. In 2014, her second book of the trilogy, ‘Just before Midnight’ had a review in the New York Times. She followed that up by writing about her life, titled, ‘My Early Years.’ She ran a successful workshop at Grassroots Port Macquarie, 2017.

Desley writes daily and is working on her next novel. She is a high-energy person whose interests cover the arts, musicals, writing and travel. She has fond memories of being in the production of many musicals, but the highlight was to be in the production of ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and ‘Les Miserables.’ For over eight years, she has been singing with ‘Sing Australia.’ She believes singing is good for the soul.

Keeping the Mystery in your Writing

Facilitator: Desley Polmear

Here’s a chance to create characters, a murder, a setting, and a motive. This will be a fun session with mystery writer, Desley Polmear, and everyone will leave with a short story.

Imagination begins with the writer, and finishes with the reader. 

In every story there is conflict, climax and a resolution. You will explore these in your stories and show that we each have our writing style: our word choice, tone, syntax and voice.