A brief Bio

• Winner of the My Favourite Place competition for a travel article "A Breath of Fresh Eyre" in the caravanning magazine The Nomad.
  April 2010.
   
• Runner up  - "The Last Letter Home". A science fiction piece written by a female alien trapped and dying on earth. Society of Women Writers Victoria, Christmas Competition 2008. Short Story section.

The first story she ever wrote "Black Lily" was published in Woman's Day in 1965.

She knew long before she herself went to school, that she wanted to be a teacher and that's what she became. She has taught primary school, secondary school and adults.

• First Prize - "The Ghost of Coryule" (the story of Anne Drysdale and Caroline Newcomb who settled on the Bellarine Peninsula). Geelong Advertiser Short Short Story Weekly competition. 23 August 2008.

She is a passionate traveller within Australia and overseas. She travels regularly in her little caravan which she has named "Matilda's Tardis". And visits many other countries as often as she can.

She has lived in Germany, Britain and Canada. She currently lives in Melton to be near her daughter and grandchildren.

• First Prize - "The Cat that Sailed with Matt", (the story of Matthew Flinders' cat, Trim), Society of Women Writers Victoria Bienniel Literary Awards, Non-fiction section,  2007
  
  
• First Prize- "The War on Words", a fictional debate on freedom of speech between Eve and Ares, God of War. Joyce Parkes Women Writers' Award, Australian Irish Heritage Association, 2006
  
  
• Third Prize-Article: "I heard every Word", an article on learning styles, Society of Women Writers, Victorian Branch, 1999.
  
  
• First Prize-- Article: "Fair Bound for Hell", an article on the wreck of the Batavia. Society of Women Writers, Victorian Branch, 1993
  

She is now retired from full time work and focussing on her writing.

She continues to write short stories, essays and articles on subjects that involve her passion for travel, history, fairness and science fiction!

She has recently published the book that she has taken fifteen years to research and complete. (Life did get in the way occasionally.) The story of Joan of Arc: Ride the Wind. Choose the Fire.

• "Bringing Art to Anglesea", the story of Jan Dick and the Anglesea Art House. Network, September 2007
  
  
• "Freedom of Speech: Gain or Grief", Climb the Mountain, Poetry and Prose from the Society of Women Writers Victoria Inc. FreeXpression, 2006
  
• "A Possessive Obsession", Free Expression, July 2002.
  
• "Geraldton's Angry Ghosts", The Australian Way, accepted for publication in March 2000.
  
• "VRD Re-visited", Network, Office of Rural Affairs, Melbourne, 1998.
  
• "Oh for a Better Memory", Single Life, March 1996.
  
• "Racing Buffalo in Bali", Single Life, April 1994.
  
• "Bringem Little Fella", Single Life, March 1994.
  
• "A Top Class Winery: Scotchmans Hill", Dining Out, Geelong and Surf Coast. 1993.
  
• "The Wreck of the Batavia", Traveleisure, accepted for publication 1989.
  
• "Practice Makes Perfect", Ms Muffet, Teachers' Federation of Victoria, Melbourne, December 1989.
  
• "A Fair Go For Girls", The Age, Melbourne, 10 March 1989.
  
• "Men Overboard", The Age, Melbourne, 14 October 1988.
  
• "Julia Flynn - A Woman of our Kind", Ms Muffet, Teachers' Federation of Victoria, Melbourne, September 1987
  
• "Say it again Pam", ""Women in the Arts", "The Beginner's Guide to the Goddesses" and "Kuan Yin", "Language - the Case of the Missing Gender", Women Studies Journals, Vols. 2-5, Women's Studies Centre, Melbourne, 1985

"Black Lily", a short story. Woman's Day, December 1964.

• Water Falling, (A children's picture book) Mimosa Publications, Melbourne, (distributed by Rigby in the USA and Ginn Publishing in Canada), 1993.
  
• Read and Do Kangaroo, A Child's reading and puzzle book for Year 2, William Brooks, Brisbane, 1972. (Co-authored with A. Canterbury)

• Learn How to Learn, self-published, 2000.
• A Fair Go for All Ministry of Education, Victoria, 1990. Compiled and written in co-operation with Andrea Allard and Barbara Matthews.
• Primary Strategies, Ministry of Education, Victoria 1988 Written and compiled as part of a team of women within the Ministry of Education.
• Reading Program and Phonic Cards, William Brooks, Brisbane, 1971. (Co-authored with A. Canterbury)
• New Directions in Social Studies, William Brooks, Brisbane, 1973. (Co-authored with A. Canterbury)
  

• "Does Jill Come Tumbling After", commissioned as the lead article, Unicorn, Vol. 13, No. 3, Australian College of Education, Melbourne, 1987
• Education for Girls, co-authored with Kay Bodna. Commissioned by the Australian Education Council and published through the Department of Education, Victoria. 1985
• Women in the Education Department of Victoria, Education Department of Victoria, 1984. Researched and written by Veronica Schwarz.

• Editor and publisher of The Dawn, an alternative magazine for women (named after the first Australian Journal for women published by Louisa Lawson). Veronica founded, edited, published and distributed the magazine worldwide from 1993 to 2003.
  
• The Port Report, a community newspaper published by the Portarlington Development Association. Veronica was both a writer and editor of the paper from 1993 to 1995.
  
• Mosaic, an anthology of Student Writing, Gordon College of TAFE, Geelong, 2001. Veronica tutored the class of TAFE students in editing and small press publishing and guided the production of this publication.

• Women's Studies Journal, a set of four journals covering a range of topics including Women and the Arts, Women and Peace, Women and Religion, and Women's Studies. Veronica was a member of the editorial team and a contributing writer.
  
• Veronica has also produced several newsletters over many years for organisations she belongs to including The Society of Women Writers Victoria, Geelong Writers and Geelong Evening VIEW Club.

They will deal with the current state of our society and the sexism that still exists in attitudes and behaviours despite the changing of laws. 

I am particularly concerned at the lack of feminist analysis of many of society's problems and the apparent unawareness of the basic sexism and gender rigidity inherent in much of it including male violence.

Most people will tell you that feminism has failed or that feminism isn't needed any more because it has achieved its goals or some will even maintain that feminism has gone too far!!

It all sounds very serious and deadly dull. I hope that I can write it in such a way that it will be both entertaining and a wake up call.

The next project is a memory manual to help people improve their memories.

• A book of inspiring quotations illustrated with my watercolours.
• A book on taking charge of your life through some simple techniques
• Good Grammar in Twenty-Four Hours
• A book based on wisdom I've received over the years in my morning pages journal
• Books on historic people such as Deborah (from the Bible), Ernest Giles, Louise Michele
• Research and articles on a variety of subjects including Borderline Personality Disorder, historic figures in Australia,
• And maybe a book of Memoirs called The Tip of a Lifetime.
• Travel in Australia - a series of books on various parts of Australia combining current and historical observations,- a trip through both time and space.