Peewee Press Publications

Peewee Press is a small publishing business with an interest in oral histories and community publications. 

Sally-Anne Watson, the proprietor of On Time Typing and Peewee Press, is a member of the Fellowship of Australian Writers (Vic) Inc. and NT Writers' Centre (NT).

Writing, compiling and editing publications

  • writing reports of interviews, meetings, workshops and forums
  • editing, proofreading and formatting reports and submissions in appropriate style and format
  • researching, writing, compiling and editing publications
  • publishing: researching; planning; securing funds; coordinating authors, translators, editors, designers, photographers and proofreaders; coordinating printing; publicity; marketing and distribution; funds acquittal and report writing
  • providing training in writing and editing to publication stage
  • manuscript appraisals
  • editing of various authors' manuscripts
  • writing fiction, creative non-fiction and non-fiction.

Sole-authored publications

Sally-Anne Watson, the proprietor of On Time Typing and Peewee Press, has been writing all her life – short stories, travel journals and unpublished novels. Her first published work was a collection of creative non-fiction articles based on travels in East Timor in 1996.

Children of the Resistance, AFFET, 1996, under the pseudonyms 'Rebecca Winters and Brian Kelly'. ISBN 0_646_30388_0.        Role: research, writing, compiling and editing a collection of creative non-fiction articles based on Sally-Anne Watson's own experiences in East Timor.

The Caracol, 1995 [unpublished]. (Fictional novel, based on author's travels in Central America.)

 Children's Fiction: Flitter-Squeak, 2003; Ekka's Journey, 2000; The Mermaid's Tale, 1998.

Community Publications

Sally-Anne Watson, proprietor of On Time Typing and Peewee Press, has been recording her own and others' stories through her writing for many years. During her visit to Indonesian-occupied East Timor in 1996, she and her colleague Jude Conway commenced recording and transcribing East Timorese women's oral histories. During Sally-Anne's visits to East Timor over the following years, she compiled two publications of East Timorese women's testimonies and reports of the testimonies of other East Timorese people, then in 2005 – 2006 she transcribed and co-produced a small publication of Northern Territory women's oral presentations. She remains committed to assisting and being involved in producing community publications with a focus on the voices of minority groups.

Health and nutrition in Coleato Leotelo according to the people of Coleato Leotelo, 2001. Compiled and written by Sally-Anne Watson on behalf of the chief and people of Coleato Leotelo. Report comprising the analysis of locally collected data regarding the health and wellbeing of the population of Coleato Leotelo, Ermera district, Timor Leste.  Website publication by East Timor International Support Centre. Presented in hardcopy to World Food Organisation and World Health Organisation in Dili, Timor Leste, in 2001. 

Buibere: Lian Feto Timor Lorosa'e Nian, vol. 2, 2001. [In the Tetun language.] Compiled and produced by Sally-Anne Watson. Publisher: Fokupers (East Timor). ISBN 0_646_41719_3. Funded by USAID-OTI and Fokupers/Australian Volunteers International (16 month contract). Role: Publications Coordinator– researched, recorded and transcribed oral histories; coordinated 22 authors as well as translators, editors, designers, photographers, proofreaders and printer; edited and produced this first volume of oral histories to be produced in the Tetun language.

Buibere: Voice of East Timorese Women, vol. 1, 1999. [In the English language.] Compiled and produced by Sally-Anne Watson under the pseudonym 'Rebecca Winters'. Publisher: ETISC. ISBN 0_9577329_3_7. Funded by The HIVOS Foundation (Netherlands). Role: researched, recorded, wrote and coordinated the translation, editing, design, layout, printing and distribution of this volume of oral histories by 20 East Timorese women. Launched in August 1999, 2 weeks prior to East Timor's first referendum.

Sharing our Stories – Territory Women 2005 – 2006. YWCA Northern Territory Senior Women’s Seminar, 2006. Edited by Sally-Anne Watson and Susan Foster. Publisher: Peewee Press. ISBN 1-921216-00-X. Sponsored by the YWCA of Darwin Inc. Sally-Anne Watson transcribed, edited and compiled the oral presentations of seven women who presented at NT Women Sharing Their Stories event, and co-produced this publication with Susan Foster. Publication launched August 2006.

Works in Progress

Currently there are a number of works pending which will be publicised when they are again underway.


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Self Publishing

Are you a writer of poetry or prose, children or adult fiction, or non-fiction? Are you interested in publishing an anthology or a collection of people's oral histories? Are you interested in self-publishing? Do you want to know more? See our new Blog page in this website. Its aim is to inspire and help you to get your work published, and its focus is everything you need to know about self-publishing. 

 

 

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