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It’s that time of the year when we’re thinking about Footy Almanac memberships for 2025.
It’s also Christmas time.
We’d love you to renew your own membership, and while you’re doing that, why not make someone close to you a member of the Footy Almanac community by sending them…
A 2025 Footy Almanac gift membership for Christmas.
Our new member will be welcomed into the Footy Almanac community and receive:
one of our books (they choose, either an edition of The Footy Almanac, or a book by one of our many writers),
our e-newsletters,
guaranteed places at all of our events
and, if they would like to write for our welcoming audience, our editors will work with them to develop and publish their contributions.
Happy Christmas,
The Crew at The Footy Almanac
Read John Harms’s recent contributions, including the first two installments in series on the fiftieth anniversary of the 1974-75 Ashes Series HERE.
Our Grand Final Eve Lunch 2024 at the Royal Melbourne Hotel in Melbourne, a highlight of the year.
Over the years, The Footy Almanac, which kicked off by publishing a book, an anthology of footy writing, in 2007, has become very much like a club. Not a formal club. Just a collective of people who enjoy each other’s writing and art and photography and poetry and music writing and memoir which we publish here at www.footyalmanac.com.au.
Our audience is very much part of that club.
We have a lively website.
We hold events, often with a special guest, which gives us an excuse to get together to enjoy meandering afternoons of food and wine, good company and conversation.
Members pay an annual subscription which is far more important than you might realise. It’s how we cover some of our main costs – especially payment of our reliable editors: Colin Ritchie, Ian Hauser, Jarrod Landells, Smokie Dawson and Bridget Schwerdt. It’s also how we cover some administrative costs (including security).
We’d love you to join in.
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Many of our contributors and readers like to comment on the pieces which makes for some interesting conversations, and some ridiculous ones too. The array of voices is always welcome and always heard, and the community is welcoming, respectful and encouraging.
Many young writers have published with us while they’ve studied, or in the early stages of their work lives – no matter where their work lives have taken them. Other contributors have been central to the life of the Almanac since the website was started in 2009.
Many friendships have developed. The depth of those friendships has been illustrated at the time of great joy, like the launch of an Almanac writer’s book, and in times of loss, like the passing of members Rowdy Adam, Bob Speechley and, just this week, Gary Merrington.
We have a tradition of holding events, mainly in Melbourne, but also around Australia – and, in 2025 we hope to have a calendar which includes events in Sydney, Canberra, and the Barossa Valley, as well as Melbourne and Geelong.
We are a place where friends bring friends, knowing they will enjoy our lunches and launches and other events.
Our Grand Final Eve Lunch captures that beautifully.
We have some expenses, especially to keep the website going. James Demetrie at Diskman is our major sponsor and, for over a decade, he has been our host, our IT man, our website developer. His ongoing contribution has been enormous.
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