In 2021 the Australian young writers who have been standing alone in operations for the past two years with Press Service International will not have the Kiwi and international young writers beside them.
What does this mean?
Nothing changes in the operations program. The coodinators and editor and photo selectors, the facebook and Christian media links all remain the same. None of that changes.
What does change is that the Kiwi young writers and International young writers will no longer be part of Press Service International – who are becoming independent, separate.
The 2021 Australian Brain’s Trust remains the same
Sam Gillespie
Rebecca Moore
Wes Tronson
Cartia Moore
Amy Mannmers
Russell Modlin the ad-hoc member as the young writers Board Member on Well-Being Australia.
New Australian young writers
New Australian young writers are directed to Dr Mark Tronson – this is the entry point, the gateway - from here the new young writer is directed into a particular week.
The current Australian young writers are placed in one of three weeks
Week 1 - young writers
Week 2 - young writers
Week 5 - Over 31s
We are always looking for more Australian young people 18-30 years who might like to write a column in Christian Today once every 5 weeks.
The program
The young writer program consists of 5 week Cycles - there are 10 cycles in the year - do the maths - 10 Cycles of 5 weeks each = 50 weeks
Week 1 - young writers
Week 2 - young writers
Week 3 - senior writers
Week 4 - senior writers
Week 4 - Overt 31s
Annual Awards
The current program of annual awards are being retained by the 2021 three separate young writer groups – Australia, New Zealand and the Internationals. There are ongoing procedures in place along with panellists, statisticians and awards.
Dr Mark Tronson is a Baptist minister (retired) who served as the Australian cricket team chaplain for 17 years (2000 ret) and established Life After Cricket in 2001. He was recognised by the Olympic Ministry Medal in 2009 presented by Carl Lewis Olympian of the Century. He mentors young writers and has written 24 books, and enjoys writing. He is married to Delma, with four adult children and grand-children. Dr Tronson writes a daily article for Christian Today Australia (since 2008) and in November 2016 established Christian Today New Zealand. Dr Mark Tronson’s Press Service International in 2019 was awarded the Australasian Religious Press Association’s premier award, The Gutenberg. In September 2020 Summer Moore presented her commission portrait of Dr Mark Tronson holding the Gutenberg plaque. The above photo is the upper part from this portrait.
Mark Tronson's archive of articles can be viewed at: http://www.pressserviceinternational.org/mark-tronson.html
