BOORANGA NEWS
NEWSLETTER FOR BOORANGA WRITERS’ CENTRE OF
WAGGA WAGGA WRITERS WRITERS INC.
MAY - JUNE 2009
EDITOR: DEREK MOTION
Booranga Writer-in-Residence: Sarah
Holland-Batt
The Booranga Writers’ Centre welcomes to the region our second official writer-in-residence for the 2009, Sarah Holland-Batt.
Sarah is a Queensland poet whose poetry has been published widely in
Australian literary journals, magazines and newspapers. She is completing her Master of Philosophy in Creative Writing at the University
of Queensland where she also tutors in creative writing and poetics.
Sarah Holland-Batt’s first poetry collection Aria was winner of the
2007 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes
for an emerging Queensland writer. This book has also more recently
been shortlisted in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and is in
contention for the Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry (the award will be
announced on 18th May, shortly after Sarah’s Booranga residency).
Her work in this collection is described as follows: ‘The poems are awake to the dark constellations of
art and history, to what momentarily is, and to what flows endlessly on.’
Aria is published by University of Queensland Press and copies will be available for purchase at a
special reduced rate at all of Sarah’s official events.
Public Program:
Reading - Saturday 2nd May, 2-4pm, Albury City Library
Reading - Thursday 7th May, from 5-7pm, at the Wagga City Library.
Writing workshop - Saturday 9th May, 2-4pm, Museum of the Riverina’s Historic Council Chambers.
(Sarah will also be giving workshops in Narrandera, as well as speaking to creative writing students at
local schools and Charles Sturt University.)
Booranga Writers’ Centre (McKeown Drive) 2009 Office Hours:
Staff will be in every Monday (9am - 3.30pm), Tuesday (9 - 11.30am), Thursday (9 - 11.30am).
For enquiries (with a quick response) email us: [email protected]
Or alternatively email our director directly: [email protected]
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Returning guest: Alice Pung
To conclude Booranga’s
Harmony Grant Project we
are pleased to welcome Alice
Pung back to the region this
June. Alice will be here
specifically to talk with local
school children (and especially kids with non-Australian cultural backgrounds).
It is out belief that writing is
an extremely useful way of
negotiating the ever-present
concern of identity, and Alice
will be talking to many kids
about the way she has articulated an individual identity
that is part of both Australian
and non-Australian traditions.
2009 Calendar of
Booranga Events
1st - 12th May
Writer-in-Residence: Sarah
Holland-Batt
5th-7th June
Special Guest: Alice Pung
31st July - 1st August
‘Celebrating the Voice’ event
held in Wagga.
6th August
‘Celebrating the Voice’ event
held in Albury
The talks for children will
be given on Friday the 5th June and Sunday 7th (with venues and times to be announced) and we are grateful to the Riverina Community College for their help in
organising these events.
Of course while here we will be lucky to have Alice in attendance again for one of
our regular monthly writers’ meetings, this time scheduled for Saturday June 6th.
When Alice was last here in October 2008 this meeting was very well attended, and
all present got a lot out of it. Please email Booranga in the coming weeks if you
intend to come along.
23rd August
Special guest Writer: Anita
Heiss
9th - 23rd October
Writer-in-Residence: Rhyll
McMaster
November
Launches for fourW twenty
Public Program
Saturday 6th June - Monthly Writers’ Meeting featuring guest Alice Pung, 2-5pm,
at Booranga Writers Centre, McKeown Drive, Charles Sturt University, Wagga
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Recent events
Booranga Writer-in-residence: Scott Monk
Our first writer-in-residence for the year impressed many with his down to earth attitude and commitment to
applied hard work. Scott spoke about the craft of writing to many high-school students while he was here (giving particular attention to the way he researched his books) and also spoke to members at a public talk at the
Wagga City Library, and hosted a writing workshop at the Museum of the Riverina’s Historic Council Chambers Site.
A particular highlight for Scott (as well a for Booranga’s aims) was his visit to the Riverina Juvenile Justice
Centre, where he spoke to all the boys in the school, and also conducted a more intensive workshop for those
interested in writing. Scott informed me he felt most welcome in Wagga during his residency, and was able to
get 60 pages of a new manuscript written over the two weeks.
Booranga AGM
Thank you to all members who came out for Booranga’s Annual General Meeting earlier this month, especially
Professor Anthony Cahalan, whos presentation on typography had everyone wishing we didn’t have to leave.
While these annual meetings are necessary for our incorporated structure (and I’d like to welcome back the
same committee members who served us during 2008, as well as re-elected President David Gilbey) they are
also a great time to reflect on all that has been achieved in a single year. The following is a short excerpt from
my Director’s Report:
‘I often remind myself Booranga’s main function is to provide whatever it is (within reason) that writers or
literary audiences might want. And so, this might simply be a sense of community, a place to gather and socialise. It might be workshops, a focus on the development of writing skills. It might be an increased level of literacy in the wider community, which can in turn foster an atmosphere where artistic events are well received,
and a local community’s voices are heard. Writers’ desires might also include radical performances, events
that challenge the notion of what ‘literary’ means. Or, people might simply want to come and hear an author
talk about her work. Whatever it is, a regular program & strong community presence helps us provide it. This
is what we have achieved during 2008.’
Monthly Writers’ Meetings
Booranga’ monthly writers’ meeting are off and running again in 2009 and continue to be well attended and
well received. Our next meeting will be under the guidance of writer-in-residence Sarah Holland-Batt, and
will be held at the Historic Council Chamber site, Saturday 9th May, 2-4pm. The next meeting in June will
once again feature Alice Pung. Why not grab some new work and come along?
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Spoken Word / Performance Poetry Group ?!?
Booranga is in the process of organising a group of spoken
word and performance poetry enthusiasts. The aim of this
venture will be to get people together and get them sharing
their ideas, and concentrating specifically on honing performance skills. Any of you that saw the heat of the National
Poetry Slam in 2008 know what this particular branch of
poetry is about: the words of the poem are still vitally important, but other elements such as voice, gesture, delivery, and
memorisation become just as important.
We already have a handfull of people interested in meeting
and working together, so if you think this type of workshopping might be for you, please contact me directly
- [email protected] or 0449854901.
The initial phase of the project will be to simply arrange
regular groups performance poetry sessions, but a further
stage later in the year will involve more intensive weekend workshops with experienced poets and slammers from Canberra (where
there is currently a vibrant poetry slam scene developing).
Please get in touch soon if you want to join the group. We’ll be looking to start meetings in the next couple of months.
fourW twenty...
The dealine for submissions to fourW twenty is June 30th this year. The work is already starting to flow in, and there are now just 2
months left to hone those poems and short stories and have them considered for publication.
Send your submissions by email to [email protected]. And for more complete guidelines go to: http://www.csu.edu.au/faculty/arts/humss/booranga/submission-guidelines.html
The publication of fourW is once again made possible this year by support from the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,
Charles Sturt University.
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Booranga is proud to support the upcoming 10
minute play festival staged by local theatre comapny SOACT.
This festival will bring together plays written by
playwrights from our region as well as across the
nation (including a play by 2008 Booranga writerin-residence Nathan Curnow). The 10 minute play
format is an exciting new way to enjoy theatre,
and this festival will allow you to take in a variety
of work in one sitting. You will also be able to
witness the acting and directing talents of local
theatre enthusiasts.
As a part of this theatre venture SOACT will also
be offering local writers a chance to participate
in writing for theatre workshops with renowned
playwright Alex Broun later this year, during
September. More details will be available in the next Booranga News.
Ten x 10 will show at the Riverina Playhouse from 22nd - 24th May. For bookings or further information contact the Civic Theatre Booking Office on 02 69269688. (Below is a list of the plays, writers and directors to be showcased).
It’s Not Easy Being Me
by Mount Austin Drama Students Directed by Sue Hurst
Mates
by Kate Toon
Directed by Jessie Neumann
Actresses’ Dilemma
by Alex Broun
Directed by Tony Trench
A Really Useful Person
by Mike Jefferies
Directed by Travis Handcock
Just Another Universe
by Mick Radatti
Directed by Narada Edgar
In Two Minds
by MDDC Drama Students
Directed by Kate Dunn
Human Nature
by Dona Parish
Directed by Ashleigh Haynes-Holyoake
About Love and Words
by Nathan Curnow
Directed by Michael Mitchell
I Can Tell Your Handbag is Fake by Dean Lundquist
Directed by Fay Walters
Suspicious Minds
Directed by Dennis Blackett
by Dave Bulmer
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On the Craft… A Book Review by Kelly A. Shaw
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin
Ursula LeGuin is an American writer who has produced a tremendous amount of work over the course of her long career. LeGuin,
who is primarily known for her science fiction ‘Earthea’ series, has successfully written across multiple genres publishing poetry,
short stories, children’s literature and literary criticism. Her book Steering the Craft deals with the pragmatics of writing. It is not
the typical, detached advice book peppered with examples, but a real discussion of different aspects of writing coupled with challenging exercises designed to ‘steer the craft.’
There is an unspoken assumption in the writing community that because you are a part of it – however casually – there are things you
are just supposed to ‘know’, similar to the way people assume a Buddhist monk has always ‘known’ how to meditate. But unless you
re-read your exercise books from Year 8 English on a regular basis, there are probably plenty of things that you have (perhaps ashamedly) forgotten. Enter the ego conundrum: as a writer, who wants to actually admit that you still sometimes get confused about the
use of passive voice, for example? Isn’t that why there is in place an entire layer of the industry (in the form of editors and grammar
mavens) whose job it is to be consumed by such trifles?
Enter LeGuin. Unlike a lot of books on the craft of writing which deal primarily with the more nebulous aspects of writing such as
voice, LeGuin’s approach is a refreshing change. She tackles head on some of the more taboo subjects all writers may struggle with
but are reluctant to address, such as punctuation and verb tenses and how they can relate to things such as voice and subject matter. Although these are the more technical aspects of writing, LeGuin handles them with such lightness that the journey through this
workshop-based book is anything but boring.
In her introduction LeGuin explains that her book was conceived from a workshop of experienced writers that she participated in.
‘What I’ve done here is to turn that workshop into a self-guided set of discussion topics and exercises,’ (ix). The exercises she’s lovingly created – which LeGuin herself describes as ‘consciousness raisers,’ – will move any writer outside their comfort zone. ‘[The]
aim is to clarify and intensify your awareness of certain elements of prose writing and techniques and modes of storytelling,’ (xi).
LeGuin’s experience as a poet shines through from the first chapter, entitled ‘The Sound of Your Writing.’ While poetry’s sound
and rhythm has an entire lexicon attached to it, not so with prose. LeGuin admits ‘we think of poetry as getting to be gorgeous and
prose as having to be plain,’ (20). She challenges this assumption, encouraging writers to ‘play with the sounds of the sentences’
they write. To illustrate her point, she introduces well-chosen, colourful examples from Gertrude Stein and Rudyard Kipling before
presenting an exercise to experiment with in our own work.
The remainder of the book is carefully designed around LeGuin exploring one of these more technical aspects of the craft, beautifully
illustrating to us how the pros do it and then providing specific, detailed advice on how we can implement it. In a chapter exploring the relationship between verb tense and point of view, LeGuin argues that there are actually six points of view that writers can
employ as opposed to the usual three (first, third limited, third omniscient) that most of us learned, probably solely for purpose of our
HSC English exams. The examples and exercises she outlines in conjunction with this aspect of the craft are fresh and challenging.
It is primarily these exercises that make Steering the Craft an invaluable tool for writers. Although aimed at prose writers, it’s
infinitely useful whether you’re primarily a novelist, poet or memoirist. At LeGuin’s admission, this book is easily applicable for use
in an ongoing writer’s workshop. But if you’re navigating these waters alone, it is also a wonderful resource. If you’re a beginning
writer, you will finish this book with a bunch of new starts; if you’re a veteran, it will breathe life into your routine and may even
help cure any writer’s block. This book is a little gem, a break from the usual ‘advice’ books and packed with exercises to help any
writer.
Steering the Craft by Ursula K LeGuin is available for order at most bookstores or order online at Amazon.com.
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Olivia’s Choice
Sub-editor, Olivia Markham, handles all contributions to our members’ work section, now named: Olivia’s
Choice. (Send contributions of creative writing for Booranga News to [email protected] and place ‘Olivias Choice’ in the subject line). In every Booranga News Olivia will be giving you prompts for new writing,
as well as her feedback on your own submissions.
Distractions: Nightmare or Opportunity? by Olivia Markham
IT was a Saturday morning and Gary had put some time aside to write a story. But first, he needed a cup of coffee and a quick look at
the paper. Outside, he noticed Charlie on his knees running a magnifying glass over the lawn.
‘What’s going on?’
‘I’m looking for a distraction.’
‘What?’
‘Millie’s been nagging me all week to paint the spare bedroom. And I don’t want to do it!’
‘You know Charlie, either you do it or she’ll hire a professional.’
‘Pay someone else? No way!’
And Charlie was off. Nothing was going to stop him. He had a motive.
For the first time in weeks, Gary walked into his study with a purpose. He put out the Do Not Disturb sign. All things electronic,
family conversations, the paper and self-doubt had to wait in line.
‘There are five gears to a writer’s life,’ Gary began. ‘Writers need a motive to get into their car, the determination to explore a myriad
of streets and a vivid imagination to direct them through uncharted territory. To survive the journey writing has to satisfy their passion through the stormy rewrites. Regular work habits drive writers towards the finish line. But it’s the constant detours that distract
writers from getting started, staying on track and reaching their destination.’
‘The process of writing is like driving from Sydney to Melbourne,’ he wrote. ‘Distractions are the red lights, detours and traffic jams
that slow us down. That is why months later, I’m still stuck on a Sydney roundabout.’
E-mails, telephone calls and text messages constantly nagged at Gary urging him to respond as he pounded feverishly at the keyboard. Ignoring all things electronic, he drove his story through the noisy traffic of the Sydney suburbs. In his excitement Gary didn’t
see the truck of clichés and swerved, injuring his characters thrown from the haystack houses he constructed and into a dead-end
street.
‘What do I do now?’ he queried. ‘This story doesn’t make sense.’
Annoyed with himself, Gary mercilessly threw his self-doubt across the room breaking his concentration. With his focus gone, belligerent internal dialogue and the external interferences of a noisy, outside world argued for prominence. The phone in the hallway rang
hacking into his depleted attention span. The aroma of freshly, baked apple strudel wafted into his study luring him into the safety
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safety and warmth of his wife’s kitchen.
The back door slammed.
‘Hi Charlie, just in time for coffee and strudel.’ Sally said.
‘That’s it!’ Gary said, and closed the laptop.
In the kitchen, Gary saw Charlie hunched over an array of colour sheets strewn over the bench.
‘Lemon meringue, yellow mellow, zesty lemon! Who thinks of these names anyway? You’d think they were talking about food,
not paints.’
‘This is a lot harder than I thought. I should pay someone and be done with it.’ Charlie looked up to see a dishevelled Gary enter
the room.
‘Think of the satisfaction when you’re finished, Charlie.’
‘What if I botch it up?’
‘Start again. Eventually you’ll finish.’
‘Nah, I don’t have it in me.’
‘Do you know what Walt Disney once said?’ “Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done, and done
right.”1 ‘And that’s what I plan to do, Charlie,’ he said munching on the strudel.
‘Delicious.’ Gary hugged his wife.‘I’ve got to finish my story otherwise I’ll never make it to Melbourne.’
‘Huh?’ Charlie was puzzled.
As the weeks passed Gary applied first-aid to his story. He motivated his characters to get out of Sydney and onto the open road.
Once out on the highway Gary faced another distraction, boredom.
‘Distractions compete for our attention. They are either a nightmare that rob us of our freedom or an opportunity waiting for direction,’ Gary wrote, as yet another E-mail tormented him. ‘How do we manage the constant distractions? What are our choices?’
Distractions can be tamed and nurtured according to Melbourne University philosopher Damon Young. In Distraction: A Philosopher’s Guide to Being Free,Young draws on the lives of philosophers, writers and political thinkers from Plato to T.S. Eliot to John
Stuart Mill to find balance amid the confusion of choices that deprive us of our freedom.2
‘What’s required is a more ambitious relationship to our tools - one that promotes our liberty instead of weakening it.’ Young said.
‘ If we can’t escape technology, we can certainly enforce its limits, and our own. We can defer to the comforting noise of iPods, or
we can seek moments of quiet attention and reflection. We can accept the stress of 24-hour availability, or we can reclaim our own
rhythms. (I can answer the mobile phone, or savour Ithaca’s salt and cyclamen.).’ 3
For Gary, the temptation to detour from his story was constant: to answer the door, pick up the phone or respond to twitters especially when the terrain became difficult. Sometimes these detours were necessary prompting regular visits to his wife’s kitchen or
turning on the game.
He thought of Kate Grenville, the prize-winning novelist and author of The Writing Book, A Workbook for Fiction Writers, who
recommended that distractions could be salvaged and be put to good us:
‘…most of us are constantly distracted by other thoughts, worries, noises and sights. It may not be impossible to eliminate distractions, but it’s often possible to use them. Find a way to put the distraction, whatever it is, into your fiction, and write about it.’4
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Gary picked up the ball of distraction and kicked it into his story. He got into his fictitious car and headed for the home stretch.
“It doesn’t matter how or when you write, as long as you keep doing it,’ Grenville said, reminding him to persevere through the
frustrating rewrites as he neared the finish line.
Finally, the day came when Gary drove his story into Melbourne. It was like winning the Grand Prix.
He was both exhilarated and exhausted. With a sense of pride he closed his laptop, until next time.
‘Honey, I’m going out for a while. When I get back, we’re celebrating.’
Sally watched her husband leave the house and went into his study.
‘This story is dedicated to Sally, whose distractions of strudel continue to inspire me’.
‘Mmm.’ She smiled.
1 Anderson, Stevens W (ed.) 1992, Compact ClassicsTM, Your Personal Portable Library, Volume 1, Lan C. England, Utah, p.160.
2 Young, Damon 2008, Distraction: A Philosopher’s Guide to Being Free, Melbourne University Publishing, Melbourne.
3 ibid.
4 Grenville Kate 1991, The Writing Book, A Workbook for Fiction Writers, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, p. 4.
ibid.
Mawang
Continuing on from the success of 2007’s ‘From all four Corners’, Wagga Wagga City Council will be once again holding a biennial
Winter Cultural Festival. This year’s festivel - Mawang - will be focussed on Indigenous Culture.
Booranga is happy to be able to be involved in this artistically diverse program, and will be staging two events: the ‘Celebrating the
Voice’ performance evening and workshops (featuring Indigenous writers from the South Coast collaborating with local Indigenous
writers); and also a special one-off author talk from noted Wiradjuri author and academic Anita Heiss. Further details will follow in
the next newsletter, but I can confirm the dates for these events now:
‘Celebrating the Voice’: Performance Evening - 31st July, 5-7pm, Wagga City Library.
Creative writing workshops - 1st August, 9am-1pm & 2-5pm, Wagga Council
Meeting Room, Cost of $10 per place
Author Talk: Anita Heiss - 23rd August, 5pm onwards, Wagga City Library.
Write Around the Murray Festival
The Albury Write Around the Murray Festival is on again this year from 5th - 9th August. Booranga has been involved in this
festival for a number of years now, and this year we will be taking the South Coast Indigenous Writers Collective across to perform a
‘Celebrating the Voice’ event for the festival.
A final program for the festival will be inside the next Booranga News, or you can keep an eye on the website for the latest updates:
http://www.writearoundthemurray.org.au/
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PUBLISHING, COMPETITIONS and OPPORTUNITIES
Prose
The Great Australian Text Message
Billilla Artists in Residence Program
A Melbourne Writers Festival competition in search
for the Great Australian Text Message. No more than
100 characters (including spaces and punctuation).
Entries must be receive by 5 pm on April 30 and can
be sent to 0400 387 877 or emailed to louise@mwf.
com.au. Include your name and phone number. Best
text messages will receive books as prizes.
Bayside City Council is seeking artists and writers to apply
for a 12-month funded residency in one of three studios on the
grounds of Billilla Historic Mansion, Brighton, Victoria.
Contact Deanna on 0417 327 899 or visit www.bayside.vic.
gov.au/artiststudio for details.
Entries close: 30th April
Poetry
Writer’s Digest Self-Published Book Award
Writer’s Digest is now accepting entries for the 17th Annual
Self-Published Book Awards. More than $17 000 in prizes.
Register and pay online.
Bronze Swagman Bush Poetry Awards
Visit www.writersdigest.com/competitions for details.
Verse poem approximately 700 words, $15 fee per
entry form (entry forms can take up to 3 entries).
Society of Women Writers, Vic, Biennial Award
Contact [email protected] or visit http://
www.abpa.org.au/Bush_Poetry/Competitions/
Bronze_Swagman_Awards_2009.html for details.
Three categories: Poetry (max 50 lines); Short story (max 2500
words); Article (max 2000 words). First prize in each category
is $150, second $75.
Entry is $6 per entry or $16 for three. Mail entries to: The Receiving Officer, Tricia Vale, 51 Grant Dr, Benalla, Vic 3672.
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PUBLISHING, COMPETITIONS and OPPORTUNITIES
Bridport Prize
dential workshop, 5 places available. Work with Creative Direc-
One of the richest international ‘open’ prizes for a
poem or short-story.
tor Peter Bishop, who is looking for voices telling stories that
SHORT STORIES: 1st prize = £5000
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POEMS: 1st Prize = £5000
Mixture of time designated for writing and engaging with Blue
You can enter or buy an anthology online now at:
http://bridportprize.org.uk/
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may not always find a place in commercial publishing.
Oct 19-26: LongLines Community Writing Week:
Week-long residency, 5 places available, for writers of all genres.
Mountains writers.
Oct 26-31: The PlayLab LongLines Drama Workshop:
Six night residential workshop, 3 places available to work with
two highly experienced dramaturgs.
Closing date: 30th June 2009.
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Date TBC: LongLines New Australian Film Stories
Workshop: Six night residential workshop, 5 places available.
Pitch your novel or story idea plus your published work or 5000
words of projected work for the opportunity to work with Ink-toScreen.
Longlines / Litlink
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gram: Regular Varuna service available to all writers at $295 but
only $100 for 10 writers selected for the LongLines Program. The
The Varuna Writers House is currently seeking applications for
program offers writers the opportuniy to have their manuscript
the following workshops and residencies. Applicants must be
read by one member the Writer Conversation who will discuss it
residents of the less populous states (Western Australia, South
with at least one other member before having an hour long con-
Australia and Tasmania), the territories or in regional areas of
versation with you.
Queensland, NSW and Victoria. Some outerlying regions of
captial cities may apply.
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Oct 5-11: Australian Poetry Centre LongLines Work-
shop: Six night residential workshop, 4 places available. The
chosen poets will be published in the 2009 New Poets Program.
NB: deadline for this program is June 30.
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LongLines Non-Residential Writer Conversation Pro-
Oct 12-18: Different Voices Workshop: Six night resi
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BOORANGA WRITERS’ CENTRE
APPLICATION FOR 2009 MEMBERSHIP
Booranga (trading as Wagga Wagga Writers Writers Inc.) was formed in 1987 to assist and promote local authors and their
work. The group holds regular readings at local venues, conducts writing workshops, offers fellowships at Booranga, the Riverina Writers’ Centre at Charles Sturt University, and published an annual anthology, fourW, under the imprint of fourW press,
and is active in promoting writing and writers throughout the Riverina.
MEMBERSHIP PERIOD 1ST JANUARY
- 31ST DECEMBER 2009
ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP ($33) or CONCESSION ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP ($22)
6-MONTH MEMBERSHIP ($17)
GROUP MEMBERSHIPS ARE AVAILABLE
MEMBERSHIP ENTITLES YOU TO...
- Copy of fourW nineteen Anthology
- Regular newsletter (bi-monthly) & e-list mailouts
- 10% discount at Book City, Wagga
- 10% Discount at Angus & Robertson Bookworld,
Wagga
- 10% discount to RTC performances
- Member discounts to readings, performances & workshops
- Invitations to writing events & get-togethers
- Access to a network of writers, book enthusiaists &
other writers’ centres for information & friendship
- Use of Booranga Writers’ Centre resources, such as
library and computer
Note: Student Membership ($11) is now also available
for students under 21 years of age. Student members
will receive newsletters & discounted admission to
reading etc. but will not receive a complimentary copy
of fourW nineteen.
Please fill out and send application form to:
Wagga Wagga Writers Writers Inc. Booranga Writers’ Centre,
Charles Sturt University, Locked Bag 588, Wagga Wagga NSW 2678, Phone/Fax (02) 69332688
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