Biff Ward, August Writer-in Residence
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| Biff Ward |
Memoirs were the focus of Booranga’s final writer-in-residence events as we hosted author Biff Ward at Booranga. Biff gave a reading at the Historic Council Chambers in Wagga Wagga on Thursday 24 August where she shared excepts from her award-winning memoir In My Mother’s Hands.
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| Maurice Corlett |
The evening commenced with local poet, Maurice Corlett, reading several of his
new works. Maurice said “It was a pleasure to be the opening reader to Biff
Ward’s Booranga Writers’ reading, and a joy to hear Biff read from her recent
work and share with us her history and inspiration.”
Biff
expressed her gratitude to Booranga for the rare opportunity to read to an
audience, as when attending literary festivals the format runs to a very brief
reading which is then followed by a panel discussion which doesn't allow for the luxury of an extended reading by the author.
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| Biff Ward and Maurice Corlett |
Participants were asked to think of a memoir project and to then
writer a ‘beginning’. This exercise was followed up with another which
challenged the writers to ‘delve deeper’ into their chosen project and resulted
in new directions being explored from the original intent of the writers.
Biff also conducted a workshop for a group of Year 12 Extension English students from The Riverina Anglican College who attended
Booranga Writers' Centre on Monday 29 August. Six
students and their teacher, Paul Chigwidden, spent several very productive hours with Biff as part of their HSC Life Writing studies.
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| David, Ingrid, Maurice, Biff and Pat |
Biff's residency rounded out Booranga's very successful residency program for 2017 and we look forward to continuing our program in 2018.
We
gratefully acknowledge the financial support received from Create NSW which
allows Booranga to continue to run the annual Writer-in-Residence program.
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