Updates from Booranga Cottage

The writers’ flat at Booranga will continue to be well utilised for the remainder of the year even though our Writer-in-Residence program for 2017 is complete. 

Over the coming months the flat will be utilised by several visiting writers including PhD candidate Monique Shephard while she attends a writing retreat at NW&GIC on Wagga Campus of CSU. 

Zohab Khan will again be in residence in the lead-up to Wagga’s multicultural festival Fusion17. His residency is part of a joint project between Wagga Wagga City Council, The Red Room Company and Multicultural Council of Wagga Wagga which will see Zohab conduct school workshops and mentor a local young poet. This will culminate in performances at Fusion17 festival on Saturday 21 October at the Victory Memorial Gardens in Wagga Wagga.

Arriving mid-November will be poet Ivy Alvarez who has been a previous writer-in-residence at Booranga. While in residence Ivy will officially launch fourW twenty-eight on Saturday 18 November at the Wagga Wagga City Library. 

Charles Sturt University Facilities Management team recently visited Booranga Writers' Centre and carried out a review of the emergency procedures and equipment at the cottage. The staff were taken through and emergency evacuation drill and, as a result of the review, there are now updated diagrams in all the zones of the building showing exit points and assembly area to be used in case of an emergency. Next time you are at the Centre please take note of these diagrams which are located inside the entrance to each zone of the building.

 Ongoing maintenance has also been carried out by the Maintenance Division of CSU which included the repair and replacement of rotted timber on the front verandah and the cleaning of the gutters on the building to remove build-up of leaf litter. 

 We acknowledge the ongoing in-kind support given by Charles Sturt University which allows us to continue to run our annual program for the benefit of the local community.