Dr Craig Munro visits Booranga

Booranga Writers' Centre recently received a visit from Dr Craig Munro, a long-time friend of Booranga President, David Gilbey. Dr Munro was travelling through Wagga Wagga with his wife, Bridget Griffen-Foley*, on their way to Adelaide and expressed and interest in seeing the Writers' Centre and meeting with us.


Craig is an award-winning biographer, and the founding chair of the Queensland Writers Centre and has been involved with the Canberra Writers' Centre.


As UQP's inaugural fiction editor, he worked with many emerging writers who have since become celebrated authors, and in 1985 he won the Barbara Ramsden Award for Editing.
His books include:
Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing (2015), Wild Man of Letters (on PR 'Inky' Stephenson), Paper Empires: A History of the book in Australia (2006).

Having been involved with writers centres in the past, Craig was able to share with us many valuable insights into the way other centres operate. We are most grateful for the donation of his book 

Under Cover: Adventures in the Art of Editing to Booranga and it will be a valuable resource to the Centre and it's members. 

Dr Munro meet with some Booranga committee members L to R tracie Miller, Craig Munro, David Gilbey, Maurice Corlettt.

*Bridget Griffen-Foley is an associate professor, an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow, and the director of the Center for Media History at Macquarie University. Widely recognised as Australia's leading media historian, she is the author of The House of Packer, Party Games, and Sir Frank Packer.