Riverina Water Community Grants: Arts and Culture

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Riverina Water Community Grants: Arts and Culture

2020 to be a Year of Water

Booranga Writers’ Centre is pleased to announce the success of our community grant application to Riverina Water for 2020. This application was made under the Culture and Art category and will fund the design and publication of fourW thirty-one, which will be water-themed.

It will also allow for a writing workshop to be held in Lockhart, which is part of the area serviced by Riverina Water, as well as three writing workshops to be held at Booranga Writers’ Centre sometime between February and June 2020.

Residents within the Riverina Water supply area will be encouraged to imaginatively explore the idea of water, in all its forms, through their writing of prose and poetry. The workshops will be led by either a writer-in-residence or one of the experienced members of Booranga Writers’ Centre. Participants will be encouraged to submit their writings to Booranga Writers’ Centre by 30th June 2020 for inclusion in fourW thirty-one New Writing anthology. This will be published and launched in late November or early December 2020.

By providing workshops we hope to encourage a growth in writing skills and confidence of a writer's own voice will be encouraged. It is hoped that this project will develop and nurture creative writing and provide an opportunity for participants to have their work accessed on a local, national and international platform.

We hope a greater awareness of the issues faced within this community and those further afield will occur through the publication of the 'Water' themed anthology. Submissions for fourW thirty-one will be drawn from a wider pool of national and international writers, and this allows for a dialogue to celebrate the delights, pleasures, and memories of experiencing water as well as develop empathy and understanding between individuals experiencing what can sometimes be the mental anguish of living in a rural area with limited access to one of life's necessities - water.

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