2020 Monthly Writers' Workshops

Monthly workshops

We invite writers of all abilities, genres and interests to join us with a piece of writing you are working on, to workshop, develop and share with fellow writers. Please bring multiple copies (6 - 8) of the work to share around the table for editing purposes. These will be returned to you at the end of the workshop.

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.

Booranga is a friendly environment to nurture your creative writing while enjoying the company of like-minded people of all ages and stages of their craft.

$5 for 2020 financial members
$10 for non-members

*When our visiting writers-in-residence conduct the workshop this will run in a different format with writing tasks being set by them for all participants.

Third Saturday of each month

21 March: Booranga, 2 - 4pm with Mark Rogers writer-in-residence

18 April:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm *cancelled

16 May:  'Water' Lockhart, * postponed

20 June:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm (held via Zoom)

18 July:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm with Adele Dumont writer-in-residence

22 August:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm

19 September:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm

17 October:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm

21 November:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm

19 December:  Booranga, 2 - 4pm

Water-Themed Writing Workshops

Facilitated by Riverina Water

Unleash your inner writer 

and plunge into the world of “water”

As part of the 2020 Community and Art Grant from Riverina Water, this series of four writing workshops aims to imaginatively explore water, in all its forms.

Departing from Booranga Writers’ Centre’s usual writing workshop focus, these workshops will be providing some exercises and suggestions to use to stimulate new prose, real-life commentaries, or poems.

Some ideas might be: water as tears being shed for many reasons, cleansing, both physically and spiritually; used to put out bushfires; the ocean; icebergs.

In addition, participants will be encouraged to develop writing concerned with the effects of the drought in this region, whether it be low water levels in dams, rivers or lakes, insufficient water to sustain crops and livestock, and the mental anguish that can arise from living in a rural area with limited water.

Dates for these water-themed writing workshops are:

Saturday February 15th at Booranga Writers’ Centre from 2 to 4 pm.

Tuesday March 10th at Word Play @ Mock Orange from 2 to 3 pm.

Tuesday May 12th at Word Play @ Mock Orange from 2 to 3 pm.

Saturday November 14th at Supper Room, Lockhart Memorial Hall, Lockhart, from 2 to 4 pm.

RSVP 11 November to Claire 0439 452297 or Kathryn at director@booranga.com

Submissions for consideration to be included in this year’s fourW thirty-one: Water of any new work will be encouraged.

Booranga Writers’ Centre gratefully acknowledges Riverina Water.

Facilitated by Riverina Water