Cirrus@Austlit

'Booranga Writers’ Centre was one of the first of a network of proposed regional writers’ centres in NSW linking e.g. Sydney, Byron Bay, Armidale, Newcastle, Wollongong, Dubbo & Broken Hill. Opened in 1993, Booranga’s distinctive 1896 cottage, on the Wagga Wagga campus of Charles Sturt University, with relative seclusion and close to wine, olives and infrastructure support was a perfect setting for writing (apart from the occasional possum …) Its restoration and make-over, financed by joint contributions of $50,000 from NSW Arts and CSU, created office space, a readings/workshop area and a separate writer’s flat as well as renovated amenities. For some thirty years, funded largely by Create NSW and its predecessors, Booranga has implemented a successful series of writers’ residencies (three or four a year); published an annual anthology of new writing, fourW; collaborated with local educational and arts groups (especially the English Teachers’ Association, the Wagga Wagga City Council and Art Gallery); and fostered the development of regional writers by monthly writing workshops and downtown readings venues.' (Introduction)