Book Review: This One is Ours
Kate O’Donnell tackles monumental issues in our society, O’Donnell builds her world on the smallest of details, allowing for the narrative to fall into the reader's hands like a puzzle.
Illawarra Multicultural Services Refugee Week Writing Competition 2023
Writers and and their friends and family gathered at the Wollongong Town Hall Music Lounge to celebrate the Refugee Week Writing competition on Saturday 23 June
April 2023 School Holiday Program
The South Coast Writers Centre is proud to share what the participants of the 'Just Write', have created this school holidays. The program was packed with writing workshops, hands-on creative activities and events targeted at 12-18-year-olds. Our young creatives had the opportunity to work with and be inspired by award-winning authors, talented writers, and other creatives at Ulladulla, Nowra and Sanctuary Point Libraries, Shoalhaven Regional Gallery, and Wollongong Library.
Watkin Street Residency 2023
Our 2023 Watkin Street Residency allowed us to provide one writer with the opportunity for a five-day writing residency in a studio in Newtown in March.
Emerging Writers Mentoring Program
We are thrilled to announce the writers selected to participate in our Autumn 2023 Program.
Book Review: How It Feels To Float
“Helena Fox is effortlessly ambitious with How it Feels to Float. She sweeps us into the world of Biz, an Australian teen whose thoughts fall haphazardly into readers' hands: shards so confused and hurried you can’t help but think they’re meaningless.
But as you read on, and Fox patiently waits for you to place the shards together: you find yourself standing in front of a stunning mosaic confused as to how you got there and yet sure that this is how things were supposed to come together.”
Just Write!
Throughout the recent summer school holidays, we connected with young people across the Shoalhaven through a series of creative workshops.
Workshops included How to Write a Book Review with Sandy Fussell, Screenwriting with Morna Seres, Poetry on Place with Nicole Smede, Untranslatable: Writing the Unwritten with Rhys Lorenc, Translating Yourself: Unique Ideas into Stories with Helena Fox, and Zine Art Collage with Angie Cass.
34-37 Degrees South
The event included the launch of the 34-37 Degrees South digital anthology produced by Poets In The City, as well as readings of new works by ten of the poets, hosted by Linda Godfrey with Peter Frankis.
Following this, residents from the 2022 SCWC / Wollongong Botanic Garden program—Karen Cummings, Rebekah Lambert and Katarina Mikac—discussed their creative works in progress and the experience of being a writer-in-resident with SCWC Director Sarah Nicholson.
Book Review: The Prison Healer
This book is the perfect introduction into the YA space for new readers, and a breathe of fresh air for the veterans who are growing tired of the genre's well worn tropes. Noni successfully breathes life into her more mature work, allowing for optimism, hope and love to carry the book through its darkest times and most difficult challenges.
True Storytelling Festival
‘I’m Not Making This Up’ brings truth to the forefront within a textual landscape that undervalues it. This festival celebrated the power of fact by highlighting some of the best and brightest talents in the non-fiction writing community today. By displaying their unique skills and distinctive voices to centre-stage, ‘I’m Not Making This Up’ reminded us that some of the most powerful stories are true.
