We are excited to showcase our local authors with a rich collection of content for our community. This page will feature videos from various projects, providing access to poetry readings, discussions, and event highlights. We aim to create an engaging platform where visitors can explore and connect with our literary work and events.
Virginia Jane Rose is a script writer who moved to Wollongong 9 years ago. She found the Prisoners Writing Program where a friend told her about the South Coast Writers Centre. Virginia tells her story of her SCWC membership.
Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Writers Mentoring Program Leader Judi Morison speaks with mentee Tabatha Cann and mentor Rowena Lennox about their experience, and Tabatha reads from the writing she developed during the mentoring program.
Emerging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders Writers Mentoring Program Leader Judi Morison hosts mentor Dr Bambi Ward and Sharyn McDonogh in a discussion about the program, and Sharyn shares a reading of her work.
The SCWC has a strong Indigenous literary program dating back to 2000. In 2015, the program included ten workshops with Indigenous youth at Kanahooka High School which were held with the support of Wollongong City Council. As part of the Dreaming Inside project, up to four workshops for Indigenous inmates at Junee Correctional are scheduled, which are conducted by the SCWC team of Aboriginal writers – the Black Wallaby Writers.
Authors Julie Janson & Judi Morison In Conversation for the South Coast Writers Centre. Julie & Judi discuss Julie's latest novel Benevolence. Their conversation is warm, intelligent and humorous, and covers wide ranging literary topics including aboriginal history, identity, and erotic writing.
Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional Centre is an anthology of writing from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander inmates at Junee Correctional Centre.
