Name: Women of the Riverina - Submissions and Workshops
Start: 2024-08-31T13:00:00+10:00
Location: The Curious Rabbit

Women of the Riverina - Submissions and Workshops

Who are the women of the Riverina on Wiradjuri Country? What’s their story? Their hopes and dreams? Their past and future?
We are inviting all women and female-identifying writers to connect and create, workshop or submit short monologues (800 words) that unveil heartfelt narratives, probe our dramatic past and paint a vision for our collective future. The story must showcase the strengths of all the region’s women – First Nations, diverse, queer, rural, urban, young and old. We’re looking for stories that celebrate women’s survival and resilience.
Selected stories will form a powerful multi-arts theatrical production with projection and commissioned music toured by professional actors and musicians to KXT Broadway Theatre in November 2024, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery and Melbourne.
The region is broadly inclusive of all villages and towns in and around Albury, Wagga Wagga, Leeton, Griffith, Junee, Narrandera, Deniliquin, Hay, and Condobolin.
WHO IS LEADING THE PROJECT?
The project is led by a collaborative group of women with three strong years of partnership in the Riverina, managed by Voices of Women (VOW). The key group is Aunty Cheryl Penrith OAM, Curious Rabbit Director Vicki Burkinshaw and Voices of Women Artistic Director Lliane Clarke.
They are supported by Multicultural Council of Wagga Wagga, writer/performer and refugee advocate Haya Arzidin, Eastern Riverina Arts, Wagga Wagga Art Gallery, Eastern Riverina Arts, Oddball Theatre Director Saasha McMillan and First Nations Australia Writers Network. New relationships will also be built, while existing ones strengthened and we welcome all collaborations.
The deadline for the submission of stories is 31 August 2024.
READY TO SUBMIT YOUR STORY?

WANT TO WORKSHOP YOUR STORY?
We will be hosting creative sessions and writing workshops from July 23 – 28 in Wagga. These sessions welcome and support all women writers who are working on stories/want to work on a new one/want to read their stories.