And that’s a wrap! With the end of Counter Urban Questions also comes the end of No Limits: Young Regional Writers. Writers SA and Adelaide Fringe commissioned writers from across regional South Australia for a special and provocative evening of storytelling to answer the questions: what does it mean to live and tell stories from […]

Wriday was a self-directed writing day for Riverland writers. It was a drop-in and tap-out style event with the goal of writing as much as they could! Riverland Coordinator, Kirste, opened up Barmera’s ideas hub, Part of Things for the day. We invited some young storytellers come hang out for the day, chat amongst other […]

Our Words, Our Town is a creative response to living on the Limestone Coast as a young person in 2022 — the challenges and hardships of being a young person in a regional location but also the joy, freedom, and unparalleled beauty that is the Limestone Coast.

Hello and welcome to the Riverland Wrap Up! I’m your host, Kirste Vandergiessen, the Riverland Coordinator of the No Limits: Young Regional Writers team, and I’ll be taking you on a trip down memory lane. The Riverland has been jam-packed with fun events this year and they each deserve a little moment in the spotlight. […]

Portal: Fantasy Workshop Festival was an event held over a weekend in September for fantasy lovers in the Riverland. We invited some young storytellers to soak up the fantasy goodness and asked them to write a creative piece in response to the event. This is what they came up with. Also read through our live-writing […]

It’s been a *few* weeks since we held Portal! Here’s the highlight reel. Portal, for those of you who didn’t get bombarded with notifications about it, was a Fantasy Workshop Festival we held in the Riverland. In response to our passionate fantasy community in the Riverland, we organised a weekend-long event packed full of fantasy-related […]

We are so excited to share the finished versions of our Quick, A Portal Opened commissions! As part of Portal: Fantasy Workshop Festival, the No Limits team opened portals across regional South Australia. We found eight brave storytellers to tell us about their adventures and of the creatures they encountered. These storytellers wrote their first […]

We are so excited to announce the successful applicants of Quick, A Portal Opened! expression of interest commission! As part of Portal: Fantasy Workshop Festival, the No Limits team opened portals across regional South Australia. They found nine brave storytellers to tell us about their adventures and of the creatures they encountered. These storytellers will […]

History Blogs EOI has been reopened! If you missed out during our last round, now’s the chance to show off your connection to and the history of your town. Writers SA and the District Council of Loxton Waikerie are calling all regional storytellers to express interest in a new project. Selected writers will be paid […]

As part of the Riverland’s upcoming workshop weekend Portal: Fantasy Workshop Festival (September 9th – 11th), Writers SA is asking regional writers to show their expressions of interest in participating in the event remotely! We’re commissioning fantasy writers all over regional South Australia to develop a fantasy creature inspired by their region’s native animals, and […]

We’re opening the portal to a fantastical little pocket the Riverland — for fantasy writers, readers and lovers. Writers SA is bringing you a whole weekend packed full of fantasy goodness; here’s just some of them: EVENTS PROJECTION LAUNCH NIGHT AUTHOR TALK WITH LYNDALL CLIPSTONE JEDI TRAINING FOR WRITERS PART OF PORTAL EXHIBITION AFTER PORTAL […]

Writers SA and the District Council of Loxton Waikerie are calling all regional storytellers to express interest in a new project. Selected writers will be paid to write a short piece in any form of their choosing (poetry, song, photographs, comic page, short story, diary entry etc) responding to the histories of their towns. Enter […]