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. […]

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.

Here. Now. Feast Here. Now. Feast. was a literary showcase celebrating the voices of queer regional young people from across South Australia. Featuring readings of new poetry, stories, letters, speeches, and scripts commissioned and presented by Writers SA and D’faces in Whyalla for Feast Festival 2022. Watch the livestream recording below. Dear You We invited all LGBTQIA+ young people […]

As 2022 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on another big and inspiring year at Writers SA in pictures. From our writing events all over the state as part of No Limits, to the Deaf writers group performance event See Me Through My Hands, to Context Writers Festival in Adelaide, we […]

Late last year we launched a very special regional project out into the world and now it’s time to say goodbye to this chapter of the story. That project was No Limits: Young Regional Writers and together our regional team have delivered writing workshops, commissions, micro-residencies, reading events, scratch nights, zines and a host of […]

In the Margins was a collaborative reading project about connecting young regional readers through shared experience and outcome. Throughout the project, a selected story made its way across the state, being passed from reader to reader. As it travelled, readers continued to add their annotations, thoughts and questions in the margins. Over time adding layers […]

Every month we take a moment to congratulate Writers SA members on their writing successes, from new book releases, to prizes, fellowships, awards, publication credits and more. If you’re a Writers SA member who has celebrated a writing achievement recently, fill out this form to be included in our next feature. November 2022 Caroline Reid‘s […]

Nine young writers from across regional South Australia were selected for This Breath, a creative response to the past two years. See/hear their responses here.

We have a very special signed copy of Jane Harper’s Exiles to giveaway! Aaron Falk returns. Exiles, the third and final book in the Aaron Falk series, follows on from Jane’s international bestsellers The Dry and Force of Nature. At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her […]

In 2022 Raining Poetry in Adelaide extended into regional South Australia through a special collaboration with the Writers SA’s No Limits Program. Short poems written by regional poets were selected through an open submissions process and direct commissioning to be tagged with invisible spray on the footpaths of Whyalla, Loxton and Naracoorte. The poems then […]

We are so delighted to share that the Writers SA No Limits: Young Regional Writers project won Outstanding Regional Event or Project at the Arts South Australia Ruby Awards on Friday night. No Limits: Young Regional Writers exists to connect, inspire, and build the capacity of young regional writers, and we are grateful to have […]

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 […]

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the Writers SA and Feast Festival Short Story Competition for 2022! The competition entries spanned a range of subjects and genres including sci-fi, contemporary romance, drama, ghost stories and stream-of-consciousness, all with an open theme. As always, it was a challenge to select the winning entries from a […]

Writers SA and Varuna the National Writers’ House are delighted to announce the 2022 recipient of our SA First Nations Writers Fellowship is established artist and emerging writer Katherine Bell. Kat will be spending a week in the Blue Mountains, writing and developing her craft, with seven nights at Varuna, a $300 travel subsidy, and […]

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 […]