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Archived content for the tag ‘young writers’

March 20th, 2023 | Blog | Tags:

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 […]

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February 6th, 2023 | Blog | Tags:

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.

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December 17th, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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 […]

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December 16th, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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.

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December 15th, 2022 | Blog, Festivals, Latest, News, Projects, Regional, Writers SA news | Tags:

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 […]

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December 15th, 2022 | Blog, Latest | Tags:

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 […]

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December 1st, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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.

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October 25th, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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 […]

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October 19th, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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. […]

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October 14th, 2022 | Blog, News, Opportunities | Tags:

Dear You Writers SA and D’faces are teaming up to celebrate the voices of young regional LGBTQIA+ people as part of this year’s Feast Festival. We are inviting all LGBTQIA+ young people aged 15 – 29 in regional South Australia to write and submit a letter to your past or […]

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September 19th, 2022 | Blog, Regional | Tags:

The bi-annual Eyre Peninsula Field Days was held in Cleve from August 9th -11th 2022. Through our No Limits: Young Regional Writers program, two young Eyre Peninsula based writers were selected to attend and respond, sharing their experience in a format that felt true to them. Selected as residents were […]

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September 6th, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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 […]

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August 11th, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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. […]

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July 19th, 2022 | Blog, News, Opportunities | Tags:

Three special opportunities for regional LGBTQIA+ young writers, one special regional event for the 2022 Feast Festival. Here. Now. Feast. is 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 […]

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July 5th, 2022 | Blog | Tags:

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 […]

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