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Welcome to the Northern Rivers Writers' Centre

The Northern Rivers Writers’ Centre is a full-time centre that provides resources, information and literary activities for writers and readers. The Writers’ Centre is a non-profit, incorporated organisation receiving core funding from Arts NSW. We are member-based with a membership of more than 800 individuals and organisations. The Centre offers a year-round program of workshops, seminars and events as well as the annual Byron Bay Writers Festival. As a regional writers’ centre, we are responsible for promoting Australian literature and enhancing the skills of writers and readers in the Northern Rivers of NSW and beyond. The region we cover stretches from Taree to Tweed Heads and west to Kyogle.

NRWC Residential Mentorship 2010

If you’re an emerging writer who thinks that five days in a Byron hinterland resort with nothing to do but polish your manuscript, receive the wisdom of a respected mentor and commune with fellow writers sounds okay, then the clock is ticking for you.

This year’s NRWC Residential Mentorship will take place 10-14 May, so it’s already time for the region’s writers to be working on the project that may win them a place in this prestigious writer development program.

Click here to view the guidelines

Click here to download the application form

MARCH

New Frontiers: Travel Writing in the Digital Age Workshop with Kim Wildman, Saturday 13 March, 10am - 4pm

Supersessions: Children's Fiction Consultations with Margaret Hamilton, Friday 19 March

The Whole Story: Creating a Children's Picture Book Workshop with Margaret Hamilton and Dee Huxley, Saturday 20 March, 10am - 4pm

First to Final Draft Masterclass with Shelley Kenigsberg and Selena Hanet-Hutchins, Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 March, 10am - 4pm

APRIL

The ten writers seminar: community, enquiry, excellence Seminar series with Melissa Lucashenko, Thursdays 8, 15, 22 & 29 April, 10am - 12.30pm

The Frontier of Fiction: Cartoons, Comics and the Graphic Novel Workshop with Jules Faber, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 April, 10am - 4pm

MAY

Supersessions: YA Fiction Consultations with Margo Lanagan, Wednesday 5 May

Twist in the Tale Masterclass with Margo Lanagan, Thursday 6 May 10am - 4pm

What Do Women Want? Workshop with Dianne Blacklock, Saturday 8 May, 10am - 4pm

Lending rights

Please note the closing date for the 2010-11 programs (includes titles published in 2009 and previous years) is 31 March 2010. Claimants should not submit a new title claim for a book they have previously registered unless a new edition of the book is published.

Payments to creators and publishers
The Public Lending Right (PLR) scheme makes payments to eligible Australian creators and publishers whose books are held in public lending libraries. The Education Lending Right (ELR) scheme makes similar payments for books held in educational libraries.

If you are a book publisher or creator—author, compiler, editor, illustrator or a translator—you may be eligible for a payment under the PLR and/or ELR scheme.

All ELR/PLR forms may be downloaded here.

Writing Across Cultures in Hong Kong

Northern Rivers resident and founder of the Asia-Pacific Writing Partnership, Jane Camens, has finalized the program for Writing Across Cultures, an event that will bring emerging writers from Australia and Asia together with established writers teaching in some of the most prestigious writing programs in the USA, UK, Australia and Asia.
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