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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 700 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.

Heading North: Young writers’ story competition

The Byron Bay Writers Festival is delighted to announce the launch of a new initiative designed to discover the Next Big Thing in the world of literature. In partnership with Byron & District ADFAS and Bangalow Lions, the Festival will administer a writing competition specifically aimed at young people. Heading North: young writers’ story competition, entry is open to all fledgling authors aged twenty one or less, resident in the Byron, Ballina or Lismore Shires. Said Festival Director Jeni Caffin “This is a valuable opportunity for the brightest and newest talents of our region to put their imaginations to work and apply their creative writing skills to a professional format.”

APPLICATIONS ARE NOW CLOSED

The Writers Festival draws a small army of prominent publishers to Byron Bay each year and the Writers’ Centre has decided that enough is enough; this time we’re not going to let the opportunity go to waste.

A posse of publishers has been pressed into service and a series of Pitching Sessions are being arranged to coincide with the Festival program.

These sessions will only be available to Writers’ Centre members and they represent a rare chance to go head-to-head some of the publishing industry’s leading heavyweights.