Write around the Murray 2009 |
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Workshops
All workshops of the Write around the Murray festival can be found here.
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Biographies
Click here to find biographies of all of our guests during the Write around the Murray.
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Five Day Feast Wraps Up
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| Click here to view the full Write around the Murray program. |
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| Peter FitzSimons captivated the audience as the festival opening keynote speaker. |
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| Andrew Croome speaks with WIN News. |
| | Albury born author, Susan Duncan told an audience of almost 200 at CSU’s Nowik Theatre that the community of Pittwater had truly been her salvation as she tried to piece her life together following the deaths of her first husband and her brother.
Ms Duncan author of the memoirs, Salvation Creek and The House at Salvation Creek wrapped up the finale of the 2009 Write around the Murray festival.
More than 2300 people attended events in the public and schools programs during the five days of the festival.
On Sunday local authors had the opportunity to talk about their works during Fifteen Minutes of Fame illustrating the extraordinary range of works coming out of the local area.
At Saturday night's festival dinner, Melbourne author, Michael McGirr spoke about the importance of words, books and readings to communities.
Highlights during the five days included lunch with Wodonga’s Andrew Croome, winner of the 2008 Vogel Literary Award, Peter FitzSimons’ keynote address; The Crime Solving Spectrum with Shane Maloney and PD Martin; two literary pub crawls featuring local writing and comic Book Creations at the LibraryMuseum.
Two projects, Maps Alive and the Alphabet Suitcase, also record in a very different way aspects of the community.
These have been events to attract readers and writers, with a strong workshop program including the intensive two day Masterclass, to help build the capability of the regional writing community.
The festival program was designed to reach a broader cross section of people and put out the message that a writers’ festival is really for anyone who loves books and this has been achieved.
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