Byron Writers Festival announces new Restart Residential Retreats
‘The lived experience of people with disability is funny, rich, smart and provocative – a web of stories too integral to our understanding of what it is to be alive right now to ignore…’ – Kerri Shying, mentor and teacher.
Byron Writers Festival is excited to announce another initiative funded by the Create NSW Arts Restart program. Writers with disability and d/Deaf writers are invited to apply for a two-day writing workshop, convened by four inspiring writer/teacher mentors: Kerri Shying, Gaele Sobott, Asphyxia and Alan Close. Each mentor/teacher will offer a two or three-hour workshop on various aspects of writing.
Additional support will be offered to assist writers with disability and d/Deaf writers attending the face-to-face and zoom workshop, including costs for Auslan interpreters, transport and other contingencies.
This new workshop is part of a wider Byron Writers Festival Restart program dispersing funds to NSW writers and illustrators of all description through free workshops, funded by Create NSW.
‘The arts community has been hit hard by the Covid pandemic,’ said Byron Writers Festival Director, Edwina Johnson. ‘Our Restart program is a way to offer a broad-reaching rescue package that will help create new works and valuable professional experiences.’
The application process for the Writers with Disability + d/Deaf Writers Workshop is available on the Byron Writers Festival website at byronwritersfestival.com/whats-on/restart-residential-retreats. The program is overseen by experienced publishing industry professionals drawn from across the state.
