{"id":1297,"date":"2023-12-21T20:29:09","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2023-12-21T20:29:09","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T20:29:09","slug":"booranga-writers-centre-publisher-of-literary-journal-fourw-loses-create-nsw-funding-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/booranga-writers-centre-publisher-of-literary-journal-fourw-loses-create-nsw-funding-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Booranga Writer&#8217;s Centre, publisher of literary journal &#8216;fourW&#8217;, loses Create NSW funding for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">The Booranga Writers\u2019 Centre has been unsuccessful in it\u2019s bid for annual funding from Create NSW under Chris Minn\u2019s Labor government.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">This came as a real shock to the Booranga Committee as Wagga Wagga Writers Writers, to give Booranga its full\u00a0legal title, has been operating for 30 years.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Booranga serves its members and the local community through hosting Writers-in-Residence at their facility located on the Charles Sturt University Campus in Wagga Wagga, and through the publication of its annual anthology\u00a0<em>fourW<\/em>. It also supports local and visiting writers with venues, book launches and reading events.<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Business Manager Dr Greg Pritchard said \u2018this is a real blow to the writers of the region and may mean the Centre has to close. At the very least we will have to severely curtail our activities\u2019<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u2018It\u2019s very disappointing\u2019 he said, 'as Booranga had a great year with many events, a book sale, open day, writing film night, 10 open mic events and associated workshops and I have just been distributing copies of\u00a0<strong><em>fourW<\/em>\u00a0thirty-four<\/strong>\u00a0the centre\u2019s anthology of new poetry and prose from all around the Riverina, Australia and internationally.\u2019<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">\u2018We participated in the public meetings in 2023 about the new cultural policy, and the call from creatives in the Region was for more funding for regional areas, not to defund one of the Riverina\u2019s key cultural organisations.\u2019<\/span>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Booranga President David Gilbey said he was very disappointed, \u2018I've often said that so long as there was ongoing funding (from the NSW<\/span>\r\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: georgia, palatino, serif;\">Government) Booranga could continue - this was the genius of the original funding from Arts NSW back in the 1990s. Its cessation is certainly a mortal blow to Booranga as we know it.\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Booranga Writers\u2019 Centre has been unsuccessful in it\u2019s bid for annual funding from Create NSW under Chris Minn\u2019s Labor government. This came as a real shock to the Booranga &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/2023\/12\/21\/booranga-writers-centre-publisher-of-literary-journal-fourw-loses-create-nsw-funding-for-2024\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Booranga Writer&#8217;s Centre, publisher of literary journal &#8216;fourW&#8217;, loses Create NSW funding for 2024&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1299,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walleahpress.com.au\/currajah\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}