On this website six Albury writers bring you stories from our region — from the mountains, the farms, the communities. There will be history, cultural notes, reviews, short fiction. Maybe even some poetry. Our title, Riparian, means relating to or situated on the banks of a river. It also refers to the parts of the river that lie under the water.
Riparian at WAM
Join Riparian Writers at 5.30 pm Friday 16th September 2022 at Write Around the Murray, Albury
Playing With Story
The program for the 2022 Write Around the Murray festival has been launched. A Riparian event included. Dates to put in the diary - Wednesday 14th to Sunday 18th September.
All diddle daddle done.*
Dotti Simmons loved stories and voices but most of all she loved words.
Vale Dotti Simmons
Dotti Simmons passed away peacefully at home on 1st November, 2021.
Reading the (in)land
A poem by Sally Denshire published in Poetry for the Planet: An Anthology of Imagined Futures.
This Lockdown Coffee Cup
A lockdown poem by Sally Denshire - now part of the State Library of NSW 'The Diary Files' site
The Things We Love
The Write Around the Murray (WAM) writers' festival is coming up on the 15th-18th September 2021. Ticket bookings now open.
OF BREATH AND BLOOD
A factory full of women... and untold stories... herstories...
On Joy Hester’s late portraits of girls
This poem is a response to four of Joy Hester's images of girls currently on display at Heide Museum of Modern Art.
Poetry inspired by ‘Flourish’
Sally Denshire's poem ‘A lineage of ecologies’ celebrates LeAnne Vincent's award-winning art work 'Flourish'. Vincent's Artist's Statement follows the poem.
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