This year's Young Creatives Award winning writers being their work to life in this reading session at the Chrissie Cotter Gallery.
Judges Dave Drayton and Ang Collins present the winning entries and share their collective creative output.
Families, friends, teachers, and principals are invited to this special celebration of talent of the young writers of the Inner west.
Vote for People's Choice Awards whilst visiting the Gallery.
Resources available at the library celebrating Australian Short Stories
Facilitators
Ang Collins was the inaugural Incubator Fellow for Create NSW and Griffin Theatre Company and recipient of Create NSW’s Young Creative Leaders Fellowship.
Her play, Blueberry Play, was shortlisted for the 2017 Griffin Award with a sell-out season at Batch Festival and played at venues across Australia.
Ang was a 2022 Artist-in-Residence for the IWC and has been shortlisted for a variety of prestigious playwriting awards.
Dave Drayton is a writer, poet, researcher, editor, and founding member of the Atterton Academy, Kanganoulipian.
He has been awarded and shortlisted for the Judith Wright Poetry Prize, Blake Poetry Prize, Lane Cove Literary Awards and Australian Postgrad Award for PhD research.
Dave has published six collections of poetry and journal articles, book chapters, creative non-fiction and conference papers. He is a casual academic at UTS and Western Sydney University.
The Chrissie Cotter Gallery is wheelchair accessible. If you have any access or support requirements in order to participate fully, please let us know in the booking order form to ensure that we can arrange any reasonable adjustments.
