Berrigan Shire’s International Women’s Day activity will be held at the Barooga Sporties on Friday, March 8 from noon.
Guest speaker is author Shelley Burr.
Shelley grew up on Newcastle’s beaches and her grandparents’ property in Glenrowan, and on the road between the two.
When not writing, she is working to establish a small permaculture farm and is studying agriculture at the University of New England, with a focus on soil science.
She is an alumnus of the ACT Writers’ Hardcopy program (2018) and a Varuna fellow.
Shelley’s debut novel WAKE was a top five bestseller, won the CWA Debut Dagger Award in 2019, was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards Debut Novel Award, the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award and the Bath Novel Award.
Shelley also won the Australian Book Industry Awards’ 2023 Matt Richell Award for New Writer of the Year for WAKE.
Late last year she released her follow up, RIPPER.
Both are crime novels, set in small rural communities.
Tickets for this lunch event are $40, with bookings taken at any of the shire’s libraries until the end of this month.
Murrumbidgee Council and Ricegrowers’ Association of Australia have been awarded a NSW Women’s Week grant to host its event, on Tuesday, March 5.
Because of the grant, it is free to attend the four hour Women in Rice Networking event in Coleambally.
Participants will be treated to a rice farm tour with Maddy Dunbar, a tour of CopRice, a networking lunch, and a panel session with Melissa De Bortoli, Emma Finemore and Michele Groat.
There will be a free shuttle bus available from Finley, Jerilderie, Leeton, Whitton and Darlington Point.
While free, bookings for the Coleambally event are still required. Go to eventbrite.com.au and search ‘women in rice Coleabmally’.
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