Robyne Young Author Talk and Open Mic with Booranga Writers’

Robyne Young is an Albury based writer of fiction, micro and flash fiction poetry and non-fiction. Her
work has appeared in numerous fourW anthologies, Street Musicians and On the Wallaby Track – A
Journey Across Memories – anthologies of Australian and Romanian poetry and prose, Short and
Scary, ZineWest13, New Albury Writing, online in Tincture Journal and Seizure. She has three
collections of short stories The Only Constant (2012), The Basket and the Briefcase (2003) and Single
Shots (2022).

She has an MA Cultural and Creative Practice from the Writing and Society Research Centre at
Western Sydney University received a Meritorious grading for her creative project, Moon Child
which she has extended from a long short story to a novel. Moon Child is inspired by her Indigenous
Fijian great-grandfather’s experience of being orphaned at age 7 during the 1875 measles epidemic
and coming to Australia.

Robyne is currently an artist-in-residence at Hyphen – Wodonga’s Library-Gallery with visual artist,
Vernon Bartlett in an Ekphrasis-reverse-ekphrasis project. An exhibition of their work is planned for
early August to early October.

She lectures in literature at the Albury Wodonga campus of Charles Sturt University and also runs
writing workshops in the Albury Wodonga area.

Join Robyne and stay for the Open Mic as a reader or lover of fine wordsmithing.

^ for a 6.30pm start