Young Writers Program: Zine Intensive

Do you know a creative young person with a passion for stories who would love to publish their work?  

The South Coast Writers Centre is offering a three-day Zine Workshop for creative young people in years five to eight.

In this three-day program, twelve promising young creatives will work with a writer and artist to create, design and publish their own zine. 

Young Writers Program Teacher Rhys Lorenc will lead classes for students to produce and polish new writing. Artist and designer Imogen Ross will lead illustration and design workshops. Along the way, participants will learn how art responds to writing, how publications are designed, and how editing happens. Ultimately, the group will work together over three days to write, illustrate, and finally, publish their own group zine. 

Three Saturdays - 11th, 18th and 25th of June - 9am-3pm 

Dapto Ribbonwood Centre

• Open to students in school years five to eight
• Limited to a maximum of twelve participants. 
• Zine will be electronically published on the SCWC website.  
• Participants will also be invited to attend a launch of the zine at the local library.
• Participating schools will receive a printed Zine pack for their school library.

For more about SCWC's Young Writers Program: Young Writers Program — South Coast Writers Centre

Fees are available on a sliding scale: full price $75, concession price $50, hardship /full scholarship $0. To access the SCWC Hardship Fund, please email the SCWC Director at sarah.nicholson@southcoastwriters.org

This workshop program has been made available with funding from NSW Ports.

MEET THE FACILITATORS

Imogen Ross is an experienced creative workshop facilitator for Belvoir St Theatre and secondary schools. She is the founder of an after-school art studio in the Illawarra called Go Create Art aimed at encouraging creative resilience in young people and regularly collaborates with community arts organisations to create contemporary site-specific stories with emerging, youth, migrant, refugee and indigenous performers. Her training in theatre design informs her multi-modal visual story-telling style. In recent times, Imogen has made creative projects for Shopfront, NTOP, ICE, PYT, Monkey Baa, Merrigong, and CuriousWorks, and is currently working with the Creative Leadership in Schools program for the Sydney Opera House at several schools in Sydney's west. She heads the Environmental Awareness subcommittee of the APDG, writes regular articles on Sustainability in the Performing arts and is a strong advocate of Ecoscenography in Australia. She has loved reading, collecting and making Zines since she was a teenager in country NSW.

Rhys Lorenc lives on Dharawal Country in Wollongong, NSW. An art nerd with a love for fantasy and world-building, Rhys is a co-founder of the SCWC’s self-directed Young Writers Collective and has been leading writing workshops for the Collective for over two years. He is a teacher for the SCWC's Young Writers Program for young writers from 10-17. Rhys is a student of Creative Writing and English Literatures at the University of Wollongong. His writing appears in the Young Writers Collective Anthology Uncommon Words.