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IMAGINE A WORLD WHERE YOUR STORIES AREN’T TOLD
NO BOOKS. NO FILMS
NOTHING ABOUT YOU, YOUR FAMILY OR YOUR CULTURE
WESTWORDS GIVES WESTERN SYDNEY
A VOICE, A SPACE TO BE HEARD AND CELEBRATED.
JOIN US IN CREATING, BUILDING AND EMPOWERING OUR COMMUNITIES.
Poetś Corner with David Ades featuring Esther Ottaway
Library For All is creating a collection of 500 mirror books for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children called Our Yarning. Your voice as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander person can add to this unique collection. You are invited to write a story...
Our Stories Writing Group
Our StoriesWriters Group Our Stories is a fortnightly writers' group for genocide survivors and/or refugees. Join us to develop your skills to write narrative non-fiction and share your memoir stories with other writers and readers. These writers groups will run...
Writing Western Sydney: The Readings with Kirsty Jagger
Shayla is on a newspaper assignment when she returns to the public housing estate where she grew up and finds it demolished. The locals have been evicted, their homes erased, their stories too. Standing among the rubble of Rosemeadow, Shayla is assailed by her...
Writing Western Sydney: The Readings with Clare Fletcher
As a photographer, Stevie’s been to enough bush weddings to last a lifetime. When’s it going to be all about her? Capturing the heartbeat of rural Australia, Five Bush Weddings is an uplifting romantic comedy about looking for love, second chances, and what really...
Living Stories – The Other City – Showcase
Join us in celebrating the winning and highly commended writers of our award-winning program: The Other City – Living Stories Western Sydney Writing Prize 2023!
Poets’ Corner with David Ades featuring Stuart Barnes
Poets' Corner is WestWords's monthly encounter with celebrated Australian poets, curated by David Ades. Each month a poet is invited to read and talk about their poetry on a theme of the poet's choice. This month David talks to Stuart Barnes about 'Form and function'...
Open Mic Night – Hosted by Auburn Poets and Writers
All styles of poetry and music are welcome -- come along and try out poetry, spoken-word, stories and music at the Open Mic Night hosted by Auburn Poets & Writers at the WestWords Centre for Writing. Where: At WestWords, 41 Hunter St Parramatta (only minutes from...
Academy Live in July!
Introducing our brand new program – Academy Live! Come along and hear Western Sydney’s rising artists.
Bryan Brown Reading from Living Stories: The Other City
We are grateful to WestWords ambassador, Bryan Brown, for taking the time to share his reading of one of the overall winning pieces in the 'Living Stories: The Other City' anthology.
Writing Western Sydney: The Readings with Pete Shmigel
Pete Shmigel is a freelance writer and journalist who recently returned from his second visit to Ukraine in 2023, where he began to write the stories of the people on the frontline of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In our latest instalment of Writing Western Sydney:...
How your gift will change lives
Your gift today will promote and encourage reading, writing and story-making by, and for, children and young people in Western Sydney and beyond, and develop and enhance community sustainability through cultural vitality.
Many individuals and organisations have supported WestWords since its establishment in 2010. You can join them now to bring valuable programs to young people in Western Sydney. As a donor, we will publish your name on our website (with your permission) and keep you up to date with how your gift has helped.