Author, songwriter, performer, and recording artist Mr Jim Haynes is the next writer-in-residence in 2011 at the Booranga Writers’ Centre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga. He has written and recorded many songs, including Since Cheryl Went Feral and Don’t Call Wagga Wagga Wagga. Mr Haynes’ first book, I’ll Have Chips! was a huge seller and won him the inaugural Bush Laureate ‘Book of the Year’ award in Tamworth in 1996. He has since released 12 books of Australian short stories and verse, mostly for ABC Books, including An Australian Heritage of Verse and An Australian Treasury of Popular Verse, which won him his second and third Bush Laureate ‘Book of the Year’ awards. Mr Haynes will be at the Monthly Writers’ Workshop on Saturday 23 July, from 2pm to 5pm at the Booranga Writers’ Centre at CSU in Wagga Wagga. He will also perform on Tuesday 26 July at the Wagga Wagga City Library, Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga from 5pm, alongside visiting poets Ms Jane Williams and Mr David Reiter.