The Booranga Writers’ Centre at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga will welcome its first writer-in-residence for 2012, with the arrival of Ms Jennifer Mills. The South Australian-based author has written the novels The Diamond Anchor (2009) and Gone (2011), both published by University of Queensland Press, and the poetry collection Treading Earth (2008). A collection of short stories, The Rest Is Weight, will be released this year. Ms Mills won the 2008 Marian Eldridge Award for Young Emerging Women Writers, the Pacific Region of the Commonwealth Short Story Competition in 2008-9, and the 2008 Northern Territory Literary Awards: Best Short Story. Her work has appeared in Meanjin, Hecate, Overland, Heat, the Griffith Review, Best Australian Stories, and New Australian Stories, and she is a regular contributor to New Matilda and Overland. During her residency until Friday 30 March, Ms Mills will be special guest at a writers’ workshop from 2pm on Saturday 24 March at the Booranga Writers’ Centre, building 410, McKeown Drive, CSU in Wagga Wagga and at a public reading at the Riverina Regional Library in Baylis Street in Wagga Wagga from 5pm on Wednesday 28 March.