Over 600 high school students and teachers from across the Riverina region will attend the annual HSC English Study Day at Charles Sturt University (CSU) in Wagga Wagga on Friday 24 June.Mr David Gilbey (pictured), adjunct senior lecturer in English in the CSU School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the coordinator of the HSC English Study Day, said 40 lectures, workshops, and discussion panels will be presented on texts and topics being studied by Standard and Advanced English students for the 2016 HSC."The day's focus will include poetry, prose, drama, film, techniques, writing skills, and exam tips – from William Shakespeare and Henry Lawson to contemporary Indigenous and multicultural perspectives," Mr Gilbey said."For students it is an opportunity to get another perspective on the work they're concentrating on for the HSC, and for teachers it's a professional development occasion."English teachers and academics are such word wizards, I hope the day will shine with verbal magic," he said.The sessions will run from 9.30am to 2.20pm and will be presented mostly by teachers of English from regional high schools and academics from CSU's School of Humanities and Social Sciences.Students and teachers will come from as far as Tumut, Yass, Yanco, Leeton, Junee, Culcairn, Gundagai and Temora, as well as from Wagga and surrounds.The HSC English Study Day is organised by the Wagga Wagga Branch of the English Teachers Association, in association with CSU's School of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Booranga Writers' Centre.