Albury-Wodonga's 15th anniversary year of the Write Around the Murray storytelling festival was well received by participants, organisers said.
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Festival director Ann-maree Ellis said more than 750 people from across the country engaged with the festival's various events, which were held online for the second year due to the pandemic.
"One of the women commented that it was the first time her husband was able to join the event, because he's severely disabled and housebound," she said.
"So she loved being able to share it with him.
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"Anyway they emailed me again this year and said 'WAM 2021 was most enjoyable and like a little lantern burning brightly in dark weeks of lockdown'."
Ms Ellis said the Canberra group said that the final panel, Seismic Shifts with Delia Falconer and Rick Morton, was amazing.
"They commented that the final panel was well placed for the collective mood and has given us all some substance," she said.
"I think we hit the right tone and the right mood.
"It was clear that people were really appreciating the depth, the honesty, the assessment of this moment in time."
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Victoria Ellis
Victoria Ellis grew up on the Border and loves reporting for her home community. She is a University of Wollongong Journalism graduate. In 2018 Victoria was awarded the Bruce Gordon Scholarship for Journalism and completed a 10 week internship with WIN News Illawarra. In 2019 she was awarded The Border Mail's Cameron Thompson Scholarship, where she completed a three week internship, before taking up ongoing employment in 2021.
Victoria Ellis grew up on the Border and loves reporting for her home community. She is a University of Wollongong Journalism graduate. In 2018 Victoria was awarded the Bruce Gordon Scholarship for Journalism and completed a 10 week internship with WIN News Illawarra. In 2019 she was awarded The Border Mail's Cameron Thompson Scholarship, where she completed a three week internship, before taking up ongoing employment in 2021.
