River and Wren organiser Jennie Meiklejohn made the announcement via her social media pages on Friday, after notifying her cultivated creators community privately overnight.

"I've had some absolutely beautiful messages," Mrs Meiklejohn said.

"Last night, just about sat on the lounge all night crying. The markets meant to much to a lot of people."

Mrs Meiklejohn made the difficult decision to pull the plug this week, following acceptance of a full-time day job in October.

"For a few months now, I've been working all day, coming home for a bit of dinner and then working all night to get the markets together," she said.

"I've known it had to end for a while, you can't continue that way long term."

The markets had provided a steady income to designers and creators like 15-year-old Bryce Hagen, who launched his self-made business at River and Wren two years ago.

"It's sad that it's closing down, it was a great place to start out," the teenager said.

"It was always my best place to sell, especially around Christmas time."

A bow-tie maker and designer, in the past couple years, Bryce has gone from selling his wares from his mother's cafe, to now being stocked in recognised stores around the Riverina and Canberra.

He continues to travel around handmade markets in NSW and ACT, but attributes much of his success to the reception he recieved at River and Wren.

"They embraced me and my idea wholeheartedly from the start," he said.

"These days there is a really good market for bow ties in Wagga, especially for weddings, school formals and during Wagga Gold Cup time.

"I got most of my custom orders from being at River and Wren. People knew about me because they saw me there."

Although Mrs Meiklejohn has been mulling over the decision for some months now, it was not until this week that Mrs Meiklejohn considered resorting to a succession plan to keep the markets happening.

"It's my baby, so it's been a very difficult decision," she said.

"But over the last 12 hours at least, I've had a lot of people contacting me saying they'd be interested in taking it over.

"I'm becoming more open to the idea, but I wasn't interested in selling it before."

Five years ago, Mrs Meiklejohn began River and Wren as a replacement to Wagga's Muddi Markets.

While Muddi remained rather small, Mrs Meiklejohn expressed her pride at having grown the River and Wren from 55 stallholders to a regular set of 120-140.

But the reason the Muddi Markets declined five years ago, she says, that the organiser had lost the spark.

The same cannot be said for Mrs Meiklejohn.

"I've enjoyed it all the way," she said.

"I love my market, it's certainly not because I've lost interest in it."

The final markets will be held on June 23.