Varuna announces 2022 residential fellowships

Varuna the National Writers’ House has announced the recipients of the Varuna Residential Fellowships for 2022.

The writers and their projects are:

The Eleanor Dark flagship fellowship

• Katherine Brabon, for her work of autofiction ‘Body Friend’ 

The Eric Dark flagship fellowship

• Lauren Fuge, for her nonfiction narrative work ‘Voyagers: Our journey into the Anthropocene’

The Varuna poetry flagship fellowship

• Madison Godfrey, for their collection of poems ‘Dress Rehearsals’

The Jerra Studio flagship fellowship

• Heather Taylor Johnson, for her hybrid nonfiction work ‘Dear Vincent’

The Ray Koppe/ASA young writer’s fellowship

• Sarah Stivens for her poetry manuscript ‘Therapeutic Discomfort’

Varuna residential fellowships

• Adele Dumont for essay collection ‘Bezoar’
• Renee Treml for children’s graphic novel ‘Breathe’
• Stephen Carleton for playscript ‘Brutal Utopias’
• Liz Evans for ‘Catherine Wheel’
• Benjamin Hickey for suspense novel ‘Common Ruin’
• Rachel Bowen for YA novel ‘Hyena’
• Kylie Ladd for commercial fiction ‘I’ll Leave You With This’
• Gurmeet Kaur for poetry collection ‘Instructions on English’
• Tanya Davies for fantasy/speculative fiction ‘Killing Widows’
• Robyn Cadwallader for historical fiction ‘Not Less Than Anything’
• Hugh McGonagle for novel ‘Peninsula’
• Rebecca Giggs for narrative nonfiction ‘PET: The future of the animals we keep’
• Kelly Gardiner for YA novel ‘Roar’
• Catherine Moffat for crime novel ‘Snapper Point’
• Carol Major for novel ‘The Chinese Woman’
• Chris Womersley for novel ‘The Empire’
• Amanda Curtin for historical fiction ‘The Longhair Fella’
• Katia Ariel for memoir ‘The Swift Dark Tide’
• Michelle Michau-Crawford for novel ‘What’s Home Supposed to Mean, Anyway?’
• Sian Campbell for novel ‘When This is All Over’
• Bruce Nash for novel ‘Woman Without a Password’
• Sonia Orchard for creative nonfiction ‘Womankind’
• Jannali Jones for YA novel ‘Yenda’.

Varuna received more than 400 applications for residency fellowships from published and unpublished writers.

For more information about the fellowships, see Varuna’s website.

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