Wheeler Centre 2024 Hot Desk Fellows announced

The Wheeler Centre has announced the 22 emerging writers who will receive Hot Desk Fellowships in 2024.

This is the 12th year of the fellowship program, which the Wheeler Centre said is intended to ‘provide emerging writers with a space to inspire their process and build a creative community’, with the fellowship including a $1250 stipend and a desk in the Wheeler Centre’s Melbourne building for a 10-week period.

The 2024 recipients are:

• Chris Ames for ‘I Made This for You’ (fiction)
• Megan Cheong for ‘Exchange’ (autofiction)
• Jacinta Dietrich for ‘The Ringmaster’ (middle-grade fiction)
• Shashini Gamage for ‘The Fright of Real Feathers’ (autofiction)
• Kate Harris for ‘Wake’ (literary fiction)
• Ronia Ibrahim for ‘This Is The River’ (poetry)
• Hugh Leitwell for ‘Pending’ (literary fiction)
• Suri Matondkar for ‘Tongue’ (creative nonfiction)
• Ayesha Mona for ‘Mona’ (magical realism)
• Lia Morgan for ‘a dog howling to the call to prayer’ (poetry)
• Isobel Morphy-Walsh (Just Pretending Playwright Fellow) for ‘Thudagun’s Lost Stolen Children’ (play)
• Jessie Perrin for ‘The Two Girls’ (literary fiction)
• Shannon May Powell for ‘Temporary Bodies’ (autotheory/memoir)
• Belinda Rule for ‘Things I would rather do than apply for another job’ (poetry)
• Al Speers (Gabrielle Williams Young Adult Writer Fellow) for ‘Sourpuss’ (YA fiction)
• Andre Sutherland for ‘the migration of birds down the wet pathways of your blood’ (verse novel)
• Stella Theocharides for ‘Field Notes’ (comic/nonfiction)
• Yogashree Thirunavukarasu for ‘Eat’ (play)
• Frankie van Kan for ‘A Body at Work’ (creative nonfiction)
• Hannah Wu for ‘Temporary Architectures’ (nonfiction/poetry)
• Cat Yen for ‘Heart Constellations’ (memoir)
• Xiaole Zhan for ‘Think An Empty Room, Moonly with Phoneglow’ (memoir/creative nonfiction).

More information about the fellowships is available on the Wheeler Centre website.

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