NSW Writers’ Centre announces Kids & YA Festival
The NSW Writers’ Centre has announced that it will hold a Kids & YA Festival on 28 June. The Kids & YA Festival will include panels, workshops and discussions on...
NSW Writers’ Centre announces Kids & YA Festival
The NSW Writers’ Centre will hold a Kids & YA Festival on 28 June with panels, workshops and discussions on children’s writing and publishing, to be directed by author Aleesah Darlison....
Inaugural Creative Non-Fiction Festival program announced
The program for the New South Wales Writers’ Centre’s inaugural Creative Non-Fiction Festival has been announced. Author Benjamin Law will curate the one day festival, which will be held at the NSW...
NSW Writers’ Centre launches mentorships for Indigenous writers
The NSW Writers’ Centre has launched a mentorship program for emerging Indigenous writers. The program will pair five emerging Indigenous writers from New South Wales with established Indigenous writers in...
Changes at NSW Writers’ Centre
Pantera Press CEO Alison Green, literary agent and publicist Benython Oldfield, author Emily Maguire, and author and editor Jean Bedford have joined the board of the New South Wales Writers’...
New board members for NSW Writers’ Centre
Pantera Press CEO Alison Green, literary agent and publicist Benython Oldfield, author Emily Maguire, and author and editor Jean Bedford have joined the board of the New South Wales Writers’...
McCredie joins NSW Writers’ Centre
Jane McCredie has joined the New South Wales Writers’ Centre in the role of executive director. McCredie, who has worked as a publisher for NewSouth Books for the past two...
McCredie joins NSW Writers’ Centre
The New South Wales Writers’ Centre has announced that author and former NewSouth Books publisher Jane McCredie has joined the centre in the role of executive director. McCredie began in the...
NSW Writers’ Centre to publish its first ebook
The NSW Writers’ Centre will publish its first ebook in February 2013, entitled Talking Writing: 60 Contemporary Writers on Novels Short Stories Non-Fiction Poetry Playwriting Digital Fantasy Sci-Fi Blogging Criticism...
Powell to join NSW Writers’ Centre
Rose Powell will join the New South Wales Writers’ Centre on 10 December as projects officer for events and festivals. Powell, who will finish in her current role as communication coordinator...
Powell to join NSW Writers’ Centre
Rose Powell will join the New South Wales Writers’ Centre on 10 December in the role of projects officer for events and festivals. Powell, who will finish in her current...
Blake Poetry Prize 2012 shortlist announced
The shortlist for the 2012 Blake Poetry Prize has been announced. The shortlisted poems are: ‘Once Upon a Time in the Rockies’ (David Bunn) ‘Celen’ (Christopher Kelen) ‘Alter Rock’ (Graham...
Ryding to leave NSW Writers’ Centre
The New South Wales Writers’ Centre has announced that executive director David Ryding is leaving the centre to join the Australia Council for the Arts in the role of program...
Ryding to leave NSW Writers’ Centre
The New South Wales Writers’ Centre has announced that executive director David Ryding is leaving the centre to join the Australia Council for the Arts in the role of program...
Sam Twyford-Moore on what to do—and what not to do—for a book launch
At the launch of his debut long-form comic Blue in Sydney's Kinokuniya mega bookstore, the cartoonist Pat Grant projected individual panels from his comic with a haunted soundtrack rising from...
EWF to hold mini-festival in Sydney
The Emerging Writers’ Festival (EWF) will travel interstate again this year to hold a mini-festival in partnership with the NSW Writers’ Centre. The one-day event will take place on 3...
Contemporary fiction festival ‘a wonderful success’
The contemporary fiction festival held last weekend by the NSW Writers' Centre was ‘a wonderful success,' the Centre's acting director Arabella Lee has told WBN.‘The weather was perfect and the...
NSW writers’ centre contemporary fiction festival
The NSW Writers' Centre will present the 2008 Contemporary Australian Fiction Festival on Saturday 29 March, co-presented by the UTS Centre for New Writing. Guests will include Gabrielle Carey, Katherine...
Dunn leaves NSW Writers’ Centre
Irina Dunn has announced her resignation from the NSW Writers' Centre, where she has been executive director for the last 15 years.Dunn told the centre's management committee that ‘she felt...
Hewson causes ‘political frisson’ at NSW Writers Centre bookshow
As the nation prepares to vote, even the annual New South Wales Writers' Centre Australian Publishers and Authors Bookshow, held in Leichhardt from 16 to 18 November, could not escape...