Writers awarded OzCo international residencies for 2020–21
The Australia Council has announced eight writers as recipients of international development residencies as part of its latest grants round. Lisa Gorton, Robert Lukins, Fiona McGregor and Sandra Thibodeaux will...
Sayer, Nowra appointed 2014 CAL Nonfiction Writers-in-Residence at UTS
Mandy Sayer and Louis Nowra have been appointed as the 2014 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writers-in Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of the joint residency, which...
Melbourne Uni college establishes Indigenous writers’ residency
Trinity College at the University of Melbourne has launched a new writing residency for Indigenous writers under the age of 30. The inaugural Nakata Brophy Short Fiction and Poetry Prize...
Purcell named 2013 CAL Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at UTS
Writer, director and actor Leah Purcell has been appointed as the 2013 Copyright Agency Nonfiction Writer-in-Residence at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). As part of her residency, which begins in...
Writing Australia regional residencies announced
Writing Australia has announced the first recipients of its regional residency program, Writing Australia Places. Melanie Joosten from Victoria will spend four weeks in Orange, NSW, working on a novel...
SA Writers’ Centre announces new residency program
The South Australian Writers’ Centre has announced a new writer-in-residence program for emerging writers. Applications are now open for the program, with two places to be offered this year. The...
New writers’ residency in Frankfurt
New Zealand authors Hamish Clayton and Tina Makereti will take up new writing residencies offered by the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt in September, reports Booksellers New Zealand. Clayton and Makereti...
Writing Australia launches new regional residency program
Writing Australia has announced a new regional residency program. The Writing Australia Places program offers four-week regional writing residencies in Lake St Clair and Bruny Island in Tasmania, Kangaroo Island...
$20,000 for the Big Issue fiction edition, among several projects funded by CAL
Several industry bodies have received funding from the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) in its latest round of Cultural Fund funding. In addition to the Australian Booksellers Association, the Indigenous Literacy...
AsiaLink 2012 residencies announced
The recipients of Asialink's 2012 residencies have been announced. The recipients of the Arts Management residencies related to writing, and the projects they will work on, are:Lisa Dempster, Indonesia: Dempster...
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Pizzinga named 2011 Vic rep of the yearAnthony Pizzinga from Random House Australia is this year's Australian Booksellers Association (ABA) Victorian Sales Rep of the Year. Pizzinga was presented with the...
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Magabala Books honoured at regional community awardsIndigenous publisher Magabala Books was recently honoured at the 2011 Western Australian Regional and Community Achievement Awards. The publisher was presented with the Department...
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Dymocks wins online retail awardDymocks has won the Online Retail (Media & Entertainment) category at the 2011 Amber Awards, presented for excellence in online services in Australia and New Zealand....
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More than 170,000 children register for National Simultaneous Storytime More than 170,000 children registered to participate in the annual National Simultaneous Storytime, hosted by the Australian Library and Information Association, which took place...
CAL invests $300,000 in UTS; nonfiction writing residency and Australian poetry chair to be established in 2012
The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) has announced new funding for Creative Practices at UTS by the Copyright Agency Limited (CAL). UTS said in a statement last week that CAL...
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NZ playwright awarded writers' residency New Zealand playwright Michelanne Forster is the recipient of this year's University of Auckland / Creative New Zealand writing residency at the Michael King Writer's...
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2011 NZ Maori Writer's Residency announcedLyttelton author Ben Brown has been announced as the recipient of the 2011 Maori Writer's Residency at the Michael King Writer's Centre. Brown, who is...
2011 Buddle Findlay Sargeson fellows announced
New Zealand fiction writers Sue Orr and Mark Broatch have been announced as the recipients of this year's Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship. Orr and Broatch will each receive a NZ$20,000...
Thibodeaux leaves NT Writers’ Centre, awarded 2011 Australian Poetry Poet in Residence
Sandra Thibodeaux finished up in the role of executive officer of the Northern Territory Writers' Centre in December 2010. Robyn McLean, who has previously worked at the Centre as office...
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New NZ award for children's book illustrators The New Zealand Arts Foundation announced the establishment of a new award for children's book illustrators in December. The award will be named the...