Inaugural Deborah Cass Prize shortlist announced
The shortlist for Writers Victoria’s inaugural Deborah Cass Prize for emerging writers from migrant backgrounds has been announced. The shortlisted works are: ‘Scent of Sousan and Yasaman’ by Sanaz Fotouhi...
Writers Victoria announces Glenfern Fellowships, Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition winners
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern Fellowships. The fellowships for mid-career and established writers were awarded to Jennifer Down, Lee Kofman and Christian Ryan, and the...
Nelson awarded Sri Lankan writing fellowship
The 2014 Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship has been awarded to Canberra-based writer Lucy Nelson. The one-month fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send Nelson to...
Australian writers shortlisted for Sri Lankan writing fellowship
Eleven Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2014 Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. The fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send an Australian writer to...
Affirm, Writers Vic and RMIT launch new writing prize
Affirm Press, Writers Victoria and RMIT have announced a new prize for RMIT students.The WRAP Synopsis Prize is open to final-year students at RMIT undertaking either Professional Writing and Editing or the...
Writers Vic launches ‘Writers Book Club’
Writers Victoria has launched a new ‘professional development and networking opportunity’ for published writers, who will ‘use a newly released Australian novel as a starting point for facilitated conversation and...
Writers Victoria to run inaugural Manuscript Assessor Conference
Writers Victoria will run its inaugural Manuscript Assessor Conference from 2-3 September 2014 at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Manuscript assessors and editors are invited to the two-day event for a...
Maxine Beneba Clarke wins 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Maxine Beneba Clarke has won the 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Clarke was announced as the winner at a Writers Victoria event in Melbourne on 11 March. Writers Victoria said...
Hazel Rowley Fellowship 2014 finalists announced
Writers Victoria has announced the finalists for the 2014 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, which is presented each year to an Australian writer for a proposed biography. The shortlisted writers and...
Writers Victoria announces winners of Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition, Glenfern Fellowships
Writers Victoria has announced the winners of the Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The $1000 prize for creative nonfiction was awarded to Judith Bunn for her memoir ‘Pink’, and...
Wright wins Sri Lankan writing fellowship
Short story-writer Michelle Wright has won the first Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship. The Fellowship, which is offered by Writers Victoria and Templeberg Villa, will send Wright on a 30 day...
New Writers Victoria fellowship announced
Writers Victoria, in association with Templeberg Villa, has announced a new international fellowship for writers. The inaugural Templeberg Residential Writing Fellowship will give one writer the opportunity to work on...
Steggall wins Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship
Stephany Steggall has won the 2013 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Writers Victoria said in a statement that Steggall will use the $10,000 fellowship to work on a biography of Australian...
Larsen appointed Writers Victoria director
Kate Larsen has been appointed director of Writers Victoria and will start in the role on 13 May. Larsen, an arts administrator, writer and poet, replaces former Writers Victoria director...
Larsen appointed director of Writers Victoria
Kate Larsen has been appointed director of Writers Victoria, commencing on 13 May. Larsen, an arts administrator, writer and poet, replaces former Writers Victoria director Roderick Poole, who left the...
Poole leaves Writers Victoria
Roderick Poole finished in his position as director of Writers Victoria in December 2012. Administration and finance manager Jacquelin Low is currently acting as director until the position is filled....
Poole leaves Writers Victoria
Writers Victoria has announced that director Roderick Poole has left the organisation. Poole finished in his position on 30 December 2012 after spending two-and-a-half years as director. He joined the organisation in 2010 and led...
Glenfern fellowships recipients announced
Writers Victoria has announced the recipients of this year’s Glenfern writers’ studio fellowships. Ramona Koval, David Sornig and Libby Hart are the recipients of the Readings Glenfern Fellowships for Mid-Career...
‘The Rosie Project’ wins 2012 Victorian Premier’s unpublished manuscript award
A novel about a man with undiagnosed Asperger’s Syndrome who is looking for the perfect partner has won this year’s Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for an unpublished manuscript, announced during...
Hoban wins inaugural Hazel Rowley Memorial Fellowship
Mary Hoban was announced as the winner of the inaugural Hazel Rowley Memorial Fellowship on 14 March at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. Hoban will use the $10,000 fellowship to...