SA Writers Centre, Writing Australia launch Digital Writers in Residence project
The SA Writers Centre and Writing Australia have launched the Digital Writers in Residence project.The project presents six writers-in-residence from writers centres around Australia: the SA Writers Centre, the ACT Writers Centre,...
Writing Australia defunded
Writing Australia, a national organisation that was launched in 2011 to support writers’ centres across Australia, has been ‘quietly defunded’, according to a report from artsHub. According to artsHub, the...
Treloar wins Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award
Lucy Treloar has won this year’s Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award for her manuscript The Things We Tell Ourselves. Treloar’s manuscript was selected from a shortlist of three for the...
Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award shortlist announced
Writing Australia has announced the shortlist for this year’s Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. The shortlisted manuscripts are: The Great Divide (Rex Hunter) In Camera Obscura (Chrissy Collins) The Things...
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...
Kent wins inaugural Writing Australia unpublished manuscript award
National writing organisation Writing Australia has announced that Hannah Kent is the winner of the inaugural Writing Australia Unpublished Manuscript Award. Kent, who is deputy editor of literary journal Kill...
Writing Australia launches program, unpublished manuscript award
National writing organisation Writing Australia has officially launched its program, with details about a new award for unpublished manuscripts, a national conference, and an author touring program now available online....
Delahunty appointed Writing Australia national director
Former Victorian Arts and Education minister Mary Delahunty has been appointed national director of Writing Australia. In a statement from the organisation this week, interim chair Christine Gallagher said that...
Delahunty appointed Writing Australia national director
Former Victorian Arts and Education minister Mary Delahunty has been appointed national director of Writing Australia. In a statement from the organisation this week, interim chair Christine Gallagher said that...