Thank you to our members who sent in a book to be added to our 2023 gift guide! It’s ready to be shared far and wide in celebration of Writers SA’s authors and their books just in time for the season of gift giving. Just click on a book cover and be whisked away to […]

The team at Writers SA are always trying to come up with ways to showcase our member’s books to the world and this year we’re creating the gift guide to outdo them all! It’s going to be packed full of your books and gift ideas for readers and writers just in time for the holiday […]

We are thrilled to once again team up with Varuna, the National Writers’ House, to offer two new writing residency and development fellowships for South Australian writers working in any genre or form. The fellowships provide time, writing space, and consultation to work on your writing in a dedicated writers’ retreat in the beautiful Country of […]

Join Writers SA and The City of Port Adelaide Enfield for a series of Nature Writing Workshops on October 7 at Parks Library. Starting at just $30, there’s self-editing, dystopias and utopias, children’s and YA settings, and self-publishing to choose from. Just click on the images above or the links below to book. Writers SA’s […]

We are so excited to announce ALISON K RICHARDS as the winning recipient of the 2023 Deep Creek Residency Fellowship. The judges said “We were thrilled by the breadth of form and subject matter that this shortlist represented, including visceral poetry, literary non-fiction, and an elegant novella. It was a pleasure to read stories embedded […]

We get a lot of copyright questions in our inbox and I thought I’d address a few here so we can try to foster a better understanding of how copyright and intellectual property laws work, and how you can better protect yourself from being sued. Writers SA are not the foremost authority on copyright in […]

You might be asking why I think this is important enough for an entire blog post but in order to manage your own expectations in the world of print publishing, you need to know a little something about word counts. If you’re intending to self-publish, most of the following doesn’t apply to you because you […]

We field a lot of questions at Writers SA about publishing contracts and while we can’t give you legal advice, we can give you general advice on what the brightest red flags are to watch out for, so strap yourself in for a long read! At the end of this post we’ll also give some […]

Writers Centres welcome $19.3 million for Writers Australia in new National Cultural PolicyThe National Writers Centre Network (NWCN) has welcomed the Albanese Government’s National Cultural Policy, Revive, launched in Melbourne today by Arts Minister Tony Burke. The Policy includes the creation of a new body called Writers Australia located within the re-fashioned Australia Council for […]

Writers SA and Varuna the National Writers’ House are delighted to announce the 2022 recipient of our SA First Nations Writers Fellowship is established artist and emerging writer Katherine Bell. Kat will be spending a week in the Blue Mountains, writing and developing her craft, with seven nights at Varuna, a $300 travel subsidy, and […]

Ahead of her upcoming workshop, author and internationally-recognised space archaeologist Dr Alice Gorman gives us an insight into the concept of futurolinguistics that inspired the session. The technique of futurolinguistics is inspired by Stanislaw Lem’s dark science fiction spoof The Futurological Congress (1971), in which the enigmatic Professor Trottelreiner proposes a method of exploring the […]

Matilda Bookshop, in partnership with Writers SA, and in association with Ultimo Press, are offering an annual residency fellowship to a South Australian writer. The fellowship provides support (time, writing space and mentoring) to work on a writing project of literary merit in a beautiful bush setting. We are pleased to announce the shortlist for […]

The Annual General Meeting of Writers SA (the SA Writers Centre Incorporated – ABN 40783458265) will be held Monday 30 May, 6pm via Zoom. Call for Board of Management Nominations The Writers SA Board of Management consists of eight members. All current financial members are eligible to nominate for the Board of Management. The term […]

https://lendingrights.arts.gov.au/ **This post has been updated with new information for indie authors March 2023 For those who don’t know what these acronyms stand for, they are public lending rights and educational lending rights. I’m not an expert but I’m going to unpack a little about what these are, who needs them, and what next. To […]

Did you know the romance novel industry is worth around $2billion a year and is the highest selling genre in the world? Our loyal readers flock to romance because they know exactly what they’re going to get in terms of the ending. They know their book boyfriend isn’t going to die and the heroine isn’t […]