Meet Finegan Kruckemeyer, exceptional playwright, who will be joining us with this intriguing Writing Worlds within Worlds workshop. Which book or play best resembles your life? Or which book character best resembles you? I’m not sure there’s enough drama to warrant an equivalent work of fiction. It would have to be something about people quite […]

Lou Heinrich was our first Writer in Residence for 2015. She bought an astounding work ethic, great points of view and a delightful array of headscarves into the Centre. We got up close and personal with her to find out more about her… If you could be a super hero, what power would you like […]

The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will accept applications for the annual Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency in April 2015. The program is open to writers who have not yet had a full-length work published and have a limited publication history of short works. Judges will accept submissions across a range of genres, and will […]

Pitch us a blog post that is relevant to the industry and you COULD WIN a place to our Book to Blog and Back full day workshop (valued at $160), held on 12 April 2015. Requirements: Please email us your pitch (less than 200 words) links to two pieces to give us an idea of […]

ANNOUNCING our Crime Fair Weekend to be held 27 and 28 June. Following in the wake of our successful Romance Weekend, SA Writers Centre presents a weekend for crime writers, lovers and readers. Featuring local, interstate and international guests, we’ll get down and dirty with fiction and non fiction writers, criminologists, psychologists, forensic experts and […]

in partnership with The Walkley Foundation In an Adelaide first, we’re offering an exclusive opportunity to learn from some of the greatest digital innovators from around the country, in partnership with the Walkley Foundation. The Boot Camp will provide an overview plus practical tutorials in the web tools, apps and techniques being used right now […]

We are thrilled to bring you our latest program for April to June. We’ve already had a terrific first quarter of 2015 with almost every workshop and event booking out. This program sees a whole range of exciting workshops and events for every type of writer including Feature Article Writing, Perfect Grammar, Photography for Writers, […]

Recently, critically acclaimed author, Porochista Khakpour, visited us during 2015 Adelaide Writers’ Week to deliver a Creative Writing Masterclass. Here is some snapshots of the infinite wisdom she had to share with the attending writers. Check out the 2016 Adelaide Writers’ Week workshops here.   There are many roads [in publishing] now but they all […]

Congratulations to our Writer in Resident, Lou Heinrich, who will be going an on exchange to the Bali Emerging Writers Festival thanks to the Emerging Writers Festival. (more…)

Nominations for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are open, with a prize pool of $167,500 on offer in one of the nation’s richest and most competitive literary prizes. (more…)

Director of Adelaide Writers’ Week, Laura Kroetsch, gave a special presentation to SA Writers Centre members to let us know her top picks for AWW. http://youtu.be/ETRWd2_ENWE (more…)

From now until 7 March, the Kill Your Darlings Writers Workshop is offering all new and renewing print subscribers a year-long subscription and a 3000-word manuscript assessment, for just $100. TWO lucky winners will receive the subscription plus manuscript assessment package FOR FREE.  (more…)

The NGV will host the inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair, 1−3 May at NGV International, gathering together some of the most creative Australian and international book designers and publishers in an architecturally designed experience in NGV’s Great Hall. A number of exhibitors will showcase fine art, architecture and design publications as well as limited editions […]

SA Writers Centre’s industry forum during Adelaide Writers’ Week in 2014. “Getting Discovered” featuring Jeff Sparrow, Jane Novak, Julianne Schultz and chaired by Jennifer Mills. (more…)

Marianna Shek’s project, ‘Limerence’, which was developed as part of the NT Writers’ Centre Digital Residency run by SA Writers Centre, was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize in the UK. Check it out here. (more…)