19th September – 5th December during Centre opening hours. (more…)

Richard Flanagan is tonight, Tuesday 14 October, announced as the winner of the 2014 Man Booker Prize for Fiction for The Narrow Road to the Deep North, published by Chatto & Windus.The Tasmanian-born author is the third Australian to win the coveted prize which, for the first time in its 46-year history, is now expanded […]

Electronic Literature Organisation :: Submissions for ELC3 due 5 November 2014 The Electronic Literature Organisation (ELO) is seeking submissions and nominations for Volume 3 of the Electronic Literature Collection. ELO was founded in 1999 and has released two collections, in 2006 and 2011. The third volume is slated for publication in 2016 and will continue to […]

POETICA     PRESENTED BY MELANIE TAIT AND GRETCHEN MILLER, SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 9.05 PM THURSDAY. Program details:   (more…)

By Ben Brooker There is no single way to write a review. These days, a work of criticism can be anything from a 140-character tweet, to a 200-word capsule review in a newspaper, to a 10,000-word essay on a blog. Each of these formats has its own requirements for length and style. But, assuming you’ve […]

The Australian Society of Authors is most pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2014 Barbara Jefferis Award. (more…)

By Vanessa Jones Do you want to write your memoir or life story but don’t know where to start? In September, thanks to Australia Council for the Arts, we were fortunate enough to have Benjamin Law teach a Writing Memoir masterclass. Here are some valuable words of advice on how to get your story started […]

You are invited to The Big Issue Exhibition Launch where participants from our Big Issue project will unveil their creative works for all to see!   (more…)

By Georgina Chadderton Come to Georgina’s workshop here (kids only!)   I’ve been writing and drawing comics for almost as long as I can remember and have found comics the perfect medium to help me share the stories I have to tell. ‘Why comics?’ I hear you ask—well, let me explain! I love reading, writing […]

By Barbara Santich Food writing, paradoxically, is not really about food. Or not objectively about food in isolation. More often, food writing is about people and their experiences of growing, sourcing, cooking, offering and eating food; it’s about their relationships with food, their memories associated with food, the place of food in their lives. Writing […]

By Lou Heinrich NB: Lou will be presenting ‘How to Interview Like a Journalist’ as part of the Teenage Boot Camp.   A writer who can’t interview is like a fisherman who doesn’t know how cast a line. It’s an essential element of gathering information; novelists, screenwriters, journos and memoirists all have to discover how […]

Food & Drink Writer, Time Out Melbourne Are you a gun food writer adept at reviewing restaurants, cafés and pubs? Do you have your finger on the pulse of Melbourne’s dynamic food and drink scene? (more…)

By Louise Pascale Blogs come in all shapes and forms. They can be one word, one sentence, one paragraph, one page or 10 pages. A blog is however long or short you wanting it to be, this is self-publishing. You decide. Yet how long you make your blog is really only one of the many […]

By Ben Brooker Everybody has a point of view but it takes more than just an opinion to be able to write a review that other people will want to read. Your job as a reviewer is not just to tell your readers if you thought a book, play or movie was good or bad […]

Access2Arts and the SA Writers Centre bring to Adelaide writer, poet and artist Matt Blackwood to share the secrets of Locative Literature. Locative Literature is telling stories, both fact and fiction (or as Matt describes it faction) about a place and people within. (more…)