Here’s a snapshot at a few of the things you will experience if you come along to our Writing Boot Camp for Teens. MAKING MUSIC WITH WORDS Many believe a writer’s voice to be unique, innate, and therefore uncontrolled. This two hour workshop will focus on the controlled and deliberate craft of making music with […]

by Emma McEwin Creative non fiction is an exciting genre. I love finding creative and interesting ways to write stories about real people and things. Like the mystery box challenge on Masterchef, your task is to combine a jumble of seemingly unrelated ingredients to make a meaningful dish. The ingredients are like the facts of […]

Congratulations to Amanda Hickie, author of An Ordinary Epidemic, published by South Australian publisher, MidnightSun Publishing who was longlisted for the Kibble Awards. Fifteen Australian female authors lauded for “improving and advancing literature for the benefit of our community” form the 2016 longlist for the prestigious Nita B Kibble Literary Awards (the Kibble Awards). Perpetual, […]

Rally Against Arts Funding Cuts: Culture Counts Tuesday 19 April, 12pm Parliament House steps North Terrace, Adelaide SA’s arts organisations and artists are facing the prospect of significantly reduced state government funding, putting our cultural industry at risk. (more…)

The Create Career Fund supports individual mid-to-late career artists and authors by providing grants to support time to write and create. Applicants are able to apply for grants of $10,000, $15,000 or $20,000. Two rounds are held each year with $50,000 available for each round. (more…)

Success sharing time! We were so pleased at SA Writers Centre to open up the latest Overland Magazine and see THREE South Australian writers included (Ben Brooker, Lauren Foley and Natalie Harkin). Check out the latest issue here.   (more…)

Interested in participating in this year’s FEAST FESTIVAL? Register your expression of interest here. Registrations close 25th April. (more…)

Notification of Annual General Meeting Dear members, The SA Writers Centre Incorporated (ABN 40783458265) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 6pm on Monday 9 May 2016 at the SA Writers Centre, Level 2, 187 Rundle St Adelaide 5000. (more…)

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL SA Writers Centre is partnering with the George Town Literary Festival, in Penang, Malaysia, to include an established South Australian writer on the 2016 GLTF festival program. This opportunity is open to all current SA Writers Centre members (as at 30 March 2016) who are residents in […]

Lovers of Australian literature will welcome today’s release by Perpetual of the longlist for one of Australia’s most prestigious literary awards, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. As Trustee of the award, Perpetual has announced the nine authors in competition for this year’s prize. The authors include new entrants such as Lucy Treloar, A S Patric, […]

By Georgina Chadderton Hello there! My name is Gina; I like to watch television, drink my tea without milk and draw auto-bio comics. What do you do with yourself? Auto-bio(graphical) comics (writing stories about yourself) are my favourite to write as I get to write from what I know and experience. When I was younger […]

Adelaide-based MidnightSun Publishing was founded in 2011 by writer-turned-publisher Anna Solding. Solding spoke to Books+Publishing: Describe your company in under 50 words. MidnightSun publishes beautiful, engaging, challenging and well-written books. Our main interest lies with literary fiction but we are branching out into picture books, middle-grade fiction and YA. We only publish books that we […]

May 12, 2016 – May 12, 2016 Cnr of Franklin and Cannon Street Map and Directions | Register Description: During May we are combining our two favourite events into one super literary event for writers! Join us at the Publishers Hotel on Thursday 12 May from 5.30pm for both #ADLLitDrinks and our Member Meetup. Enjoy […]

In exciting news, we are giving one person the chance to win one of our First Feedback service during April. Simply sign up for our Getting Started or Poetry Play workshop during April, 2016 and you will be in with a chance to win! Must be a financial participant of the abovenamed workshops and a […]

April 19, 2016 – April 21, 2016 Level 2 Map and Directions | Register Description: April School Holidays    ‘I learnt way too much to be able to list it all here, but every little bit of it will definitely help me with my writing.’   If you love creative writing and want to write […]