Clare Forster from Curtis Brown Australia brings us an inspiring summer reading list of some of her favourite works of life writing as we edge towards the warmer months… Some of Australia’s most remarkable and inspiring stories stem from true life. Told in voices plain, ornate, and everything in between, first-person accounts serve many purposes […]

SA Writers Centre will be giving evidence on Friday at the upcoming Public Senate Hearing in Adelaide regarding Impact of the 2014 and 2015 Commonwealth Budget decisions on the Arts, and we will be  advocating for SA writers and the writing sector.  (more…)

By David Chapple   1. You don’t have to write what you know but you do have to write what you care about. Stories can have technical frailties but honest, brave, challenging content are always worth reading. 2. Write what you have to write. I think short stories should burst out of you. They don’t […]

Award-winning South Australian author Dr Cath Kenneally has been named as the inaugural Copyright Agency (CAL) J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow at the University of Adelaide. (more…)

As well as the Melbourne Writers’ Festival this past weekend, the First Nations Australia Writing Network’s Annual Conference was held at the Wheeler Centre in the heart of Melbourne. Aboriginal writers from all over the country came together, to collaborate and celebrate ideas for future projects both as a collective and as individual artists with […]

By Danielle Clode Writing well requires much the same set of skills no matter whether we are writing fiction or nonfiction, but the success of fiction often rests in part on the architecture of the whole story or book. In nonfiction it is structure at the level of the sentence and paragraph that is often […]

Proudly presented by the City of Salisbury in partnership with the SA Writers Centre the Salisbury Writers’ Festival offers a smorgasbord of local and national talent – some with international reputations. With a number of genres represented, you certainly don’t want to miss out on this year’s Festival. Held over ten days, from 21 August to 30 August […]

Applications are invited for the 2015-16 Writers with Disability Project. Members with a current writing project are invited to apply to be part of the up and coming scheme to help develop their writing to it’s fullest potential. (more…)

For the first time, SA Writers Centre and major publisher, Hachette, have teamed up to introduce a unique mentoring opportunity for South Australian writers. Submissions were sought from fiction, non fiction and young adult writers across the state earlier this year. The decision process proved to become difficult when it was clear that there was […]

We asked Twitter what was the best writing advice they’ve ever heard. He’s some useful tips we collated:   David Grayson ‏@sasanof  “Find your own voice” Christopher Hitchens http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2011/06/christopher-hitchens-unspoken-truths-201106 …   Janie Mac ‏@jatosha If you’re stuck, that’s ok, but just write something, anything, for 10 minutes. Write first, edit later. #amwriting     calanthe_b ‏@calanthe_b  […]

By Fiona Inglis  What you are selling Who to sell to How to sell, where to sell – fairs, co-agents How to pitch How to build on momentum I begin every talk I ever give – not matter what the subject – by telling people they need to have something worth selling. It applies to […]

Our first ever Adelaide Pitch Conference was a terrific success that exceeded all expectations. Out of the 43 attendees, 27 people were asked by major Australian publishers to submit their manuscript – most to more than one publisher! (more…)

Applying for a grant? Our Director, Sarah Tooth, gives her top tips for a writing a successful grant: Include EVERYTHING but ONLY THE THINGS that they ask for. For example, if they ask for three pages of writing, don’t submit zero pages and don’t submit ten pages. Just submit three pages. Great support materials are […]

  Work on one thing at a time until finished. Start no more new books, add no more new material to Black Spring. (Apparently he’s giving himself this advice.) Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand. Work according to the program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed […]

New York, New York! To celebrate the New York Writers Workshop Pitch Conference leaving New York for the first time and the director Tim Tomlinson being with us in Adelaide, we are hosting a very special New York themed Quick & Dirty during the Adelaide Pitch Conference. (more…)