*This giveaway is now closed* We have a double pass to giveaway to All The Stories, at Nexus Arts on 5 October. The program features Melbourne-based The Letter String Quartet’s work All The Stories, a song cycle collaboratively written by the Quartet’s artistic director Biddy Connor and poet Maria Zajkowski, and Adelaide musical polymath Fleur Green’s […]

*Please note this competition is now closed* JLF Adelaide – from the producers of the iconic Jaipur Literature Festival- has just announced its full program as part of OzAsia Festival 2019! A free weekend of talks, panels, readings and performances, JLF Adelaide returns to showcase the most celebrated writers, thinkers and performers from across Asia […]

  I often see questions on the socials and people at workshops asking about US vs UK English. Learnt vs learned, spelled vs spelt (not the bread) and so on. There’s no right or wrong if it’s in the dictionary as a real word but has alternative spelling options. Then there’s speech tags and quote […]

We are thrilled to announce that Melaleuca by Angie Martin has won the inaugural Commercial Fiction Fellowship for First Nation Writers. Angie Martin of the Kooma nation also has Kamilaroi, Welsh, German and English ancestry. She was thrilled to receive the fellowship. ‘I am very happy to be supported in pursuing my three great passions in […]

*Please note this competition is now closed* A rare opportunity to connect with the living tradition of women’s songlines, as recounted by Yolngu women from far north Australia. Gay’wu Group of Women is the ‘dilly bag women’s group’, a deep collaboration between five Yolngu women and three non-Aboriginal women over a decade. They are all co-authors […]

As a writer, spreadsheets are your friend. No really. They’re the perfect way keep track of your writing, whether it’s a catalogue of your pitches to literary journals or publications, queries to agents and publishers, or competition submissions. If you’d rather spend your time writing than in Excel, we’re here for you. We’ve designed the […]

First drafts are exactly that. It’s the first time you’re writing all the words down. It’s the first breath you breathe into characters who have either been sitting in your brain for a while or who jumped in late at night when you wanted to go to sleep but couldn’t. It’s a great time to […]

*Please note: this competition is now closed* The charms of the movies are heightened during winter: all that hot buttered popcorn and the warmth of a rainy afternoon spent in a gold-lit theatre. Only thing that could make it even better? Going for free. Thanks to our friends at Palace Films, we have five in-season double […]

Writers SA is serious about fostering the next generation of thinkers and writers and your budding author likely needs more encouragement and nurturing than they get from high school English classes. Joining our Teen Writers Club means your teen will be surrounded by like-minded peers to lean on for inspiration and when their plots are […]

*Please note: this competition is now closed* When the song is over, what remains? Impossible Music is a novel about rediscovering yourself when everything you once took for granted is gone. Music is Simon’s life – which is why he is devastated when a ministroke obliterates his hearing. He resists attempts to help him adjust […]

We’re thrilled to announce the winner of the Writers SA Varuna Fellowship for Young Writers – Poppy Nwosu! We partnered with Varuna the National Writers’ House to give one young South Australian writer a new residency and development fellowship. Poppy will be spending a week in the Blue Mountains, working and developing her craft, as […]

As creative members contributing to Australian society, writers and authors kind of dance to a different tax tune and whilst those of us who have been doing this for a while know what we can and can’t deduct, there are aspiring writers who might not know the ins and outs. (more…)

*Please note this competition is now closed* Where do you start if you want to reduce the plastic in your life? Especially when most of us are wearing it, eating and drinking from it, sitting on it, walking on it, and maybe even ingesting it. Enter to win a copy of Quitting Plastic by Clara Williams Roldan […]

We all know about judging books by their covers – but taking pleasure in quirky, innovative, and just plain beautiful book covers? Absolutely okay with that. A great book cover can intrigue, entice, and add another dimension to the reading experience. When it comes to cover design, fantasy books are in a class of their own. […]

*Please note: this competition is now closed. Phil Cummings is the author of over sixty books for children, in a career that has spanned thirty years. His work has been published around the world and has received multiple awards, and his latest book, Touch the Moon, is a lyrical story about the moon landing from a uniquely […]