May is Short Story Month! Here’s a number of ways that you can immerse yourself in the pleasure of a short story: Vintage shorts released daily. Electric Literature releases a short story a day too. Check out our writing competitions page for upcoming short story comps to enter. Akashic Books is sharing stories all month […]

Author Charlotte Wood has taken home $50,000 after winning the Stella Prize for her novel The Natural Way of Things. The major literary award celebrates the writing of Australian women and is in its fourth year. It is named after My Brilliant Career author Stella Miles Franklin and aims to bring more readers to books […]

Scenestr has shone a spotlight on all the great workshops and events coming up at SA Writers Centre!   “Throughout April and May the SA Writers Centre has a line-up of exciting workshops and a festival for writers of all kinds to push themselves to their writing limits. With a wide range of professional development workshops […]

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…)

The very talented Vanessa Jones, our very own Marketing Officer, is also a writer and interviewee. Read what she had to say about working at SA Writers Centre and everything else she’s doing here. (more…)

891 Book Club can be heard on the first Friday of the month at 2.30pm on 891 Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff (with guests Laura Kroetsch and our Director, Sarah Tooth). For the latest 891 Book Club news you can sign up to the 891 enewsletter mailing list here and see the monthly book titles here. […]

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, […]

May 7, 2016 – May 8, 2016 Level 2 Map and Directions | Register Description: We’re bringing you one of the most exciting genre festivals this year! Put Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 May in your diary for the Spec Fiction and Fantasy Writers Fest. FEATURING: Gillian Rubinstein, Sean Williams, Lisa L Hannett, Ben Chandler, […]

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 […]