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 […]

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 […]

April 10, 2016 – April 10, 2016 Level 2 Map and Directions | Register Description: with Rowena Holloway and Sandy Vaile No matter what genre you are writing, understanding and applying the elements of suspense can help avoid stories being abandoned part way through. Knowing how to create a compelling story question, build anticipation and […]

Meet our current Writer in Residence, Dean Mayes. Dean took some time to answer some questions about his writing so we could get to know him better. What is your typical writing process? I have been very much a “panster” over the course of my career. I tend to brainstorm ideas to a certain point […]

Adelaide Writers’ Week may be over but you can still relive the literary glory thanks to ABC 891 Adelaide. At the 2016 Adelaide Writers’ Week, Afternoons with Sonya Feldhoff captured the insightful and inspiring stories of 16 national and international authors. Monday February 29 Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies Simon Winchester, Pacific Stephen Daisley, Coming […]