Rose Hartley graduated from the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in San Diego, and has been awarded a Varuna fellowship and residencies at Writers SA and Manning Clark House, and was selected for the Hachette Mentoring Program. Her short story ‘No Other Men in Mitchell’ was nominated for an Australian Shadows Award and her poem ‘Metal Fume […]

We have a copy of Rose Hartley’s novel Maggie’s Going Nowhere to giveaway!

Here. Now. Feast Here. Now. Feast. was a literary showcase celebrating the voices of queer regional young people from across South Australia. Featuring readings of new poetry, stories, letters, speeches, and scripts commissioned and presented by Writers SA and D’faces in Whyalla for Feast Festival 2022. Watch the livestream recording below. Dear You We invited all LGBTQIA+ young people […]

As 2022 comes to a close, we’re taking a moment to reflect on another big and inspiring year at Writers SA in pictures. From our writing events all over the state as part of No Limits, to the Deaf writers group performance event See Me Through My Hands, to Context Writers Festival in Adelaide, we […]

Writers SA is making some changes to our membership pricing structure. In the decades since our inception in 1985 as the first writers centre in Australia, Writers SA has maintained the same membership structure and pricing. And yet, the quality and amount of program offerings has consistently improved, delivering better outcomes and services to our […]

Late last year we launched a very special regional project out into the world and now it’s time to say goodbye to this chapter of the story. That project was No Limits: Young Regional Writers and together our regional team have delivered writing workshops, commissions, micro-residencies, reading events, scratch nights, zines and a host of […]

In the Margins was a collaborative reading project about connecting young regional readers through shared experience and outcome. Throughout the project, a selected story made its way across the state, being passed from reader to reader. As it travelled, readers continued to add their annotations, thoughts and questions in the margins. Over time adding layers […]

Every month we take a moment to congratulate Writers SA members on their writing successes, from new book releases, to prizes, fellowships, awards, publication credits and more. If you’re a Writers SA member who has celebrated a writing achievement recently, fill out this form to be included in our next feature. November 2022 Caroline Reid‘s […]

Welcome to Writers SA’s member-only literary advice column, where our experts respond to your questions about writing, publishing, the literary life and beyond. Got a question? Ask us here. For this installment of Agony Author, Georgie asks: “Hi! I have been playing with an idea for a novel for a couple years now, but get […]

We have a very special signed copy of Jane Harper’s Exiles to giveaway! Aaron Falk returns. Exiles, the third and final book in the Aaron Falk series, follows on from Jane’s international bestsellers The Dry and Force of Nature. At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her […]

We are so delighted to share that the Writers SA No Limits: Young Regional Writers project won Outstanding Regional Event or Project at the Arts South Australia Ruby Awards on Friday night. No Limits: Young Regional Writers exists to connect, inspire, and build the capacity of young regional writers, and we are grateful to have […]

We’re pleased to announce the winners of the Writers SA and Feast Festival Short Story Competition for 2022! The competition entries spanned a range of subjects and genres including sci-fi, contemporary romance, drama, ghost stories and stream-of-consciousness, all with an open theme. As always, it was a challenge to select the winning entries from a […]

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Writers SA and Varuna the National Writers’ House are delighted to announce the 2022 recipient of our SA First Nations Writers Fellowship is established artist and emerging writer Katherine Bell. Kat will be spending a week in the Blue Mountains, writing and developing her craft, with seven nights at Varuna, a $300 travel subsidy, and […]

We have an exciting opportunity to join Writers SA as our Program Manager, starting in January 2023. The Program Manager is the key creative programming role at Writers SA. Based anywhere in South Australia, the Program Manager oversees a statewide program of literary skills development courses and author events to promote, develop and showcase writing […]