Nine Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award.  In its fifth year, the Fellowship attracted an exceptionally strong field of high-quality proposals from writers and biographers across Australia. Works about Australian writers, artists and visionaries feature in this year’s shortlist, which also includes European and American subjects. (more…)

Melbourne Writers Festival want your ideas for the 2016 Festival! If you have ideas you can’t wait to share, their Digital Suggestion Box is now live. All ideas submitted will be reviewed and considered by their programming team and Audience Advocates, so don’t hold back! Submit here. (more…)

The Arts Industry Council of SA (AICSA) recently released the draft publication Adelaide 2055, with “a vision in which culture, the arts and creative industries play a stronger and more vital role in the state’s future.” Adelaide 2055 draws together the ideas of 200 members of South Australia’s arts community who attended the 40 Year […]

SA Writers Centre is looking for someone to join our amazing team. If you’re interested in the writing industry and want to be a part of it, or if you love working in the arts and helping support artists on their journey, this could be the position for you. We are a small but highly […]

January 29, 2016 – January 29, 2016 Map and Directions | Register Description: The ArtsPitch grant is a new initiative that aims to encourage innovative ideas and support creative risk taking while providing a different access pathway to Arts South Australia’s investment in individual artists to advance the realisation of their creative ideas. (more…)

February 4, 2016 – February 4, 2016 Map and Directions | Register Description: Got an idea for an arts project? Find out what makes a winning funding application and how to improve your chances of success. Project Officers from three funding organisations and three artists who have had funding success will join us for a […]

The shortlist for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature has been announced! With a prize pool of $167,500 on the line, the winners will be announced on Saturday, 27 February 2016 as part of Adelaide Writers’ Week. (more…)

WIN A BOOK PACK! Thanks to the generous folks at Seizure, we have a prize pack of three incredible novellas to give away. These great novellas are previous Viva La Novella winners; Formaldehyde by Jane Rawson, Welcome to Orphancorp by Marlee Jane Ward and The End of Seeing by Christy Collins.   TO ENTER: simply […]

Are you an artist with a disruptive, creative interesting idea you would like to pitch to a panel of arts, cultural and business leaders to be considered for one of five $5k ArtsPitch grants? Are you an emerging, practising professional artist with a limited history of grant funding through Arts South Australia or Carclew? Have […]

The SA Writers Centre lends the strongest possible support to Radio Adelaide, a unique and vitally important cultural institution that is cherished by listeners, artists, writers and readers. Radio Adelaide is a key element of the arts ecology in SA, and makes crucial contribution to our robust and sustainable artistic community. (more…)

The ASA is delighted to announce the shortlist for this year’s Asher Award. The ASA received 47 eligible applications from a range of genres, including children’s literature and performance writing. Assessors Tegan Bennett Daylight, Anthony Birch and Charlotte Wood noted that the quality and diversity of submissions made selecting a winner extremely difficult. (more…)

Our Children’s and Young Adult Creators Festival was held recently and was a massive success that we are hugely proud of.  Program Manager, Bethany Clark, joined Jennie Lenman on Radio Adelaide and discussed the successes of the year and what’s in store for 2016 – including a sneak peek at the things to come! Have […]

Former SA Writers Centre intern, Samuel Williams, has recently been awarded the 2016 Australian Cultural John Monash Scholarship! Helping adolescents and young adults through relevant literature and non-fiction is the aim of 2016 Australian Cultural John Monash Scholar, Samuel, who last week became one of 17 recipients of the prestigious postgraduate scholarship. (more…)

A creative writer will join the fight against obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease with the announcement today of a Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre.  The $100,000 fellowship – the first of its kind in Australia – will take an unusual approach in enlisting a creative writer in a […]

SA Writers Centre was announced as a finalist in the 2015 Ruby Awards in the Sustained Contribution by an Organisation category. The SA Writers Centre , now in its thirtieth year,  was the first writers’ centre in Australia, and one of the very first in the world. Others have been established interstate, following the South […]