Pitch us a blog post that is relevant to the industry and you COULD WIN a place to our Book to Blog and Back full day workshop (valued at $160), held on 12 April 2015. Requirements: Please email us your pitch (less than 200 words) links to two pieces to give us an idea of […]

ANNOUNCING our Crime Fair Weekend to be held 27 and 28 June. Following in the wake of our successful Romance Weekend, SA Writers Centre presents a weekend for crime writers, lovers and readers. Featuring local, interstate and international guests, we’ll get down and dirty with fiction and non fiction writers, criminologists, psychologists, forensic experts and […]

in partnership with The Walkley Foundation In an Adelaide first, we’re offering an exclusive opportunity to learn from some of the greatest digital innovators from around the country, in partnership with the Walkley Foundation. The Boot Camp will provide an overview plus practical tutorials in the web tools, apps and techniques being used right now […]

We are thrilled to bring you our latest program for April to June. We’ve already had a terrific first quarter of 2015 with almost every workshop and event booking out. This program sees a whole range of exciting workshops and events for every type of writer including Feature Article Writing, Perfect Grammar, Photography for Writers, […]

Congratulations to our Writer in Resident, Lou Heinrich, who will be going an on exchange to the Bali Emerging Writers Festival thanks to the Emerging Writers Festival. (more…)

Nominations for the 2016 Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature are open, with a prize pool of $167,500 on offer in one of the nation’s richest and most competitive literary prizes. (more…)

From now until 7 March, the Kill Your Darlings Writers Workshop is offering all new and renewing print subscribers a year-long subscription and a 3000-word manuscript assessment, for just $100. TWO lucky winners will receive the subscription plus manuscript assessment package FOR FREE.  (more…)

The NGV will host the inaugural Melbourne Art Book Fair, 1−3 May at NGV International, gathering together some of the most creative Australian and international book designers and publishers in an architecturally designed experience in NGV’s Great Hall. A number of exhibitors will showcase fine art, architecture and design publications as well as limited editions […]

SA Writers Centre’s industry forum during Adelaide Writers’ Week in 2014. “Getting Discovered” featuring Jeff Sparrow, Jane Novak, Julianne Schultz and chaired by Jennifer Mills. (more…)

Marianna Shek’s project, ‘Limerence’, which was developed as part of the NT Writers’ Centre Digital Residency run by SA Writers Centre, was shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize in the UK. Check it out here. (more…)

The Stella Prize is delighted to announce the 2015 Stella Prize longlist. (more…)

Eight Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award, including South Australian author and SA Writers Centre Board member, Patrick Allington. (more…)

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to our Admin Assistant, Sarah Gates, who received the Colin Thiele Writing Scholarship from Carclew recently, of $12,500. We’re very proud of her and her writing achievements and we’re excited for this wonderful step in her career. (more…)

Program of Writing Workshops and Events We’re very excited to present our first quarter writing program and want to encourage you to take advantage of the wonderful writing workshops and events we have on offer. You’ll be able to choose from a range of wonderful learning and development experiences including Become a Paid Travel Writer […]

Lit Bulb Festival … flash fiction at its flashiest Announcing the Lit Bulb Festival. The inaugural Lit Bulb Festival is supported by the SA Writers Centre and Pure Slush and it’s a celebration of flash fiction in its many forms. Most importantly, Lit Bulb will be a celebration of writing. You can find the Lit […]