Previous Writer in Residence, Rose Hartley, has just been accepted into the 2015 Clarion Writers’ Workshop in San Diego! She’ll be studying the art of the science fiction/fantasy short story under the tutelage of Margo Lanagan and other awesome writers. (more…)

Congratulations to the newly appointed editors as part of SA Writers Centre’s young editors project, Dubnium.  (more…)

SA Writers Centre is excited to announce our new digital writer in residence for the first quarter of 2015: Samuel Jozeps. Brief Project Overview Sam’s intrigue into storytelling across alternative platforms piqued at university and through his work, this continues to grow. With the following three projects, he intends to promote (and produce more of […]

SA Writers Centre is giving away a ticket to one lucky person to attend our Writing Worlds within Worlds workshop with award winning playwright and interstate guest, Fin Kruckemeyer. All you have to do is tell us the name of your fictional world, if you were writing one. You must comment with this world name […]

The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will accept applications for the annual Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency in April 2015. The program is open to writers who have not yet had a full-length work published and have a limited publication history of short works. Judges will accept submissions across a range of genres, and will […]

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…)