The Tasmanian Writers’ Centre is distributing two beautiful children’s books, When I was a Girl in Sudan and When I was a Boy in Sudan. (more…)

Congratulations to Lucy Clark who one the Ruby Award for Short Sweet Romance for her title One Life-Changing Moment, over the weekend at the Romance Writers Australia conference. We’re very proud to have Lucy as part of our professional development program and she will be delivering a workshop on Writing Effective Dialogue in September. (more…)

WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT participants of this year’s Digital Writers Room masterclass will be invited to apply to take up one of our Digital Writers in Residence slots for 2015. This new online space gives Australian writers an opportunity to take up residence (more…)

Whitsunday Writers Festival 2014 program is now online. The Festival runs 10 – 12 October. Details here. (more…)

7 August 2014 (more…)

Media Release from ASA It is with great pleasure that the Australian Society of Authors announces that Danielle Binks, well-known columnist at Kill Your Darlings, has won this year’s Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency. Danielle will receive a one-week residency at Varuna, The Writers’ House, to support the development of her YA novel, ‘The True […]

The Premier of NSW, the Honourable Mike Baird MP today [Monday 11 August] announced the shortlist for the 2014 NSW Premier’s History Awards. (more…)

Fifth Quarter have some terrific workshops coming up. If you’re a SAWC member you can attend at the Partner organisation member fee. Workshop: Writing Funding Applications Facilitated by Georgie Davill, Carclew Senior Program Manager Inevitably at some stage in your career you’re going to start looking into funding. But where do you start, how do […]

A handful of Creative Offices that are becoming available at The Mill and they would love to see some writers in the space again. Creative Industry Offices start at 3 x 4 meters and 24 hour access, lockable doors, windows, Internet and access to kitchen, gallery and soft space (they are each different shapes and […]

MEDIA RELEASE                                                                               Nearly $A40.9 billion dollars of interactive video games were sold in 2002 according to the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA). That’s more than the worldwide box office takings for the film industry in the same year. In Australia, the story is similar: Australians spent $825 million in 2002 on games […]

Melbourne Writers Festival have announced their digital reporters for 2014. Congratulations to all, especially South Australians Lou Heinrich and Carissa Lee Godwin (our ATSI Program Coordinator). (more…)

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SA Writers Centre and Wakefield Press will be presenting a stylish dinner that marries the two worlds of art and literature as part of the SALA festival this year. On 7 August, at 7pm guests are invited to join art world aficionados to discuss the importance of literature and how it can support art. Writers […]

Congratulations to our Writer in Residence, Rose Hartley who has just won the Axel Clark Memorial Prize for Poetry 2014. Rose will undertake a one month writing residency in Canberra and receive prize money. Well done to her hard and wonderful work. (more…)

By Serena Wong We sometimes have this suspicion that art is trying to trick us, pull the wool over our eyes and ridicule our taste. But in reality, art is just another language. Not the language of an elite club guarded by secret codes, but a tool to distil the chaos of the world around […]