The Little Big Book Club needs your help to pack 42,000 Baby and Toddler Reading Bags that will be given out FREE to SA families. If you are aged between 15-80 years and you can spare a few hours of your time to help with this fantastic literacy initiative, we would love to hear from […]

Call out for Quick and Dirty performers. Event to be held 30th October 2014. The title is ‘Grave Matters’ and is a collections of readings that explore mortality. (more…)

As part of 2014’s National Bookshop Day celebrations the Australian Booksellers Association polled Australians, asking them to vote for their favourite children’s book. Thousands of votes have been collated and we are excited to reveal the fabulous results. (more…)

Don’t miss your opportunity to share $50,000 through Carclew’s Project and Development Grants.Funding is available for artists aged 26 and under to develop creative projects with a tangible outcome and to pursue career development opportunities between January and June 2015. (more…)

Carclew is again recognising excellence in arts education through the annual Education and Arts Ministers’ Awards. (more…)

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 […]