The latest issue of White Paper, ABC Radio National’s new monthly digital magazine, the third issue has a specific focus on writers and writing- including an article from Fiona McFarlane on the process of writing and publishing literary fiction. Check it out here. (more…)

Express Media is proud to announce the return of the Young Writers Innovation Prize in 2014. Funded by the Copyright Agency Limited, the prize is a one-of-a-kind opportunity for young writers and artists to bring their brilliant writing or publishing ideas to life. (more…)

Congratulations to one of our Dubnium Young Editors, Royce Kurmelovs, who has been successfully granted a Kill Your Darlings Copyright Agency Investigative Journalism Mentorship. (more…)

Wakefield Press is pleased to announce that Simon Collinson will be joining them as their ‘Geek in Residence’ from June 2014, thanks to the generosity of the Australia Council for the Arts. Simon will be focusing on creatively enhancing Wakefield’s ebook production and marketing. (more…)

We are developing a program for our deaf and hearing impaired writers and would be grateful for the thoughts of this community at this early stage of project development. We will begin the process with a free workshop and a consultation session some time in June-July. Initially, we would really like to make contact with […]

Our AGM for 2014 will be held on Monday 19 May. Starts at 6pm sharp. All members welcome. Please RSVP to [email protected]. (more…)

If you missed Adelaide Writers’ Week or wish you could revisit it, never fear – podcasts are now available. Check out the Adelaide Festival Website to hear them. (more…)

The Australian Society of Authors (ASA) will accept applications for the annual Ray Koppe Young Writers’ Residency in April. The program is open to writers and book illustrators 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, […]