An Author’s Emotional Journey in an infographic Telegraphic reporting was a Pulitzer Prize category (and other trivia you didn’t know you didn’t know) Inspire Creative Writing With the Scribeasy App Please write here: your best book inscriptions Announcing the Editors of Speculative Fiction 2016 & Call for Submissions Winner of Stella Prize Writing Climax Scenes […]

Author Charlotte Wood has taken home $50,000 after winning the Stella Prize for her novel The Natural Way of Things. The major literary award celebrates the writing of Australian women and is in its fourth year. It is named after My Brilliant Career author Stella Miles Franklin and aims to bring more readers to books […]

Here’s a snapshot at a few of the things you will experience if you come along to our Writing Boot Camp for Teens. MAKING MUSIC WITH WORDS Many believe a writer’s voice to be unique, innate, and therefore uncontrolled. This two hour workshop will focus on the controlled and deliberate craft of making music with […]

Congratulations to Amanda Hickie, author of An Ordinary Epidemic, published by South Australian publisher, MidnightSun Publishing who was longlisted for the Kibble Awards. Fifteen Australian female authors lauded for “improving and advancing literature for the benefit of our community” form the 2016 longlist for the prestigious Nita B Kibble Literary Awards (the Kibble Awards). Perpetual, […]

Rally Against Arts Funding Cuts: Culture Counts Tuesday 19 April, 12pm Parliament House steps North Terrace, Adelaide SA’s arts organisations and artists are facing the prospect of significantly reduced state government funding, putting our cultural industry at risk. (more…)

The Create Career Fund supports individual mid-to-late career artists and authors by providing grants to support time to write and create. Applicants are able to apply for grants of $10,000, $15,000 or $20,000. Two rounds are held each year with $50,000 available for each round. (more…)

Success sharing time! We were so pleased at SA Writers Centre to open up the latest Overland Magazine and see THREE South Australian writers included (Ben Brooker, Lauren Foley and Natalie Harkin). Check out the latest issue here.   (more…)

Interested in participating in this year’s FEAST FESTIVAL? Register your expression of interest here. Registrations close 25th April. (more…)

Notification of Annual General Meeting Dear members, The SA Writers Centre Incorporated (ABN 40783458265) Annual General Meeting (AGM) will be held at 6pm on Monday 9 May 2016 at the SA Writers Centre, Level 2, 187 Rundle St Adelaide 5000. (more…)

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST – GEORGE TOWN LITERARY FESTIVAL SA Writers Centre is partnering with the George Town Literary Festival, in Penang, Malaysia, to include an established South Australian writer on the 2016 GLTF festival program. This opportunity is open to all current SA Writers Centre members (as at 30 March 2016) who are residents in […]

Lovers of Australian literature will welcome today’s release by Perpetual of the longlist for one of Australia’s most prestigious literary awards, the Miles Franklin Literary Award. As Trustee of the award, Perpetual has announced the nine authors in competition for this year’s prize. The authors include new entrants such as Lucy Treloar, A S Patric, […]

May 7, 2016 – May 8, 2016 Level 2 Map and Directions | Register Description: We’re bringing you one of the most exciting genre festivals this year! Put Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 May in your diary for the Spec Fiction and Fantasy Writers Fest. FEATURING: Gillian Rubinstein, Sean Williams, Lisa L Hannett, Ben Chandler, […]

Adelaide-based MidnightSun Publishing was founded in 2011 by writer-turned-publisher Anna Solding. Solding spoke to Books+Publishing: Describe your company in under 50 words. MidnightSun publishes beautiful, engaging, challenging and well-written books. Our main interest lies with literary fiction but we are branching out into picture books, middle-grade fiction and YA. We only publish books that we […]

May 12, 2016 – May 12, 2016 Cnr of Franklin and Cannon Street Map and Directions | Register Description: During May we are combining our two favourite events into one super literary event for writers! Join us at the Publishers Hotel on Thursday 12 May from 5.30pm for both #ADLLitDrinks and our Member Meetup. Enjoy […]

In exciting news, we are giving one person the chance to win one of our First Feedback service during April. Simply sign up for our Getting Started or Poetry Play workshop during April, 2016 and you will be in with a chance to win! Must be a financial participant of the abovenamed workshops and a […]