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Writers SA Projects

Writers SA is proud to offer a range of projects to support, nourish, connect and promote writers across South Australia—and beyond.

Current Projects

SA First Nations Writers Group

The South Australian First Nations Writers Group was established to foster and develop the continuing diversity and growth of local First Nations writing in South Australia.

A mock-up of Splinter journal, featuring a red circle on the front cover containing the text 'I found god in my almond magnum'.

Splinter Journal

Splinter is a literary journal that is sharp and hard to ignore. It is published biannually by Writers SA out of Tarntanya.

2024 recipients, Katerina Bryant, Gemma Parker, Walter Marsh, Karen Wyld and Sarah Pearce
July 2024

Writers SA Projects

SA Literary Fellowships 2025

We are thrilled to announce applications are open for the second year of our fellowship program for South Australian writers!

picture is Varuna house which is yellow, two storey and set amongst trees and nature
July 2024

Writers SA Projects

2025 Varuna Fellowships are open!

We are thrilled to once again team up with Varuna, the National Writers’ House, to offer a residency and development fellowship for a South Australian writer in 2025 working in any genre or form.

Council Partnerships and Events

Join us for the current round of Council partnerships which includes writing competitions with City of Campbelltown and Onkaparinga Libraries (Wordfest 2024)

Past Projects

Deaf Writers

Writers SA’s 2022 Deaf Writers program hosted two residency-based intensives at the Living Kaurna Cultural Centre in Adelaide, for up to ten emerging writers from the Deaf community, funded by AESOP

Writers & Readers in Residence

In 2018, Writers SA launched its Writers and Readers in Residence Project, in which South Australian and international writers undertake an artistic residency in regional communities to activate reading as well as writing in the town. The Writers and Readers in Residence Project will take place from 2018 to 2022 (after a hiatus in 2020 […]

No Limits: Young Regional Writers

Header image: Eyre Peninsula by Jack Baldwin, The Lead South Australia, licensed under CC BY 2.0 Writers SA is expanding our operations into the regions! Our project No Limits: Young Regional Writers supports literary activities in the regions, and creates industry pathways for young regional writers, from skills to publication. The project supports coordinators in […]

A Year in Review

Writers SA in partnership with InDaily launched ‘A Year in Review’, a new national program of literary criticism, supported by The Australia Council for the Arts. As a recipient of The Australia Council of the Arts COVID-19 Resilience Fund, Writers SA will deliver a  year-long literary criticism program designed to provide important coverage to Australian […]

Liminal x Writers SA

Writing Commissions & Editorial Mentorship 2022 *Submissions are now closed, view the published pieces here.* We are thrilled to announce that Writers SA is collaborating with Liminal magazine! We are welcoming fiction and non-fiction pitches from both emerging and established Asian-Australian writers who live in South Australia. Selected works responding to the theme of Haunt […]

See Me Through My Hands

In 2020 and 2021, Writers SA presented ‘Deaf Storytellers Live’ and ‘See Me Through My Hands’ at Adelaide Writers Week – performances featuring emerging writers from the Deaf community telling stories in Auslan. Thank you to the writers – Stuart Anderson, Joanna Agius OAM, Debra Swann, Paul Bartlett, Samantha Wilson, Sophia Borick and Kate Frost, […]

Lit Market Lab

Writers SA is excited to announce a state industry first, the Lit Market Lab. In March 2022 in Adelaide, we will connect 20 aspiring and emerging South Australian writers with representatives from the Australian publishing industry over an intensive weekend to forge professional relationships, grow networks and—most importantly—pitch their books. Joining us will be: Nicola […]

Writers in Schools

Writers SA’s Writers in Schools Program embeds professional practising writers in outer suburban and regional public high schools in South Australia to teach writing skills, provide literary career pathways, and inspire a love of writing and reading in students. The program provides employment to the writers to undertake two or four-week residencies where they will […]

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