Earlier this year, Lara Saunders undertook the Writers SA Emerging Writers Fellowship, spending seven days at Varuna the National Writers’ House, with a travel subsidy and manuscript consultation. Applications for the annual fellowships are now open for 2022. Last year I was lucky enough to be one of the joint winners of the Writers SA’s […]

A creative writer will join the fight against obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease with the announcement today of a Writer in Residence Fellowship at the University of Sydney’s Charles Perkins Centre.  The $100,000 fellowship – the first of its kind in Australia – will take an unusual approach in enlisting a creative writer in a […]

Award-winning South Australian author Dr Cath Kenneally has been named as the inaugural Copyright Agency (CAL) J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow at the University of Adelaide. (more…)