Ashlee Bye was a Write-ability Fellow in 2015. She read this extract from ‘Out of the Shadows’ at the Write-ability Salon (Nothing About Us, Without Us) at The Wheeler Centre in December 2015. The line for the bar was ridiculous, but unsurprising; it was a Saturday night and this was one of the go-to nightspots […]
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Writers Victoria’s Write-ability program has been built around the importance of self-told stories, disability leadership and peer support — creating opportunities for even the quietest voices to be heard. Now in its third year, Write-ability has grown to include a regional focus with Geelong-based Harriet Gaffney as our first regional project officer. Over the next year,
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Five writers with disability will receive six hours of free mentoring with authors, assessors and industry experts through the third annual Write-ability Fellowships announced this week. Fellowships were awarded to writers working in a range of styles and genres, including creative fiction, memoir and non-fiction journalism. Emerging writer Naomi Fryers will work with outgoing Director
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In 2014, Arts Access Victoria and the University of Melbourne undertook a research project to investigate the creative case for inclusive arts practice as it relates to people with disability. The Beyond Access research project developed a number of videos designed to raise awareness of the amazing and diverse work produced by artists with disability.
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Welcome to the Writers Victoria website. Click on the video below for an introduction in Auslan. Find out more about our Write-ability program for writers with disability. This video was produced by Sign Language Video Productions thanks to the support of Arts Access Australia.
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Writers Victoria, RMIT and Affirm Press are pleased to announce the winners of the inaugural WRAP Synopsis Prize. The first prize went to Anita Smith, with Mark Brandi announced as runner-up. Last night’s audience at The Salon does Synopsis also awarded a People’s Choice award to Will Cox. Smith will receive 5-hours of editorial support
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Former Hazel Rowley fellow Maxine Beneba Clarke shares her advice for writers considering applying for this year’s Hazel Rowley Fellowship. “Four months before my first fiction book, ‘Foreign Soil’, was due to come out, snowed under with copy edits, I saw a call-out for applications for the 2014 Hazel Rowley Fellowship. The Fellowship, I read,
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Five writers with disability will receive six hours of free mentoring with authors, assessors and industry experts through the inaugural Write-ability Fellowships announced this week. The Fellowships, a joint initiative of Writers Victoria and Arts Access Victoria, have been awarded to Heidi Everett (with mentor Lyndel Caffrey), Robbie O’Brien (with mentor Matthew Hooper), Jack Waghorn
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We are excited to be publishing three pieces selected from the Regional Members’ Writing Competition in the August edition of ‘The Victorian Writer’. Lyn Chatham’s poem ‘Codrington’, which placed third, is published in this festival edition, along with highly commended members Mark Smith and Lucy Bowler. They are also rubbing shoulders with Kate Holden, Emily
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Robert O’Brien was one of five writers with disability who received an inaugural Write-ability Fellowship in 2013. Robert and his wife Jean were the first couple with cerebal palsy to be married in Victoria. At a time when even romance was frowned on for people in their situation, their commitment and determination paved the way
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