Winners of 2023 Writeability Fellowships Writers Victoria is excited to announce our 2023 Writeability Fellows. Since 2013, we have recognised outstanding writers with disability annually as part of the Writeability Fellowship Program. This year, due to funding restraints, we planned for two writers with disability to receive tailored support for their writing project in the form of …
As an introduction to our 2024 program of events, Writers Victoria’s Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, writes below about our 2024 theme: TWILIGHT. oh! that the time comes when hearts are aflame – Arthur Rimbaud, borrowed as an epigraph by Éric Rohmer, and now by me In summer, twilight comes late. I’m impatient …
Since 2017, the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel fund has provided access to professional development for emerging, mid-career and established Australian writers and literary sector workers. On behalf of the Myer Foundation, this round’s judges and Writers Victoria, we are thrilled to announce the Round 10 travel fund recipients. We also acknowledge the generosity of The Malcolm …
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The Writers Victoria Board is thrilled to announce the appointment of Alex Hammond to the role of Chair, taking over from Noè Harsel. Alex has served on the Writers Victoria Board since April 2021, including as Chair of the Membership Working Group. He has over 20 years’ experience as a digital communication and marketing specialist. Alex …
It seems there’s a rule that any house that’s old enough to be heritage listed is haunted by rumours of ghosts. I don’t like rules, but I wouldn’t break this one; I’d rather spread the rumours. Glenfern was built in 1857, a Gothic Revival mansion that tumbled through history – its structures, grounds and inhabitants …
Since 2017, the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel fund has provided access to professional development for emerging, mid-career and established Australian writers and literary sector workers. On behalf of the Myer Foundation, this round’s judges and Writers Victoria, we are thrilled to announce the Round 9 Travel Fund recipients. We also acknowledge the generosity of The Malcolm …
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As an introduction to Season 2 of our 2023 program of events, Writers Victoria’s Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, reflects on the 2023 theme: FLOW. I wrote, in my introduction for Season 1, that we’d chosen to theme 2023 around flow as an aspirational concept, something that seemed to be missing in 2022. …
In 2023, we are again running the Train the Trainers program, thanks to City of Melbourne’s Arts and Creative Investments Partnership program. Train the Trainers is for new and emerging disabled writers, and aims to provide skills and experience in a range of activities guided by industry professionals. We are delighted to announce the successful …
Writeability is an award-winning program that Writers Victoria has been delivering for over ten years. Writeability works to remove some of the barriers that have traditionally prevented people with disability from connecting with writing and publishing. It provides tools and information to support people with disability who want to tell their own stories in their …
On Wednesday 8 March, in front of a large audience at Adelaide Writers Week, writer and anthropologist Diane Bell was announced as winner of the 2023 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Diane was awarded $20,000 for her proposed biography of the relationship between Ngarrindjeri woman Louisa Karpany, née Kontinyeri (c1840–1921) and George Mason (1811–1876), sub-Protector of …
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