Five aspiring writers from migrant backgrounds have been shortlisted for the 2016 Deborah Cass Prize. Now in its second year, the prize was established in the memory of Melbourne writer Deborah Cass and aims to support unpublished authors from a migrant background to find a voice and to encourage them to finish and publish their […]
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Writers Victoria is pleased to announce the finalists of the 2016 Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. In the Short Fiction category, judges Astrid Edwards and Laurie Steed were impressed by the submissions, reporting that they saw “many glimpses of potential and interesting concepts.” But it was the originality and strength of execution that set
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In front of a packed audience at The Wheeler Centre, the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship winner was announced in Melbourne last night. Matthew Lamb was awarded the $10,000 Fellowship for his proposed cultural biography of the Australian writer Frank Moorhouse. Lamb’s biography will include not only a narrative of Frank Moorhouse’s life, but also
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Moreno Giovannoni was announced as the winner of the inaugural Deborah Cass Writing Prize at an event last night at Writers Victoria. The Prize was established in honour of Melbourne writer Deborah Cass and aims to aims to help someone from a migrant background find a voice for themselves and be encouraged to finish and publish
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Nine Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award. In its fifth year, the Fellowship attracted an exceptionally strong field of high-quality proposals from writers and biographers across Australia. Works about Australian writers, artists and visionaries feature in this year’s shortlist, which also includes European and American subjects. “I’m
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The Deborah Cass Writing Prize was established to support unpublished authors whose work reflects on the migrant experience. Writers Victoria received 56 submissions, which included poetry, plays, memoir, fiction, and non-fiction. Members of the organising committee for the Deborah Cass prize agreed on this shortlist (countries in brackets feature in their submission): Sanaz Fotouhi –
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Applications are now open for the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Now in its fifth year, the fellowship commemorates the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) and awards $10,000 to an emerging or established Australian writer to support research and development of a new biographical work. The Fellowship encourages writers to immerse themselves
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We are proud to announce the recipients of our annual Glenfern Fellowships and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The 2015 Glenfern Fellowships for Emerging Writers were awarded to Audrey El-Osta to work on her ‘Primavera’ poetry collection, Jacquie Byron for the second draft of her crime novel, ‘Trouble Sleeping’, and Jessica Yu for her
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Ten regional communities are gearing up for a range of new literary activities, thanks to the support of the Grace Marion Wilson Trust. Local writing groups and literary organisations have been granted $750 each to support their activities and contributions to the greater Victorian literary sector. Each group is unique in the specialisations of their
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At last night’s Annual General Meeting, author and advocate Arnold Zable was awarded honorary membership to Writers Victoria. He responds… “I am pleased to receive this honorary membership from an organisation that has done such great work for writers and readers over the years. Writers Victoria has played a great role in creating a literary
