The Deborah Cass Writing Prize was established to support unpublished authors whose work reflects on the migrant experience.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
Eight Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award. In its fourth year, the Fellowship once again received a strong field of high-quality proposals from emerging and established writers across Australia. “It is very exciting to see the diverse range of both subjects and literary approaches to biographical writing
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When Noel Turnbull was invited to the North Melbourne Meat Market to meet with Chris Wallace-Crabbe and Joel Becker in 2002, he thought the Victorian Writers Centre [as Writers Victoria was known at the time] was looking for help to raise some money. Being invited to follow in the footsteps of the organisation’s matron, Judith
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The six years that Isolde Lueckenhausen spent on the Writers Victoria Committee of Management involved a series of transitions for the organisation. She was consecutively the Secretary, Deputy Chair and then Chair of the organisation. Isolde worked alongside three successive Directors (Joel Becker, Roderick Poole and Kate Larsen), “each with their own vision and strengths.”
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When Chris McKenzie took on the role of Director of Writers Victoria (then called the Victorian Writers’ Centre), the organisation was based in the Broom Factory in George Street, Fitzroy. Chris arrived in the mid-90s during the first push by state funding agencies to increase the professionalism of member organisations. ‘Arts management’ was becoming a
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When retired journalist Iola Mathews was trying to get back into writing in 2003, she called the National Trust to see if they had a room somewhere that she could write in. “I started to think about a room outside the house,” Iola wrote in her 2009 memoir, ‘My Mother, My Writing and Me’. “Somewhere I
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