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. […]
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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
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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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Writers Centres welcome $19.3 million for Writers Australia in new National Cultural Policy The National Writers Centre Network (NWCN) has welcomed the Albanese Government’s National Cultural Policy, Revive, launched in Melbourne on Monday 30 January by Arts Minister Tony Burke. The Policy includes the creation of a new body called Writers Australia located within the
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Nine Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2023 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000. ‘This year we are very pleased to see proposals from every state and territory, reflecting the diverse range of approaches to writing biography and memoir in Australia today,’ said Della Rowley, sister of biographer Hazel Rowley. ‘The quality and calibre
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As an introduction to our 2023 program of events, Writers Victoria’s Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, writes below about our 2023 theme: FLOW. I know many writers, myself included, who love water, love writing about it. It makes sense, to me: words operate like liquid. They can pool in the wrong places, stagnate,
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The Deborah Cass Prize committee and Writers Victoria are pleased to announce that eleven writers have been shortlisted for the eighth and final Deborah Cass Prize. The prize is focused on development of unpublished writers who have either migrated to Australia or have a parent who migrated here. The winner receives a cash prize of
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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 8 Travel Fund recipients. The judges for this round were poet,
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Since 2007, Writers Victoria has offered writers the use of a Glenfern writers’ studio for a period of three months, thanks to the support of the Readings Foundation (from 2007 to 2014) and the Grace Marion Wilson Trust (since 2009). The Fellowships give authors the time and space to write, as well as the opportunity
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