2021 Hazel Rowley Fellowship opens Applications are now open for the 2021 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Now in its tenth year, the Fellowship established to commemorate the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) will award $15,000 to an Australian writer to support the research and development of a new biographical work. “The […]
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Write-ability will be Storming the City in 2021-2022, thanks to City of Melbourne funding. Writers Victoria are delighted to announce our new city based-program for writers with disability, Storming the City which will run in the City of Melbourne in 2021-22 thanks to City of Melbourne’s Arts and Creative Investments Partnership program. Write-ability Program Manager
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We’re thrilled to announce the appointment of Lucy Hamilton as Writers Victoria’s new CEO. Lucy comes to Writers Victoria from Express Media, where she has been the General Manager and CEO for the past three years. Prior to this, she was the Partnerships Coordinator at Regional Arts Victoria. Lucy has held voluntary roles with Multicultural Arts
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We were shocked to hear the news that our friends and collaborators at Writing NSW are set to lose their ongoing state government funding at the end of this year, as part of a decision by Create NSW to grant just 5% of long-term arts funding to literature. This decision leaves Writing NSW at risk of
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Writers Victoria would like to express our heartfelt congratulations and support to our CEO Dr Angela Savage, who has today been announced as the inaugural CEO of Public Libraries Victoria. Angela has been a strong and steadfast advocate for writers in Victoria, demonstrating commitment to the craft of writing, and supporting writers at all stages
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Writers Victoria is excited to announce our 2020 Write-ability Fellows. Since 2013, thanks to the support of the Grace Marion Wilson Trust, we have recognised five outstanding writers with disability annually as part of the Write-ability Fellowship Program. This year, for the first time, we are awarding seven Write-ability Fellowships. Five writers with disability will receive tailored
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Writers Victoria is delighted to announce the winners of the 2020 Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. Now in its twelfth year, the prize supports emerging Victorian writers. Fiction ‘What a privilege it has been to be trusted with the submissions for this year’s Grace Marion Wilson Short Story Prize,’ said Alice Robinson, judge of the Fiction
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Thanks to a recent generous donation, Writers Victoria is offering a Woman of Colour based in Victoria a paid commission for a new piece of work to be published in The Victorian Writer magazine (to the value of $200). Submissions must align with one of our upcoming themes, which are: October-November: Chrysalis – emerging writers, emerging from
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Writers Victoria is pleased to announce that applications are now open for the twelfth Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. Short story or creative non-fiction submissions of between 2,000 and 3,000 words are being accepted from emerging Victorian writers who have no more than three stories or articles published in a recognised book, magazine, or
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While COVID-19 brought our timeline forward, Writers Victoria has been exploring how best to incorporate online learning into our professional development and creative practice programming to continue to support all our members, including those who are unable to attend our in-person workshops or who prefer to learn remotely at their own pace. With self-isolation providing
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