Migrant Writing Growing Strong Jonathan Green to present 2018 Deborah Cass Prize The fourth annual Deborah Cass Prize for Writing, which goes to unpublished migrant writers, will be presented by literary editor and journalist Jonathan Green, on Wednesday 5 December. The Prize received 91 entries from around Australia in 2018. The judges Christos Tsiolkas, […]
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The Inner Gippsland Write-ability Goes Regional and Online Writing Group recently finished its eight-month run under the program. Write-ability Project Assistant Alex Fairhill joined the group in Moe to celebrate the participants’ work, and hear about plans for the group to continue. The relationships developed within the Inner Gippsland Write-ability Goes Regional and Online (WGRO) Writing Group
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Round 3 of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund received 112 applications, requesting a total of $591,306.34 in grant money. This round’s judges were Emily Booth from Text Publishing, Indra Kurzeme from State Library of Victoria and author Eli Glasman. They were thrilled with the quality of the overall applications and awarded $48,288 to 9
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Ahead of her Disability Binaries in Writing workshop, presented as part of the Writeability program, Micheline Lee spoke to Katy Hocking about overcoming fears and biases – both internal and external. Your debut novel ‘The Healing Party’ came out in 2016. Has your writing process changed since then? Yes. ‘The Healing Party’ was my first attempt at
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Six writers have been named as the winners of this year’s Dulcie Stone Writing Awards at a recent ceremony at The Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. The awards for writers with intellectual disability are presented by VALiD and Writers Victoria, and in their second year attracted more than sixty written and illustrated stories on the theme ‘Community –
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For six years Write-ability, in partnership with the Grace Marion Wilson Trust, has supported writers with disability through the Write-ability Fellowship program, giving five writers the opportunity to receive one-on-one support for their writing project through tailored professional development such as manuscript assessments, mentoring and curated programs of craft workshops. This year’s judges noted that it was extremely difficult to make
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The first time I donned my ‘Volunteer’ badge for a Writers Victoria workshop, I was so excited that I posted a photo on my social media. The people I met at Sally Rippin’s Writing for Children course that day, almost a year ago, have become not only my writing group, but also good friends and
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Round 2 of the Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund received 124 applications, requesting a total of $643,642 in grant money. This round’s judges were Rachel Bin Salleh from Maga Bala Books, Angela Meyer from Echo Publishing and writer Emily Bitto. They were thrilled with the quality of the applications and argued long and hard over
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There was standing room only at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne on 8 March when the 2018 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship winner was announced. Jacqueline Kent was awarded the $15,000 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship for her proposed biography of Vida Goldstein. “We are delighted to award the 2018 Fellowship to Jacqueline Kent who is a
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Writers Victoria is thrilled to announce that Victorian-based writer Gabriella Munoz has been selected as the inaugural Digital Writer in Residence. Gabriella Munoz is a Mexican-Australian writer and editor. She has published feature articles and essays in English and Spanish on a wide variety of topics ranging from film and the music industry, to celebrity culture
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