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Anna Snoekstra is an award-winning author and screenwriter. She is the author of Only Daughter, Little Secrets and The Spite Game. Her novels have been published in over twenty countries and sixteen languages. She has written for Meanjin, KYD, Lindsay, SMH, LitHub, The Griffith Review and is a profile writer for The Saturday Paper. Her most recent novel is Out of […]
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Laura Elizabeth Woollett is the author of a short story collection, The Love of a Bad Man (Scribe, 2016), and three novels, Beautiful Revolutionary (Scribe, 2018), The Newcomer (Scribe, 2021) and West Girls (Scribe, 2023). The Love of a Bad Man was shortlisted for the Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Fiction and the Ned Kelly
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Nine Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship, worth $20,000. ‘It is exciting to see the varied approaches to biography among this year’s proposals, with submissions from both emerging and established writers,’ said Della Rowley, Hazel’s sister. ‘Ranging from spy mistresses, choreographers, composers, writers and a First Nations nursing pioneer
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Winners of 2023 Writeability Fellowships Writers Victoria is excited to announce our 2023 Writeability Fellows. Since 2013, we have recognised outstanding writers with disability annually as part of the Writeability Fellowship Program. This year, due to funding restraints, we planned for two writers with disability to receive tailored support for their writing project in the form of
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As an introduction to our 2024 program of events, Writers Victoria’s Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, writes below about our 2024 theme: TWILIGHT. oh! that the time comes when hearts are aflame – Arthur Rimbaud, borrowed as an epigraph by Éric Rohmer, and now by me In summer, twilight comes late. I’m impatient
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Vanessa Bell is codirector of CONTOURS and director of the poetry collection at Éditions du Quartz. Her practice in the literary arts has enabled her to perform in the Americas, Europe and Scandinavia and has been supported by several artistic residencies. She is the author of the poetry collections De rivières (2019, La Peuplade) and MONUMENTS (2022, Le Noroît),
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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 10 travel fund recipients. We also acknowledge the generosity of The Malcolm
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We were lucky enough to chat with Magdalena McGuire about her stunning short story collection, Born for You (Ultimo Press, 2023). The collection explores the many faces of motherhood, exposing women’s inner lives and pressure points. It is also a reflection on fear, memory, and the conundrum of loving others fiercely and unconditionally when we
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Ahead of their Rewriting Fairy Tales workshop, Michael Earp chatted with us about their passion for fairy tales and children’s literature. For over 20 years, Michael has studied, read, sold, promoted, edited and distributed children’s and YA literature. In 2019, they edited the groundbreaking anthology Kindred: 12 Queer #LoveOzYA Stories (Walker Books Australia), and Everything
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Sophia Cai is a curator and arts writer based in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia. She currently teaches at the Victorian College of Arts, University of Melbourne and Monash Art Design & Architecture, Monash University, while also maintaining an independent curating and writing practice. Ahead of her workshop Writing About Art, Sophia spoke with Marketing and Communications Officer Sarah Giles
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