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2024 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship shortlist announced


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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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Writeability Fellowships


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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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An introduction to the 2024 Season 1 Program


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By: Anna Kate Blair

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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A Letter from Vanessa Bell


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By: Vanessa Bell

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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Round 10 Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund Recipients


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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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Magdalena McGuire on her short story collection Born For You and writing motherhood


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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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Michael Earp on fairy tales, children’s literature and reading


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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 on curating and writing about art


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By: Sarah Giles

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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Anna Kate Blair on writing, architecture and The Modern


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By: Gabriella Muñoz

Gabriella Munoz, our Acting Membership Officer, sat down with our very own Program and Partnerships Manager, Anna Kate Blair, to talk about her debut novel, The Modern, and all things writing. Anna is a writer, arts worker and cultural historian from Aotearoa. Before starting at Writers Victoria in 2022, she worked at arts and educational

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Kelly Gardiner on public speaking and writing through experience


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By: Sarah Giles

Writer, editor and educator Kelly Gardiner creates works of historical fiction and fantasy for readers of all ages. Her latest series is The Firewatcher Chronicles. Her other books include 1917: Australia’s Great War; Act of Faith and The Sultan’s Eyes, both shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards; and Goddess, a novel based on the life of the sword-fighting opera star, Mademoiselle

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