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  • Round 9 Neilma Sidney Literary Travel Fund Recipients

    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 9 Travel Fund recipients. We also acknowledge the generosity of The Malcolm…

  • An introduction to the 2023 Season 2 Program

    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.…

  • Storming the City:  Recognising, Celebrating and Employing Writers with Disability in the City of Melbourne

    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…

  • Writing Up a Storm: A Writeability Anthology

    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…

  • Diane Bell Wins The 2023 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship

    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…

  • New National Cultural Policy

    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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