Writers with disability in the Castlemaine region are welcome to join a free workshop with acclaimed writer and activist Arnold Zable later this month, as part of our Writeability Goes Regional program. In Get Writing, Arnold will help participants decide how to write their story and answer basic questions about writing, techniques and how to get going. […]
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Applications are now open for the 2016 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship. Now in its fifth year, the fellowship commemorates the life, ideas and writing of Hazel Rowley (1951–2011) and awards $10,000 to an emerging or established Australian writer to support research and development of a new biographical work. The Fellowship encourages writers to immerse themselves
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Five writers with disability will receive six hours of free mentoring with authors, assessors and industry experts through the third annual Write-ability Fellowships announced this week. Fellowships were awarded to writers working in a range of styles and genres, including creative fiction, memoir and non-fiction journalism. Emerging writer Naomi Fryers will work with outgoing Director
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We are proud to announce the recipients of our annual Glenfern Fellowships and Grace Marion Wilson Emerging Writers Competition. The 2015 Glenfern Fellowships for Emerging Writers were awarded to Audrey El-Osta to work on her ‘Primavera’ poetry collection, Jacquie Byron for the second draft of her crime novel, ‘Trouble Sleeping’, and Jessica Yu for her
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“There is power in minorities telling their own stories,” says Writeability tutor Jax Jacki Brown. Brown is a feminist, disability and queer rights activist and spoken-word performer with a BA in Communication and Cultural Studies (honours) which focused on the intersections between queer and disability identities. Brown is the independent producer of Quippings: Disability Unleashed,
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Eight Australian writers have been shortlisted for the 2015 Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship $10,000 award. In its fourth year, the Fellowship once again received a strong field of high-quality proposals from emerging and established writers across Australia. “It is very exciting to see the diverse range of both subjects and literary approaches to biographical writing
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Welcome to the Writers Victoria website. Click on the video below for an introduction in Auslan. Find out more about our Write-ability program for writers with disability. This video was produced by Sign Language Video Productions thanks to the support of Arts Access Australia.
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Five writers with disability will receive six hours of free mentoring with authors, assessors and industry experts through the inaugural Write-ability Fellowships announced this week. The Fellowships, a joint initiative of Writers Victoria and Arts Access Victoria, have been awarded to Heidi Everett (with mentor Lyndel Caffrey), Robbie O’Brien (with mentor Matthew Hooper), Jack Waghorn
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Bev Roberts was the very first Coordinator of the Victorian Writers Centre. In celebration of the organisation’s 25th anniversary, Bev tells how the exciting story, “filled with drama, blood, sweat and tears”, all began. Many of the members of Writers Victoria may be surprised to know that the organisation had quite radical beginnings in community
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Judith Rodriguez remembers the elegance of the Victorian Writers Centre’s first home in Tasma Terrace, which sat behind a high, iron fence in East Melbourne. Judith became Chair of the organisation in 1993 (a post she held until 1996), just after the Centre moved to its next home at the Broom Factory in Fitzroy. The
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