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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 applicants in the Train the Trainers program are:

  • Art Owens
  • Emma Rennison
  • Ibtisam Shahbaz
  • Jacinta Dietrich
  • Jenny Hedley
  • Julie Dickson
  • Laura Pettenuzzo
  • Liel Bridgford
  • Michel Tuomy
  • Natalie Williams
  • Nellie Le Beau
  • Olivia Muscat
  • Possum Stewart
  • Quinton Li
  • Renay Barker-Mulholland
  • Zoe Simmons

Writers Victoria will also work with these emerging writers to develop and present public events, as well as commissioning and publishing their writing. The aim of this program is to foster a sense of community and lasting connection and empower the participants to further their writing careers.

Storming the City is made possible by funding from the City of Melbourne’s Arts and Creative Investments Partnership program.

About Storming the City and Writeability

Writeability remains one of the only disability-led literary initiatives in Australia, actively supporting writers with disability who face barriers to participation and the development of their skills, practice and writing careers across the state.

Storming the City is a two-year creative writing program which aims to return Writeability to its city-based roots, encouraging new and emerging metropolitan-based writers with disability.

Jessica Obersby

Writeability Program Manager

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