Are you our next Writer-in-Residence at the Charles Perkins Centre? You have two weeks to get your EOI in!
Explore the power of creativity with the Judy Harris Writer-in-Residence Fellowship open to Australian creative writers to begin a project exploring issues around health including wellbeing, food, ageing, social disadvantage and cultural identity.
Apply for a year’s program working with our amazing researchers, educators and clinicians supported by a $100,000 grant.
🌏 https://t.co/a2gMRM55X4
🗓️ Closing | 11:59pm Monday 19 May 2025
If you have not previously received a payment from one of these distributions, you may become eligible if you register one or more verifiable publications containing your works by 31 March.
Click here for more information: https://t.co/VgznOLHX2M
The Anne Elder Award is open for first poetry books published in 2023. The judges for the 2023 Anne Elder Award are the brilliant Jeanine Leane, Harry Reid & Panda Wong💖We've also extended the deadline to Tuesday, 19 March 2024, 5pm (AEST)!
📣 Fiction and non-fiction submissions open!
Griffith Review 85: Status Anxiety grapples with the fallout of our status anxiety and explores what happens when we don’t measure up.
More information: https://t.co/QQF8sbGHrd
Scone Literary Festival
Saturday 9 March, kick off at midday.
Led by John O'Brien from AUH, ‘After Liddell’ will feature: Dr Patrice Newell AM, Catherine Hickson BA, MA, Dr Penny Dunstan and Rob Cooper. https://t.co/afNSvjI7sp
We are thrilled to launch the #NWF2024 program ✨
More than 150 writers from throughout Australia will participate in 95 free and ticketed events across the Civic Precinct.
Explore the program at
https://t.co/djJ3c6PIiF
The finalists for the 2023 Australian Romance Readers Awards have been announced. Ten authors have been shortlisted for the favourite Australian romance author category.
Congratulations to all. 🥳
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📣 Poetry submissions are open!
Attachment Styles goes far beyond the family tree to consider the pleasures, pitfalls and peculiarities of our messy human relations.
For more information visit the For Writers page on our website: https://t.co/QQF8sbGHrd
While book sales for the year overall were down on 2022 figures, 2023 finished strong, with Christmas sales up overall according to Nielsen BookScan figures.
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The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry offers the chance to explore, study and develop through interstate and/or overseas travel, with $50,000 funding!
Apply by Tuesday 6 February: https://t.co/bZvBVExRtD
We are excited to announce that we are collaborating with @uni_newcastle to offer a month-long intensive creative writing short course in April 2024. In this course, you will learn ways to engage with place as a narrative or poetic trigger.
Learn more at https://t.co/eMHpzyGwy7
Helen Hopcroft dives into the world of fairy tales, looking at depictions of animals, and what those depictions say about us.
Free to read until 26 Jan: https://t.co/WvklKjzdH0
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Independent Booksellers have nominated their favourite Australian books, announcing their shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2024! @AusIndieBooks
Check out the shortlist here!
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My poem 'Fragments,' which was shortlisted for the 2023 Newcastle Poetry Prize, and which features in the prize anthology published by @hunter_writers. The anthology is a gift to read—especially for Kevin Smith's winning poem, The Crossing. ❤️❤️
Newcastle & Hunter folks, the @LighthouseArtsNewcastle House of Stories exhib has been extended until 3 March, open Sat/Sundays. Journal notes from my residency join other Nobbys-Whibayganba headland inspired art.
@hunter_writers
The #EWF24 Artist Call-out is now open!✨
Got an event idea? Always wanted to share your work? EWF returns in 2024 with online and IRL events from September 5-15, and we want YOU! Yeah, you!!
Apply here: https://t.co/XH6uVz316w
Applications close 5PM AEDT, 11 Feb 🗓️
The Marten Bequest Travelling Scholarship for Poetry offers the chance to explore, study and develop through interstate and/or overseas travel, with $50,000 funding!
Apply by Tuesday 6 February: https://t.co/7TLNTKIz3G