Writing and Publishing
Book review: First Year, Kristina Ross
Award-winning debut fiction about a young actress navigating her way around an education in the performing arts.
Book review: Taking Apart The Bird Trap, Amanda Anastasi
This poetry collection explores life, loss and death in the western suburbs of Melbourne.
Varuna, the National Writers' House
Varuna Residential Fellowships 2026
Varuna’s most prestigious award offers up to 38 fellowships to emerging and established writers across Australia, for an opportunity of…
Opportunities and awards
A $60,000 moving image commission opens, plus the winner of the MECCA x NGV Women in Design and finalists of…
When I left school I made a terrible career choice
Why I became an electrical engineer and did a 180-degree turn, becoming a published author...
Writing NSW
Writing Thrillers: How to Hook your Reader
In this one-day course with best-selling thriller author, Petronella McGovern, you’ll learn how to link your characters and plot, and…
Writing NSW
Writing Speculative Fiction
Join author JS Breukelaar for a workshop that will leave you with the skills and confidence to make your speculative…
Writing NSW
Poetry in Flux: Playing with Genre and Form
In this interactive workshop, poet Hasib Hourani will guide participants through different poetic modes of language to consider all that…
Writing NSW
Seminar: Pitching to Literary Journals
This seminar, with editor James Jiang, will help participants refine their pitches to literary journals as well as fine tune…
Writing NSW
Online: Writing Memoir
It’s one thing to live it; another to write it. In this six-week online memoir writing course, Kate Holden takes…