Hunter Writers' Centre

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. 🌏 bit.ly/3FMqqTF 🗓️ Closing | 11:59pm Monday 19 May 2025

Applications for the Lighthouse Arts residencies are open until June 2024! Apply now at: lighthousearts.org.au/residencies/

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: brnw.ch/21wIdwB

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)!

Huge congratulations to all longlisted authors #2024stellaprize!

📣 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: griffithreview.com/for-writers/

This Weekend!

The #NWF2024 program is LIVE!

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. 🥳 booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/…

📣 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: griffithreview.com/for-writers/

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. (Subscribe to read about book industry sales statistics.) booksandpublishing.com.au/articles/2024/…

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: brnw.ch/21wFU96

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 newcastlewritersfestival.org.au/writing-course/

A beautiful piece written by HWC Member, Helen Hopcroft, in the Griffith Review.

Independent Booksellers have nominated their favourite Australian books, announcing their shortlist for the Indie Book Awards 2024! @AusIndieBooks Check out the shortlist here! goodreadingmagazine.com.au/book-briefs/in…

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: emergingwritersfestival.org.au/?p=19880 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: brnw.ch/21wFU94

Congrats to HWC Member @susanfranciswr1!