Laurence de B Anderson received a Highly Commended prize in the 2015 Michael Thwaites Poetry Award for his poem, Winter evening on the Monaro. Judge, Melinda Smith described it as: “a lyrical, mysterious exploration of landscape and light”. Laurence’s poem is published below. Cloud-light shivers the crow to louvred grey. Riding the fence, he sleeks … Continue reading
HARDCOPY is a unique, national professional development program run by the ACT Writers Centre that helps build the capacities, aptitudes and resources committed Australian writers need in order to reach their potential. In 2014, the program debuted with 30 emerging fiction writers who were enthusiastic about their projects, and embraced the opportunities the program provided. … Continue reading
Theresa Layton is an award winning author who lives and works in Canberra as a facilitator, professional writer and consultant in law courts. Theresa is hosting a workshop series at the ACT Writers Centre, Focus on the Short Story, for short story writers at all levels, starting 30 March 2016. In this installment of Taking 5, Theresa gives … Continue reading
HARDCOPY is a unique, national professional development program run by the ACT Writers Centre that helps build the capacities, aptitudes and resources committed Australian writers need in order to reach their potential. In 2014, the program debuted with 30 emerging fiction writers who were enthusiastic about their projects, and embraced the opportunities the program provided. … Continue reading
Meet the ACT Writers Centre’s newest Bloggers in Residence: Chris Kerr and Matthew C Lamb. Keep an eye here on the blog to see to their work in the next three months. Chris Kerr Chris Kerr is a poet, reviewer, editor, publisher, former technical writer and budding copywriter. He co-edited issue 62 of UK Poetry magazine Magma and … Continue reading
Jennifer Hand’s short story, Now and Then, was highly commended in the 2015 Marjorie Graber-McInnis Short Story Award. “Subtle and understated, this double portrait brings together a young woman with her older self in the mundane setting of a supermarket” (Judge, Maureen Bettle). Read Jennifer’s piece below and stay tuned for more winners and shortlisted stories … Continue reading
Blogger in Residence Shu-Ling Chua talks diversity in the writing sector. When I applied to be Blogger in Residence in October, I pitched a piece on the importance of diversity in writing. It’s an issue close to my heart, one I want to get ‘right’, so much so that I saved it for my final … Continue reading
In 2015 Sulari Gentill was the first to participate in the ACT Eminent Writer-in-Residence Program, an initiative of the ACT Writers Centre in collaboration with the Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House in Canberra. Sulari Gentill is author of award-winning Rowland Sinclair Mysteries, a series of historical crime fiction novels set in the … Continue reading
Muse, Canberra. Photograph by Jonathan McFeat. Blogger in Residence, Shu-Ling Chua has the run-down on everything literary in our fine city. There’s no denying it. I’m immensely proud to have gotten my writing ‘break’ in Canberra. Like the city itself, Canberra’s literary scene combines the best of a big city and a smaller, community-focused town. … Continue reading
Congratulations to Pip Marks, winner of the 2015 Frugal Feast Writing Prize, run by our friends at YWCA Canberra. Each year YWCA Canberra raise funds in their Frugal Feast campaign, to distribute food hampers and donate groceries to locals in need over the festive season. As part of this campaign a special writing competition was born to get the community … Continue reading
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