It is now “business as usual” at our new home at the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas (CBWI). We are open 10am to 5pm for email, phone and in-person queries.
Please note our new address and phone numbers:
Victorian Writers’ Centre
Level 3, 176 Little Lonsdale Street
Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas
Melbourne VIC 3000
P: 03 9094 7855
F: 03 9650 8010
The entrance to the CBWI is via a ramp on Little Lonsdale Street, between Swanston and Russell Streets, about 75 metres from Swanston Street and adjacent to a pedestrian crossing. If you come in to our offices, ask at the downstairs reception for the Victorian Writers’ Centre.
The new VWC offices at the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas are now up and running.
Our phones, email and website are now operating as normal. Please note our new phone numbers:
Phone: 03 9094 7855
Fax: 03 9650 8010
As with anything so shiny and new, there are still a few bugs to be sorted out, and we thank you for your patience over the last couple of weeks.
We look forward to welcoming you at our new offices soon.
Our address is Level 3, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas, Melbourne VIC 3000 (on the side of the State Library of Victoria).
The VWC is currently moving offices. We appreciate your patience during this time as we will not be able to respond to phone or email queries from 4pm Wednesday 21 October until Thursday 29 October.
After the move, we hope to be able to retrieve any queries you email or phone through during this period but we cannot guarantee it. We will not be able to send an e-bulletin next week, so we will keep you updated via News items on this website.
Key dates
4pm Wednesday 21 October
Nicholas Building office closes.
Thursday 29 October
CBWI office open for phone or email queries. Please note that we cannot guarantee this date, as it depends on all going well with our setup at our new offices.
Monday 2 November
CBWI office fully open.
Events during the move
Bookings
As we will be unable to attend to phone or email enquiries from 22 October until around 29 October, we recommend that you book for events in this period by 3pm, this Wednesday 21 October.
Event locations
Until 31 October:
VWC events will continue be held at our current venue: The Salon, 2nd Floor, Nicholas Building, 37 Swanston Street (unless otherwise stated).
From 1 November:
VWC events will be held at VWC @ CBWI, 176 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne (unless otherwise stated). Event locations are also on our website at: www.vwc.org.au/what-s-on.
Poetry submissions sought for next Moving Galleries exhibition.
Opening: late October.
Moving Galleries is a travelling exhibition of art and poetry on Melbourne trains. Trains offer a unique opportunity for poets to showcase their work to the public, with the daily commute being a ticket to Melbourne’s most accessible arts space. Prizes are currently awarded based on public voting.
Information about the next Moving Galleries exhibition, themed "Observance", and details
on how to submit your poetry will be on www.movinggalleries.org from late October.
Due to our move to the Centre for Books, Writing and Ideas in late October, the VWC Library is now closed for borrowing. However, members are still welcome to use the library until 5pm, Friday 9 October. We ask that all books currently out on loan be returned to the VWC by this date.
Rosebank Writer's Retreat has opened in Victoria and is now offering residential writing fellowships for stays of up to 3 months.
Writing @ Rosebank invites writers to apply for a residential writing fellowship at Rosebank Retreat. The fellowships include accommodation and a modest stipend.
Writers with a specific project that would benefit from escape to the beautiful rural setting at Rosebank Retreat should apply to the Victorian Writers’ Centre.
Writers of fiction, non-fiction, essay, poetry, stage and screen are invited to apply. The fellowships are open to applicants from around Australia; however, half of the fellowships awarded will go to Victorian writers.
Applications opened 28 August and close 9 October 2009.
Writing @ Rosebank is the result of a philanthropic partnership between Mary Delahunty, the Sidney Myer Fund and the Helen Macpherson Smith Trust, and is administered by the Victorian Writers’ Centre.
The patron of Writing @ Rosebank is Miles Franklin-award-winning novelist Alex Miller.
Fellowship judges:
Chrissy Sharp, director of the Centre of Books Writing and Ideas
Antoni Jach, novelist and creative-writing teacher
Sandy Grant, chief executive of Hardie Grant Publishing
Joel Becker, director of the Victorian Writers’ Centre
Overload Poetry Festival continues until Sunday 13 September.
Discover the (un)common tongue at the 8th annual Overload Poetry Festival from 4–13 September.
The festival spans 10 days showcasing all forms of poetry – from slammers to sound poets, with a particular emphasis on spoken word.
The festival launches at 6.30pm, 4 September, at the Fitzroy Town Hall. There'll be (short) speeches, a tribute to the late Dorothy Porter and a not-to-be-missed performance from The Heart Chamber: a chorus of poets Matt Hetherington, Lia Hills, Tom Joyce, Michelle Leber and Marian Spires. Keynote Speech by Jennifer Harrison.
This new prize is open for an unpublished manuscript by any Australian writer over 35, who may or may not have been published before.
This prize recognises that there are many examples of late bloomers when it comes to writers, certainly in terms of getting published. Youth is already celebrated in so many ways, and Scribe wants to support writers who are emerging or still going strong in their prime.
The winner of the CAL Scribe Fiction Prize will be awarded a book contract from Scribe and a prize of $12,000.
