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Australia Council Literature Board grants program
Info session 24 Feb & client meetings 25 Feb at the VWC.
Information session Tuesday 24 February 6.30–8pm
Staff from the Australia Council’s Literature Board will present an information session on the Board’s programs of assistance to individual writers and organisations.
Grant categories and closing dates in 2009 are
- Publishing and Promotion, Residencies – 16 March
- New Work and Fellowships – 15 May
- Publishing and Promotion, Program Grants – 1 October.
More information on these grants can be obtained from www.australiacouncil.gov.au.
Please note that, from 2009, the Australian Society of Authors will be managing the Literature Board’s Emerging Writers’ and Illustrators’ Initiative. Emerging writers and illustrators should contact the ASA directly for more information at www.asauthors.org.
Individual client meetings Wednesday 25 February
Literature staff will be available for half-hour individual client meetings at the VWC from 9.30am – 4pm on Wednesday 25 February. These meetings are for published writers only. Please see the notes above about Emerging writers and illustrators.
In The Space at the VWC.
Bookings are required for the individual client meetings. Phone bookings only: contact the VWC on 9654 9068.
— 09.02.2009
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Glenfern Studio Fellowships announced
After a highly competitive round of applications, we are delighted to announce the 2009 Glenfern Writers’ Studio Fellowships.
Readings Foundation Studio Fellowship for a Mid-career Writer
Paul Mitchell
Paul is an experienced short story writer, poet and essayist. He has won or been shortlisted for many competitions for his poetry and short stories. Paul is completing athird draft of his novel, set in the Wimmera District of Victoria in the 1950s and the present. He received Australia Council Funding in 2007 to complete the first drafts.
Fiona Wood
Fiona is a successful script writer, having written for Something in the Air, Marshall Law, Always Greener, MDA, The Secret Life of Us, Headland, Neighbours, Packed to the Rafters, and children’s dramas Sleepover Club and Silver Sun. Fiona is currently working on a novel for young readers, for which she received the 2008 Eleanor Dark Fellowship for Fiction to work on the manuscript.
Grace Marion Wilson Trust Studio Fellowship for an Emerging Writer
Demet Divaroren
Demet has completed a PWE diploma at Victoria University. Her story ""Toey" won the 2007 People’s Choice Award at the Williamstown Literary Festival and her story "You no have English" was published in Island magazine in 2008. Demet has completed the third draft of her novel "Orayt?", and is working on her second novel "Philter".
Christine James
Christine has a doctorate in Clinical Psychology and has worked as both a clinical and forensic psychologist. This background is being put to use in a manuscript that is evolving from a traditional crime story to a psychological thriller.
Hoa Pham
Hoa has had short stories published in HEAT, Griffith Review, Borderlands and in various University of Melbourne anthologies. In 2008, she completed a Masters in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. Hoa is working on a novel about a 25-year-old Vietnamese woman, tracing her growing awareness of suffering on both sides of the Vietnam/American War, suffering in Australia, and the need for compassion everywhere.
We thank the Grace Marion Wilson Trust and the Readings Foundation for their support of writers in Victoria.
Find out more about Glenfern Writers' Studios.
— 19.01.2009
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VWC E-bulletin 08 December 2008: Update
The VWC E-bulletin from Monday 08 December included details about an opportunity with the ABC Radio Regional Production Fund (RPF) closing 30 December.
Please note the contact email address for this opportunity has been updated to: rpf@your.abc.net.au.
— 15.12.2008
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VWC Christmas Operating Hours
The VWC offices will close on Monday 22 December and re-open on Tuesday 6 January.
Any emails received or phone messages left will be answered on or after 6 January.
The VWC library will also be closed during this period.
— 02.12.2008
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VWC Christmas Wrap Party
Email us using the contact us form to RSVP for the Victorian Writers' Centre Christmas Wrap party.
Come celebrate the end of the working year with VWC staff and committee, arts representatives, writers and members.
This is a licensed event.
— 02.12.2008
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VWC e-bulletin takes a break
The last issue of the VWC e-bulletin for 2008 will be Monday 8 December. It will resume mid-January 2009.
The VWC e-bulletin is sent to VWC members weekly on a Monday.
If you are a VWC member and you are not receiving the e-bulletin please send your email address and name, using the contact us form.
— 02.12.2008
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VWC Christmas Operating Hours
The VWC offices will close on Monday 22 December and re-open on Tuesday 6 January.
Any emails received or phone messages left will be answered on or after 6 January.
The VWC library will also be closed during this period.
— 02.12.2008
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Iowa City named a UNESCO City of Literature
Iowa City became the third UNESCO City of Literature. It joined Edinburgh and Melbourne as the only UNESCO Cities of Literature, part of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation's (UNESCO) Creative Cities Network.
Read more about this announcement:
Third City of Literature is Written Up - The Scotsman
— 27.11.2008
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VWC Competition and Glenfern Fellowships
Good luck to all those that entered the VWC Emerging Writers' Competition or submitting an application for a Readings or Grace Marion Wilson Glenfern Fellowship.
VWC Emerging Writers' Competition results to be announced in 2009.
The Readings and Grace Marion Wilson Glenfern studio residencies will be announced early December.
— 20.11.2008
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VWC announces two Glenfern Residencies
As a result of generous donations from the Readings Foundation and the Grace Marion Wilson Trust, the Victorian Writers' Centre is delighted to offer two residencies for studio space at Glenfern in 2009. In both instances this will take the form of either one writer being provided space for a full year, or two writers for six months each.
The Readings Glenfern Writers' Studio Residency is to be offered for a "mid-career" writer; one who is established, with a proven track record of published prose, poetry or works written for performance.
The Grace Marion Wilson Studio Residency is aimed at an emerging or developing writer working on their first or second work.
The residencies provide access to a discrete studio space at Glenfern with seven-day access. The studios include a desk, power, lighting and the option of phone and internet. The recipient of the Fellowship will be expected to use the studio for writing purposes only, to honour the rules of the house and to use the studio for a significant portion of the week.
Read more about Glenfern and the residencies in the November edition of Victorian Writer.
Application details
— 06.11.2008
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