Internationally acclaimed author Marele Day and screenwriter Sarah Lambert (Love Child, A Place To Call Home, Love My Way) will shed light on how a work is transformed from the page to screen.

This special event on grants for writers features representatives from Australia Council for the Arts, Create NSW, Copyright Agency and Writing NSW.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2018 Writing NSW Grants!

The staff at Writing NSW did a lot of reading in 2018! Check out some of our top picks for the year, including work from Alison Whittaker, Behrouz Boochani and many more.

“With this anthology, Ambelin Kwaymullina and Rebecca Lim have created a new and vital space in Australian literature. Here, marginalised identities have been brought to the fore in all their complexity, power and beauty.”
Annie Zhang reviews Meet Me at the Intersection, edited by Rebecca Lim and Ambelin Kwaymullina.

‘The short story form demands a respect for the limitations of time and space, and enables a focus on the particular, the intimate, and the fleeting.’

In recognition of our members’ achievements, we’ve put together some of the awards and publications they stacked up in 2018!

‘I want story and forward momentum. For me, this is what crime delivers’