Fiona Hazard joined us for First Friday to share her knowledge and experience garnered from over 25 years in publishing.

‘Process, for me, is a compound and an evolution of the known and unknown. Eventually I wound up here as a poet obsessed with this ineffable substance I hear in the storytelling of my Elders. I don’t know if should call it poetics or spirit but it exists in just about everything …’

‘When a piece is going to exist off the page there is a beautiful invitation to consider an additional form and function in that new medium.’

Congratulations to the successful applicants to our 2023 mentoring program for emerging literary curators from culturally diverse backgrounds: Alejandra Martinez, Greg Page and Simone Amelia Jordan, as well as returning curators Tina Huang and Zohra Aly.

Check out some of the wonderful literary events happening in Sydney and around NSW (and online) this June!

The Annual General Meeting of the NSW Writers’ Centre Inc. (trading as Writing NSW) will be held online, via Zoom conference, on Monday 19 June 2023.

‘Reading YA as a young person empowered me with the language to talk about things that I didn’t know how to talk about. I found a library of reference for my many emotions and experiences.’

Alan Baxter joined us for First Friday to discuss his writing career, his writing practice, and what we can expect at this year’s Speculative Fiction Festival.

I believe our mental instability and persistent dissatisfaction in life can be attributed in part to being writers – the anxiety about a permanence that can never be perfect. We live with our past selves in print— yet we are allowed to grow. At any chance we are given. How do we write a self that will continue to expand and twirl across the eons of our limited time?