On Saturday 19 August 2017 Writing NSW launched its annual Honouring Australian Writers series, focusing on author Jessica Anderson. Here is a collection of resources for those interested in learning more about Jessica Anderson and her work.

In its annual Honouring Australian Writers series, Writing NSW pays tribute to writers who have made an important contribution to our literary culture.

In 2018 Writing NSW honoured Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920-1993), Australia’s first published Aboriginal poet.

On Saturday 23 August 2014 Writing NSW launched its annual Honouring Australian Writers series, focusing on Queensland author Thea Astley. Here is a collection of resources for those interested in learning more about Thea Astley and her work.

A collection of resources on Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s life and writing.

On Saturday 20 August, the NSW Writers’ Centre paid tribute to Henry Handel Richardson, the pen name of Ethel Florence Lindesay Richardson, as part of its Honouring Australian Writers series. Here is a collection of resources for those interest in learning more about Henry Handel Richardson and her work.

Randolph Stow was a West Australian writer and is the subject of the NSW Writers’ Centre event Honouring: Randolph Stow at the NSW State Library on Saturday 29 August 2015. To read an introduction to these research materials, click here.   Fiction A Haunted Land, Macdonald, 1956 The Bystander, Macdonald 1957 To the Islands, Macdonald, […]

Four people sat together at the first inaugural NSW Writers’ Centre event honouring Australian writers, on 23 August 2014. They were keen to discuss one woman, Thea Astley, who has impacted each of their lives. Author Felicity Castagna, Small Indiscretions, Literary critic Susan Sheridan, Author Debra Adelaide, The Household Guide to Dying, and Mark MacLeod, […]