Have a look at what the Writing NSW team has been reading over the last month: short stories, crime fiction, our own program manager’s debut, a black comedy, and poetic YA.

Edoardo Crismani has been awarded the 2023 Boundless Indigenous Writer’s Mentorship for Finding Billy Brown, a fast-paced story about an AFL player who is hit by a car, only to wake up in the 1930s, where he meets his boxer great-grandfather.

The words writing and community are inseparable in my creative practice. I write about and for my Aboriginal Community and also within the broader community of writers and the reading public.

Judi Morison has won the 2022 Boundless Mentorship for her family saga, When Grandmothers Speak, set in Queensland and northern NSW in the 1950s.