‘The walls are the history of Australian literature and it feels special to be a part of it’ – 2019 Varuna Fellowship winner Kaya Wilson reflects on his time at Varuna Writers’ House.

Adele Dumont reveals some of her experiences from her one week residency with Varuna. She reflects on how the fellowship gave her the opportunity to disconnect from her normal rhythm and write in a new environment.

You may have thought all the hard work was over: goodbye to those nights slaving over plot lines and tweaking dialogue, farewell to those days building up to penning the final page, the final paragraph, the final sentence. Once it’s done, it’s done, right? Well… not really. Now comes the searching for a publisher, the […]

I live in thrall to my chore-lists. The pages of my notebooks hold columns of tasks that assert themselves across my life, like ivy strangling a tree. But during a recent stay at Varuna, I took a machete to my lists until only one column remained: Daily Writing Chores. That single column, short enough to […]