Join four women writers of colour as they discuss challenging the white male-dominated field and share what the Australian landscape means to them and how they explore it in their writing.

Join a community of writers sharing space for a quiet writing session dedicated to your individual project. Tea, coffee and light snacks provided.

Want to write a novel in 2024? Are you keen to enrol in our popular Year of the Novel course, but not sure what you might get out of it, or how best to prepare over the summer? Join us for our Year of the Novel celebration on Tuesday 14 November from 6.30pm at Writing […]

Join a community of writers sharing space for a quiet writing session dedicated to your individual project. Tea, coffee and light snacks provided.

First Friday, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, is a chance for our community to learn more about the writing and publishing industry. This November, we chat with Jon Page, General Manager for Dymocks Sydney and former President of the Australian Booksellers Association.

The Failed Writers’ Festival showcases a range of diverse voices, which the mainstream market has skipped over and looked past, even though we need these voices more than ever. Come and hear what they have to say!

A panel discussion that explores the inner workings of the publishing world.

Hayley Scrivenor, Zaheda Ghani and Nick Bhasin discuss the expectations and realities of first-time publication, and how their lives and careers have changed.

Come along to experience sounds, images, and words at this multi-disciplinary performance event.

First Friday, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, is a chance for our community to learn more about the writing and publishing industry. This October, we invite you to our online event with John Morrissey, judge for the 2024 Boundless Mentorship for Indigenous Writers.

Join author and city-maker Jess Scully, writer and poet Mohammad Awad, Shelter NSW Planning Officer Stacey Miers and moderator Dominic Santagelo for a panel discussion on the housing crisis, and the power of words and lived experience to affect change.

Celebrate fifty years of rap and its transformative power with this session hosted by Simone Amelia Jordan, Australia’s top hip-hop journalist, and witness an electrifying rap battle between L-FRESH The Lion and Mari. with DJ Capital Zee.

On Friday 18 August 2023, Ultimo Press, an independent publisher established in 2020 with the simple ambition to become home to Australia’s best storytellers, will be in residence at Writing NSW.

First Friday, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, is a chance for our community to learn more about the writing and publishing industry. This August, we invite you to our online event with Wenona Byrne, Head of Literature at the Australia Council for the Arts.

First Friday, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, is a chance for our community to learn more about the writing and publishing industry. This July, we invite you to our online event with Benjamin Stevenson, literary agent with Curtis Brown and award-winning stand-up comedian and author.

Join Writing NSW for the 2023 Speculative Fiction Festival, where panelists will discuss everything from world-building to crafting monsters, from cross media publication to hopeful futures, from the rise of darkness to the search for new light.

First Friday, our monthly conversation with an industry professional, is a chance for our community to learn more about the writing and publishing industry. This June, we invite you to our online event with Fiona Hazard, group publishing director for Hachette Australia and New Zealand.

Boundless Festival event series 2023 Call for submissions from emerging curators of writing events Applications are now open for the Writing NSW development program for emerging literary curators from First Nations or culturally diverse backgrounds. The program will give up to five emerging curators the experience of programming an individual event in our 2023 Boundless […]