The Writer's Space Fellowship 2023

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of our The Writer’s Space Fellowship 2023 program. Thank you to everyone who applied.

Our program assessors commented, "All of these works showed a resounding commitment to craft, which made our jobs tremendously difficult as judges—and yet, there were a few highlights. Lines we simply couldn’t get out of our heads. Characters and plots that returned to us in our dreams… Undoubtedly this Fellowship will help produce some astounding work while supporting some astounding writers, and we’d like to thank everyone who submitted for doing so—it was an honour reading your work. We’d also like to thank the tireless efforts of the Varuna staff, whom without, such an important program would not exist.”

The six writers who will receive The Writer’s Space Residential Fellowship in 2023 are:

  • Jacquelyn Leigh for Wrong Universe

  • Thang Dac Luong for Remembering My Marrickville

  • Brendon McLeod for The Rhinoceros

  • Brownyn Owen Allen for The Earth, The Moon and The Miner's Wife

  • Paris Rosemont for Banana Girl

  • Amber Stewart for The S.O.S.

The six writers who will receive The Writer’s Space Online Fellowship in 2023 are:

  • Shannon Anima for The Furnaces

  • Natasha Bonynge for The Last Butterfly

  • Kate Morell for This Book Has A Happy Ending: a memoir

  • Tina Nyfakos for Galagoo

  • Glenn Orgias for Teeth Kicker

  • Lauren Poole for For a long time, I haven't been I : essays and interludes

Congratulations to all.

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