Alumni Features
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Alumni Interview with Mark Brandi
Mark Brandi speaks about his gripping debut novel Wimmera.
The Solace of Shared Stories
Surely one of the great joys of Sydney Writers Festival is discovering new authors to adore.
Crossing the Line
The 2017 Eric Dark Memorial Lecture: Crossing the Line by Professor Wendy Rogers
News from the Hut
Autumn at Varuna has certainly lived up to Keats’ ‘Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness’
Message from Features Editor Diana Jenkins
We wish everyone a very safe and sane end to 2016
Writing resilience
Writing: what better life could there be – so long as you manage to make a living from it?
There is only this one hour of stillness...
Vanessa Kirkpatrick writes on the acclaimed poet Deborah Westbury
There's Gold in Far North Queensland
The rush is on for literary gold at the Cairns Tropical Writers’ Festival
Alumni Interview: Suzanne Leal
It’s a great pleasure to welcome Suzanne to the Varuna Alumni Interview Suite.
Stories flourish in the long days of an Irish summer
Kathy Sharpe visits the Tyrone Guthrie Centre
Reasons to Write and Cause to Celebrate
Varuna Alumna Charlotte Wood recently took out the 2016 Stella Prize
Sydney Writers’ Festival 2016
Festival fever is already upon us as S.W.F. boasts record ticket sales
Alumni Interview: Michelle Michau-Crawford
Perth-based Alumna Michelle Michau-Crawford joins us in the Alumni Interview Suite this month
A Writer’s Resolutions
Hope. That’s the problem right there. Hope is rarely enough to accomplish anything.
Alumni Interview with Leah Kaminsky
Leah Kaminsky’s debut novel The Waiting Room hit bookstores in September
Member Interview with Hazel Edwards
Hazel’s latest book, in a career that’s spanned everything from transgender YA to adventure writing, is an unconventional memoir of life and writing