With much excitement, we announce the 38 recipients of the 2026 Varuna Residential Fellowships as well as those writers who received a “Highly Commended”.

The six recipients of the Writer’s Space Online Fellowship for writers with disability have been announced.

We are delighted to announce that award-winning Australian poet Eileen Chong will be travelling to Shanghai this September for a two-month residency.

The recipients of the 2025 Varuna International Exchange New Zealand have been announced.

The twelve recipients of the Copyright Agency First Nations Fellowship for 2025 have been announced.

The Eleanor Dark Foundation is delighted to announce that its application for multi-year funding from Create NSW has been successful, guaranteeing $240,000 in annual funding from 2026 through to 2028.

The six recipients of the Roderick Centre Online Fellowship for Regional and Remote Writers for 2025 have been announced.

The recipients of the 2025 Ann Moyal Non-fiction Fellowship have been announced.

The recipients of the 2025 International Lamplight Online Fellowship - Ireland have been announced.

The recipients of the inaugural Trans and Gender Diverse Fellowship have been announced.

The recipients of the 2025 Red Room Poetry Fellowship have been announced.

The recipients of the inaugural First Peoples India-Australia Exchange have been announced.

The recipients of our 2025 Writer’s Space Fellowships have been announced.

The recipients of the Arts NT Fellowship for 2025 have been announced.

The recipients of Whitlam Essay Residency for 2025 have been announced, with six essayists receiving a week-long residency at the Whitlam Prime Ministerial home in Cabramatta.

The recipients of Affirm Press Fellowship for 2025 have been announced, with four writers receiving a week-long residency at Varuna.

Listen to Yuwaalaraay storyteller Nardi Simpson delivering the 2023 Mick Dark Talk for the Future, to celebrate the release of Nardi’s new book, The Belburd, and her upcoming appearances at Blue Mountains Writers' Festival 2024.

The winners of this year's Whitlam Institute's What Matters? Writing Competition have been announced. Varuna is proud to have been involved in selecting the winner of the Artistic Merit Award.

Announcing the inaugural First Peoples India-Australia Exchange set for November 2025, which involves an exchange between two Adivasi writers from India and two First Nations writers from Australia.

The recipients of the Shanghai Western Sydney Writing Exchange for 2024/2025 have been announced.