2025 Queensland Writers Centre Fellowships
We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 Queensland Writers Centre Fellowships, each of which affords a Queensland Writers Centre member a two-week residency at Varuna and a one-hour mentoring session with a writing consultant.
Congratulations to Madeleine Dale as the recipient of the Established Writers Fellowship and Edmario Lesi for the Underrepresented Writers Fellowship. We look forward to welcoming both of these writers to Varuna soon!
Photo credit: Kate Lund
Madeleine Dale is the 2025 Established Writers fellow for her work, Poem for Many Voices.
Madeline Dale is a poet and PhD candidate. She holds first-class honours and a Masters degree in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland. Her first full-length collection, Portraits of Drowning, won the 2023 Thomas Shapcott Prize and was released by UQP in 2024. She was a 2024 MacDowell Fellow.
Edmario Lesi is the 2025 Underrepresented Writers fellow for 2025 for his work, Schoolboys.
Edmario Lesi is a queer and multiracial writer living on undeced Kulin Nation lands. He is a PhD candidate of English and Creative Writing at The Australian National University, exploring shame and HIV/AIDS in North American gay short fiction. His writing has been published locally and overseas.
