2026 Roderick Centre Online Fellowship for Regional and Remote Writers Recipients

We are pleased to announce the six recipients of the 2026 Roderick Centre Online Fellowship for Remote and Regional Writers.

Congratulations to this year’s recipients Barry Morley, Katy Rogers, Liz Macnamara, Miriam Zolin, Phoebe Morgan-Hunn and Ryanna Clayton.

Our assessors would also like to highlight six writers whose work that they nominated as Highly Commended: Bronwyn Birdsall, Dani Netherclift, Elizabeth Walton, Michelle Davidson, Susan Coleridge and Sylvia Wilczynski.

We look forward to starting our online program with the six recipients from 24 August - 4 September 2026.

Barry Morley

Barry Morley OAM is a Registered Nurse living in the South West of Western Australia. His career in nursing, his travels across Africa and USSR, raising children and making mistakes, has armed him with stories desperate to be written. He has won or been shortlisted in several short story competitions, and is in the process of editing his debut novel.

Katy Rogers

Katy Rogers is a British-Australian writer based on Punnilerpanner land in Lutruwita/Tasmania. She writes fiction and non-fiction for children about identity, belonging, and the natural world, with a soft spot for the occasional dragon. Katy was shortlisted for the 2026 MidnightSun Publishing Picture Book Prize, awarded the 2025 Island Magazine Tasmanian Writers Mentorship with Johanna Bell, and selected as a New and Emerging Writer at the Edinburgh International Book Festival. Her non-fiction work for adults has most recently been published in Forty South. She is currently working on a middle grade historical smuggling adventure and several picture books.

Liz
Macnamara
Liz Macnamara is an Australian writer and psychotherapist. Her work explores the relationship between language and inner life. She holds a Master’s degree in Australian Literature and is the founder of *Consult Yourself*, a practice centred on writing as a form of psychological enquiry.
She is the inaugural winner of the Leichhardt Prize for Poetry and has been shortlisted for the Newcastle Poetry Prize. Her current project, the verse novel *Again and Again*, explores the human implications of cloning.

Miriam Zolin

Miriam Zolin’s first published novel was Tristessa & Lucido (UQP, 2003). Her short fiction has appeared in number of collections, including Joiner Bay and Other Stories (Margaret River Press) and Sleepers Almanac No. 7. Her essays and reviews have appeared in Australian Book Review, Griffith Review, Resonate (Australian Music Centre), All About Jazz (USA) a number of art catalogues and a biography of jazz musician Charlie Parker (Testimony: the Life of Charlie Parker, Wesley University Press). Miriam lives and writes in the Wimmera region of western Victoria.

Phoebe Morgan-Hunn

Phoebe was born in Sydney and has worked as a writer and filmmaker in Southeast Asia and Australia, mostly in the international aid sector.

Her writing explores life on the peripheries of modern geopolitics, often through the lens of the natural world.

Phoebe lives with her young family on a small property on Dja Dja Wurrung. She is working on her first novel, a fiction set between rural locations in Victoria and southern Cambodia.