2025 Roderick Centre Online Fellowship Announcement
We’re pleased to announce the participants in this year’s Roderick Centre Online Fellowship for Regional and Remote Writers, now in its second year running.
This fellowship is held in partnership with James Cook University (JCU)’s Roderick Centre for Australian Literature and Creative Writing (RCALC), which was established at JCU in 2024 thanks to a generous bequest from the late Colin and Margaret Roderick. The Centre aims to foster the reading and writing of Australian literature in all its forms, and to encourage the study of Australian literature and literary cultures.
The Roderick Centre Fellowship is the only national literary program in Australia specifically for regional and remote writers.
The online fellowship program includes online sessions with Varuna writing consultant, Mary Anne Butler, Q&As with celebrated authors Mirandi Riwoe and Hayley Scrivenor, and facilitated professional networking opportunities.
The calibre of the applicants this year was very strong, and we are thrilled to have selected the following six writers as recipients of this year’s Roderick Centre Online Fellowship for Regional and Remote Writers:
Joanne Falvey is a Queanbeyan writer. As a teenager she spent three and half years as an active member of the Unification Church (“the Moonies”). Her experiences during that time reshaped her perspectives on life. She holds a Master of Creative Writing from the University of Technology Sydney, and is a regular contributor to STUN magazine. In 2023 and 2024 Joanne was the recipient of the LGBT Office grant from the ACT Government for running a flash fiction and a thriller writing workshop.
Beverly Goldfarb is a former radio journalist, university manager and writer/editor at a small publishing house, all of which inform her current mystery novel. She’s a member of two writing groups and has completed numerous courses, including a masterclass with Jane Messer. Beverly was highly commended for a previous Varuna fellowship, longlisted for the Hawkeye Publishing Manuscript Development Prize and short-listed in several minor competitions. In her spare time, she competes in Scrabble tournaments and takes care of four unruly chickens. Fun fact: Beverly is one of the three per cent of the population who’s face-blind. She is based in Lutruwita/Tasmania.
Tiffany Hastie is a doctoral candidate at Edith Cowan University, and two-time winner of the Talus Prize, with work appearing in Westerly, Verge, the little journal, the Raine Square Short Story Dispenser, and anthologies Pigface and Other Stories, Ourselves: 100 Micro Memoirs, and the upcoming Follow the Salt. Tiffany has been a featured emerging author on stage at both the Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival and The Australian Short Story Festival.
Julia Harris is a journalist and author who holds a Master of Arts (Writing and Literature), and is a PhD candidate specialising in Young Adult Realism. Her academic work includes publication in TEXT Journal, and she has independently published four YA novels through her imprint at happyharrispublishing.com.
Jasper Peach is a trans, non-binary and disabled writer and parent. They are passionate about equitable access and inclusion and work primarily on dismantling misplaced shame via storytelling. Their first book You'll Be a Wonderful Parent is a groundbreaking resource for the LGBTIQASB+ community. An illustrated title for young readers My Body is My Home will also be published in 2026. Their current project is mosaic memoir A Thousand Spinning Plates on Fire which is an exploration of life across the intersections of queer, disabled, fat bodied, transgender, parent, non-binary, neurodivergent and activist identities.
Poppy Rose Solomon's novels are inspired by both her coastal childhood in Queensland and her love of escaping into magical worlds. Her debut series is four-book YA fantasy saga Woken Kingdom. She's also a professional editor and loves to help other authors cultivate their voice and tell their story. You'll often find her posting rosy-filtered pictures or yapping about publishing on social media. Find her at Poppy's Pages Editing or @PoppysVintageBooks.
