Congratulations to the nine works and their authors.

Varuna is delighted to announce our 2024 call out for Pitch Me!. Applications are now open to be part of a program that connects Australian writers with publishers and agents.

Congratulations to the 33 writers who have been awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship for 2024.

ANN MOYAL NON-FICTION FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED

Sarah Holland-Batt, Cathy Perkins and Geordie Williamson have received the inaugural three-week Ann Moyal Fellowship for 2023.

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023 First Nations Fellowship.

We are delighted to announce the recipients 2023 International Lamplight Residency - Fiction.

We at Varuna, the National Writers House, on the lands of the Darug and Gundungurra peoples, thank the First Nations leaders, delegates and communities for their generosity, grace and good faith in inviting us to walk with them in a ‘movement of the Australian people for a better future’. 

Congratulations to Cove Park Fellowship 2023 recipient Jeanine Leane, who will be heading to Scotland in August to take part in a four-week residency. Thank you to our wonderful alumni writers who applied and supported this fellowship.

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of our 2023 The Writer’s Space Fellowship program.

Leveraging the presence of over 200 award-winning writers who visit Varuna each year, the funding will transform the extraordinary cultural wealth of Varuna from being a residential asset enjoyed by relatively few, to being a place that all members of the community can enjoy.

Congratulations to the nine winners of the 2022 Arts NT & Varuna Fellowship due to commence their residency in 2023.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Mascara Literary Review & Varuna Editors' and Writers' Residency: Maria van Neerven, Alison J. Barton, Timmah Ball, and Vivienne Cleven.

Congratulations to the recipients of the 2023 Affirm Press and Varuna Mentorship Award; Anne Andrew, Inessa Jackson, Mark Mupotsa-Russell and Zoe Downing.

Congratulations to the 31 writers who have been awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship for 2023.

Congratulations to our 2022 Varuna & Scribe Fellowship recipients Sam Elkin, Jacqueline Wright and Nevo Zisin.

Congratulations to Richard Yaxley and Balli Kaur Jaswal who have received a Queensland Writers Centre Varuna Fellowship.

Congratulations to Catherine MacCarthy (Ireland), Nicola White (Scotland), and Gina Cole (New Zealand) who have all recently received an international residency exchange and will come to Varuna later in the year.

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of our 2022 The Writer’s Space Fellowship program. This is the first year the program had a national reach.

Congratulations to the two recipients of our 2022 Pitch Me! fellowship. This is the first year of the program, and Varuna acknowledges the support of Ultimo Press and Left Bank Literary in its establishment.

Congratulations to the writers who have been awarded a Varuna First Nations Fellowship for 2022.

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