The Writer's Space Online for Writers with Disability
Writers with disability or who are D/deaf are invited to apply for a four-week online fellowship, offering mentorship, writing exercises and the opportunity to peer feedback.
Applications will open early 2025
Places: Six writers will be selected.
Who should apply: Writers at any career stage living anywhere in Australia, who have disability and/or are D/deaf.
Fees: There are no fees for this fellowship.
Writers with disability and/or are D/deaf who are developing new work are invited to apply for one of six places in this four-week online fellowship designed to offer professional development, mentorship and peer feedback.
The Writer’s Space Online Fellowship will include:
Facilitated professional networking opportunities, including the opportunity to share work, talk about process, and receive feedback from your peers.
Two one-hour online sessions (one-on-one) with Varuna writing consultant Mary Ann Butler.
A small group online Q&A session with a publisher.
Two online Q&A sessions with established writers.
Access to an online platform for sharing work, with writing prompts and exercises.
Access to a Varuna ‘on-demand course’ to go deeper with your writing process.
Online fellowship participants need to allow at least one or two hours a week at specific times for programmed sessions, with the expectation that participants will also allow between four and twelve hours per week for dedicated writing time during the four-week residency.
Please let us know if you would like to receive any information in an alternative format.
HOW TO APPLY
You will need to complete our application form and send us a 4,000 to 10,000 word writing sample from the beginning of your manuscript. For plays and screenplays, you may submit 10 pages, or more if the total doesn’t exceed 10,000 words. For poetry, you may submit up to 10 poems. For graphic novels, children’s literature and hybrid forms that include illustration or artwork, you may submit a combination of text and image of 10 pages, or more if the total doesn’t exceed 10,000 words.
Assessors will be looking at the artistic merit of the work sample that you submit, your commitment to the writing craft, and how this Fellowship will benefit your professional development. Consideration will also be given to the impact a lack of access has had on your career development.
ELIGIBILITY
Applicants need to be an Australian citizen or have a permanent residency visa and be over 18 years old. Exemption may be given to permanent residency criteria, but only in the circumstances of recently arrived migrants/refugees.
If you have received a Writer’s Space residential fellowship in 2023 or 2024, you are not eligible to apply.
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