Denmark Arts Fellowship Winner Announced

Congratulations to Renee Pettitt-Schipp, winner of the inaugural Denmark Arts Varuna Fellowship award. Renee will be awarded a two-week fellowship at Varuna. Varuna is particularly delighted to be partnering with Denmarks Art to support regional writers from Western Australia.

Renee’s work describes the journey of a former resident returning to Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands, trying to come to terms with her experiences  (including her work with asylum seekers) to make sense of the way her life has changed.

In 2019, Renee’s debut poetry collection won the WA Premier's Literary Award and the Curtin Postgraduate Work of the Year. The collection was also shortlisted for the Dorothy Hewett manuscript prize and the 2019 CHASS Australia Prize for Postgraduates. 

 Renee is pictured here with the other two writers shortlisted for this fellowship: Linda Bradbury and Patricia Gill.