The Writer's Space Fellowship 2023
Congratulations to the 12 recipients of our The Writer’s Space Fellowship 2023 program. Thank you to everyone who applied.
Our program assessors commented, "All of these works showed a resounding commitment to craft, which made our jobs tremendously difficult as judges—and yet, there were a few highlights. Lines we simply couldn’t get out of our heads. Characters and plots that returned to us in our dreams… Undoubtedly this Fellowship will help produce some astounding work while supporting some astounding writers, and we’d like to thank everyone who submitted for doing so—it was an honour reading your work. We’d also like to thank the tireless efforts of the Varuna staff, whom without, such an important program would not exist.”
The six writers who will receive The Writer’s Space Residential Fellowship in 2023 are:
Jacquelyn Leigh for Wrong Universe
Thang Dac Luong for Remembering My Marrickville
Brendon McLeod for The Rhinoceros
Brownyn Owen Allen for The Earth, The Moon and The Miner's Wife
Paris Rosemont for Banana Girl
Amber Stewart for The S.O.S.
The six writers who will receive The Writer’s Space Online Fellowship in 2023 are:
Shannon Anima for The Furnaces
Natasha Bonynge for The Last Butterfly
Kate Morell for This Book Has A Happy Ending: a memoir
Tina Nyfakos for Galagoo
Glenn Orgias for Teeth Kicker
Lauren Poole for For a long time, I haven't been I : essays and interludes
Congratulations to all.