Aileen Westbrook won the 2018 Monash Undergraduate Prize for Creative Writing, taking home $4,000 for her story ‘Mistook’, chosen from over 340 entries. We spoke to Aileen about her winning piece and advice for 2019 applicants. 

Kirby Fenwick is a writer, editor, audio producer and social media producer with a passion for the untold stories of women.

Congratulations to the 2019 Melbourne Recital Centre Writers’ Residency recipients: Kiara Lindsay, Xanthea O'Connor, Caitlin McGregor and mentor Adalya Nash Hussein.

Emerging Writers’ Festival is thrilled to announce the appointment of Alice Muhling as executive director.

Latifa Elmrini Gonzalez is a visual artist, writer, spoken word poet and freelance curator and educator. A coffee and book addict, she is currently completing a degree at Victorian College of the Arts and knee deep into literary and art things of all...

Dr Jay Ludowyke is an author and academic with a research focus on narrative nonfiction, objects and artefacts. She holds qualifications in writing, history and library services.

Ahead of Eileen Chong's poetry seminar as part of DWF18, Eileen shares advice on diving into the world of poetry.

Earth, Monstrous Body is a collaborative literature project running for the course of the Digital Writers’ Festival 2018. I began to think: What if the Earth itself is a monstrous, cyborg body? We can no longer think of the Earth and the places on...