In partnership with Varuna, The National Writers' House, and with the support of the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund, the New England Writers' Centre is delighted to announce a major new opportunity for New England writers.
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Eleanor and Eric Dark moved to Katoomba in 1923, they purchased a weatherboard home on a two-acre block in Cascade Street. The house named 'Varuna' by its original owners after the 'ancient Indian god of the moon, the sky and the waters.'
Varuna was the place that Eleanor Dark wrote most of her novels, and where she spent over sixty years of her life. Eleanor Dark was one of Australia's finest writers of the 20th century. Eleanor wrote 10 novels as well as short stories and articles. Her famous publications: The Timeless Land (1941), the first part of a trilogy, with Storm of Time (1948) and No Barrier (1953) are brilliant.
Applications will open on August 5 for the inaugural Varuna/New England Writers' Centre Fellowship, which, through a competitive process, will offer the Fellowship winner a week's inspirational writing residency in the beautiful surroundings of Varuna, in the Blue Mountains. The Fellowship package will offer full board and accommodation at Varuna, funds towards travel, a one-on-one consultation with a Varuna expert and more.
The Fellowship will be open to all writers, at any stage of their career, and working in any literary genre, who are either currently living in the New England region or who have previously lived there for at least five years. Assessment of applications will be conducted by a panel of New England-based literary professionals. Varuna will select the winner, to be announced in early December, with the Fellowship to be taken up in 2020. For all details of the Fellowship and information on how to apply: http://www.newc.org.au/varuna-fellowship.html
'We're so delighted to be partnering with New England Writers' Centre on this new fellowship,' said Veechi Stuart, Executive Director of Varuna. 'Supporting the arts in regional Australia is key to what we do, and we're keen to be part of the rich tradition of poetry and writing that New England inspires.'
We are very grateful for the support of the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund, whose generous sponsorship has helped to make this inaugural Fellowship possible. The Copyright Agency is a not-for-profit rights management organisation that ensures artists, writers and publishers are fairly rewarded for the reproduction of their work. Its Cultural Fund provides grants to creative individuals and organisations for a diverse range of projects which aim to enrich Australian cultural life.
