Congratulations to our 2024 Varuna Scribe Fellowship recipients, Anne So, Sarina Singh, Bianca Millroy and Alex Karaconji.

Congratulations to Scotland’s Cove Park Fellowship 2024 recipient Sean Wai Keung, who will take up residency at Varuna in October-November 2025 and appear at Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival.

A special salon event held in conjunction with the inaugural Whitlam Essay Residency held at 32 Albert Street, Cabramatta, the former family home (1952-1978) of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam.

Phoebe Grainer (Djungan), Theresa Violet Sainty (Pakana), Aunty Kerry Bulloojeeno Archibald Moran, Natalie Damjanovich-Napoleon, Ella Jeffery and Aloma Davis have been selected for the 2024 Red Room Poetry Fellowship.

Congratulations to the two recipients of our 2024 Pitch Me! fellowship: Anne Myers for her memoir, The Little Ones and Izzy Roberts-Orr for her poetry collection, Medusa is a Modern Woman.

Congratulations to Cove Park Fellowship 2024 recipient Brooke Robinson, who will be heading to Scotland in September to take part in a four-week residency in Scotland.

Kim Huynh, Dr Kath Kenny, Dr Farjana Mahbuba, Deborah Prospero, Heather Taylor-Johnson and Dr Jessica White selected for the inaugural Whitlam Essay Residency, to take place March 2024.

Seven fellows selected for the inaugural Climate Fellowship, supported by The Bridge Awards, are in residence during March 2024.

Six winners announced for inaugural FNAWN Varuna fellowship.

Congratulations to the nine works and their authors.

Varuna is delighted to announce our 2024 call out for Pitch Me!. Applications are now open to be part of a program that connects Australian writers with publishers and agents.

Congratulations to the 33 writers who have been awarded a Varuna Residential Fellowship for 2024.

ANN MOYAL NON-FICTION FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED

Sarah Holland-Batt, Cathy Perkins and Geordie Williamson have received the inaugural three-week Ann Moyal Fellowship for 2023.

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023 First Nations Fellowship.

We are delighted to announce the recipients 2023 International Lamplight Residency - Fiction.

We at Varuna, the National Writers House, on the lands of the Darug and Gundungurra peoples, thank the First Nations leaders, delegates and communities for their generosity, grace and good faith in inviting us to walk with them in a ‘movement of the Australian people for a better future’. 

Congratulations to Cove Park Fellowship 2023 recipient Jeanine Leane, who will be heading to Scotland in August to take part in a four-week residency. Thank you to our wonderful alumni writers who applied and supported this fellowship.

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of our 2023 The Writer’s Space Fellowship program.

Leveraging the presence of over 200 award-winning writers who visit Varuna each year, the funding will transform the extraordinary cultural wealth of Varuna from being a residential asset enjoyed by relatively few, to being a place that all members of the community can enjoy.

Congratulations to the nine winners of the 2022 Arts NT & Varuna Fellowship due to commence their residency in 2023.