SCWC Wollongong Botanic Garden Writers in Residence

The recipients of the SCWC Wollongong Botanic Garden Writers Residencies have been selected! Congratulations to Annie Te Whiu, Hayley Scrivenor, Peter Ramm and Judi Morison. The writers will work on their respective projects over the next few months and will present a piece from their work at talks in the gardens during the Cratloe Cottage celebration week of 5-11 July 2021.

Annie Te Whiu

Anne-Marie (Annie) Te Whiu is an Australian-born Māori - her whakapapa belongs to Te Rarawa in the Hokianga, Aotearoa. She lives in Wollongong on Dharawal Country and works on Gadigal lands.

Anne-Marie is a poet, weaver, editor, festival director, and since October 2019 has been employed as a Senior Project Manager at Red Room Poetry. In 2019, alongside David Stavanger she co-edited Solid Air, Australia and New Zealand Spoken Word anthology (UQP, 2019). She has edited Tony Birch’s forthcoming poetry collection Whisper Songs (UQP, 2021).

Her poems and essays have appeared in Ora Nui, Te Whe Journal, Australian Poetry, Sport, Contemporary HUM and Cordite amongst others. Anne-Marie has been a guest judge for Overland’s Judith Wright Poetry Prize 2021, Queensland Poetry Festival’s QRAA Ekphrasis Challenge and more. Between 2015-2017 she was co-director of the Queensland Poetry Festival.

Prior to this she founded and led the much-loved community event, The Home Festival in Kangaroo Point, Brisbane. She has also worked primarily within Queensland in producer positions for cultural organisations such as Woodford Folk Festival, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane Multicultural Arts Centre, State Library of Queensland and Brisbane Powerhouse. Anne-Marie has exhibited her weavings in Brisbane as well as digitally.

Hayley Scrivenor

Hayley Scrivenor is a writer, editor and former Director of Wollongong Writers Festival. She lives and writes on Dharawal country. Hayley’s fiction and non-fiction have appeared in a range of Australian literary journals and she was shortlisted for the Overland Story Wine prize.

She was awarded the 2019 Ray Koppe/ASA Fellowship for young writers for her novel about a young girl who goes missing from a small country town. In 2020, this manuscript was shortlisted for the Penguin Literary Prize and won the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award. Hayley recently completed her PhD in Creative Writing at the University of Wollongong.

Peter Ramm

Peter Ramm is a poet and teacher who writes on the Gundungarra lands of the NSW Southern Highlands. He has recently published poems with Cordite, Westerly, Plumwood Mountain, Eureka Street Journal and the Red Room Company. In 2021, Peter won the SCWC Poetry Award and was Highly Commended in the Tom Collins Poetry Prize.

Over the last year, he also won the Harri Jones Memorial Prize, was ‘Highly Commended in the KSP National Poetry Prize and shortlisted for the Blake and Newcastle Poetry Prizes. As an emerging poet, Peter won the Red Room Company’s 2017 and 2019 Poetry Object competitions. His poems have been anthologised in the Hunter Writer’s Centre Grieve Project and Red Room Company’s New Shoots Anthology. He finds inspiration in the landscape and people of South Eastern NSW.

Judi Morison

Judi Morison has Gamilaroi and Celtic heritage and lives on Wadi Wadi country, at Thirroul. A Ngana Barangarai (Black Wallaby) Indigenous Literary Project member and editorial assistant for Dreaming Inside: Voices from Junee Correctional Centre, she writes fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry. Her short fiction has been published in a number of literary journals, including the 2019, 2020 and 2021 UTS Anthologies, 2020 ACE II anthology and 2020 Heroines Anthology.

Her novel manuscript has been longlisted for the Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award 2017, short-listed for the 2018 Varuna First Nations Fellowship and the 2019 Penguin Random House Write It! Fellowship, and won a Queensland Writers Centre’s Publishable mentorship in 2020. Her poetry has been published in South Coast Writers Centre’s 2014 anthology Seeking Horizons and by Red Room Poetry, and broadcast on Radio National’s Poetica program. She has recently completed a Master of Arts in Creative Writing at UTS.