The 2021 Emerging Writers Mentorship Program offered four outstanding emerging South Coast writers the opportunity to develop new works of fiction via a focused three-month program of development led by Hayley Scrivenor.

The week-long retreat at Bundanon Homestead begins on Monday 25th of April to Sunday 30th April, and allows the seven selected emerging or established south coast writers to focus on developing or completing their works.

The SCWC is proud to announce our first ever SCWC Young Reviewer in Residence: Errinundra Farran!

We’re so pleased to be able to provide this new platform for talented youth who enjoy reading, critical thinking on literature, and writing reviews on their favourite creative works.

Read on for Errin’s first review for the SCWC.

IMS Women’s Writing Competition Winners 2021

From Australia’s dominant fetishization of property comes a crime romance with a killer tagline that will have any crime writer kicking themselves that they didn’t come up with it first.

"These two books reminded me that impossible hurdles or immovable gatekeepers don’t last forever...When texts allow us a tiny glimpse of the world waiting for us to return, lockdown can’t end soon enough." - Andy Muir