“Only a Monster is an interesting read, going from light to dark, happy to sad, contrasting each mood as the story twists and turns like a windy road until cutting off at the ultimately heartbreaking end. Sad, but definitely worth a read, unless you are looking for a happy ending.”

With thanks to our partner Wollongong Botanic Garden, we are excited to announce the recipients of the 2022 SCWC + Wollongong Botanic Garden Writers Residencies.

Congratulations to Rebekah Lambert, Karen Cummings, Elizabeth Walton, Katarina Mikac and Jessica Raschke.

In memory of SCWC friend Jack Baker, we’d like to offer this wonderful essay about him by Judi Morison, and honour him as a writer through this poem from the preface of his final book, Stranded at Sunrise.

The South Coast Writers Centre would like to recognise Treva Taylor, who was a huge part of our activities and energy for many years, and who sadly passed away recently. Former Director of the South Coast Writers Centre, Friederike (Rike) Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, kindly wrote some words remembering Treva.

On Saturday 19 March at Coledale Community Hall, the South Coast Writers Centre hosted the 2022 SCWC Poetry Awards, and the launch of our 2021 anthology of writing: Legacies.

Congratulations to the winners (Erin Shiel, Sean West, Lore White & Peter Frankis), the shortlisted and longlisted poets, and to all the writers in the Legacies anthology.

SCWC’s 2022 Book Reviewer Errin Faran reviews The Ones We’re Meant to Find by Joan He.

The South Coast Writers Centre is pleased to announce the eight selected writers, and we look forward to seeing their work that comes out of this program. Meet the writers.

SCWC Member Camille Booker recently hosted the book launch of her debut novel What If You Fly? at Coledale Community Hall.

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