RESIDENCY PROGRAMS

SCWC Bundanon Group Retreat

For Emerging and Established Writers

Monday 13 May – Sunday 19 May 2024

This week-long retreat at Bundanon Homestead will allow up to eight emerging or established south coast writers to focus on developing or completing works. While participants will be primarily spending their days working on individual projects, this retreat is also designed as a supportive group retreat that will enable writers to work and learn together via daily peer-led discussion.

There will also be a public forum at the Bundanon Art Museum where participants will read from and discuss their work.

Bundanon is a place for research, creativity and connection to living cultures. The gift of Bundanon was driven by Arthur and Yvonne Boyds’ bold vision—a celebration of art and ideas, promoting the value of landscape in all our lives. A place charged with inspiration.

Bundanon is located on 1,000 hectares of bush and park land overlooking the Shoalhaven River, in the Shoalhaven. Bundanon’s mission is to operate the property as a centre for creative arts and education, to scientific research and a place to explore landscape and Indigenous culture.

Nan Tien Residency

Writers on the South Coast, or connected to Nan Tien Temple, are invited to apply for a 2024 residency at Nan Tien Temple.   

Up to 12 residencies for established or emerging writers will be offered over the period of 11 – 24 March 2024.  

Applicants are invited to show how the development of their writing would benefit from this residency, and a proposal for a new work developed during the residency to respond to the Nan Tien temple, its gardens, buildings and community life, or Master Hsing Yun’s poetry. 

Residents will appear as part of a public presentation at the temple on Fo Guang Shan Day on May 16, 2024 to read the work created during the residency.

The Writers Studio Residency

The Writers Studio is a dedicated office studio space for writers managed by the SCWC as part of Wollongong City Council’s Creative Wollongong Studios program.

Located in the Wollongong Town Hall, The Writers Studio is a lockable private space available 24/7. It comes with basic furnishing (desk, chair, lamp) and will be yours to make a comfortable space. There is a common area with a kitchenette, lounge and a bathroom. N.B. The complex does not offer wifi.

The SCWC are offering one residency space from January 2023 - April 2024.