Chroma now released!

Named Chroma, our 2023/4 anthology includes the winners and shortlisted works from the SCWC Poetry Award 2023. These poems responded to the theme ‘in colour’, and Wollongong Art Gallery’s exhibition Thinking Through Pink.

  • In the shape of a Black Swan - Lakshmi Kanchi

  • And My Pink Ashes - Meredith Wattison

  • Mottled State - Suzi Mezei

  • Outside The Cyanometer - Scott-Patrick Mitchell

  • Grubs in the Broccoli - Glenn McPherson

  • Crab Nest - Kathleen Bleakley

  • Pigment - Carolyn Leach-Paholski

Chroma is available to purchase through our online store.

Our 2022 anthology collects work by writers whose works has made a significant impact this year, including:

  • the winners of SCWC + Wollongong Art Gallery Poetry Award:

    • Erin Shiel, Peter Frankis, Lore White, Sean West, Jonathan Cant, and Rhian Healy

  • the winners of the Berry Writers Festival + SCWC Flash Fiction competition (to be announced)

  • the winners of the Illawarra Multicultural Services + SCWC Refugee Week Writing Competition:

    • Hanan Khorsheed and Fatima Sayed

  • commissioned work in partnership with Shoalhaven Arts & Health, and Bundanon Trust, from local poets:

    • Nicole Smede, Elanna Herbert, Gabrielle Journey Jones, Peter Ramm, Isabella Luna, and Julie Janson

  • short stories gathered from members through an open submission process:

    • Judi Morison, Linda Godfrey, Kathleen Bleakley, Mike Cavanagh, Elizabeth Walton, and Amelia Fielden

SCWC ANTHOLOGY 2022

2021

Legacies: SCWC’s 2021 Anthology included a poem commissioned by the SCWC from esteemed local poet Mark Tredinnick, and the winning poems from the SCWC + Wollongong Art Gallery Poetry Award 2021.

Anthology cover art by Zanny Begg