SCWC Anthology 2025
The 2025 SCWC anthology, Temple, is a collection of creative work developed via the SCWC’s partnerships with other regional cultural organisations. Part One of the anthology presents works that were developed by seven writers who participated in the SCWC + Nan Tien Temple Writers-in-Residence program in 2024. Part Two contains poems from the 2024 South Coast Writers Centre + Wollongong Art Gallery Poetry Award, alongside commentary from esteemed poet and judge Judith Beveridge. Part Three presents the winners of the SCWC + River of Art Festival Flash Fiction competition, and the final section contains the stories that emerged from SCWC’s writing partnership with Illawarra Multicultural Services.
Temple includes work by:
Megan Cartwright, Shady Cosgrove, Jamie Derkenne, Laura Golding, Paris Rosemont,
David Stavanger, Emily Tran, Jen Saunders, Greg McLaren, Ez Knill, Alisha Brown,
Rosa O’Kane, Lili Pâquet, Eden Crain, Julie Janson, Bríd Morahan, David Terelinck,
Sharon Rockman, Dave Clark, Denise O’Hagan, Willo Drummond, Coco X. Huang,
Judi Morison, Eartha Davis, Mike Epworth, Jennifer Harrison, Bronwen Morrison
and Medhi Zameni.
SCWC Anthology 2023/4
Our 2023/4 anthology, named Chroma, collects work by writers collected new work from members gathered through an open submission process, as well as the winners and shortlisted works from the SCWC Poetry Award 2023, responding 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
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, the winning poems from the SCWC + Wollongong Art Gallery Poetry Award 2021 and creative works from members gathered from an open submission process.
Anthology cover art by Zanny Begg
