Monday 28 April – Sunday 4 May 2025

This week-long retreat at Bundanon Homestead will allow six emerging or established NSW 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 develop as a writing community.

There will also be a public forum at the Bundanon Art Museum on the afternoon of Sunday 4th where participants will read from and discuss their work.

RETREAT INFORMATION

This retreat is open to writers living on the South Coast of NSW who are emerging or established writers. The application will ask you to provide a short bio, work sample and description of the project you will be working on.

Read about the 2024 Bundanon retreat here

WRITING IN COMMUNITY

While this retreat is designed to be an intensive space for individuals/collaborators to focus on their writing project, alongside this, the retreat is designed to foster the SCWC’s writing community. Director Sarah Nicholson will host a daily peer-led session in which retreat participants will each be invited to speak with the group about their writing project.

ACCOMMODATION

Writers will be accommodated on-site at the Bundanon Homestead.

All bedrooms are individual, all spaces have shared kitchens. Some accommodation spaces also shared bathrooms and living rooms. Please note your preference on the application form.

This is a self-catering retreat.

Please note- the road leading into the homestead is partially unsealed and may have potholes depending on the weather conditions.

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Retreat participants will participate in a public literary event discussing and reading from their work, at Bundanon’s Art Museum on Sunday 4th.

COST

There is an application fee: $5 members/ $7 non-members

Accepted participants are asked to contribute $400 to the cost of this retreat (which will allow SCWC to continue to run this program in future years); however, contributions can be paid in installments and financial hardship scholarships are available.

APPLICANTS

• This program welcomes writers working in fiction, creative non-fiction, play or screen writing and poetry.

• We strongly encourage applications from emerging or established writers who are disabled, identify as Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander, are from CALD backgrounds, or are members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

• Preference will be given to applicants who have not been residents on this program in previous years, or on other SCWC residency programs.

• In order accept a place on this retreat you must be a SCWC member.

APPLICATIONS OPEN UNTIL DECEMBER 15, 2024