Guides: Creative Writing and Literature: Organisations and events

Useful information and organisations for writers

Adelaide Festival Awards for Literature
'Introduced in 1986 by the South Australia Government, the awards celebrate Australia’s writing culture by offering national and State-based literary prizes, as well as three fellowships for South Australian writers.' - Website.
Friendly Street Poets
Australia’s longest running community open-poetry reading venue is '... a place where poets of all kinds can come together, and where poetry lives and breathes in its oldest form – the spoken word' - SA Writers Centre website.
SA Writers Centre
The SA Writers Centre provides a range of services and opportunities for writers, including manuscript assessment and feedback, professional development and workshops. The centre is ' ... a not for profit organisation that aims to foster, develop and promote writers and writing' - SA Writers Centre website.
Society of Editors (SA)
As a branch of the Institute of Professional Editors, the Society of Editors (SA) supports editors in South Australia by providing activities for members, professional development programs and an Editors Directory to link editors to potential employers or clients - Australian Society of Authors website.

The ABC Book Club
'Hosted by Jennifer Byrne, with regular panellists Marieke Hardy and Jason Steger, each episode is a robust and passionate discussion covering one new release book, and one favourite brought by a panellist.' - Website.
Australian Society of Authors
'...the professional association for Australia's literary creators' - Society website.
Australian Writer's Marketplace
Contact details and information for publishers, literary agents, magazines, newspapers, industry organisations and awards.
Australian Writers' Centre
Writing courses, blogs, podcasts, competitions, writer interviews, writing news and grammar Q&As.
Australian Writers Guild The Australian Writers’ Guild is the professional association for Australian performance writers including film, television, theatre, radio and digital media.
Express Media
A not-for-profit writing and media organisation for young artists, based at the Wheeler Centre in Melbourne. John Marsden has been the organisation's patron since 2005.
Fellowship of Australian Writers
FAW encourages the study and practice of literature in Australia, provides advice to writers and works towards improving conditions for Australian writers.
First Nations Australia Writers Network
'...the peak body for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writers, poets and storytellers...' - First Nations Australia Writers Network website.
Sydney PEN
'Sydney PEN, an affiliate of PEN International, is an association of Australian writers and readers, publishers and human rights activists.We interpret the PEN Charter as being open to all those who support the work of writers, editors and translators' - Sydney PEN website.
The Wheeler Centre
Provides 'a hub for the discussion, debate and practice of writing and ideas ... [supporting more than] ... 230 events each year, and a unique collection of videos, podcasts and original writing' - The Wheeler Centre website.
The Writers' Room
Writing news, writer interviews, podcasts and Q&As from the Australian Writers' Centre.

International Writers Association
IWA's mission is to 'educate, support, promote, encourage and inform individual writers, and help produce and market each member's work' - International Writers Association website.
PEN International
'PEN International is the world's leading association of writers ... working to promote literature and defend freedom of expression' - PEN International website.

Writers festivals

A calendar of Australian Writers’ Festivals for 2021 compiled by the Australian Writers’ Centre
Calendar of literary festivals compiled by the Australian Writer's Marketplace.

Writing festivals are steadily increasing in Australia, in both cities and regional areas.

They include: