We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2024 First Nations Fellowship.

The recipients of the 2024 International Lamplight Online Fellowship - Ireland have been announced.

We are delighted to announce the recipients of the 2023 First Nations Fellowship.

We are delighted to announce the recipients 2023 International Lamplight Residency - Fiction.

We at Varuna, the National Writers House, on the lands of the Darug and Gundungurra peoples, thank the First Nations leaders, delegates and communities for their generosity, grace and good faith in inviting us to walk with them in a ‘movement of the Australian people for a better future’. 

We warmly thank the 50 writers who applied to The Writer’s Space Fellowship program.

Congratulations to the 12 recipients of The Writer’s Space Fellowships.

Announcing the recipients of the 2021 Varuna First Nations Fellowship

In this exciting new program, 12 two-week fellowships will be offered to writers with disability or who are D/deaf, with six residency fellowships and six online fellowships available. This program has been generously supported by the NSW Government and is available to writers in New South Wales only.

Congratulations to the four shortlisted writers in this year's Kill Your Darlings Unpublished Manuscript Award

Congratulations to the winner of the Writers SA Varuna Fellowship – Phoebe Paterson de Heer!

Congratulations to the five winners of the 2020 Griffith Review Contributions Circle Residency Fellowships.

Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival will invite the best writers and thinkers from around Australia to share ideas, spark conversations and inspire creativity.