Our Sponsors and Partners

Each year, Create NSW provides The Eleanor Dark Foundation with core funding which is used to cover some of the core costs of staffing and running the house and grounds. In 2019/2020, Create NSW also provided $100,000 in capital funding towards the constructions of a new wheelchair-accessible studio.

Creative Australia generously provides The Eleanor Dark Foundation with multi-year funding, enabling us to offer residency fellowships and cover core staffing.

 We are grateful to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for its generous support of Varuna’s international exchange program.

Arts NT is the proud sponsor of our Northern Territory fellowships, supporting three writers from the Northern Territory to come to Varuna for a supported residency and manuscript development program, and a further six Northern Territory writers to participate in an intensive virtual residency program.

Varuna acknowledges the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund for its generous support of our First Nations program. It was through the Copyright Agency’s funding that Varuna was able to start this program, which is now sustained through core funding. Moreover, Varuna is grateful to the Copyright Agency for recently providing funding to extend this program to both a residential and online masterclass for First Nations writers. In addition, Varuna acknowledges the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund for its generous support of its international exchange program.

Varuna acknowledges the generous support of Western Sydney University, our Festival Partners for the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival.

The Bridge Awards generously supports our international exchange program with Cove Park in Scotland, paying for the flights for both the Australian and the Scottish writers.