Our Sponsors and Partners

We are grateful to Create NSW who provide The Eleanor Dark Foundation with multi-year funding to cover the costs of staffing and delivering our core programs.

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 the prestigious Maitri exchange between Varuna and Sangam House in Bangalore.

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 programs. In 2025, the Copyright Agency will support six non-fiction fellowships for First Nations writers.

We’re grateful to the Blue Mountains City Council and Blue Mountains Cultural Centre for providing us with venues to host our annual Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival.

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

We partner with the Whitlam Institute to deliver an annual residency at the original family home of Gough and Margaret Whitlam in Cabramatta.

The Blue Mountains Cultural Centre provide us with venues for hosting our Festival workshops.

Each year, the Blue Mountains Library partner with us to deliver a fabulous day-long program for kids, as part of the Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival.

The Bridge Awards generously supports our international exchange program with Cove Park in Scotland, as well as our annual Climate Change Writing Fellowship.