Weekend Writers’ Residency

Thanks to The Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, we’re proud to announce the creation of a communal writing residency at our Community House, with award-winning novelist Peter Polites as our lead resident artist—along with up to 8 other writers as well! Each resident will have up to $1K available in financial support over the course of the program.

Fortnightly on Saturdays/Sundays, 2-8pm, residents will be in our space: we have desks, WiFi, a kitchen with tea and coffee, and best of all, if you need to bounce ideas around or get help with a troublesome chapter, you will be with plenty of other writers.

We envision this as a space for community, conversation, and making art. We want to make the writing road a little less lonely, and more accessible.

There will be regular opportunities for our resident writers to perform, publish or engage in our other programs, and we’ll have special guest appearances from other authors to provide you with plenty of tips and inspiration to keep going.

This program will run until October 2025, and our writers-in-residence have been selected! If you’re just coming across this now, we still encourage you to submit an application so we can assess, on an ongoing basis, how much interest there is and whether we can offer more spots.

MEET OUR 2025 WRITERS IN RESIDENCE