2025 Newcastle Poetry Prize Shortlist Announced
Hunter Writers’ Centre, in partnership with Presenting Partner, the University of Newcastle, is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2025 Newcastle Poetry Prize.
AUTHOR TALK: Books at the Bowlo with Martina Zanggar
Tue 10 February
6 pm – 8 pm
Club Lambton
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‘Books at the Bowlo’ is a place for bookish friends and book clubs to meet and mingle, catch up on their monthly reading over a meal, and meet local writers.
Statement on the removal of Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers Week
Hunter Writers’ Centre joins with many other organisations and writers from across the world in condemning the recent decision by the Adelaide Festival Board to remove Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah from the Adelaide Writers Week program.
AUTHOR TALK: Books at the Bowlo with Alan Playford
Tue 11 November
6 pm – 8 pm
Club Lambton
Presented in collaboration with Club Lambton and Hunter Writers’ Centre. ‘Books at the Bowlo’ is a place for bookish friends and book clubs to meet and mingle, catch up on their monthly reading over a meal, as well as meet local writers.
WORKSHOP: Learn to Write Good with Dominic Hoey
Tuesday 21 October
5:30 pm — 7:30 pm
Wallsend Library
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A writing class built around accessibility designed to help writers at all levels.
EVENT: Art and Story in Urgent Times
Thursday 23 October
6 pm – 8 pm
The Lock-Up
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Join Shellie Smith, Dominic Hoey and Natalia Figueroa Barroso in conversation with Trisha Pender to explore how art and story confront the urgency of our times.
AUTHOR TALK: Dominic Hoey – 1985
Wednesday 22 October
6 pm – 8 pm
Newcastle (City) Library
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Award winning New-Zealand poet, novelist and youth advocate, Dominic Hoey discusses his new novel 1985 with University of Newcastle Associate Professor Trisha Pender.
Statement of Commitment to Freedom of Expression
Statement of Commitment to Freedom of Expression At Hunter Writers’ Centre, we live and work on the lands of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, whose connection to Country includes a deep and enduring storytelling tradition. We recognise their continuing cultural impact and legacy, and we understand that storytelling is not neutral. The stories we […]
AUTHOR TALK: Books at the Bowlo with Natasha Rai
Tue 14 October
6 pm – 8 pm
Club Lambton
Presented in collaboration with Club Lambton and Hunter Writers’ Centre. ‘Books at the Bowlo’ is a place for bookish friends and book clubs to meet and mingle, catch up on their monthly reading over a meal, as well as meet local writers.
WORKSHOP: Danse Macabre
Monday 13 October
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Online via Zoom
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Join us for a spooky workshop in the lead up to Halloween and learn how Horror can help you build atmosphere and heighten emotion in your writing.