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Expressions of Interest for the 2026 University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program are now welcome!

https://www.utas.edu.au/community-and-partners/hedberg-writer-in-residence

Applications are invited for the sixth University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence program, with the fellowship open to established writers with professional publication records in any field or genre who are resident in Australia.

The successful writer receives $32,500, which equates to a $22,500 stipend and domestic travel allowance, plus self-contained accommodation and travel in Hobart and elsewhere in Tasmania valued at $10,000. The writer will devote three months to writing in a quiet but stimulating environment, including their own office, in the University of Tasmania's new Forest Building in the heart of Hobart CBD.
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During the residency, as well as working on an original piece, the winner will engage with the University's creative writing students, emerging Tasmanian authors, and the state’s creative community through a small number of workshops and masterclasses in the north and south of the state. Opportunities for other public engagement activities will also be supported.

Applications are now open and close 5 pm Monday, 30 March 2026.
The successful recipient will be announced in mid-April 2026.
The commencement date for the residency is negotiable. The earliest commencement date is Monday, 3 August 2026, and the latest date of completion is Friday, 11 December 2026.

The residency is offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Tasmania. The project is supported by the Copyright Agency's Cultural Fund.

Past recipients of the fellowship include Robbie Arnott, Gail Jones, Michelle Cahill, Eugen Bacon, and Angela Slatter.

The residency is offered by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and hosted by the English and Writing Program at the University of Tasmania. The project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

For more information and to apply for the program, please visit our website or contact Associate Professor Robert Clarke ([email protected]) or Dr Lucy Christopher ([email protected]).

Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program We are seeking established writers for a unique 12-week Tasmanian residency in creative writing.

"The When & The Where: Setting & Worldbuilding": Writing Workshops with Dr Angela Slatter, 2025 Hedberg Writer in Residence

Workshops in Burnie and Launceston, 20 and 21 October, 2025

Award-winning author Angela Slatter is holding two fiction writing masterclasses in Burnie and Launceston this October.

A story’s setting is a critical component in convincing readers that what they’re reading is “true”. A sense of place is essential in both fiction and non-fiction, and it’s an especially important element for writers of speculative fiction (fantasy, horror, science fiction and everything in between). Tolkien’s essay “On Fairy-Stories” discusses the need for an author to create a secondary world for their story, an environment that readers do not question – so how do you ensure your setting works the way it should and never throws the reader out of the tale?

Price: $30 (employed)/$20 (students/unemployed)

Max class size: 15 per workshop

Times:
2:00 –3:30 pm (Monday 20 October, UTAS Burnie Campus)
11:00 am–12:30 pm (Tuesday 21 October, UTAS Inveresk Campus)

Dr Angela Slatter is the 2025 University of Tasmania Hedberg Writer-in-Residence. She is a multi-award-winning author of novels, novellas and short stories, as well as a graphic novel collaboration with Mike Mignola, Castle Full of Blackbirds, set in the Hellboy Universe. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Japanese, Polish, French, Turkish, Czechoslovakian and Romanian. Her most recent novels, set in the Sourdough Universe, are currently published by Titan: All The Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, The Briar Book of the Dead, The Crimson Road and the forthcoming A Forest Darkly (2026). A contemporary horror novella, The Cold House, will be published in October 2025.

For more information, contact Robert Clarke, Coordinator for the Hedberg Writer-in-Residence, at [email protected] or (03) 63243032. Room details and directions will be emailed to you when you register.

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Expressions of Interest for the 2025 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program are now welcome!


The University of Tasmania is seeking established writers for a unique 12-week Tasmanian residency in creative writing.

Applications are invited for the fifth Hedberg Writer-in-Residence program, with the residency open to all established writers with a professional publication record in any field or genre, and resident in Australia.

The successful writer receives $30,000, which equates to a $20,000 stipend plus self-contained accommodation in the heart of Hobart valued at $10,000. The writer will devote three months to writing in a quiet and stimulating environment, including their own office, on the University of Tasmania’s Sandy Bay campus. During the residency, as well as working on an original piece, the winner will engage with the University’s creative writing students, Tasmanian authors, and the broader Tasmanian creative community through leading a small number of workshops and public talks in the north and south of the state, and participation in the Hobart Writers’ Festival.

Applications are now open and will close at 5 p.m. on Thursday, 17 April 2025. The residency can be undertaken over any 12-week period from 4 August 2025 to 12 December 2025. The successful applicant will be notified in late May.

Past recipients of the fellowship include Robbie Arnott, Gail Jones, Michell Cahill, and Eugen Bacon.

The residency is offered by the School of Humanities and hosted by the English and Writing Program at the University of Tasmania. The project is supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.

For more information and to apply for the program, please visit our website:

Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program We are seeking established writers for a unique 12-week Tasmanian residency in creative writing.

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Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program Applications are invited for the third Hedberg Writer-in-Residence program, with the residency open to all established writers with professional publication record, in any field or genre, resident in Australia.

Applications are open for the 2023 Hedberg Writer-in-Residence! The residency is open to all established writers with a professional publication record, in any field or genre, resident in Australia.

The successful writer receives $30,000, which equates to a $20,000 stipend plus self-contained accommodation in the heart of Hobart valued at $10,000. The writer will devote three months to writing in a quiet but stimulating environment, including their own office, in the University of Tasmania's gorgeous Sandy Bay campus. During the residency, as well as working on an original piece, the winner will engage with the University's creative writing students, emerging Tasmanian authors, and the broader Tasmanian creative community through a small number of workshops, masterclasses, and public talks in the north and south of the state.

Applications are open from 9am, 3rd February 2023 and close 5pm on March 31st, 2023, with the residency to be undertaken over any 12-week period from 1st August 2023 to 15th December 2023 to overlap with the Hobart Writers' festival in October.

Hedberg Writer-in-Residence Program Applications are invited for the third Hedberg Writer-in-Residence program, with the residency open to all established writers with professional publication record, in any field or genre, resident in Australia.

Congratulations to our very our Professor Lisa Fletcher on this fabulous news! 🤩

This Friday! “Writing History After Mabo: Henry Reynolds and Geoff Rodoreda in Conversation with Anna Johnston”

Date and Time: 11:00 am – 12:00 pm, Friday 23 September 2022
Zoom: https://utas.zoom.us/j/83637403261

How has the writing of Australian history changed in the thirty years since the Mabo decision? How has the place of history—as a discipline and as a field of public discourse—been transformed in the decades since the recognition of native title? And how does history inform and interact with literature in Australia? Join Henry Reynolds and Geoff Rodoreda in conversation with Anna Johnston as they address the legacy of Mabo on the field of history in Australia.


Henry Reynolds is one of Australia's most influential historians. Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania, his work on colonial settler and Aboriginal relations, law, and frontier violence have shaped academic inquiry and public consciousness of the past in this country, since the publication of his first monograph The Other Side of the Frontier in 1981. The author and editor of nineteen works, Henry’s personal friendship with Eddie Koiki Mabo, and his scholarship on the legal basis of colonization in Australia were pivotal in laying the intellectual groundwork for the case for native title. Henry’s most recent work is Truth Telling: History, Sovereignty and the Uluru Statement (2021).


Geoff Rodoreda is a lecturer in the Department of English Literatures and Cultures at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He did a BA (Communication) in Sydney and worked as a journalist at the ABC in Adelaide and Darwin before moving to Germany in 1996. He completed his PhD in the English Department in Stuttgart in 2016. The resulting monograph, The Mabo Turn in Australian Fiction (Peter Lang, 2018), was awarded ASAL’s inaugural Alvie Egan Award. His new book, co-edited with Eva Bischoff, is Mabo’s Cultural Legacy: History, Literature, Film and Cultural Practice in Contemporary Australia (Anthem, 2021).


Anna Johnston is Associate Professor in Literature and co-lead of the Australian Studies Research Node at The University of Queensland, with wide-ranging interests in colonial writing and its aftermath. Her most recent book is Eliza Hamilton Dunlop: Writing from the Colonial Frontier (coedited with Elizabeth Webby, 2021) and her book The Antipodean Laboratory: Making Colonial Knowledge, 1770-1870 will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

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High school teachers amongst our graduates and community might be interested in attending a professional learning session we're offering with colleagues in History, coming up next week (in Launceston) and the week after that (in Hobart).

Details and a registration button at the link - please get in touch with Naomi Milthorpe ([email protected]) if you have any questions! We hope to see you there.

History and English Professional Learning Session There’s more to uni than studying. Learn how you can connect with new people through events, sports, volunteering opportunities, and more.

Exciting stuff is always happening here at UTAS! Next up is the FESTIVAL OF THE FANTASTIC IN AUSTRALIAN AND JAPANESE ARTS (Hobart section), featuring workshops, events and activities over the weekend of September 3-4.

Come see the work of UTAS English staff Lucy Christopher & Danielle Wood, and fantastic Tasmanian Tansy Rayner Roberts.

Hobart — Festival of the Fantastic in Australian and Japanese Arts HOBARTAUGUST + SEPTEMBERUNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA REGISTER FREE WHAT’S ON ICON COSPLAY PHOTO FEST Featuring TESSU + BLOOLOON CP + TASPOPSATURDAY & SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 3 - 4University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay CampusStudio Theatre and online Register Free   CRAFTING FANTASY An exhibition on world building ...