2025 Frank Moorhouse Reading Room Writer-in-Residence Program
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In partnership with the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the Whitlam Institute, the Sydney Review of Books invites applications for the 2025 Frank Moorhouse Reading Room (FMRR) Writer-in-Residence program.
The FMRR was established though the generosity of the late Frank Moorhouse (1938–2022), who donated his extensive collection of Australian short story and essay anthologies to the Writing and Society Research Centre at Western Sydney University. The collection, which is housed in WSU’s Parramatta South campus, spans more than a century of Australian writing, from the late nineteenth century to the 2010s.
We are inviting Australian writers to engage with the collection onsite and produce an essay in response to items of their own choosing, to be published in the Sydney Review of Books.
Successful applicants will be granted a week’s residency at the Whitlam House in Cabramatta (NSW), travel and accommodation costs, and $1,500 payment for the essay.
The deadline for applications is 11:59pm on Friday, 7 March 2025.
For further details, please see the SRB website.