It is an honour to introduce the five recipients of the 2023 Faber Writing Academy Scholarships for Writing A Novel. We are delighted to offer four outstanding writers places in our Writing A Novel courses this year, which will take place in Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney and Online. We received a record number of scholarship applicants this year and we thank everyone who took time to craft an application.
I wish to thank our brilliant Writing a Novel tutors who read a record number of applications, and assisted us throughout this process – Emily Bitto, Miles Allinson, Margo Lanagan, Gretchen Shirm, Emily O’Grady, Carrie Tiffany and Pip Smith.
We look forward to welcoming Nina, Theresa, Delila and Anneliz into the Academy next year and introducing them to their tutors and fellow students.
Sam Twyford-Moore
Manager, Faber Writing Academy at Allen & Unwin
Writing a Novel – Online
Theresa Sylvester is a Zambian writer based in Western Australia. She is the winner of the 2022 Black Fox Writing Contest. Her stories have been published by Black Warrior Review, Midnight and Indigo, and in Australia’s Rockingham Writers Centre 2019 Anthology.
Writing a Novel – Brisbane
Delila Bevan Zavadsky is a travel enthusiast who uses her pen to make sense of the world around her. She loves all forms of writing, including: poetry, song-writing, and long form. In 2019, Delila was long-listed for The Richell Prize for Emerging Writers. She has had her work published in various publications, including: Voiceworks, Verses, Est. California, and The West End Magazine.
Writing a Novel – Melbourne
Anneliz Marie Erese is a Filipino writer whose works have appeared or are forthcoming in The Saturday Paper, Meanjin, Island Online and Cordite Poetry Review, among others. In 2022, she won the Deakin Postgraduate Prize in Writing and Literature and the Deborah Cass Prize. She lives on unceded Wurundjeri lands.
Writing a Novel – Sydney
Nina Wilton is a biracial Thai-Australian writer and corporate lawyer based in Sydney. Her writing was published in Kill Your Darlings’ New Australian Fiction 2022 anthology.
Applications are open for our Writing A Novel classes in Sydney, Brisbane and online. For more information visit our Writing a Novel information page.