Introducing our newest 2023 Faber Writing Scholarship recipients

We’re looking forward to welcoming our two latest scholarship recipients when their courses commence in July 2023.

Photo credit Rebecca Taylor Photography 2018

Welcome to Judith Bishop –
Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Book with Deborah Robertson

Judith Bishop has worked in leadership roles as a linguist at an AI services company from 2004 to 2022. Her publications include two award-winning poetry collections, Event (Salt, 2007) and Interval (UQP, 2018), and a chapbook, Here Hear (Gazebo Books, 2022). A third poetry collection, Circadia, is forthcoming in 2024.

Welcome to Munira Tabassum Ahmed –
Writing a Novel with Eleanor Limprecht

Munira Tabassum Ahmed is an 18-year-old writer. Her work is published in Best of Australian Poems 2021, Meanjin, Australian Poetry Journal, Liminal, Cordite, and elsewhere. She was the 2022 Kat Muscat Fellow, a Youth Ambassador for Red Room Poetry, and a medalist at the 2022 National Youth Poetry Slam.

We are still accepting general applications for these courses

Writing the Narrative Nonfiction Book with Deborah Robertson
Melbourne
15 July 2023 – 22 May 2024

Writing a Novel (Daytime) with Eleanor Limprecht
Sydney
28 July 2023 – 12 April 2024