Applications for 2019 Hot Desk Fellowships will be open from Monday 21 January to Monday 4 March 2019, and successful applicants will be announced on Monday 15 April 2019 via the Wheeler Centre’s website. Please note that applications close at 5.00 pm on Monday 4 March 2019.
The Wheeler Centre’s Hot Desk Fellowships are back for 2019 – once again made possible by the generous support of the Readings Foundation. Twenty-four writers will be offered fellowships throughout the year. For the third year, an additional Playwright Hot Desk Fellowship will be offered to an emerging female playwright, with thanks to the Just Pretending theatre group.
In 2019, in partnership with the University of Melbourne’s Victorian College of the Arts, and Copyright Agency, we’re excited to announce an additional three fellowships for regional or interstate writers. These fellowships are available to three writers who, by their location, could not ordinarily participate in the professional development initiative, and include accommodation for five weeks at the Norma Redpath Studio in Carlton, as well as travel to and from Melbourne.
The 24 fellowships, which include a stipend and workspace in the Wheeler Centre over a ten-week period, have been created simply to give emerging writers the space to write and create. Hot Desk fellows will also have the opportunity to meet, network and work with the Wheeler Centre’s resident organisations including Writers’ Victoria, Emerging Writers’ Festival, Australian Poetry, Express Media, Small Press Network and the Melbourne Writers’ Festival.
In addition, Hot Desk Fellowships introduce emerging writers and their work to the public – we will feature all our writers and their projects on our website, as well as in a special Hot Desk Edition of The Next Big Thing series. In 2018, several of our Hot Desk fellows were approached by publishers and agents interested in their work, with many alumni having been published since their involvement in the program.
Join a community of creativity, as well as having the productive space of a desk of your own.