Cultivate 2025 winners announced
Writing NSW has announced the winners of the 2025 Cultivate Mentorship Program for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Emerging Writers.
The annual program was developed by Writing NSW to ‘help build equity and diversity in the writing community’ and is open to ’emerging NSW-based writers from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.’
The winning writers are:
- Cassandra Li
- Naima Amrin
- Sanchana Venkatesh
- Solomiya Sywak
- Wayne Mok.
Huyen Hac Helen Tran [pictured], a Vietnamese-Australian writer and arts worker currently living and working on Gadigal land, will be this year’s mentor. The winners will work with Tran ‘over the coming months to take an existing work of theirs and prepare it for submission to a journal or anthology,’ said Writing NSW.
When discussing what it was about the winners that impressed her, Tran noted their ‘capacity to place themselves and their work as part of a growing process’, and their ‘passion, creativity, critical thinking, and a trust in their own selves’.
More information about the program is available on the Writing NSW website.
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