Wheeler Centre 2025 Hot Desk Fellows announced
Thursday, 8 May 2025 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing
The Wheeler Centre has announced the 22 emerging writers who will receive Hot Desk Fellowships in 2025.
This year’s recipients are:
- Jamil Badi for ‘New Ancient Folktales’ (fiction, short stories)
- Libbie Chellew for ‘The Act’ (fiction, contemporary)
- Emma Clancey for ‘Bad Medicine’ (literary thriller)
- Teneille Clerke for a collection of nonfiction essays
- Nina Culley for ‘Tender Cuts’ (horror, literary fiction)
- Thirangie Jayatilake for ‘Crossroads of Love’ (literary fiction)
- Violet Kieu for ‘Flowers Have Ovaries Too and Other Essays’ (creative nonfiction)
- Jo Langdon for ‘Temper’ (fiction, short stories)
- N J Madden for ‘Over by the Tall Trees’ (literary fiction)
- Elliott McMahon for ‘Romance’ (fiction)
- Josephine Mead for ‘(M)Other Is an Opera!’ (poetic nonfiction)
- Madelaine Nunn for ‘The Kick’ (theatre)
- Katie Paine for ‘The Machine Inters’ (poetry, fiction)
- Graham Panther for ‘How to Belong on Earth: A Guide for Big Feelers’ (personal development)
- Helena Pantsis for ‘Swamp Thing’ (comic)
- Ruby-Rose Pivet-Marsh for ‘Heinous Bitch’ (experimental creative nonfiction)
- Bek Schilling for ‘Contiki’ (black comedy)
- Delsa Tuitea (Just Pretending Playwright Fellow) for ‘Ordained’ (historical drama)
- Freddy (Emily) Weir for ‘Why We Run’ (queer young adult fiction)
- Ange Yang for ‘Vegemite in My Congee: a Memoir in a Menu’ (essay collection)
- Yasmin for ‘Underneath the Cedar Tree‘ (poetry)
- Rebecca Zhong (Gabrielle Williams Fellow) for ‘Underneath Kyle’s Shirt’ (young adult romance).
This is the 13th year of the fellowship program, which the Wheeler Centre said is intended to ‘provide emerging writers with a space to inspire their process and build a creative community’, with the fellowship including a $1250 stipend and a desk in the Wheeler Centre’s Melbourne building for a 10-week period. Fellows also share work in the Wheeler Centre’s Next Big Thing reading event series.
More information about the fellowships is available on the Wheeler Centre website.
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