Pryor awarded 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant

Writing NSW has announced Robyn Pryor as the recipient of the 2025 Curlew Regional Writer’s Grant, worth $1000.

The grant helps a regional NSW writer ‘to participate in a one-day Writing NSW workshop of their choice, with additional support for travel, accommodation, and a week-long residency in our peaceful writing room at Callan Park’, said organisers.

Based in Coffs Harbour, Pryor is a writer interested in exploring ‘why good people sometimes do bad things’, said organisers. She has worked as a psychologist and hypnotherapist and is a leukaemia survivor. These experiences influence her writing of the human condition, organisers add.

Pryor is currently working on her crime fiction novel manuscript ‘The Marrow’ and intends to participate in the Writing Thrillers: How to Hook Your Reader workshop with Patronella McGovern.

Pryor said, ‘This workshop will give me the invaluable chance to be in the same room as Petronella McGovern and learn from her wisdom and experience.’

The grant is supported by author, poet and screenwriter Brittany Riley.

Riley said, ‘I love seeing regional writers succeed, and I wanted to give back to the literary community whose belief, wisdom and inspiration helped get my country foot in the door. Congratulations, Robyn. I can’t wait to see your debut novel!’

More information on the grant is available on the Writing NSW website.

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