Varuna Residential Fellowships
Subcategory of Varuna Awards and Fellowships — Varuna Fellowships
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2025

Judged by: Mary Anne Butler Ali Cobby Eckermann Roanna Gonsalves James Jiang Krissy Kneen Cheryl Leavy Shaun Prescott Beejay Silcox Greg Woodland
recipient Andrew Brooks for his poetry collection ‘Year of the Ox’.
recipient Aneil Fatania for his historical fiction ‘English-English’
recipient Bernadette Green for her children’s book ‘Ellie Needs a Dog’
recipient Charlotte Guest for her literary fiction work ‘The Kookaburra’
recipient Claire Christian for her YA fiction ‘The Invisibles’
recipient Claudia Lyons for her crime fiction ‘Thank You for Your Patience’.
recipient D. Frederick Thomas for their literary fiction work ‘Novel Written on My Phone’
recipient Danial Yazdani for his play ‘Exile and Return’.
recipient Deborah Wardle for her literary fiction work ‘Why We Cry’.
recipient Denise Young for her biography ‘Checkmate’.
recipient Eartha Davis for her poetry collection ‘màthair beinn’.
recipient Ellie Nielsen for her play ‘Vertigo’
recipient Emma Warrender for her popular fiction ‘REDLINE’
recipient Gemma Parker for her memoir ‘Moon Overhead, Nothing Moving’
recipient Hollen Singleton for their fantasy or speculative fiction work ‘Moss House’
recipient Jack Brosnan for his literary fiction work ‘Sky Half Empty’.
recipient Jade Reilly for her crime fiction ‘Signs of Life’.
recipient Jessie Cole for her literary fiction work ‘BEAR’.
recipient Kristy Fairlamb for her popular fiction ‘Lying Hearts’.
recipient Liana Skrzypczak for her YA fiction ‘Lore of Gon’.
recipient Lynette Diamant for her children’s book ‘Crowlea’
recipient Maria Van Neerven for her poetry collection ‘To give them a voice’
recipient Mary Colussi for her fantasy or speculative fiction work ‘Touch Grass’
recipient Nicole Hayes for her YA fiction ‘The Sundry: Book 1 of the Fertility Trials’
recipient Rachael Mead for her historical fiction ‘The Amazoniad’.
recipient Renay Pepita for her poetry collection ‘Philotes and Eris’.
recipient Ruairi Murphy for his fantasy/speculative fiction work ‘The i’s are an open wound’
recipient Sam Elkin for his memoir ‘Pit Pony’.
recipient Tina Nyfakos for her literary fiction work ‘Galagoo’.

Year: 2024

Judged by: Chris Womersley Jarrah Dundler Lee Kofman Leni Shilton Linden Hyatt Mary Anne Butler Melanie Saward Roanna Gonsalves
recipient Al Campbell for their historical fiction ‘Door 64’
recipient Alice Robinson for their fictional work ‘If You Go’
recipient Allanah Hunt for their fictional work ‘Meet Me in Heaven or Hell’
recipient Amy Tan for their YA manuscript ‘Runner Girl’
recipient Anna Fursland for their fictional work ‘Lou and I’
recipient Anne-Marie Te Whiu for their poetry collection ‘Mettle’
recipient Bryoni Trezise for their YA manuscript ‘Ways to Make a Pearl’
recipient Catherine Owen  for their children’s book ‘The Christmas Cult’
recipient Emma O'Neill Sandham for their fictional work ‘The Unbearable Lightness of Being Stella Cotton’
recipient Julietta Boscolo for their screenplay ‘The Sound of Light’
recipient Kate Flaherty for their historical fiction manuscript ‘Before the Crossing’
recipient Kylie Boltin for their memoir ‘Five Incarnations’
recipient Laura Elvery for their historical fiction manuscript ‘Nightingale’
recipient Lee Tulloch for their crime fiction ‘Little Fingers’
recipient Lisa Salmon for their memoir ‘Scratch: Memoir of a dyke icon’
recipient Lulu Houdini for their poetry collection ‘guniimara’
recipient Mariam Tokhi for their fictional work ‘The Interpreter’
recipient Mary Black for their memoir ‘Stories from a Splav’
recipient Maura Bedloe for their fictional work ‘Almond’
recipient Megan Albany for their fictional work ‘Ten’
recipient Molly Murn for their fictional work ‘Radiance: a state of being’
recipient Rebecca Douglas for their crime fiction ‘Welfare Queens’
recipient Sharon Kernot for their poetry collection ‘The Deception of Dreams: A novel in verse’
recipient Neil Paech for their essay collection ‘My (M)e(s)sy Life’
recipient Toni Jordan for their fictional work ‘Colmslie Reach’.

Year: 2023

recipient Nicole Baird for her speculative fiction work ‘The Sea Under the Stars’
recipient Carrie Cox for her women’s fiction work ‘Retreat’.
recipient Katya Dibb for her young adult fiction ‘Afterimage’.
recipient Christine Evans for her speculative fiction work ‘River & Maude’
recipient Lisa Fuller for her children’s work ‘Washpool’.
recipient Geoffrey Gates for his literary fiction work ‘The Phantom Surrealist’.
recipient Alison Gorman for her poetry collection ‘Say Something’.
recipient Brendan Gullifer for his historical fiction work ‘The Killing Logic’.
recipient Maya Hodge for her poetry collection ‘Time Melts and Meets in the Middle’
recipient Sandra Hogan for her memoir ‘Escape Artist’.
recipient Eleanor Limprecht for her memoir ‘Eye Teeth’
recipient Amanda Maxwell for her literary fiction work ‘Island of Joy’.
recipient Kienan McKay for his young adult fiction ‘Cocoon’.
recipient Rachael S. Morgan for her women’s fiction work ‘Disgraceful’.
recipient Anne Myers for her memoir ‘The Little Ones’.
recipient Arty Owens for their children’s work ‘The Junking’
recipient Luke Patterson for his poetry collection ‘TEK’
recipient Brenda Saunders for her poetry collection ‘My Boomerang Never Came Back’
recipient Christina Soong for her screenplay ‘Tiger Mum for Hire’
recipient Marion Taffe for her historical fiction work ‘Freida’.
recipient Sarah Walker for her literary fiction work ‘The Water Takes’
recipient Hanne Watkins for her crime fiction work ‘IKEA Story’
recipient Julie Weatherburn for her memoir ‘Mumbling Under Water’.

Year: 2022

recipient Adele Dumont for essay collection ‘Bezoar’
recipient Renée Treml for children’s graphic novel ‘Breathe’
recipient Stephen Carleton for playscript ‘Brutal Utopias’
recipient Liz Evans for ‘Catherine Wheel’
recipient Benjamin Hickey for suspense novel ‘Common Ruin’
recipient Rachel Bowen for YA novel ‘Hyena’
recipient Kylie Ladd for commercial fiction ‘I’ll Leave You With This’
recipient Gurmeet Kaur for poetry collection ‘Instructions on English’
recipient Tanya Davies for fantasy/speculative fiction ‘Killing Widows’
recipient Robyn Cadwallader for historical fiction ‘Not Less Than Anything’
recipient Hugh McGonagle for novel ‘Peninsula’
recipient Rebecca Giggs for narrative nonfiction ‘PET: The future of the animals we keep’
recipient Kelly Gardiner for YA novel ‘Roar’
recipient Catherine Moffat for crime novel ‘Snapper Point’
recipient Carol Major for novel ‘The Chinese Woman’
recipient Chris Womersley for novel ‘The Empire’
recipient Amanda Curtin for historical fiction ‘The Longhair Fella’
recipient Katia Ariel for memoir ‘The Swift Dark Tide’
recipient Michelle Michau-Crawford for novel ‘What’s Home Supposed to Mean, Anyway?’
recipient Sian Campbell for novel ‘When This is All Over’
recipient Bruce Nash for novel ‘Woman Without a Password’
recipient Sonia Orchard for creative nonfiction ‘Womankind’
recipient Jannali Jones for YA novel ‘Yenda’.

Year: 2021

recipient Amy Lovat for ‘Halfway to Nowhere’
recipient Andrew Y.M. Kwong for ‘Wrong Arrival’
recipient Anne Casey-Hardy for ‘When Bees Become Diamonds’
recipient Annie Barrett for ‘Sent Up the River’
recipient Beth Amos for ‘Blindside’
recipient Brooke Robinson for ‘Hotel K’
recipient Donna Cameron for ‘Until the Sky Turns Purple’
recipient Eliza Henry-Jones for ‘The Waning’
recipient Emily Brugman for ‘The Islands’
recipient Frances Olive for ‘Cora in the Underworld’
recipient Hoa Pham for ‘Being’
recipient Jack Vening for ‘Who Will I Be When I Leave This Place’
recipient James McKenzie Watson for ‘Denizen’
recipient Juliet Paine for ‘The Premonition Bureau’
recipient Kerrin O'Sullivan
recipient Lou Garcia-Dolnik for ‘No Language’
recipient Mary Anne Butler for ‘Epoch of the Heart’
recipient Maryrose Cuskelly for ‘The Campers’
recipient Natalie Satakovski for ‘Follow’
recipient Polly Watkins for ‘Moss Whitaker lives in his head’
recipient Suzanne Leal for ‘A Runner in Hitler’s Town’
recipient Tim Loveday for ‘the birds are singing while we sleep’
recipient Warren Ward for ‘Lovers of Philosophy’
recipient Yves Rees for ‘All About Yves: Notes from a Transition’
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