2025 Emerging Critics Fellowship | Information Session

We acknowledge the traditional custodians of the lands on which we work, the Burramattagal people of the Darug nation, and pay our respects to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggles for justice are ongoing. 

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At the Sydney Review of Books, we are always on the lookout for new writers and new ways to think about our shared literary culture. That’s why, with the support of the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund, we established a fellowship program in 2016 to foster diverse, provocative, and original critical voices, and to set pathways for emerging critics to develop their practice. In this year’s program, we will offer five fellowships to the brightest emerging Australian literary critics. 

Each Fellow will receive a stipend of $4,500 to write three essays on new Australian books over a twelve-month period, for publication in the Sydney Review of Books. Fellows will work closely with SRB editorial staff as they write their essays. 

For the first time in the fellowship’s history, fellows will also be invited to attend a workshop in Parramatta with the SRB editorial team and Writing and Society Research Centre staff. The SRB will cover travel and accommodation costs for interstate fellows.

At least one fellowship will be awarded to a First Nations writer, and another to a culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) writer. Fellowships will also reflect regional diversity and be allocated to critics from at least three different states and territories. 

For further details about the application process, please visit our website.

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Tickets are now available for an information session about the fellowship. SRB editor James Jiang will briefly introduce the fellowship and run through the application process. The majority of the session will be devoted to Q&A, so please come ready with your questions.

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Event Details:
Friday, 6 June 2025
1pm – 1:45pm (AEST)
Via ZOOM

Accessibility:
This event is fully remote and will be hosted on Zoom. 
Closed captioning will be available.  

Further Information:

• The Zoom link will be sent to attendees via email the morning of the event.  

• This event will not be recorded.