The Cambridge Australia Scholarships First Nations Writer-in-Residence is a new fellowship program that offers a unique opportunity for an Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander writer/storyteller working in any form (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, playwriting, criticism, and any other literary form) to spend a period of time at the University of Cambridge. The residency is the result of a collaboration between the Cambridge Australia Scholarships (CAS), the First Nations Australia Writers Network (FNAWN), the Faculty of English, and Trinity Hall.
The current writer in residence is Daniel Browning.
Past writers in residence:
2023: Alison J Barton
More information about the residency can be found here: https://www.cambridgeaustralia.org.au/first-nations-writer-in-residence.
The program was initially launched in Michaelmas 2023.
In its inaugural year, Clare Hall was a partner of the project.