May 29, 2023

Funded by The Ian Potter Foundation, our new mentor trainee program is designed for people who are early in their writing career and are ready to take the next steps to becoming mentors themselves.

Centre for Stories will pair successful trainees with a published author who will help them ‘level up’ their writing enterprise. Trainees will also be paired with a mentee: an emerging writer working on a piece of writing for publication.

The mentor trainee program will run for 6 months with at least 4 contact hours a month. Trainees will be paid for their time mentoring their mentee. Applications are open for people who identify as CaLD and/or First Nations.

The program commences in September 2023 and ends in February 2024. Applications open 29 May 2023 and close 11.59pm AWST 3 July 2023. Apply here.

This phase of the writing program is the exciting final step of the Writing Change, Writing Inclusion program, which has seen over 50 writers come through our mentoring, hot desk and writing fellowships over the course of three years. We are incredibly thankful to The Ian Potter Foundation, Australia Council for the Arts and the Centre for Stories Founders Circle for supporting this magnificent program.

The success of the Writing Change, Writing Inclusion program has been reported through our Social Impact study (read here), and also shared through many publication outcomes (Under the Paving Stones, the Beach, SBS Voices, here & now, Green Leaves, and more) and increased public appearances (Perth Festival, Margaret River Readers and Writers Festival, Digital Writers Festival, Emerging Writers Festival, Perth Poetry Festival, and more). Writers who have been through our programs are making waves in local, national, and international literature sectors, and are creating a positive shift for change and inclusion in the arts sector as a whole.

For inquiries, including questions regarding access needs, get in touch: info@centreforstories.com