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Sam Elkin: I would love to come back to KSP one day

I was lucky enough to be offered an opportunity to spend two weeks as a writer in residence at KSP in May 2023. I grew up in Boorloo but...

Karen Hollands: Hiding away in the gorgeous KSP cabin helped kick this novel along.

I had known about KSP for years before I applied for a fellowship. Three people from my writers’ group had been and lots of people I...

Diane Hopkins: If Only I had Another Week Here

In my first few days staying at KSP I locked myself in, the unseasonably wet April days a perfect excuse to stay in my cosy cabin and...

Khai Virtue: It is Important to Talk About This

It is difficult to talk about my second fellowship as a part of the 2022-23 Four Centres Emerging Writers Program (First Edition) when it...

Mark Keenan: KSP is a Place That Offers me Something Special

Scrawling in notebooks (and later deciphering the hieroglyphics a past you created). Click-clacking at keyboards (while wishing you had...

Ayesha Inoon: I Had the Gift of Time and Space to Write, Dream and Think

Muted sunlight filters through the wooden blinds in my cabin, scattering on the wide desk where I have been writing, on the snug reading...

Emma Pignatiello: I Was Given Permission to Just Write

The KSP gravel driveway through the overhang of lush green trees is a portal into another world. It is difficult to describe the...

Kathy Sharpe: KSP Has a Quiet Energy

Strange creatures called Woylies, Quendas and Bob Tails. A place where the cries of black cockatoos call me out of my cabin to look up...

Rhian Healy: Thanks KSP

This is my first residency so I was unsure of what to expect. Overall it was both exhilarating and terrifying. Exhilarating because you...

Jacinta Dietrich: What an Absolute Gift

My time at KSP was, with no exaggeration or hyperbole, life-changing. I gained so much from this fellowship and I think I’ll feel the...