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Latest News

2 June 2013 - Demet's story story "The Girl: My Mother" (memoir) was commended in the Ada Cambridge biography prose prize! Here's Demet with Silk Chen the winner (to the right) and Maxine Benneba Clarke who won the poetry prize.

Latest news

Writers Group - Thursday 2 May for five sessions, 6.30pm-9pm. $81/$76 concession. For more info or bookings please call The Hunt Club on 9249 4600 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Introduction to Short Story Workshop - Wednesday 1 May for five sessions, 6.30-9pm. $81/$76 concession. For more info or bookings please call The Hunt Club on 9249 4600 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Demet's been awarded a Professional Development grant as part of the Hume Arts Awards
A $10,000 ARTSTART grant has been awarded to Demet to assist with her writing career.

Previous News

Demet has been selected to participate in an intensive Non-Fiction Masterclass with Robin Hemley in January 2011
Demet's short story Foreign Sleep will be published in Island Magazine in March 2010.
November 2009 - Demet was awarded a Rosebank Residential Writing Fellowship.
Demet's story You no have English? is featured in Scribe's New Australian Stories anthology.
August 2009 - Demet was awarded a Varuna Fellowship for a Writing Retreat.

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