Dr Sarah Nicholson is the Director of Writing The Heroine.
She is the Director of South Coast Writers Centre, the founder and Director of the South Coast Readers andWriters Festival, and the True Story Festival of non-fiction writing.
She has been a director of the National Young Writers’ Festival, an awardee of the Ian Potter Cultural Trust for Literature, a recipient of a Writer’s and Translator’s Centre of Rhodes fellowship and an Emerging Writer in Residence for the Katherine Susannah Pritchard Writers’ Centre.
As an academic, she has worked with thousands of writing students. She has directed individual creative projects and has been called on as an expert marker for higher academic degrees. She has led writing retreats and residences both in Australia and internationally.
She is the editor of the Heroines Anthologies and the South Coast Writers Centre Anthologies. She is also the author of The Evolutionary Journey of Woman and an editor of the academic volume, Integral Voices on Sex, Gender and Sexuality.
She has been a judge for the SCWC Poetry Award and has sat on selection panels for arts funding, residencies and commissions, including the Bundanon Trust.
