Skip to content

Melissa Manning

About

Melissa Manning’s short fiction and literary non-fiction has been widely published, including in Award Winning Australian Writing, Best Small Fictions (US), To Carry Her Home (UK), Overland, the Big Issue, and Tasmania 40°South.

She was awarded a Varuna Residency Fellowship to work on her novel, Written on Bark, and a place on the ACT Writers’ HARDCOPY program for her novel Island.  She is working on a short story collection, South West, with the support of an ASA Emerging Writers’ Mentorship and a Grace Marion Wilson Glenfern Fellowship.

Manning won the 2015 Overland Story Wine Prize, and the Tasmanian Writer’s Prize and has placed or been shortlisted in the Overland VU Short Story Prize, Alan Marshall Short Story Prize, My Brother Jack Award and the Bath Flash Fiction Award.

Past Events

The Next Big Thing

Hot Desk Edition #2

Asiel Adan Sanchez, Stephen Pham, Jamie Marina Lau, Christian Taylor, Magan Magan, Melissa Manning, Veronica Sullivan

Past event

10 Sep

The Pen Pal Project

Melissa Manning, Fiona Murphy, Ra Chapman, Jem Tyley-Miller, Ella Skilbeck-Porter

Past event

30 Oct ⸺ 3 Nov
View all

Stay up to date with our upcoming events and special announcements by subscribing to The Wheeler Centre's mailing list.

Privacy Policy

The Wheeler Centre acknowledges the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Owners of the land on which the Centre stands. We acknowledge and pay our respects to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and their Elders, past and present, as the custodians of the world’s oldest continuous living culture.