Adopt a Word
Would you like a way to show your love and support for the Wheeler Centre, but just can’t find the right words?
Help preserve, protect and nurture the building blocks of our books, writing and ideas by adopting a word.
While public restrictions on live events are in place due to COVID-19, your donation will go directly towards maintaining high quality live-streams, podcasts and videos. In addition to this you will be providing support or initiatives such as our Hot Desk Fellowship, The Next Chapter writers’ scheme, and the newly launched Signal Boost podcasting mentorship that have been developed to nourish Australia’s creative talent.
Every writer and speaker thanks you for your support, as do we!
If you have any questions or problems adopting please contact Brigid Reid, our Development Coordinator at development@wheelercentre.com or by phone on 0478 138 809.
Recently adopted words
- Handy-billy
- Idiosyncrasy
- Popple
- Vespiary
- Svengali
- Opsomania
- Oneiric
- Succour
- Demimonde(n.) a group or class of people on the fringes of respectable, reputable societyAdopt this word close
- Gradgrind(n.) a person lacking human sensitivity, who is only interested in factsAdopt this word close
- Infare(n.) a party to celebrate a person's arrival in a new home, especially a brideAdopt this word close
- Tarantism(n.) a dancing mania believed, in medieval Europe, to have been caused by tarantula bitesAdopt this word close
- Welp(interj) informal variant of 'well', often conveying disappointment or resignationAdopt this word close